No frills, no fuss 2% fee anonymous solo bitcoin mining for everyone
No registration required, no payment schemes no pool op wallets
This is a NOT-FOR-PROFIT pool, all care is given but no responsibility is taken in the event of an issue with the pool
Configuration:
Just point your miner to:
solo.ckpool.org:3333
Miners that require a high diff, such as mining rentals, there is a special high diff port for them:
solo.ckpool.org:4334
Set your username to your btcaddress with any or even no worker extension, and any password.
eg: cgminer -o stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333 -u xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.0 -p x
If you enter an invalid address you will be rejected
Note that solo.ckpool.org supports both IPV4 and IPV6 transparently.
You may wish to find which is lower latency for you and specify one or the other directly.
IPV4 is solo4.ckpool.org
IPV6 is solo6.ckpool.org
Suitable for:
Large mining farms
Regular miners struggling to recoup costs who wish to take extra risk for greater reward potential for part or all of their hashrate
The last backup for all miners who don't have a solo setup or wish to avoid the overheads of running one
Miners with old/inefficient miners that will never earn any rewards through regular mining that wish to leave it mining as a lottery
Transaction selection transparency:
Solo.ckpool.org does not filter any transactions and uses default bitcoin core transaction selection.
Live monitoring of the current transactions can be done at any time by examining the following URL:
FAQ
- The most commonly asked question is why your mining statistics are not showing up under users.
- The reason for this is your mining hashrate is too low to be detected by the pool due to a minimum diff of 10,000 set.
- The pool will eventually pick up your shares and slowly adjust to suit your mining hardware.
- If you are using client software that supports the client-diff option, you can set this to a lower value, with 1 being the minimum, but it has no influence on your chance of finding a block, as shares are cosmetic for feedback only here.
- Hashrates below 1GH are not recommended to mine bitcoin as it is unrealistic they will ever find a block. Feel free to try them as a learning experience or proof of concept, but I highly recommend you don't thrash such devices and waste your time and energy.
- CPU, GPU, and FPGA miners are never recommended for mining bitcoin.
- Nerdminers are demonstration toys only that simply waste bandwidth to the pool, please do not mine with them here.
Advantages over regular solo mining:
- Mining at solo.ckpool.org avoids the overheads of running a full bitcoin node that requires both great storage and bandwidth for optimal performance.
- Solo.ckpool.org is extensively connected to high speed low latency bitcoin nodes for rapid block change notification and propagation.
- Unlike regular pools, ckpool never mines transaction-free blocks due to its ultra-scalable code which has miners on both new blocks and transactions concurrently.
How it works:
- ckpool automatically takes your bitcoin address and gives you a unique stratum connection mining to your own address.
- If you find a block, 98% of the block reward + transaction fees get generated directly at your bitcoin address!
- There is no need to worry about passwords, logins, withdrawals, authentication or pool wallet hacks.
- You remain anonymous apart from your btc address.
- You do not need to the following unless you wish to confirm the validity of the pool's behaviour:
- All you need to confirm you are mining to your own address is to examine the coinbase and template sent to you over stratum.
- Note that if you do not find a block, you get no reward at all with solo mining.
- 2% goes to xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to operate the pool and contribute to further ckpool code maintenance.
Mine on, and good luck!
Pool code and pool operated and created by Con Kolivas, creator of cgminer and ckpool.
