[∞ YH] US/EU/AU solo.ckpool.org 2% fee solo mining 311 blocks solved!

[philipma1957]

nice to see 200th making a hit.

200th should do about 0.0001 btc a day

and it did 3.125 btc

so about 31250 times what it would normally do in a day.

[-ck]

Congratulations to miner bc1q~jr38 for solving the 307th solo block at solo.ckpool.org, with only 200TH!

Code:

[2025-09-07 14:35:00.299] Possible block solve diff 187321850280069.250000 !
[2025-09-07 14:35:00.355] BLOCK ACCEPTED!
[2025-09-07 14:35:00.356] Solved and confirmed block 913593 by bc1qtfrexlhl2099rkqdcr56hjt6ukyhqylvdajr38.Blockbuster
[2025-09-07 14:35:00.356] User bc1qtfrexlhl2099rkqdcr56hjt6ukyhqylvdajr38:{"hashrate1m": "208T", "hashrate5m": "201T", "hashrate1hr": "201T", "hashrate1d": "201T", "hashrate7d": "144T", "shares": 65338332086, "authorised": 1748791854}
[2025-09-07 14:35:00.356] Worker bc1qtfrexlhl2099rkqdcr56hjt6ukyhqylvdajr38.Blockbuster:{"hashrate1m": "36T", "hashrate5m": "37.8T", "hashrate1hr": "38T", "hashrate1d": "37.3T", "hashrate7d": "25.3T"}
[2025-09-07 14:35:00.370] Block solved after 35404493611084 shares at 26.0% diff

https://mempool.space/block/0000000000000000000180aab2a364d0baeddacf4048d0600065390a81651829
A miner of this size only has a 1 in ~36,000 chance of solving a block each day, or once every ~100 years!

[philipma1957]

Congratulations to miner bc1q~jr38 for solving the 307th solo block at solo.ckpool.org, with only 200TH!

Code:

[2025-09-07 14:35:00.299] Possible block solve diff 187321850280069.250000 !
[2025-09-07 14:35:00.355] BLOCK ACCEPTED!
[2025-09-07 14:35:00.356] Solved and confirmed block 913593 by bc1qtfrexlhl2099rkqdcr56hjt6ukyhqylvdajr38.Blockbuster
[2025-09-07 14:35:00.356] User bc1qtfrexlhl2099rkqdcr56hjt6ukyhqylvdajr38:{"hashrate1m": "208T", "hashrate5m": "201T", "hashrate1hr": "201T", "hashrate1d": "201T", "hashrate7d": "144T", "shares": 65338332086, "authorised": 1748791854}
[2025-09-07 14:35:00.356] Worker bc1qtfrexlhl2099rkqdcr56hjt6ukyhqylvdajr38.Blockbuster:{"hashrate1m": "36T", "hashrate5m": "37.8T", "hashrate1hr": "38T", "hashrate1d": "37.3T", "hashrate7d": "25.3T"}
[2025-09-07 14:35:00.370] Block solved after 35404493611084 shares at 26.0% diff

https://mempool.space/block/0000000000000000000180aab2a364d0baeddacf4048d0600065390a81651829
A miner of this size only has a 1 in ~36,000 chance of solving a block each day, or once every ~100 years!

what is the saying.

“I rather be lucky than good”

that mofo was lucky.

[Nexus9090]

Congratulations to miner bc1q~jr38 for solving the 307th solo block at solo.ckpool.org, with only 200TH!
-snip-
https://mempool.space/block/0000000000000000000180aab2a364d0baeddacf4048d0600065390a81651829
A miner of this size only has a 1 in ~36,000 chance of solving a block each day, or once every ~100 years!

Nice  congratulations

[jimjam123]

Will the pool continue to run Core or will it go to Knots?

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Will the pool continue to run Core or will it go to Knots?

Don't see knots as a needed option. Query: Why would you think the pool should change to it?
From his past and present interactions with them, Luke Jr has ticked off many of the OG devs. Also doesn't help that his bfgminer is a ripoff of cgminer...

[mikeywith]

Will the pool continue to run Core or will it go to Knots?

Don't see knots as a needed option. Query: Why would you think the pool should change to it?
From his past and present interactions with them, Luke Jr has ticked off many of the OG devs. Also doesn't help that his bgminer is a ripoff of cgminer...

I would love to understand the bases of the question, I have not been following much lately, did core break or something? 

Why would anyone run Knots for that matter?

