Solo Bitcoin Mining Services & Pools Compared: CKPool, Public Pool, Braiins Solo & More

Solo mining is the lottery model — point your hashrate at a solo service and if you find the block you keep almost the entire reward, paid straight to your address. This compares the solo services and methods (CKPool, Public Pool, P2Pool, Braiins Solo, SoloPool, AtlasPool, NiceHash EasyMining and run-your-own-node setups) by fee, payout model, custody and decentralization.

Quick answer

Solo mining is the lottery model: you point your hashrate at a solo service, and if YOU find the block you keep almost the entire reward (3.125 BTC + transaction fees) paid straight to your address — no shared payouts, no pool holding your coins. The trade-off is variance: most days you find nothing. This compares 8 solo services and methods (8 non-custodial) — from zero-fee Public Pool to run-your-own-node setups — with the fee, exactly how the payout works, and how to point your miner. It is a live view of our mining-pool database; the numbers here always match that dataset.

Pick by what you value. Lowest fee: Public Pool (0%). Maximum sovereignty: self-hosted CKPool or P2Pool (your own node, your own block templates — no third party at all). Convenience + tiny fee: Braiins Solo (0.5%), SoloPool, AtlasPool, CKPool (2%, charged only when you actually find a block). One honest caveat: NiceHash EasyMining is a hashpower MARKETPLACE product, not a pool — many "untagged" solo blocks are EasyMining packages, not independent home solo miners. Solo is a genuine lottery: size your expectations with the solo mining calculator first. Fees and endpoints change — verify at each service's official source before routing hashrate.

Solo service	Fee	How the payout works	Custody	Decentralization
AtlasPool AtlasPool (atlaspool.io)	1.5% fee on a found block — mid-range between Public Pool (0%) and CKPool (2%). Confirm at atlaspool.io.	None — winner-takes-block, coinbase-direct to your address.	Non-custodial	●●●●●
Braiins Solo Braiins Systems s.r.o. (Czechia)	0.5% fee on a found block; no registration. Confirm at academy.braiins.com / solo.braiins.com.	None — your BTC address is the miner ID written into the block template; a block find pays direct, no block = no payout.	Non-custodial	●●●●●
CKPool (Solo) Dr. Con Kolivas (open-source individual, Australia)	2% fee charged only on blocks found. If no block is found, no fee is ever paid. Miners keep 98% of block reward plus all transaction fees. Confirmed from solo.ckpool.org and multiple sources. Verify at source.	No minimum threshold. 98% of full block reward (3.125 BTC post-halving + transaction fees) paid directly to miner's Bitcoin address on each block find. No block find = no payout.	Non-custodial	●●●●●
P2Pool Decentralized peer-to-peer (no central operator)	No central pool fee. Miners run their own P2Pool node and Bitcoin full node. Small transaction fees may apply at the individual node level per implementation. No entity controls or collects pool fees.	Very low per-share payouts embedded directly in block coinbase outputs. Threshold varies by implementation; no central entity sets a minimum.	Non-custodial	●●●●●
Public Pool Open-source community (publicpool.io)	0% fee. Miners keep the full block reward plus all transaction fees when a block is found. No fee of any kind — confirmed from publicpool.io and blockdyor review.	No minimum. Solo mining: a block find pays the entire reward (3.125 BTC post-halving + transaction fees) directly to miner's address. No block find = no payout.	Non-custodial	●●●●●
Self-hosted CKPool (run-your-own solo) You (open-source ckpool software by Dr. Con Kolivas)	No pool fee — you run the software yourself. Default 0.5% donation to the ckpool author (configurable / removable in ckpool.conf). 100% of the block reward goes to your address.	None — you operate the pool; a block find pays the full reward coinbase-direct to your configured address.	Non-custodial	●●●●●
SoloPool.com SoloPool.com	~2% fee charged only on a found block (coinbase-direct). Also offers a hybrid "Solo Split" mode (set a 0-100 solo:proportional ratio via the stratum password). Confirm the current fee at solopool.com before routing hashrate.	None — no account, wallet or withdrawal: a block find pays the full reward coinbase-direct to your Bitcoin address. No block = no payout.	Non-custodial	●●●●●
NiceHash EasyMining (solo) NiceHash (hashpower marketplace — EasyMining is its solo-lottery product, NOT a mining pool)	Per NiceHash, ~0.5% (you keep ~99.5% of the block reward + tx fees, paid direct to your address). You buy a fixed-price hashpower package with a stated probability/reward, or rent hashrate pointed at a solo pool. Verify at nicehash.com/solo-mining.	Package-based; a winning package pays the block reward direct to your address. The marketplace order is funded from your NiceHash account balance.	Non-custodial	●●●○○

A live solo-filtered view of the D-Central mining-pool database (CC BY 4.0; CSV/JSON + REST at /dc/v1/mining-pools, filter ?payout_scheme=Solo). See also the solo mining odds calculator, the solo-mining glossary entry, and coinbase-tag registry. Verify fees + stratum endpoints at each service before routing hashrate.

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Last reviewed June 21, 2026.