I just wanna make sure I got this article about solo mining right. So, CKPool isn’t really a solo pool like we used to see over a decade ago. The piece mentions that CKPool takes all the hashrates from weaker devices and combines them, but the reward still goes to the person who actually finds the block. This setup is what helps solo miners find blocks. Am I on the right track?
How does CKPool handle reward distribution for solo mining?
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Miners in CKPool is like solo miners, but they are not solo miners because miners that join CKPool do not need to run their own nodes. Solo miners have to run their own nodes. Miners that join the CKPool are still like the miners that joined mining pool but who finds the block among them will be give 98% of the block reward and all the transaction fees. The 2% will be taken by the CKPool operator. This is different from mining pools that will distribute the mining reward to all the miners according to the hash rates that they are generating.
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#3Jul 25, 2025, 10:14 AM
Most pools use a percentage distribution for rewards. The thing is why they make use of a collective hash rate in pools is to increase their chances of securing the block reward by having a larger hashrate. As a result of this most times if they are able to get the block reward the distributes the profit according to the hash rate contributed by each Solo miner.
This simply means that those who contributed a larger percentage of the total hash rate will get a larger percentage of the profit during distribution of the rewards.
CKPool is different from mining pool precisely. No reward is distributed to miners in the pool according to the hash rate the miners are generating. The reward is given to only a single miner that mined the block as I explained above, but the miners that joined CKPool do not need to run their own node. It is more of a pool that miners that mined a block will be given 98% of the reward and the transaction fee while others that does not mine a block in the pool will not be given any reward.
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#5Jul 25, 2025, 12:30 PM
Well actually get what you are trying to say but honestly I'm just knowing about this. Basically what I understood about most mining pools before was that the percentage of hashrate you contribute is also used to calculate your reward after a block has been successfully mined.
If they allocate the total profit from a successfully mined block to the particular node that hashed that block, then what happens to the transactions fees that they are accumulate?
Edit:
I understand now thanks Charles
any DECENT pool will include all tx fees as part of their distribution.
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