SoloLuck Blog · 2026-06-30
When you point a miner at SoloLuck, your stratum username is your own Bitcoin address, optionally followed by a dot and a worker name — for example bc1qexampleaddr….rig1. The part before the dot is where any block reward would be paid. The part after the dot is purely a label for your own dashboard, so you can tell one machine from another.
A worker name is never reserved, never checked against anything, and never affects mining. You can call your Bitaxe bitaxe, your S19 heater, or leave the label off entirely. The pool simply tags each share it receives with whatever label arrived, so its stats page can show a per-machine breakdown. Rename a worker and you have, in effect, started a fresh entry — same address, same odds, just a new row in the table.
So settle this first: choosing worker names is a bookkeeping decision. It cannot help or hurt your chance of finding a block. What follows is what actually does matter.
In true-solo mining, your chance of finding a block in a given stretch of time depends on one thing: your total hashrate — how many hashes per second your hardware computes. A block is found when one of your miners produces a hash below the network target, a check that has nothing to do with how many worker names you use, which port you connect on, or what share difficulty the pool sets for you.
Because of that, ten workers under one address have exactly the same odds as a single worker with the same combined hashrate. Probabilities simply add: three machines doing 1, 5 and 100 TH/s give you the block-finding chance of 106 TH/s combined, however you label them. There is no bonus for spreading hashrate across many worker names and no penalty for stacking everything under one.
For scale, 100 TH/s (one S19-class miner) averages about 180 years to a block at today's network difficulty; the whole SoloLuck pool at ~28.5 TH/s averages around 640 years. Those are memoryless averages, not countdowns — you could hit tomorrow or never, and variance for small miners is enormous. Naming changes none of it.
If raw odds don't change, why group at all? Convenience. Putting every machine under one address with .worker labels buys you clean, unified tracking:
You still see each machine individually thanks to the worker labels, so you lose no detail — you just also get the tidy fleet-wide totals on top.
What if you give each miner its own different address instead? Your total block-finding odds are unchanged — each address is its own solo entity, and the probabilities of separate entities add up to the same combined chance. You lose no luck and no money.
What you lose is tidiness. Each address is tracked separately: its own hashrate estimate, its own best share, its own closest-brush number — none of them combined. A block pays only the address whose worker found it (you still own them all, since you hold the keys to each, but the reward lands in just one). And you now have several addresses to monitor instead of one.
There is one good reason to do this on purpose: you genuinely want separate payout identities — say, splitting machines between two wallets, two people, or two accounting buckets. If that's not you, separate addresses mostly just create more dashboards to refresh.
For almost everyone running a home fleet, the clean answer is: group all your miners under one Bitcoin address and tell them apart with worker labels. Your username on each machine looks like bc1qexampleaddr….rig1, bc1qexampleaddr….bitaxe, bc1qexampleaddr….s19 — same address, distinct labels.
That gives you summed, smoother fleet stats, a single combined best share, one payout identity, and one address to watch — with full per-machine detail still visible. It is the setup the SoloLuck stats page is built around.
Split across separate addresses only when you deliberately want distinct payout identities. It costs you nothing in odds, but it fragments your tracking, so do it for a reason, not by accident.
One unrelated tip while you're naming workers: still match each machine to the right port for its size — :3333 Lite for small ASICs, :8081 Standard for mid rigs, :4334 Pro for big ones, :3335 Nano for CPUs. That's for clean stats too, not odds — a Bitaxe on a Pro port submits shares so rarely it looks dead.
Paste your address and copy the config from /setup, watch the pool on /status, and check every claim on /verify. Mine to your own address — that is what makes it truly solo.
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