Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about solo mining with SoloFury — clear answers about block rewards, hardware compatibility, fees, payouts, and how the pool works.
Solo mining is the practice of mining independently against the entire network. When a miner finds a valid block, the full block reward goes to that single miner — no proportional split among contributors. Block discovery is purely probabilistic: each hash has the same chance of solving the block, regardless of who computes it.
Pool mining splits block rewards proportionally among all participating miners, producing small steady payouts. Solo mining is winner-takes-all: a single miner who finds a block keeps the full reward (minus the pool fee). Solo mining has higher variance — long periods with no payout, then a full block reward when one is found.
Solo mining preserves the original Bitcoin design where each miner competes directly for the full block reward. It appeals to miners who prefer winner-takes-all variance over steady fractional payouts, hobbyists running small ASICs as a probabilistic experiment, and anyone with surplus hashrate who wants the chance — not the certainty — of finding a block.
Solo mining is probabilistic, not guaranteed. Outcomes depend on hashrate, network difficulty, electricity cost, and luck. A miner could find a block on day one or never find one. SoloFury does not guarantee any return — solo mining should be approached as a high-variance activity, not a predictable revenue source.
Yes, mathematically. Block discovery is probabilistic at every hashrate level — every hash submitted has the same chance of solving the block as any other. Lower-difficulty SHA-256 chains have proportionally higher per-hash probability than Bitcoin, which is why some solo miners focus on smaller chains when running small hardware.
Payout happens directly via the coinbase transaction the moment a block is accepted by the network. SoloFury never holds user funds — the block reward flows from the network protocol straight to the wallet address used as stratum username. There is no manual payout request, no minimum threshold, and no intermediary balance held by the pool.
Any SHA-256 ASIC is compatible: industrial units like Antminer S19/S21 and Whatsminer series, as well as small open-source devices like Bitaxe and NerdQAxe. SoloFury also accepts connections from hashrate rental marketplaces. Hardware choice depends on which chain you target — higher-difficulty chains require more hashrate to have meaningful per-day probability.
There is no minimum. Even sub-TH/s devices can submit shares and theoretically find a block, because each hash has independent probability. However, statistically the expected time to find a block scales inversely with hashrate and directly with network difficulty. Small miners typically have very low daily probability on high-difficulty chains.
Yes. SoloFury is compatible with SHA-256 hashrate rental marketplaces. Point the rented hashpower to any of the stratum endpoints (e.g. stratum+tcp://btc.solofury.com:6060) using a wallet address as username. Rented hashrate is treated identically to owned hardware — same fee structure, same coinbase payout flow.
SoloFury supports five SHA-256 cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Bitcoin II (BC2), Bitcoin Cash II (BCH2), and eCash (XEC). All five share the same hashing algorithm, so a single SHA-256 ASIC can target any of them by changing the stratum URL. Each coin has dedicated stratum servers across US, EU, and Asia regions.
Current block rewards: BTC = 3.125 BTC, BCH = 3.125 BCH, BC2 = 50 BC2, BCH2 = 50 BCH2, XEC = 3,125,000 XEC. SoloFury deducts a 1% pool fee on the coinbase transaction, so the miner who finds a block receives 99% of these amounts directly to their wallet. Block rewards halve at each network-defined halving event.
Per-hash probability equals 1 / network_difficulty. Daily block-finding probability is approximately (your_hashrate / network_hashrate). The lower a chain's network hashrate and difficulty, the higher the per-hash chance for any given miner. Probability is statistical — actual results vary and finding a block is never guaranteed.
Three steps. First, obtain a wallet for the coin you want to mine. Second, configure your ASIC's stratum URL — for example stratum+tcp://btc.solofury.com:6060 — using the wallet address as username and any password (commonly 'x'). Third, start the miner. Live hashrate appears on the dashboard within seconds.
No. SoloFury requires no registration, no email, no KYC, and no account creation. The wallet address used as stratum username acts as the unique identifier. Because there are no user accounts, there is no user database — the pool only manages stratum infrastructure and the address that receives the 1% fee.
A flat 1% pool fee, applied to the coinbase transaction of every block found. The miner receives 99% of the block reward directly to their wallet via the same coinbase. There are no monthly subscriptions, no payout fees, no withdrawal limits, and no hidden charges. The fee structure is fully on-chain and transparent.
No. SoloFury is non-custodial by design. The pool never holds, controls, or has access to user funds at any point. Block rewards move directly from the network's coinbase output to the miner's wallet address. There is no internal balance, no withdrawal mechanism, and no user funds held by the pool operator.
Yes. Version-rolling AsicBoost is supported on the stratum servers. Modern SHA-256 ASICs that implement AsicBoost negotiate the feature automatically when connecting. AsicBoost is a protocol-level optimization that can improve mining efficiency on supported hardware and chains; actual gains depend on the specific miner model and firmware.
No. Solo mining is probabilistic — finding a block is never guaranteed regardless of hashrate or time spent mining. SoloFury provides stratum infrastructure on an 'as-is' basis without warranties. The pool is not responsible for absent block rewards, hardware failures, electricity costs, network outages, blockchain reorganizations, or any other source of loss.