It has done several times recently.

You should turn this into a website that visually shows the graphs. Then use some software that generates it itself. Self maintaining then

UPDATE: Digibyte SHA256 has now been added to the pool. We have 9 blocks found and successfully paid out to users!

https://solohash.co.uk

Hi all,

Introducing SoloHash, a multi-coin pool focused on Solo Mining Bitcoin & Bitcoin Cash.

SoloHash was created at the end of September 2024 last year, with miners joining steadily since then.

The pool infrastructure is based in AWS (Amazon Web Services) with an extremely fast website for tracking stats in near real-time (whenever there's updates from the pool backend which are normally every minute).

There's a 0.5% fee which is the lowest I've seen compared to other solo pools. This has always been 0.5% since it started. The reason why it's so low is because I built it with performance and cost in mind. I'm an experienced software engineer and systems architect. It's all serverless except the pool/node.

Website: https://solohash.co.uk
Fee: 0.5%

Feel free to hop into the Discord server for any help or queries or simply to say hello!: https://discord.gg/kmqT48GtCF
I am always available for help with any issues.

Connecting to the pool
Low Difficulty (Recommended for home miners - 1k Minimum Difficulty):
solo.solohash.co.uk:3337

High Difficulty (Recommended for mining rentals/farms - 1M Minimum Difficulty):
solo.solohash.co.uk:3338

Quick Points / Features

• High Performance - The pool is a very fast and efficient server. It consumes 0-2% CPU usage per 100 users (excluding workers!). This means shares are processed very quickly, avoiding stale shares/blocks
• Low Latency - Reported latency from current users to the pool is in the region of 18-25ms. This is extremely low compared to others. This ensures your shares are sent very quickly, processed, and any potential blocks are submitted to the network ASAP
• Tuned Nodes - All nodes are fine tuned and connected to hundreds of other nodes with latency in the range of 2-20ms. This is essential for block propagation from potential block shares
• VarDiff - Enabled for miners that do not send a suggested_difficulty stratum message such as the Avalon Nano 3 / Antminer
• Realtime Stats - Miner and pool statistics are updated regularly
• Low Fee - Low pool fees for any found blocks, meaning you get more of the reward compared to other solo pools
• Fast Website - The website is built as a Single Page App meaning no full page reloads when switching between pages and slow load times

FAQ
Q: Why aren't my stats showing?
A: If your miner submits a share, then the stats for your miner will be available within the minute. The stats are cached for one minute to reduce repetitive calls to the database.

Q: Should I use port 3337 or 3338?
A: It's recommended you use port 3338 for casual miners with a hashrate less than 100Th/s. For anything higher, use port 3338. This means your miners will start from the minimum difficulty for that port, thus reducing the amount of shares being submitted to the pool. VarDiff is enabled if your miners do not send a suggested_difficulty stratum message.

Q: How do I connect?
A: Use your wallet address as your username. Password can be anything. You can use aliases to keep track of your individual miners as explained on the website.

Q: When will I find a block?
A: Pure probability. You may find one within a day, week, month or year. Solo bitcoin mining is based purely on luck. Miners are constantly, by random, generating thousands upon thousands of hashes per second. Only one will result in a valid block submission. This is the 'lottery' we speak about with solo mining.

All miners are welcome, whether you have a mining farm or just doing it as a hobby like I am.

Happy mining!

Some people, of whom i'm one of, unfortunately got their account suspended voluntarily to prevent unauthorised access to it several years ago when Bitcointalk got breached. Unfortunately it's impossible to get my main account back, because I no longer have access to some Altcoin addresses I screwed around with back in the day of which they request proof of the address to prove your ownership despite me proving original email communications from them about the breach. So, this became my new primary account, which means starting again from scratch. Rank IMHO doesn't mean much, it just shows how active someone is on the forum.

It just goes to show the randomness. It's the same sort of with small bitcoin miners. The amount of years it would take with 500Gh/s or 1Th/s for example, it crazy. But, someone did find a block with that amount of hashing power.

Wow, this is a blast from the past! I remember having a couple of them and it taking just over a month to get 0.01BTC @ SlushPool!

Wow, they're still going? I remember pointing my Bitmain Antminer S3 there around 2015/2016. It seemed fine. Albeit it was a very basic site then.

