Solo mine with a Whatsminer (M30S / M50)
Your live odds — MicroBT Whatsminer (M30S/M50)
At about 100 TH/s and the current network difficulty of 127.48T, the statistical mean time for a single MicroBT Whatsminer (M30S/M50) to solve a block solo is:
“Avg” is the statistical mean — real luck swings wildly either way, which is the whole point of solo. The numbers move with the network; run your own on the odds calculator.
What a Whatsminer actually is
A Whatsminer is a SHA-256 Bitcoin ASIC made by MicroBT — the main rival to Bitmain's Antminer line, and the other brand a lot of SEA miners already own. If you have an Antminer S19, the story is almost identical; the Whatsminer is just a different box doing the same arithmetic. Same SHA-256, same network, same odds. The pool you point it at does not change any of that.
The numbers people quote come in two families:
- M30S series (M30S, M30S+, M30S++) — the older air-cooled workhorse, roughly
86–112 TH/s. - M50 series (M50, M50S, M50S+) — the newer generation, a bit faster and a bit more efficient, roughly
114–134 TH/s.
All of these belong on SoloLuck's :4334 Pro tier — the high-hashrate port. They are real industrial miners, not a Bitaxe on your desk.
M30S vs M50 — the honest hashrate range
These are factory specs. A secondhand unit — which is what most home solo miners buy — will usually run a little slower and a little hotter than its sticker, and efficiency drifts as hashboards age. Treat the table as a ceiling, not a promise.
| Model | Hashrate (factory) | Power | Efficiency |
|---|---|---|---|
| M30S | ~86–90 TH/s | ~3268 W | ~38 J/TH |
| M30S+ | ~100 TH/s | ~3400 W | ~34 J/TH |
| M30S++ | ~108–112 TH/s | ~3472 W | ~31 J/TH |
| M50 | ~114–118 TH/s | ~3306 W | ~29 J/TH |
| M50S / M50S+ | ~126–134 TH/s | ~3400–3600 W | ~26 J/TH |
For solo, the only number that matters for your odds is the TH/s. The watts and J/TH matter for your electricity bill — which, on a machine like this, is the real cost of playing. More on that below.
Home realities: power, heat, noise, the bill
A Whatsminer is not a gadget. It is a ~3000–3500 W space heater with a jet engine bolted to it. Before you plan the block party, plan for the box:
- Noise: roughly
75 dBat full tilt — about a loud vacuum cleaner that never switches off. It will not live in a bedroom. People put these in a shed, a garage, a utility room, or under sound-dampening. - Heat: ~3.4 kW of electricity becomes ~3.4 kW of heat. In a tropical SEA climate you are fighting your own AC. Ventilation is not optional.
- Power: ~3.4 kW continuous needs a proper circuit and a PSU rated for it. Check your wiring before you check the lottery.
- The bill is the real cost. At, say, $0.10/kWh a single M50 burns roughly
~$245/monthin electricity — every month, block or no block. That ongoing cost, not the price of the miner, is what you are really wagering.
Quieter / cooler options people use: immersion cooling (drops noise and lets you push or tame the chips), hydro variants, or simply a detached shed with airflow. None of them change your odds — they just make the machine livable.
Connect on the :4334 Pro tier
SoloLuck is true per-miner solo on ckpool (-B solo mode) and non-custodial: your Bitcoin address is your username. There is no account, no email, no KYC, and we never hold a satoshi of yours. If your machine finds a block, the reward is paid straight to your address on-chain as a single coinbase output — the whole thing, with no fee output taken out. SoloLuck's fee is a true 0%, finders keepers: nothing is ever taken, win or lose.
In the Whatsminer web dashboard, set Pool 1 to:
- URL:
stratum+tcp://stratum.sololuck.io:4334 - Worker: your own
bc1q…address, optionally with a label, e.g.bc1qyouraddress.m50 - Password:
x(anything — it is ignored)
Use a bech32 bc1 address you control the keys to (your own wallet or hardware wallet) — payouts go exactly where you point them, so a typo pays a stranger. The host is 148.230.98.87 if you prefer a raw IP. Want encryption? The same pool answers on :3334 over TLS. Full per-tier walkthrough and other gear lives on /setup.
