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 six solo pools that matter in 2026
These are the services miners actually point hardware at in 2026. All six 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, with a Singapore door | CPU-to-farm port tiers, a minimum-difficulty-1 port and TLS — and a site that measures your own latency |
| 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, 6 continents | Automatic global routing |
| Braiins Solo | 0.5% | Not stated | Public record of solo blocks already found; run by the team behind the first-ever Bitcoin pool |
| SoloPool.org | 2% | Not stated on their site | Solo mining for several coins, not just BTC |
Details verified July 2026 from each pool's own public pages and re-checked 2026-09-10; 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.
For the pools here that publish their numbers, miners, workers and hashrate are read every hour in the Solo Mining Census.
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.
Braiins Solo is run by the team behind the world's first Bitcoin mining pool: 0.5% of the block reward, no registration, and a public record of solo blocks already found — track record is the reason to pick it. It publishes no server locations and offers no encrypted stratum (its :443 is a firewall-friendly plain-TCP port, not TLS), and from one Jakarta line it measured about 186 ms on 2026-08-21.
SoloPool.org runs solo pools for Bitcoin and a stack of other coins (Bitcoin Cash, merged Litecoin+Dogecoin, DigiByte and more) at a 2% Bitcoin fee (raised from 1.5% on 2026-09-01) — 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, on its own Bitcoin node, with a Singapore front door into it; a second pool in Phoenix, US, was retired on 2026-10-03. Your odds are your hashrate against the whole network, as on any solo pool. Measure your own latency on /ping rather than trusting ours. Four 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. Since July 2026 SoloLuck is also listed on miningpoolstats.stream, so you can cross-check our live hashrate and miner count against an independent tracker.
Which one should you pick?
- You want the shortest hop from your own line → measure it and point at whichever pool wins. SoloLuck answers in Jakarta, with a Singapore front door; AtlasPool’s anycast puts an endpoint near most places, and from our Jakarta test line on 2026-09-10 the two tied at about 5 ms. Solo CKPool’s sgsolo.ckpool.org is the next nearest from Asia at about 18 ms. (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. Braiins Solo (0.5%, no registration, from the team behind the first-ever Bitcoin pool) has a public record of found solo blocks too, though it offers no TLS.
- 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 at the network layer; SoloLuck runs one Bitcoin pool, in Jakarta, with a Singapore front door, so for rigs spread across regions AtlasPool is the better fit.
- 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.
FAQ
Which Bitcoin solo mining pool has the lowest fee?
SoloLuck and Public Pool both charge 0% — a found block pays the full reward to your own address. Solo CKPool and SoloPool.org charge 2%; Braiins Solo charges 0.5%; AtlasPool charges 1.5%. The fee only matters in the rare event you find a block, so it costs you nothing while you wait.
Does a bigger solo pool find blocks for me faster?
No. In true solo mode every miner works on their own block candidate with their own address in the coinbase, so the pool's total size changes nothing about your personal odds — only your own hashrate does. A big pool finds more blocks in total simply because it has more miners, but none of those wins would have been yours.
Which solo mining pool is best for Asia?
Three options run infrastructure in or near Asia: SoloLuck's Jakarta node, Solo CKPool's Asian endpoint (sgsolo.ckpool.org), and AtlasPool's anycast nodes in Hong Kong and Mumbai. From Southeast Asia specifically, Jakarta is usually the shortest hop — but measure your own line with the Ping Race before deciding.
Is a new solo pool with no blocks found yet safe to use?
It can be, because true-solo mining is non-custodial: the pool never holds your coins, and a found block pays your own address directly. What you should check is verifiability — published node stats, honest odds math, and a way to confirm claims on-chain. That is why SoloLuck publishes its own wait in public on the Vigil page instead of pretending otherwise.
Can I switch solo pools without losing anything?
Yes. There are no balances or withdrawals to migrate — your Bitcoin address is your account everywhere. Repoint your miner, or use your ASIC's fallback-pool slot, and you are mining on the new pool within seconds.
Ready to start solo mining?
Paste your address and copy the config from /setup, find your port and difficulty floor on /connect, 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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