The Home Mining Report
Week 45 of 2026
The Home Mining Report is a short weekly read on home and solo Bitcoin mining, put together from SoloLuck's own records. This is the newest issue, published , for the week of 2–8 November 2026 (ISO week 2026-W45, Monday 00:00 to Monday 00:00 UTC). It also has a page of its own.
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This week
In the Solo Mining Census, edition 2026-W45, using weekly medians, the 12 Bitcoin solo pools that publish their numbers reported 651.72 PH/s of solo hashrate between them, 4.6% more than the week before (623.25 PH/s). In the same edition, Public Pool had 17,305 Bitaxes connected in the median hour, 97 more than the week before.
The 8 biggest of the 12 pools, in the median hour of the week.
| Pool | Hashrate | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Braiins Solo | 301.50 PH/s | 46.3% |
| CKPool Solo | 248.50 PH/s | 38.1% |
| Public Pool | 53.29 PH/s | 8.2% |
| AtlasPool | 30.44 PH/s | 4.7% |
| SoloMining.de | 7.86 PH/s | 1.2% |
| SoloPool.org (Bitcoin) | 4.13 PH/s | 0.6% |
| NerdMiner.de pool | 2.40 PH/s | 0.4% |
| FindMyBlock | 2.19 PH/s | 0.3% |
SoloLuck, the pool we run, was 11th of the 12, with 221.00 TH/s (0.034% of the total).
What home miners run
The devices connected to Public Pool in the median hour of the week, by the name each miner reports. Change is against the week before.
| Device, as reported | Connected | Change | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|
| bitaxe | 17,305 | +97 | 18.47 PH/s |
| NerdQAxe++ | 2,047 | +24 | 9.88 PH/s |
| NerdMiner | 1,849 | −27 | 1.51 TH/s |
| cgminer | 774 | −7 | 7.47 PH/s |
| LuckyMiner | 725 | 0 | 896.34 TH/s |
| Other | 559 | −81 | 110.12 TH/s |
| NerdAxe | 531 | −9 | 432.38 TH/s |
| Starminer | 479 | +34 | 557.82 TH/s |
| NerdNOS | 437 | +9 | 64.08 TH/s |
| bitaxe/sv2 | 407 | +3 | 557.12 TH/s |
| cpuminer | 405 | +10 | 8.86 GH/s |
| NerdOCTAXE | 320 | −1 | 3.43 PH/s |
| NerdQAxe+ | 223 | −1 | 521.81 TH/s |
| BN55 | 122 | +30 | 128.87 TH/s |
| Miner | 114 | −12 | 94.18 TH/s |
This is Public Pool's population, not every solo miner. The 15 most connected of 69 names. How it is counted: each device name's median hourly count on Public Pool over the week. Source: Public Pool /api/info.
Blocks found by small miners
The Solo Block Record lists 2 Bitcoin blocks found this week:
- Block 974,930 · · Solo CKPool · 3.1427 BTC · source
- Block 974,893 · · Solo CKPool · 3.1335 BTC · source
The record holds 28 blocks from 2026, as of .
The record keeps solo-mined blocks found mostly by small or home miners; where a winner was industrial-scale or on rented hashrate, its entry says so. Source: the Solo Block Record, version .
The best share on SoloLuck this week
The hardest share any miner sent to SoloLuck's Bitcoin pool this week had a difficulty of 67.32G, in the hour from . A Bitcoin block needed a difficulty of 148.36T then, so that share was 1 in 2,204 of a block. It came from one of the pool operator's own machines.
How it is measured: the hardest share any Bitcoin worker sent in one hour of the week, from the pool's own share log. Source: SoloLuck's own share log. The best shares of all time are on the high scores.
Solo pool uptime
Each pool's stratum port was checked every 10 minutes from one home internet connection, but only about 39 hours of this week are on record: 228 check runs from 7 Nov 08:41 to 8 Nov 23:51 UTC. A check a pool did not answer counts against it.
| Pool | Checks answered | Uptime |
|---|---|---|
| AtlasPool | 228 of 228 | 100% |
| Braiins Solo | 228 of 228 | 100% |
| FindMyBlock | 228 of 228 | 100% |
| NerdMiner.de pool | 228 of 228 | 100% |
| NerdMiner.io pool | 228 of 228 | 100% |
| NerdMiners.org pool | 228 of 228 | 100% |
| Parasite (not solo: shares the reward) | 228 of 228 | 100% |
| Public Pool | 228 of 228 | 100% |
| Solo CKPool | 228 of 228 | 100% |
| SoloFury | 228 of 228 | 100% |
| SoloLuck (we run this pool) | 228 of 228 | 100% |
| SoloMining.de | 228 of 228 | 100% |
| SoloPool.org | 228 of 228 | 100% |
Window: to . We run one of these pools. Source: SoloLuck's solo pool status checks (how they work).
Difficulty outlook
Bitcoin's difficulty was 148.36T at block 975,118, read from our node . That was 1,390 blocks into the epoch that began at block 973,728, so the next adjustment comes at block 975,744, around . The estimate for it is a fall of about 5.9%.
This epoch's pace so far: the 600-second target divided by the average time between its 1,390 blocks since block 973,728. It moves with every block; the real change is set at block 975,744. Source: Bitcoin difficulty, from SoloLuck's own node.
Sources
- Solo Mining Census, edition 2026-W45 · as of
- Public Pool's connected devices, as the census reads them · as of
- The Solo Block Record, version 2026-11-08 · as of
- SoloLuck's Bitcoin pool: its own share log, best share per hour · as of
- Solo pool status checks · as of
- How the status checks work · as of
- Bitcoin difficulty, from SoloLuck's own node · as of
The figures in this report are free to reuse under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: SoloLuck.io, The Home Mining Report, week 45 of 2026, https://sololuck.io/report/2026-w45. Something wrong? Tell us.
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