Lottery mining is the nickname for running a small Bitcoin miner on a true-solo pool, where every share it submits is one more roll of the dice for a whole block — the full reward, in one shot, paid to your address. You're not trying to earn a steady wage. You bought a ticket, and the draw runs around the clock.
The good part of the metaphor: unlike a paper lottery ticket that turns into litter, your miner keeps working. It draws a new number roughly every ten minutes for the life of the hardware, and the waste heat warms the room while it does. A Bitaxe on your desk is a space heater that happens to be holding a lottery ticket. Some people genuinely run one for the warmth and treat any block as a rounding error.
The honest part: it is still a lottery, with lottery odds. The thrill is real and the prize is real, but the expected payout is not income. Read the math below before you fall in love with the dream.
Here's the part most "lottery mining" pages skip. Your chance of solving a block in any given draw is simply your hashrate divided by the whole network's hashrate. The network runs on exascale industrial hashrate; your Bitaxe contributes a vanishingly small sliver of it. The ratio is staggeringly small, and difficulty has no memory — a near-miss yesterday brings you no closer today. Each ten-minute draw starts fresh.
A few things follow that are worth tattooing on the inside of your eyelids:
Don't take our word for the scale of it — put your own device's hashrate into the solo mining odds calculator and read the answer in plain years. It is sobering on purpose. If you want the full lottery-vs-wage framing, solo vs. pooled mining lays it out cold.
Any of these will mine the lottery. They differ in up-front cost, power draw, and how many "tickets per second" (hashes) they buy. More hashrate buys proportionally more tickets — it does not change the fundamental odds, only how many you hold.
| Gear | What it is | Why people pick it |
|---|---|---|
| NerdMiner / tiny ESP32 | A cheap ESP32 board doing sub-100 GH/s | Cheapest possible ticket; sips power; a screen on your desk. Pure novelty lottery. |
| Bitaxe (single-ASIC) | Open-source one-chip miner, a few TH/s | The hobbyist sweet spot — quiet, low-watt, real (if tiny) hashrate, fun to tune. |
| Used ASIC (e.g. S9 / S19) | Older industrial unit, tens of TH/s, loud | Most tickets per dollar, but loud, hot and power-hungry. Best with cheap/surplus power. |
There is no "right" choice — a NerdMiner and an S19 hold a ticket in the exact same draw; the S19 just holds far more of them, at a far higher power bill. If the rig only makes sense to you when the block hits, lottery mining isn't your hobby. If you'd run it anyway for the heat, the tinkering, or the decentralisation, you're exactly who this is for.
When the lottery does pay, it pays the whole block to one address — so the booth you mine through matters a lot. Two things you should insist on:
bc1... address on-chain, in the block's own coinbase. We never hold, route, or owe you the coins. There's no withdrawal button to fail and no balance for us to lose.That's the whole reason true-solo (ckpool -B) exists: you against the network, your prize undivided, your keys your own. The only levers a pool can honestly pull are fee, payout style, and latency — so those are the only things we compete on. See them side by side on /compare.
SoloLuck is built tier-first so a NerdMiner and an S19 each land on a port tuned for it. Host is stratum.sololuck.io (148.230.98.87); pick the port that matches your gear:
| Port | Tier | For |
|---|---|---|
| :3335 | Nano (difficulty 1) | NerdMiner, tiny ESP32, sub-100 GH devices |
| :3333 | Lite | Bitaxe-class single-ASIC miners |
| :8081 | Standard | Mid-range rigs |
| :4334 | Pro | S19 / high-hashrate ASICs |
| :3334 | TLS | Encrypted stratum, any tier |
Username = your bc1... address, password = anything. The Nano tier's difficulty 1 matters for tiny gear: it lets a sub-100 GH device submit shares often enough to prove it's alive and counted, instead of going silent for hours. If you're in Indonesia or SEA, our Jakarta node sits ~6 ms away versus ~250 ms to US pools, so fewer of your tickets die as stale shares — AtlasPool's HK anycast and the US/AU pools (ckpool, public-pool) are all further. Full per-device walkthrough on /setup, in 10 languages.
Because the brand is honesty, here's what no one else prints on their lottery page: no block has been solved on SoloLuck yet, and most of the hashrate you currently see is the operator's own test rigs. We'll keep saying so until a real miner hits one. We will never promise you riches, a "due" block, or better-than-anyone odds — those things don't exist in solo mining.
Treat every sat of electricity as already spent. If you can shrug that off and you like the idea of a 24/7 ticket that also warms the room, the fee's fair, the payout's yours alone, and the node's close. Come kick the tyres on /compare, run your number on the odds calculator, and say hi on Telegram @SoloLuckPool.
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.
Not ready to point a miner yet? Run your gear through the odds calculator, or join Telegram for block & record alerts — no rig required.
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