SoloLuck

Solo Mine Bitcoin in Vietnam

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Why a Vietnam page at all

Vietnam consistently ranks near the top of global retail-crypto adoption surveys — a lot of ordinary people here already hold and move Bitcoin. Solo mining is a different sport from buying on an exchange, and most of what's written about it online is aimed at warehouse-scale operations in Texas, not someone running a Bitaxe in a Ho Chi Minh City apartment or a NerdMiner on a desk in Hanoi.

This page is for that hobbyist. The mechanics of solo mining are the same everywhere; what's genuinely different for a Vietnamese miner is network latency and how you'd actually touch the coins if — and it is a big if — you ever solve a block. We'll be honest about the odds, because the honest answer is the whole point.

Latency from HCMC and Hanoi — with an honest caveat

When your miner finds a winning share it has to reach the pool's stratum server before anyone else relays the same block height. Distance costs milliseconds, and milliseconds become stale shares. Our node lives in Jakarta, which sits around ~6 ms from much of SEA — versus roughly ~250 ms to a US pool. That gap is a real, measurable difference in stale-share rate.

Be clear-eyed about what low latency buys you: it reduces wasted work at the margins. It does not improve your chance of finding a block — on every solo pool the odds are identical (see solo vs pooled mining). Latency is a sound reason to pick a nearby pool; it is never a reason to expect a payout.

How payouts work — you cash out yourself

SoloLuck is non-custodial. Your Bitcoin address is your username — set your worker name to your own bc1... address and the password to anything. If your rig solves a block, the reward is paid straight to that address on-chain by the Bitcoin network itself. We never hold your coins, and we can't — there's nothing to withdraw from us.

The only fee is 2%, and it's taken as a single coinbase output only on a block you actually solve. Every other day you mine here it's 0%. There's no account, no running balance, and nothing for us to freeze or lose.

For a Vietnamese miner the practical upside is that the cash-out question is the normal one you already know: a block reward lands in a wallet you control, and from there you'd move it the same way anyone in Vietnam moves Bitcoin to VND — typically peer-to-peer or a domestic exchange. Crypto isn't recognised as legal tender here and the rules keep shifting, so know your own local tax and reporting situation. That part is on you; we just send the coins to your address.

Use a wallet whose seed you actually control (a hardware wallet is ideal). A solved block is a one-shot, irreversible on-chain payment — there's no support desk that can recover it if the address was wrong.

Point your miner: the right port for your hardware

Host is stratum.sololuck.io (148.230.98.87). Pick the port that matches your device's hashrate so the share difficulty fits:

PortTierFor
3335Nano (diff 1)NerdMiner, tiny ESP32, sub-100 GH toys
3333LiteBitaxe-class single-ASIC
8081Standardmid-range / multi-Bitaxe
4334ProS19 and other high-hashrate rigs
3334TLSany of the above, encrypted

Worker username = your bc1... address, password = anything. Full walkthrough on the setup page. The site is available in 10 languages including Tiếng Việt — open the Vietnamese version if you'd rather read it in Vietnamese.

The honest odds — read this before you plug in

Solo mining is a lottery. A single small miner can statistically expect a block roughly once in thousands of years against today's network. That's not pessimism, it's arithmetic — and it's the same on every solo pool on Earth. Switching pools changes your fee, your payout style, and your latency. It does not change your odds.

Being straight with you: no block has been solved on SoloLuck yet, and most of the hashrate you'll see on the pool right now is the operator's own test rigs. We'd rather you know that than discover it later. Run the numbers for your exact hardware on the odds calculator before you decide anything.

People solo mine anyway for sound reasons: the tiny-but-real chance at a full block, learning how Bitcoin works at the protocol level, and the simple fact that it's a fun, non-custodial lottery ticket that also helps decentralise the network. Just don't point a rig here expecting income. If you want to weigh it against steady payouts, read solo vs pooled mining; to compare us with other solo pools, see the comparison page.

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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