[-ck]

Will the pool continue to run Core or will it go to Knots?

Don't see knots as a needed option. Query: Why would you think the pool should change to it?
From his past and present interactions with them, Luke Jr has ticked off many of the OG devs. Also doesn't help that his bgminer is a ripoff of cgminer...

I would love to understand the bases of the question, I have not been following much lately, did core break or something?  

Why would anyone run Knots for that matter?

Core is relaxing the OP_RETURN size limits that have been there for a long time because using it for spam makes no sense since it cost 4x more than using taproot for the spam, and relaxing the limit makes other transaction types possible. People are obsessed that relaxing the limit is encouraging spam and shifting to knots because it allegedly filters spam, although filtering at the node level 100% does not work if the pools will still mine it. Moving to knots ultimately amounts to no more than virtue signalling and filtering of valid transactions in addition, thereby constituting censorship in what is meant to be a censorship resistant network, and slows down block propagation across knots nodes on the network. People have been duped into following a pointless cult, using software maintained effectively by just one person with an agenda, which is 99.9% core code with many rejected patches on top, thinking that the core devs have been compromised, which is a hilarious allegation since there are over 100 devs from all over the world so it's actually a distributed development process very much in the spirit of bitcoin itself. In 6 months, long after core v30 comes out, and nothing bad has happened on the network, people will still gloat they did the right thing, but bitcoin will just keep on doing what it's always done.

[eb66]

We run the party every 2 weeks and post a party recap to Nostr - how much hashrate, best difficulty reached, number of party miners etc.

I'll see about getting a running history up on the site, that's a good idea.

We don't yet have a history of successfully mined blocks. I get that it's a leap of trust. That's why I made the minimum buy in 1 TH/s for 15 sats.
That's a low bar for entry!

And over time, as more people join, the odds get better and we'll soon have a history of mined blocks with payouts.

Evan, thanks for your feedback!

I think what @philipma1957 said is somewhat true. Being new or little-known can make it harder to gain the trust to attract more participants or participants with higher hashrate.

I don't know if there is another way to create parties that generates more trust and helps to popularize them. Would it be feasible to return a small percentage of the amount paid by participants at the end of the party? This might boost trust. Of course, it doesn't mean that when the bloco wins, it will do this, but it might convey greater credibility, I don't know. What do you think @philipma1957?

But, really, the statistics from the sites - even if no party has won a bloco so far - would be very interesting and useful.

Have you ever considered opening a thread here on the forum about the parties? It could be really interesting and create engagement with the BitcoinTalk community.

Brief update -

- Annoucement post for Upendo: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5558911.0
- Log of our past block parties: https://upendo.rigly.io/pages/log

We're still looking for how to increase trust in our block party.

We did talk with Willi and (after convincing my co-founders) I'm hopeful that we run a future party w/ him as the escrow address w/ CK Pool.

Our current block party will raise sats for several bitcoin education projects, which will hopefully also increase trust that we're real.

Party starts tomorrow, still time to join in - https://upendo.xyz

Best,
  Evan

[mikeywith]

Oh! That, okay, we discussed that intensively back in May, and here is my take on the entire subject, as someone who is 100% neutral and view every change on core as a change that effects my personal "small" wealth, I believe that the proposal is for the best. I had a little criticism regarding the initial PR:

In general, I think the proposal is reasonable -- maybe except for removing -datacarrier and -datacarriersize. Those give node operators the basic freedom to decide what kind of junk they're willing to relay. If someone wants to filter nonsense from their node, why take that option away?
 

The new modified PR fixed that; there is absolutely not a single logical reason to use Knots over Core.

[o_solo_miner]

Congratulations to miner bc1q~jr38 for solving the 307th solo block at solo.ckpool.org, with only 200TH!
A miner of this size only has a 1 in ~36,000 chance of solving a block each day, or once every ~100 years!

Oh, I realy missed that, congratulation to the lucky one!
Another +1 to the 2025 block count.

[eb66]

[--]

Brief update -

- Annoucement post for Upendo: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5558911.0
- Log of our past block parties: https://upendo.rigly.io/pages/log

We're still looking for how to increase trust in our block party.

[--]

To help encourage folks to try out our mining block party, we're doing a giveaway:

*** Free hashrate faucet ***

For a limited time only, we added a free hashrate faucet on the front page.

https://upendo.xyz

Just go to the front page, hit the chat icon, and I will zap you some sats to buy hashrate and join our mining party.

