Best Bitcoin solo mining pools in 2026
How to actually choose a solo pool
Start with the one fact every honest operator will tell you: no pool can improve your odds. Solo-mining probability is set by your hashrate against the network's — the pool only assembles work and broadcasts your block if you find one. The same Bitaxe has exactly the same chance of a block on every pool on this page. (New to the math? Read Is solo mining worth it? or run your own numbers in the odds calculator.)
So “best” is not about luck. It comes down to four things that genuinely differ between pools: the fee (what you give up in the rare event you win), latency to your region, custody (a found block should pay your own address, not a pool wallet), and how much you can verify instead of taking on trust. That is how this comparison is scored.
The five solo pools that matter in 2026
These are the services miners actually point hardware at in 2026. All five are non-custodial and true solo: your Bitcoin address is the stratum username, and a found block pays you directly on-chain.
| Pool | Fee | Where it runs | Strongest suit |
|---|---|---|---|
| SoloLuck | 0% | Jakarta, Indonesia | Lowest latency in Southeast Asia; CPU-to-farm port tiers |
| Solo CKPool | 2% | 4 regional endpoints (Americas, Europe, Asia, Oceania) | Longest track record — running since 2014 |
| Public Pool | 0% | US hosted, or self-host | Fully open source, run it yourself |
| AtlasPool | 1.5% | 9 anycast endpoints worldwide | Automatic global routing |
| SoloPool.org | 1.5% | Not stated on their site | Solo mining for several coins, not just BTC |
Details verified July 2026 from each pool's own public pages; they can change — always confirm on the pool's site before pointing hardware. And measure latency on your own line with the Ping Race rather than trusting anyone's marketing figure, ours included.
What each pool is actually like
Solo CKPool (solo.ckpool.org) is the original. Dr. Con Kolivas has run it since 2014, and most of the famous small-miner jackpot headlines you have read happened there — see the chain-verified small-miner wins we catalogued. The 2% fee is the price of a decade of reliability. Regional endpoints (including sgsolo.ckpool.org for Asia and the Middle East) keep latency reasonable, and there is no registration: address in, blocks out.
Public Pool (web.public-pool.io) is the open-source favourite: 0% fee on the hosted instance, and the same software runs on an Umbrel or any home node — the most sovereign option here if you want to operate the whole stack yourself. The hosted instance is in the US, so expect long round trips from Southeast Asia. Our side-by-side with Public Pool and CKPool has measured latency numbers.
AtlasPool (solo.atlaspool.io) is the newest big-infrastructure entrant, launched in late 2025: one hostname, nine endpoints across the globe, and BGP anycast routes your miner to the closest one automatically — including Hong Kong and Mumbai in Asia. 1.5% fee, TLS available, no registration.
SoloPool.org runs solo pools for Bitcoin and a stack of other coins (Bitcoin Cash, merged Litecoin+Dogecoin, DigiByte and more) at a 1.5% Bitcoin fee — the pick if you rotate hardware between chains.
SoloLuck — that is us, so hold us to the strictest standard on this page. We run a 0% fee Bitcoin solo mining pool in Jakarta: about 6 ms from Indonesian fibre (measured from one consumer line in West Java — test yours on /ping), five port tiers from CPU and NerdMiner (minimum difficulty 1) up to farm class, TLS on port 3334, and a one-click Windows CPU miner. We are also the newest pool here and we have not found a block yet: the Vigil counts our wait in public, and the Proof page shows how to verify every claim we make against the chain. 0% means a win pays your address the entire coinbase reward in a single output.
Which one should you pick?
- You mine from Southeast Asia → SoloLuck is the only pool on this list with a node in the region; nothing else comes close on latency. (Full regional guide: Solo mining Bitcoin in Southeast Asia.)
- You want the longest, most proven record → Solo CKPool. A decade of found blocks speaks for itself.
- You want to self-host and own the whole stack → Public Pool's open-source software on your own node.
- You mine from several regions or move rigs around → AtlasPool's anycast does the routing for you.
- You solo-mine coins besides Bitcoin → SoloPool.org.
Because every pool here is non-custodial with your address as the username, switching costs nothing: repoint your miner and the next share lands on the new pool. Most ASICs also accept a fallback pool slot — a common setup in this region is SoloLuck as primary for latency with another pool as failover.
Verify, don’t trust — whoever you pick
A solo pool's honesty is checkable. Before you commit hardware anywhere — including here:
- Check the coinbase. When a solo pool finds a block, the reward address is public on-chain. A true-solo win pays the finder's address, not a pool wallet — every entry in our Legends list links the raw coinbase transaction so you can see exactly that.
- Confirm the fee in writing on the pool's own site, and remember it only applies if you actually find a block — you lose nothing to fees while waiting.
- Measure your latency with the Ping Race from the machine that will actually mine.
- Prefer verifiable stats. Our Proof page documents how to check hashrate, workers and payout claims against independent sources — the same checks work on any pool.
Ready to start solo mining?
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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