Will a solo pool give me a better chance of finding a block?

No. The odds are identical on every solo pool on the planet, because they're set by the Bitcoin network's difficulty, not by the pool. A pool can only change its fee, its payout style, and its latency. SoloLuck competes on those three honest things and nothing else.

How long would it take me to find a block solo?

For most home miners, statistically thousands of years — which means in practice, never. Don't guess: plug your real hashrate into our solo mining odds calculator at /guide/solo-mining-odds-calculator and see the number in plain years before you decide.

If I just want steady earnings, what should I do?

Use a conventional shared pool with regular payouts — that's the rational choice for predictable income, and we'll tell you so plainly. Solo mining is for people who'd rather take long odds at a whole block. The full comparison is at /guide/solo-vs-pooled-mining.

Has SoloLuck actually solved a block yet?

No, not yet, and most of the current hashrate is the operator's own test rigs — we'd rather you hear that from us than find out later. We can't promise you a block; nobody honest can. We can promise a fair 2% fee, non-custodial payouts to your own address, and a low-latency node in Asia.

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Is Solo Mining Worth It in 2026? An Honest Answer

Q: Is solo mining worth it in 2026?

As income, no — your expected earnings equal a pooled pool's, but the variance is brutal and most small miners will never solve a block in their hardware's lifetime. As a lottery ticket, a hobby, or a vote for decentralisation, it can absolutely be worth it. It depends on what you want, not on the pool.

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The short, honest answer

If you are asking is solo mining worth it as a way to make money, the honest answer in 2026 is no — not for a small miner. Your statistical expected earnings from solo mining are the same as from a big pooled pool: identical hashrate finds blocks at the same long-run rate either way. Solo mining does not give you better odds. It only changes the shape of the payout.

A pooled miner gets a small, steady trickle. A solo miner gets nothing, nothing, nothing... and then maybe a whole block. Same average over a long enough time; wildly different variance. For most home miners that "long enough time" is measured in thousands of years, so in practice you should expect to find nothing at all.

So why does anyone do it? Because the question "is it worth it?" isn't really a money question. It's a what are you here for question — and for a lot of people the answer makes solo mining absolutely worth it. Read on.

Income vs. lottery: what solo mining actually is

Solo mining is a lottery ticket you mint yourself with electricity. Every share your miner submits is a roll of the dice against the network's current difficulty. The full block reward (subsidy plus fees) goes to whoever rolls a winning hash first — and on a true-solo pool, that's you alone, paid straight to your own address.

Treat it as income and it fails: brutal variance, possibly zero return for the life of your hardware, and you'd have been better off pooled with steady payouts. Treat it as a lottery or hobby and it can win on its own terms:

The jackpot dream — a single solved block is the full reward in one shot, paid to one address. Long odds, real prize.
Decentralisation — every independent solo miner is one more block that didn't come from a giant pool. You're a vote for a less centralised network.
The hobby itself — running the rig, tuning it, watching the share counter. Some people just enjoy it, the way others buy a scratch card with their coffee.

Before you decide, run your own numbers on the solo mining odds calculator — it'll tell you, in plain years, roughly how long your hashrate would take to expect one block. Most people find that number sobering, which is exactly why we link it.

When solo mining IS worth it — and when it isn't

Worth it if...	Not worth it if...
You can lose every cent of the electricity and shrug	You need this to pay for itself or earn rent
You want the lottery thrill — a tiny shot at a whole block	You want steady, predictable payouts (that's pooled)
You have cheap or surplus power (solar, a heater you'd run anyway)	Power is expensive and you're counting kWh
You care about not handing more hashrate to mega-pools	You only care about maximising expected return
You enjoy the hardware and the tinkering for its own sake	You'd resent the rig if it never "hit"

Notice the expected dollar value is the same in both columns — that's the whole point. What changes is your temperament and your power bill. If predictable income is the goal, a conventional pool is the rational choice, and we'll say so. The full breakdown is in solo vs. pooled mining.

The myths to drop before you start

"A solo pool gives me better odds." No. The odds are identical on every solo pool on earth. A pool only ever changes three things: the fee, the payout style, and the network latency. Anyone advertising better luck is selling you a feeling.
"More miners on the pool means I'm more likely to win." On a true-solo pool you mine entirely for yourself — other miners' hashrate does nothing for your odds. (On a shared pool it's the opposite: you'd split any block.)
"Someone always wins eventually, so it'll be me soon." Each share is independent. Difficulty has no memory. A near-miss yesterday does not bring you closer today.
"Bigger fee = bigger reward." Fee is pure drag. SoloLuck's 2% is taken only as a single coinbase output on a block you actually solve — 0% every other day. But lower is always better, all else equal.

SoloLuck's honest pitch

We're a true per-miner solo pool on ckpool -B. Here's the unvarnished version, because the brand is honesty:

We can't improve your odds — nobody can. The lottery is the lottery. What we control is fee, payouts, and latency, so that's where we compete.
Non-custodial. Your BTC address is your username (password can be anything). A solved block pays straight to your bc1... address on-chain. We never hold your coins.
2% fee, only when you win. Taken as one coinbase output on a block you actually solve. Every other day: 0%.
Low latency in Asia/SEA. Our Jakarta node is ~6 ms from much of Indonesia and Southeast Asia versus ~250 ms to US pools — fewer stale shares, more of your work counted. AtlasPool's HK anycast is further for an Indonesian miner; ckpool and public-pool are US/AU.
A tier for every device. Point your miner at stratum.sololuck.io — :3335 Nano (NerdMiner/ESP32), :3333 Lite (Bitaxe), :8081 Standard, :4334 Pro (S19-class), :3334 TLS. The setup guide walks each one.

And the part no one else prints: no block has been solved on SoloLuck yet, and most of the hashrate you see is the operator's own test rigs. We'll keep saying that until it changes. We won't promise you riches — solo mining is a lottery and you should treat every sat as already spent. If that framing suits you, the door's open, the fee's fair, and the node's close. Compare us cold on /compare, and come say hi on Telegram @SoloLuckPool.

Ready to take a ticket?

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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