In this case amytat was just looking for a place to post his BS and increase the post count a bit.
Well, NiceHash is not an ordinary Bitcoin pool, but as far as miners are concerned it works exactly the same as any other pool - you connect you miners to NiceHash pool and you're paid in Bitcoins, as simple as that. Moreover, you get paid on PPS system without any variance which guarantees you stable and better payouts then regular Bitcoin pools. And it is even better for Scrypt or GPU mining where you are paid much more then direct Litecoin or Darkcoin mining.