SoloLuck

A Public Pool (public-pool.io) alternative for Asia

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Who should pick which

public-pool.io is a good pool. If you want the lowest possible cost, or open-source software you can host yourself, it is probably the right choice — and this page will say so more than once. SoloLuck only makes sense in one narrow case: you mine from Asia and you care about latency.

Either way the odds of finding a block are identical. A pool changes the fee, the payout style and the latency — never the lottery itself. The side-by-side is on /compare.

Where public-pool.io genuinely wins

No spin. These are real advantages, and SoloLuck does not have them:

If any of those matter to you more than latency, stop reading and use public-pool. That's an honest recommendation, not a trap.

SoloLuck's one real edge: a node in Jakarta

public-pool runs on a single server in the US. From Indonesia that's roughly a 250ms round trip. SoloLuck's stratum node sits in Jakarta — about 6ms from a home miner in Indonesia, measured from our own rig in Bandung.

This does not improve your odds. It only trims stale shares — work your miner submits a moment too late because the previous block already changed on the far side of the planet. Lower latency means fewer of those wasted submissions when blocks turn over. For a small Asian miner it's a marginal but real gain; for a US or EU miner it's the opposite, and public-pool will sit closer to you.

The honest numbers and method are in /guide/solo-mining-pool-latency-asia. And to be fair: ckpool runs a Singapore node and AtlasPool runs anycast PoPs in Asia, so SoloLuck isn't the only low-latency option here — just the closest one for Indonesia specifically.

The smaller differences

Beyond latency, a few things differ. None of them change the lottery:

The price for all of that is the 2% fee and our complete lack of a track record. You can audit both claims on /verify.

The 2% fee, in plain terms

SoloLuck is non-custodial true solo, the same as public-pool: your Bitcoin address is your stratum username, and a solved block pays straight to it on-chain. We never hold your coins.

The fee is 2%, and only if you actually solve a block — taken as a single coinbase output in that block. No block, no fee, ever. So on a 3.125 BTC reward, public-pool pays you the lot; SoloLuck pays ~3.06 BTC and keeps ~0.06. That 2% is the entire cost of the Jakarta node and the localised tooling. Whether it's worth it is your call — for most miners chasing the lowest cost it isn't, and public-pool wins.

Point a miner at SoloLuck

If you want to try it, set your username to your bc1… address, the password to anything, and pick the port for your hardware:

FieldValue
Stratum URLstratum.sololuck.io
Usernameyour bc1… address.worker
Passwordanything

Ports by tier:

Full walk-through at /setup; live pool state at /status; the full feature table at /compare.

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.

Get the setup config →

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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