Update: what has changed since JulyThe first post is kept up to date. This reply lists what changed since the last reply here, with links so each item can be checked.
1. Bitcoin mining now runs in more than one poolToday there is one pool in Jakarta and one in Phoenix, USA. Each runs its own Bitcoin node and builds its own block templates. Both put the same tag, /sololuck.io/, in the coinbase, so a block found at either one is credited to SoloLuck on-chain.
Nothing is shared between them. In solo mining every miner searches alone and a solved block pays that miner the whole reward, so the odds are the same at either pool: your hashrate against the whole network.
stratum.sololuck.io Jakarta pool (the address in every guide, unchanged)
us.stratum.sololuck.io Phoenix pool
sg.stratum.sololuck.io entry point that forwards into the Jakarta pool
You don't have to choose one. Where the site can time your connection it gives you the pool that answers faster, the Windows app does the same when it starts, and your stats page reads both pools. You can also measure your own route:
sololuck.io/ping2. The same four tiers on every hostnameNano 3335 min diff 1 CPUs, NerdMiners
Lite 3333 min diff 1,024 Bitaxe, NerdQAxe, Avalon Nano, small ASICs
TLS 3334 min diff 1,024 Lite over TLS; the certificate matches each hostname
Pro 4334 min diff 1,048,576 large ASICs, farms, rented hashrate
The old Standard tier is retired. Anything still pointed at it is forwarded to Lite, so nobody had to change a setting.
Vardiff moves both ways: it raises difficulty when shares come in fast and lowers it again when they slow down, but never below the port's minimum. The first post used to say it only goes up; that is now corrected.
3. Stats page: recent best shares and a panel for each machine- The all-time best share now has two rolling figures next to it, the best share in the last 10 minutes and the best in the last 24 hours. Both are shown for the address and for each machine.
- Click a worker's name to open its panel. It lists every share that machine had accepted in the last ten minutes, newest first, showing the difficulty the pool asked for and the difficulty the share actually reached. It also has a best-share bar chart for 1 h, 6 h, 24 h, 7 d and 30 d. Periods from before the recorder was running are marked "not recorded" and are not drawn as zero.
Your page is sololuck.io/users/<your address>. An example, the operator's own rigs (labelled as such):
sololuck.io/users/bc1q9t8v...reessha4. SoloLuck Miner for Windows, now v1.11.5- v1.11.5: the Accepted counter only counts the pool's replies to real shares. Earlier builds also added one every five minutes from the mining engine's own summary line, so they could show accepted shares that were never sent. The hashrate readout now shows the hashes the engine actually counted.
- v1.11.4: if the current pool stops answering for 90 seconds, the app checks that the other pool is up and then moves to it.
- v1.11.3: when it starts, the app times both Bitcoin pools and subscribes to each one, which tells a working pool apart from a port that only accepts connections. It then mines to whichever answered faster and prints both times.
Existing installs update themselves the next time the app starts. Download from
sololuck.io/setup or the
GitHub release (MIT licence, source included).
SoloLuckMiner-v1.11.5.exe
SHA-256 d529fa273c781f6934bae5f5d9cf751b51aa4b58d90227d16fd7d18be56893ef
GPG key 278A 7867 47A2 483C CB13 78DE 6DC0 1CCB 8D86 65FB
lists 40 Bitcoin blocks found since 2022 by small, mostly home-built miners on Solo CKPool, Public Pool, Braiins Solo, Parasite, Noderunners, FutureBit and OCEAN. Each block is checked on-chain and linked to its source; the one win made with rented hashrate is marked as such. Where a finder never published a hashrate, the entry has no odds line rather than a guessed one.
Every block in the record now has its own page with the facts, the story and a link to verify it on-chain, for example
sololuck.io/legends/957382.
The whole record can be downloaded as
JSON or
CSV under CC BY 4.0, which means anyone can use it anywhere as long as they credit the source. This is version 2026-09-14, and the sha256 of each file is on the page. If a solo block is missing or an entry is wrong, please post it here.
6. The pool's source is publishedThe first post used to say SoloLuck's patches were unpublished; that is now corrected too. They are public under GPLv3 at
github.com/sololuckio/ckpool-sololuck. The patches cover per-port difficulty floors, username checks, and block submission that never drops a solved block. Apply them to a clean ckpool v1.2.0 checkout and compare the tree hash.
Smaller changes- ckpool upgraded to v1.2.0.
- A solved block is written to disk and sent to every configured Bitcoin node, so a node hiccup at that moment can't lose it.
- Since AxeOS v2.15.0, a Bitaxe pointed at a sololuck.io host shows a link straight to its SoloLuck stats page, the same quicklink AxeOS has for other solo pools (bitaxeorg/ESP-Miner PR #1785).
- Sending /watch to the Telegram bot @SoloLuckIOMining_bot sets up worker-down alerts (after 20 minutes of silence) and best-share milestones for your address.
- SoloLuck is on Nostr: npub1c2y7zrl4fcrze0r6rguelarhcafedz98r9h3kzfs2xxw9ctesn8q2xg9zj (NIP-05: _@sololuck.io). The account posts by itself: near misses (a miner's new best share within 1 in 20,000 of a Bitcoin block), blocks SoloLuck's pools find, and new entries in the Solo Block Record.
- Each stats page has a "Show your stats elsewhere" box: a live badge for a website or GitHub README, and a plain link for a forum signature. A bitcointalk signature can't show images; links in signatures are clickable from Member rank up.
What hasn't changedSoloLuck has not found a Bitcoin block. Solo mining is a lottery. A block pays the finder the whole reward, but most miners never find one, and none of the changes above affects anyone's odds. No income is promised. Live figures:
status ·
dashboardBitcoin Cash and DigiByteSoloLuck also runs true-solo pools for Bitcoin Cash and DigiByte (SHA256d). Those are altcoins, so they have their own thread on the Pools (Altcoins) board:
SoloLuck Bitcoin Cash + DigiByte pools.
Disclosure: this post was written with an AI assistant (AI-generated text) and posted on the operator's behalf.