Faucet is open till end of Friday (today) so take advantage now!

Thanks,
   Evan

[Bestcoin-fan]

Do you still use the (totally compromised since the near v30) Bitcoin core??
Or have you (like all sane people) migrated to Bitcoin Knots software?
(sorry if already answered here , no time to search

[-ck]

Do you still use the (totally compromised since the near v30) Bitcoin core??
Or have you (like all sane people) migrated to Bitcoin Knots software?
(sorry if already answered here , no time to search

Look up 5 posts

[Bestcoin-fan]

In my opinion, you are extremely frivolous assessing the HUGE, IRREPARABLE HARM that the refusal of the strict OP_RETURN limit could bring to Bitcoin!
Bitcoin BSV has done EXACTLY that what they want to bring to BTC! Personally, I would certainly never use your service if you continue to use their Core software.

[-ck]

In my opinion, you are extremely frivolous assessing the HUGE, IRREPARABLE HARM that the refusal of the strict OP_RETURN limit could bring to Bitcoin!
Bitcoin BSV has done EXACTLY that what they want to bring to BTC! Personally, I would certainly never use your service if you continue to use their Core software.

Go away then. Any further posts on this will be deleted.

[Bitcoin-Pool]

In my opinion, you are extremely frivolous assessing the HUGE, IRREPARABLE HARM that the refusal of the strict OP_RETURN limit could bring to Bitcoin!
Bitcoin BSV has done EXACTLY that what they want to bring to BTC! Personally, I would certainly never use your service if you continue to use their Core software.

Bro, please get away from knots and Luke, he just wants to censor the network. You can use other functions besides the OP return to spam... but the best protection against spam is the transaction fees, which will simply become too expensive in the long run.
Furthermore, even if he controlled 90% of the nodes, he still wouldn't be able to filter it out of the network, because the remaining 10% of nodes that don't filter continue to write the data to the chain as normal and are distributed across all wallets through Bitcoin consensus, including knots.
The second point is, with his zero-knowledge mechanism, he would cause a fork, and with this mechanism, he can easily delete data from the chain, meaning he could also simply get back the 200 BTC that were stolen from him back then, which is probably his true motivation behind the mechanism.
Another problem with this mechanism would be that sooner or later, it would be infiltrated by government employees, and then anything unwanted could be deleted from the chain. This contradicts everything Bitcoin stands for.
Oh, and take a look at the leaked chats; you'll see for yourself
He also has his lawyers write to his own pool to enforce these filters, but it's supposed to look like it's coming from the community... that just shows what kind of guy he is...

[blockhilltop]

Bro, please get away from knots and Luke, he just wants to censor the network. You can use other functions besides the OP return to spam... but the best protection against spam is the transaction fees, which will simply become too expensive in the long run.
Furthermore, even if he controlled 90% of the nodes, he still wouldn't be able to filter it out of the network, because the remaining 10% of nodes that don't filter continue to write the data to the chain as normal and are distributed across all wallets through Bitcoin consensus, including knots.
The second point is, with his zero-knowledge mechanism, he would cause a fork, and with this mechanism, he can easily delete data from the chain, meaning he could also simply get back the 200 BTC that were stolen from him back then, which is probably his true motivation behind the mechanism.
Another problem with this mechanism would be that sooner or later, it would be infiltrated by government employees, and then anything unwanted could be deleted from the chain. This contradicts everything Bitcoin stands for.
Oh, and take a look at the leaked chats; you'll see for yourself
He also has his lawyers write to his own pool to enforce these filters, but it's supposed to look like it's coming from the community... that just shows what kind of guy he is...

100% support all of this above!

CK thanks for keeping this space open (and open-source) for over a decade and to everyone in the BTC sphere who is being a counter to Luke, Knots, and these censorious ways.. w/BlackRock and other ultra-powerful forces getting involved, we must be more vigilant than ever.

Furthermore, mine on everyone and good luck one and all - hopefully another Block falls upon us very soon!

[-ck]

You're most welcome, but you also have the community support to thank for keeping the pool running with donations during the couple of years where very few blocks were being solved. The pool celebrated 11 years of operation this August 31st.

[Nexus9090]

You're most welcome, but you also have the community support to thank for keeping the pool running with donations during the couple of years where very few blocks were being solved. The pool celebrated 11 years of operation this August 31st.

Belated happy birthday CKPool