Solo mining sits at an interesting intersection of Bitcoin’s incentives, its security model, and its culture. It’s mechanically simple, statistically brutal, and is becoming a powerful counterweight to the gravitational pull of mining centralisation. Below you’ll see the most recent confirmed solo-mined blocks, followed by stats on frequency, droughts, and rewards.
Block 928985
Public Pool
Block 928956
solopool.comBlock 927474
Solo CK
Block 925758
Solo CK Block 925380
Solo CK Block 924569
Solo CK Block 920440
Public Pool Block 913593
Solo CK Block 912632
Solo CK Block 910440
Solo CK Block 907465
Solo CK Block 907283
Solo CK Block 904989
Solo CK Block 903883
Solo CK Block 899826
Solo CK Block 891952
Solo CK Block 889975
Solo CK Block 888989
Public Pool Block 888737
FutureBit ApolloBlock 887212
Solo CK Block 881676
Solo CK Block 881423
FutureBit ApolloBlock 875750
Solo CK Block 871258
Solo CK Block 867760
FutureBit ApolloBlock 867118
Solo CK Block 860749
Solo CK Block 858978
Solo CK Block 853742
Solo CK Block 845735
Solo CK Block 844437
Solo CK Block 843726
Solo CK Block 843650
Solo CK Block 843587
Solo CK Block 843231
Solo CK Block 842079
Solo CK Block 841286
Solo CK Block 837814
Solo CK Block 828884
Solo CK Block 818588
Solo CK Block 814308
Solo CK Block 803821
Solo CK Block 795268
Solo CK Block 793607
Solo CK Block 790958
Solo CK Block 782867
Solo CK Block 782845
Solo CK Block 780525
Solo CK Block 780112
Solo CK Block 777942
Solo CK Block 772793
Solo CK The Tracker above shows the latest solo blocks, and the visualisation below shows the same data over various time periods. The next version of this tool will have alerts, if you want a heads-up when the next solo block is mined!
📊 Solo Block Stats
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How it works
All data ultimately comes from the Bitcoin blockchain, accessed via the mempool.space API. The tracker monitors newly mined blocks and inspects their coinbase transactions for signatures associated with known solo-mining setups. Currently, this includes blocks attributed to:
Where possible, identified blocks are cross-checked against known payout behaviours (for example, CKPool’s 2% fee prior to paying the miner), public solo block lists, and historical patterns. The aim isn’t perfect attribution - which is impossible - but a high-confidence, reproducible dataset with clearly stated assumptions.
As a result, this tracker is not comprehensive. There is no reliable way to determine whether a block was mined by a single individual if they are running their own node, Stratum server, and payout logic, and choose not to self-identify. I also avoid guessing based on observed hashrate.
Even the definition of solo mining itself is fuzzy. For example, block 903883 was solved via CKPool by a miner with roughly 2.3 PH/s of hashpower — equivalent to running around ten Bitmain Antminer S21 Pros. That may not match the popular image of a solo miner running a single Bitaxe on a shelf, but it still qualifies in the only sense that matters here: the block reward was paid to a single address (minus any fee), not split among a pool of participants, using publicly available solo-mining software.
Why this matters (beyond novelty)
Bitcoin mining has spent the last decade drifting toward industrial scale: large operators, specialised hosting, and a small number of dominant pools coordinating an outsized share of global hashpower. This isn’t malicious — it’s largely a consequence of economics — but it does introduce real centralisation risks.
Renewed interest in solo mining over the past few years has come from a few converging trends:
- Pool concentration concerns, especially after some individual pools approached 40%+ of network hashpower.
- Better home-scale tooling, including open-source firmware, self-hosted Stratum servers, and consumer-friendly solo pools.
- New hardware paths, from ultra-small devices like the Bitaxe to repurposed or down-clocked industrial ASICs finding a second life outside datacentres.
Your odds of mining a Bitcoin block solo might be very long; it’s called “lottery mining” for a reason. But devices like the Bitaxe matter less for their hashrate contribution and more for what they normalise: individuals running their own nodes, pointing hashpower without intermediaries, and learning how the system actually works. At the other end of the spectrum, older or surplus industrial ASICs - often unprofitable in hosted environments - can still make sense when electricity is cheap, heat is reused, or expectations are aligned with variance rather than steady income.
Solo mining doesn’t “fix” mining centralisation, and it doesn’t need to. Its value lies in keeping the long tail alive: more independent block producers, more people capable of validating and mining on their own terms, and a constant reminder that Bitcoin’s rules are enforced by the network, not by scale.
As with all Bitcoin data, everything shown here is verifiable on-chain. Don’t trust; verify.