The odds, told straight
Here is the part most pools bury. Your solo odds are identical on every pool on earth. A pool can only change three things: its fee, its payout style, and its latency. It cannot bend the math. SoloLuck does not, and will not, pretend otherwise.
A used Whatsminer at ~100 TH/s is a vastly better lottery ticket than a ~1 TH/s Bitaxe — about a hundred times the chances. But "a hundred times almost nothing" is still almost nothing: against the current network difficulty, a single ~100 TH/s machine finding a block is a statistically once-in-many-decades-to-centuries event. That is not pessimism, it is arithmetic. The live odds card at the top of this page works it out against the current difficulty for your exact hashrate, and the odds calculator lets you plug in your own TH/s.
And in fairness you should know: SoloLuck has not found a block yet. It is still a small pool, though most of the hashrate you see on it now comes from community miners rather than the operator. We tell you that on purpose — a solo pool that hides its block count or its own hashrate is selling you a feeling, not a fair shot. If you want the long version of solo-vs-the-alternative, read solo vs pooled mining.
Why a Jakarta node — latency
SoloLuck's stratum server runs from a Jakarta node, roughly ~6 ms from much of Indonesia (measured 2026-07-03 from one Indonesian home-fibre line, median of spaced TCP connects — test yours at /ping), versus ~250 ms to a US-based pool. Latency does not improve your odds either — but it does cut stale shares and gets your block to the network a hair faster the one time it ever matters. For a high-hashrate Whatsminer submitting a lot of shares, a nearer node simply wastes less of your work.
If you are weighing SoloLuck against other solo pools on fee, payout style and latency rather than on hype, the side-by-side is on /compare. Questions, or want to compare notes with other SEA miners: @SoloLuckPool on Telegram.
FAQ
Is a Whatsminer better than a Bitaxe for solo mining?
For raw odds, yes — a ~100 TH/s Whatsminer has roughly a hundred times the chance of a ~1 TH/s Bitaxe. But it is a hundred times a tiny number: one machine still faces a once-in-many-decades-to-centuries wait for a block at today's difficulty. The Whatsminer also costs far more to run (~3.4 kW, ~75 dB, real heat). A Bitaxe is a quiet desk lottery ticket; a Whatsminer is a loud, hot, expensive one with better odds. Neither is a salary.
Which port do I use for an M30S or M50?
The :4334 Pro tier — stratum+tcp://stratum.sololuck.io:4334. That port is tuned for high-hashrate ASICs like the S19, Whatsminer M30S/M50 and other big iron. Use :3334 if you want the same pool over TLS. The smaller ports (:3335 Nano, :3333 Lite, :8081 Standard) are for NerdMiners, ESP32 and Bitaxe-class gear.
How much does SoloLuck's fee cost me?
Nothing, ever. SoloLuck's fee is a true 0% — finders keepers. A block you find pays its entire reward — 100% — straight to your bc1 address on-chain as a single coinbase output, with no fee output taken out, and nothing is taken any other day either. There is no deposit, no withdrawal and no custodian; your address is your account.
Will running a Whatsminer at home actually pay off?
Be honest with yourself: the electricity bill is the real, guaranteed cost — roughly $200–250 a month per machine at ~$0.10/kWh, every month, block or no block. The block reward is a genuine but statistically once-in-decades-to-centuries event for a single miner. Solo mining a Whatsminer is a lottery you pay a monthly subscription to enter, not an income plan. Run the numbers in our odds calculator before you buy.
Has SoloLuck found a block yet?
No. SoloLuck has not found a block to date — we disclose that on purpose. The pool is still small, though most of its hashrate now comes from community miners rather than the operator. Your odds are exactly the same here as on any other solo pool of equal honesty; what SoloLuck offers is a true 0% fee — finders keepers, nothing ever taken — non-custodial payouts to your own address, and a low-latency Jakarta node for SEA.
Ready to start solo mining?
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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