Custody
Who holds the keys to your coins.
Custody is about who controls the private keys. Custodial services (like most exchanges) hold your keys for you; non-custodial means you hold them yourself.
HeroMiners is non-custodial: it never holds a balance for you, so there is no account to withdraw and nothing for the pool to lose or freeze.
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