What you're asking for is basically solo mining. There's a couple of open source pool servers out there already e.g public-pool (GitHub) and CKPool (BitBucket). You can simply compile them and run it. They talk to the Bitcoin Daemon over RPC and subscribe to ZMQ for block notifications.

The issue is, if manufacturers released cheap powerful machines, the difficulty would just sky rocket even further, by a lot.

It became unprofitable a long time ago when machines needed to consume 1kW+ of power. The electricity cost in Europe is insane. The only way to do it profitably is to either have a mass amount of solar power and battery storage, or somehow have free electricity from some other form of renewable power, which realistically, how many people live next to a river/stream or has a wind turbine?

I just don't understand why people spam the TestNet with hashrate for no reason. If you're testing software, mine a couple blocks and stop. I recently tried to mine with 1Th/s testing some software and even after three days i was no where close to a block. This was on TestNet4. TestNet3 is just a spam net more than anything.

With 11.5Th/s I have now, I'm happy with that. That's about a 1 in 500k chance per day of finding a block. Much better odds than the lottery here still. That's about 300watts of power, and if you know UK prices of electric, you'd understand why that is a limit really.

Just over a couple of months now. I've been on and off with GPU mining whenever my electricity prices go cheap enough to make it profitable (I'm on an agile tariff). But when I came across the BitAxe, an open source miner, it immediately peaked my interest again in bitcoin mining, but instead of pool mining for profit like I used to do several years prior, I decided to use these small miners just to solo mine for a chance to win that reward whilst they run off my solar install, and of course because I find it fun. I do miss the days of P2Pool, and mining at SlushPool, but now with how ridiculously expensive miners are (who is going to fork out thousands for one when they don't even cost that much to make?) and how power hungry they are, those days are gone at general PPLNS or PPS etc, mining.

Some people just want to run something to potentially hit the jackpot. It helps with decentralisation too instead of letting the large pools have the monopoly over the network.

You'll spend more buying lottery tickets than you will buying a miner like a BitAxe or the Avalon Nano 3. Plus the odds are way better mining solo. For instance, the odds of winning the lottery here in the UK is about 1 in 15-30 million depending on which lottery you play. Mining with 6.5Th/s is about 1 in 756k daily.

A lot of people are buying small miners now just for this. It's of course a lottery. There was a single BitAxe that found a block back in July with only 500Gh/s.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/tiny-500gh-home-bitcoin-mining-device-produced-a-block-earning-over-200k-btc

I have 4x LuckyMiner LV06's, and I indeed flashed the AxeOS firmware via the BitAxe GitHub repository and it bricked it. I had to solder some TTL pins to the board and flash the firmware that way. I did this on all four of my miners and they've been hashing nicely for a month.

I've seen no evidence online to speculate it's doing anything out of the ordinary. It mines just fine using the firmware they ship with. I just wanted to use firmware that was open source instead of closed source.

The BitAxe uses an ESP32. It doesn't support 5Ghz. It connects via 2.4Ghz like most IoT devices.

You can see what the WiFi password is if you press F12 to enter the development console, inspect the element and change the attribute "type" to "text" from "password". The dots is just a standard password field in HTML that browsers render as dots.

It should support WPA-PSK2.

Much appreciated! We're hovering at around 33 users and 80Th/s at the moment which is a new record I've seen. I noticed a spike in hashing power up to 1Ph/s that was quite nice a couple weeks ago - everything was stable and the hardware was barely touched. I'm available 99% of the time for any questions or assistance and just for general chat on Discord. Fingers crossed for our first block!

I run a solo pool currently and we're at around 70-80Th/s. It's friendly for small miners and mining farms. I have about 5 BitAxe's and 1 Avalon Nano 3 pointed to it, and a few people i've talked to have Nano 3's connected to it. I've been in the game since 2013, mostly just because it's a big interested of mine, fun and a hobby.

The website address is: https://SoloHash.co.uk

There's a Discord link in the footer where you can chat to other miners and myself.

Majority of them are just scams. There's no way on earth that you would mine anything worthwhile from a mobile phone. Back in the day when we could CPU mine, sure, you might have earned something. However, today it's all about ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) - machines that are designed to mine bitcoin. The only issue is, to mine anything decent, they use a LOT of power. And they being, you need more than one. And it's the electricity cost to run them that is the killer.