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Re: A solo Bitcoin miner just won block 718214 reward worth 6.25 $BTC
by
franky1
on 14/01/2022, 17:52:52 UTC
⭐ Merited by fillippone (3)

But two cases in a row is indeed arousing some curiosity among members as well as miners also.

Indeed the CK solo pool is not actually a pool.
I don’t know if it a known thing, they have a support thread here on bitcointalk.

[∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 2% fee solo mining 262 blocks solved!

Here instead, the list of the recently minted blocks:
https://btc.com/stats/pool/Solo%20CK

solo.ck is actualy a pool.

heres its own pool stats

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https://solo.ckpool.org/pool/pool.status
{"runtime": 49662976, "lastupdate": 1642182397, "Users": 2050, "Workers": 13054, "Idle": 552, "Disconnected": 547}
{"hashrate1m": "30.3P", "hashrate5m": "30.4P", "hashrate15m": "30.8P", "hashrate1hr": "32.9P", "hashrate6hr": "25P", "hashrate1d": "28.6P", "hashrate7d": "27P"}
{"diff": 4.42, "accepted": 1078266779909, "rejected": 1765947892, "bestshare": 532446995741, "SPS1m": 232.0, "SPS5m": 234.0, "SPS15m": 234.0, "SPS1h": 233.0}

here it explains within the POOL there are 2050 users with about 5 asics on average each
now again to explain.
each asic owner(user) is not forming its own blockcheader and adjusting its own reward share to itself.

instead the CK pool is managing the block headers and setting the reward share. where it gives itself 2% and the uses the coinbase as an extra-extra-nonce which each user has a coinbase address, to give each user on the pool a variety of nonce and extra nonce to work through

all pools are collective. and change a coinbase per user/asic to give each asic varied work compared to other users.
and in all pools a winning hash is always found by one asic

all thats different is instead of CK taking 100% and in a separate later transactions split the reward over all users. ck takes 2% for himself and then lets the winning hash user get the 98%