Congratulations to miner bc1qyj7x3d64znz2jdn28k0fxl8pq4q39a3ke79sj3 with 2.3PH for solving block number 301 on the EU http://solo.ckpool.org! A miner of this size has about a 1 in 2800 chance of solving a block every day, or once every 8 years on average.

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A block party aiming for a combined total hashrate of 7EH on solo.ckpool.org is planned for this Saturday the 5th. It's being coordinated here https://upendo.rigly.io/

Bitcoin mining difficulty had its biggest drop in a very long time of 7.5% to ~117T. Still insanely high but won't last and will no doubt return to the same level as previously once the weather in Texas becomes inclement. It will also take less time to return to its former self.

Saturn captured on 2025-06-10 UTC. The rings are now just barely visible.

If it wasn't clear, I will continue to run core relay/mempool rules on the solo pools as I always have for all the technical reasons already outlined in a myriad of other places. By all means feel free to run whatever client you feel is appropriate or mine wherever you like, but I implore you to read arguments instead of listening to them for the person delivering verbal messages can have more influence on your decision making than it can in text.

Saturn captured 2025-05-18.

This is a great new multisig hardware wallet device one of the local bitdevs in our meetup has been working on and is coming out soon. Uses taproot and allows dynamic adding and removing signatures.

Frostsnap

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Congratulations to miner bc1~nnc5 with ~230TH for solving the 299th solo block mined at http://solo.ckpool.org! A miner of this size has about a 1 in 30,000 chance of finding a block each day.

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Congratulations to miner bc1qq926qlrhc2pvxzc5f0zswnvqqddqqj3tz2amla with a sizeable 2.5PH/s for solving the first EU solo block and the 298th block at solo.ckpool.org!

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A miner of this size has about a one in 2,000 chance if finding a block per day.

Congratulations to a super lucky miner bc1qaxccz85rx6ywy2xw6ugtm6u37mvew6qqn7lgtd with only 3.3TH who solved the 297th solo block at

Solo CKPool - Anonymous Bitcoin Mining

with a 480GH bitaxe!

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A miner of this size has only less than a 1 in a million chance of finding a block per day, or put alternatively, would take 3500 years to find a block on average.

Re: http://eusolo.ckpool.org, sadly the anonymous individual who offered to fund the server's running has retracted their offer. This & the stats incident has confirmed my belief I should not rely on others. I will likely now fund it myself but will need to migrate the service.

Prove to me you don't understand why bitcoin and not shitcoins without saying you don't understand bitcoin...

Three people came to me this week asking for orange pills.

The EU solo ckpool is up and running! Connect to the pool via instructions at

EU Solo CKPool - Anonymous Bitcoin Mining

Graphical stats available at

CKstats

Real-time and historical statistics for the CKPool Bitcoin mining pool using data from their API.

Miners in Europe and Africa are encouraged to move to the new pool. Miners in The Americas and Asia-Pacific should still use

Solo CKPool - Anonymous Bitcoin Mining

but the sister pool can be used as backup. This is an entirely separate pool from

Solo CKPool - Anonymous Bitcoin Mining

and neither shares nor stats are shared across instances for overhead reasons. They only help propagate each others' blocks. Both will solve blocks with the same coinbase signature though.

Here's a little podcast I did with bitcoin mining world.

I've tentatively set up a new stats site courtesy of MrV_777 for trial. I'm personally hosting this one, but I've left his donation link intact since he did the work. Some other web devs are also working on alternatives, so do not assume this is the final form but please test it out. I may be hosting multiple in the future whilst testing them out. Http only for now:

CKstats

Real-time and historical statistics for the CKPool Bitcoin mining pool using data from their API.

Saturn captured in excellent conditions 2024-09-27

A phenomenon known as the Seeliger effect means Saturn's rings appear brighter when it's at its closest approach to Earth. This animated gif shows the alternating captures at opposition 2024 and two weeks later demonstrating this effect.

Saturn captured in infrared 2024-08-18

Congratulations to miner 36AisvWi1UiwLTeTZxLzindAkorqeUc3tT for solving the 291st solo block on http://solo.ckpool.org! This hefty miner with 38PH would solve a block on average once every ~4 months.

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