Ultimate Guide to Solo Mining

Hey everyone, I’m starting this thread to gather all the info on solo mining that’s out there on this forum. If you come across any other topics or pools to add, drop them in the comments below. 1. Pools Solo CK pool (active) Website: solo.ckpool.org Forum Link: here Wiki: here No need to register, no payment plans, and no wallets for pool operators. Fee: 2% Transaction fees go straight to the solo miner. Servers are in the USA (and maybe Germany?) Kano pool (active) Website: kano.is Forum Link: here Wiki: here Transaction fees are part of the miner’s reward. Pool has an operator wallet. Pool fee is 0.5% of the total. Servers available in New York, Netherlands, Germany, Japan, Seattle, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Atlanta. btc.solomining.io (active) Website: btc.solomining.io No registration, no payment plans, and no wallets for pool operators. Pool fee is 1%. Transaction fees go to the solo miner. Servers are located in Europe, Canada, USA East, USA West, Australia (Sydney), and Singapore. viabtc (active) Website: viabtc.com Transaction fees go to the solo miner. Pool fee is 1%. Servers available worldwide. mining-dutch (active) Website: mining-dutch.nl Pool fee is 1.5%. bsod (offline) Website: bsod.pw Pool fee is 1.9%. Servers available in Europe, Asia, North America. soloblocks.io (offline) Website: soloblocks.io Forum Link: here No registration, no payment plans, and no wallets for pool operators.

To be blunt, I'm not concerned if you don't include my pool in links above, but including a link to the thread by someone who is lying about my pool coz he doesn't like me, and trying to get hackers to attack all the miners on my pool as collateral damage, seems far from ideal.

Your pool if of course included in the list, as others webpages from your site, they are valuable for the community, especially for newbies. Excuse me but which topic are you talking about ? I can erase a topic of my list if it causes any trouble to you

I'm referring to this you linked: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5425310.0 In the 2nd post about my pool, he posted the full userlist on my pool (only available to members) and wouldn't remove it when I requested (see my request and his ignoring it there also) I ended up having to get a mod to resolve it as you can see the names have been obscured. His comments about my pool and the fun run are false and he makes claims that are bullshit, trying to attack the pool coz he's upset about losing BTC to MRR who ripped him off. -- Oddly enough I did the free opensource Gekko driver for sidehack. Seriously, he's attacking sidehack and 419mining also?!? lol - what the fuck is "stinks heavily of surreptitious advertising" even supposed to mean? For which he replied it was somewhere on reddit that he couldn't remember i.e. it's bullshit Well, the whole Gekko driver is open source ... that I released the end of last year and this year Yet he himself is running a solo run that does EXACTLY that - rather hypocritical complaint. and ignoring the fact I've paid out more than $100million in BTC ... but no one knows yet what will happen if he ever finds a block ... I restarted KDB ONLY twice in the whole of 2022 (It's obviously mandatory for code updates) The web site clearly explains about the reset of the 'best' and in rare cases 'best ever' but only if it is below a small 1G and again only twice in 2022 I'm really not sure what internal deals I'm gonna have for a $100 fun run, that I have also stated to all involved I wont allow them to run it larger in the discord channel coz I don't want people betting their livelihood. It's a fun run, like a lottery ticket, that's as far as I'll be involved in gambling. There's plenty more in that post that is full on crap.

Right, I've deleted the topic from my list. Thank you ! (yes MRR doesn't look very nice, their prices per Ph/s are crazy high !) I am more than happy that you Kano did all this work on your pool and on Gekkos softwares. I wouldn't broadcast any infos which make you inconfortable or which are just total bullshit. Have a nice day !

NiceHash is offering solo mining through buying packages of hashrate. We call it EasyMining since anyone with BTC can buy these packages and have a chance of hitting a full block reward. https://www.nicehash.com/my/easymining/ Basically, you can buy a package for $2 to $200 worth of BTC and have a probability of 1:74000 to 1:740 of hitting a block. The reward is paid to your BTC wallet address of your choice (inputed before setting up an order). This also allows NiceHash to pay the miners (sellers of hashrate) more than mining to any other pool. Since the launch of EasyMining. We paid 6% more to the sellers (miners) than mining Bitcoin via pool.

As I've mentioned before this info seems problematic. 1) Cheaper rentals OR 2) Paying miners better You can't do both. If you are paying miners 6% more than pools, then buying mining is going to cost a lot. If you also add your fee on top of that again, then it's really expensive to do your solo mining. If on the other hand you are wanting good price rentals for your solo mining, then that 6% + your fee isn't going to do that. You have two sides in your service. People trying to sell their mining for the highest price, and people trying to buy mining for the lowest price. They both clearly conflict with each other. If on the other hand, you removed that clearly dubious statement about 6% more than pools, you could say quite easily that you are cheaper than MRR - coz they seem to charge a LOT more.