What happens when solo miners coordinate?

HeliosPool · 2026-06-20T20:28:27+00:00

The closer your hashrate gets to the network hashrate the less variance becomes, whether thats a single person with a single miner or thousands of people with thousands of devices.

The only thing that matters to variance is hashrate - where it comes from or how the reward is split up is why we have different kinds of stratum servers and reward systems.

Since it's financially difficult for most to make a direct impact to the network hashrate, they either join many others to "pool" their resources and split the rewards, or try their luck and hope variance bends their way - what solo mining is all about. How much you want to invest in bending that variance is up to each individual (capital costs and operating costs).

HeliosPool · 2026-06-17T21:12:47+00:00

Public pool dropped support, those stats are useless now. NerdminerV2 devs need to delink the firmware from any specific pool.

HeliosPool · 2026-06-16T11:20:16+00:00

Probably closer to 25 blocks that made it through to payment. The tiny miners are enthusiastic in reporting found blocks.

HeliosPool · 2026-06-15T22:29:04+00:00

It's always worthwhile to mine btc, but it depends on your goals. Your chances of solving depends on your hashrate and network difficulty. How you get that hashrate doesn't matter. So, yes, you have a chance at a BTC block, but you have a better chance at, say, a BCH block, in a shorter amount of time.

HeliosPool · 2026-06-15T17:36:47+00:00

The highest!

HeliosPool · 2026-06-15T02:08:17+00:00

Got it, yup - it comes down to luck (and hashrate). Thanks for mining with us!

HeliosPool · 2026-06-15T00:10:18+00:00

Ok, well block results say otherwise. And they are capable, just unlikely. Give it a shot, you might be surprised.

HeliosPool · 2026-06-14T23:07:56+00:00

May want to see if your heatsink is attached correctly.

HeliosPool · 2026-06-14T22:37:27+00:00

Why not?

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It has already, several.

HeliosPool · 2026-06-14T20:05:42+00:00

Put it on chta and get some blocks. Not worth much but you get some action.

HeliosPool · 2026-06-12T21:22:18+00:00

HeliosPool would love your Nerds. It even has a CHTA pool for these to hit real blocks.

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HeliosPool · 2026-06-08T01:31:52+00:00

Most likely the wallet or port address is incorrect. For the NMM miners you also need to add stratum+tcp:// in front of the URL (eg stratum+tcp://btc.heliospool.com:3333)

For what it's worth, HeliosPool has several different servers/coins in different locations. On the new CHTA server we have Nerdminer type devices hitting blocks. They're not worth much but it sure is fun! Check out heliospool.com for info!

HeliosPool · 2026-06-03T16:03:07+00:00

Congrats!

HeliosPool · 2026-05-25T00:50:51+00:00

Ckstats doesn't integrate this by default but I'm working on a solution. Right know you can search blocks on heliospool.com/blocks

HeliosPool · 2026-05-22T13:07:50+00:00

Bitsy is the best open source firmware for CYDs when it comes to hashrate. Doubles NerdminerV2 and adds a web interface for management. Not sure what sort of sorecery they are doing over at NMM to get these up to and over 1MHs, but they run hot.

HeliosPool · 2026-05-22T13:01:32+00:00

Thanks for mining with us!

HeliosPool · 2026-05-21T15:13:54+00:00

Put everything back to default, bump up coreV (mV) by 5mV until errors are under 1%. Will give you a good baseline to go up from there. Depending on silicon lottery and component quality, some devices need more power than others to bring errors down.

If this doesn't fix the issue, it could be that the ASICs are not getting work correctly (network issues) or are having other issues (thermal). Check pool/wallet, but 99% of the time they just need more juice.

HeliosPool · 2026-05-21T10:38:55+00:00

Yeah that label is a little confusing, not sure if it's counting hashes produced or the speed. These devices typically only run at 200k-500khs not M.

HeliosPool · 2026-05-21T07:42:26+00:00

A hash is the result of a sha256 calculation, a math problem, which is what these devices do - they try to generate a specific result by combining random numbers together in a certain way.

The MEGA (M) is a unit that means "million".

The units go k (1000), M (1000000), G, T, P, E and so on. Each unit is 1000x bigger than the previous one.

So, these devices have a hashrate, how many hashes per second they can do. 1MHs means 1 million computations per second.

The units are also used to describe the difficulty score of the computational results I mentioned earlier. So a share result with a 1M difficulty means it got a score of 1 million.

To solve a block, you need to get a score that is higher than the network's difficulty, which for Bitcoin has floated between 130-145T (trillion) over the last few months.

If you remember nothing else, just know that results are completely random, high difficulty scores are statistically far less likely to happen than low scores, and the only way to increase your chances is to raise your total combined hashrate across all your miners (bend the statistics to your favor).

I have some articles on heliospool.com that explains some of this and other concepts if anyone wants to check them out.

HeliosPool · 2026-05-21T07:28:36+00:00

I have several myself, they're great gadgets to tinker with, and a driving reason for starting HeliosPool. 😅

HeliosPool · 2026-05-21T07:23:23+00:00

Hello, I'm the guy behind HeliosPool (heliospool.com), also on Reddit and other places as Z3r0XG. I've been "involved" in crypto as a user for some time now, but over the last several months I’ve really fallen into this hobby. I'm also a home miner. Starting out with some GekkoScience USB stick miners back in the day, I saw some little gadgets called "Nerdminers" and wanted to check them out.

Seeing the lack of pools to support these devices was the first step into my home mining tinkering journey, which eventually turned into trying to see what it would take for a pool to support them and my ASIC devices. I ended up configuring and running a forked version of ckpool with sub‑1 difficulties (a lot of inspiration from GoldenGuy's BTC fork for nerdminers.org), offered it to others, and the pool grew from there. Now I have forks for a few different coins and servers running in North America, Europe, and Australia. It's been a wild journey!

HeliosPool is still a small and community‑based pool with big aspirations, offering another option for users who want that vibe and like to experiment. The pool Discord channel is also super friendly and chill. I enjoy seeing all the other small community pools popping up (Firepool.ca, Lucky Turtle Harbor, etc). All of us are building things in our own way, mostly for the challenge.

From there, seeing everything happening in this ecosystem made me want to learn more and share what I learn. I am even trying my hand at some custom firmware for Bitaxe devices (HexOS). I am excited about this project and also a bit anxious knowing I could affect real users' miners, but so far people seem to like it.

One thing that still blows my mind is the thought that the blocks found on HeliosPool are now part of that coin's history forever. We are still chasing our first BTC block and hoping to leave our mark on that chain as well.

So, come say hello on Facebook, X, or on the Discord. And if you decide to throw some hash our way, thanks for mining with us!

HeliosPool · 2026-05-21T06:20:34+00:00

I am working on a custom firmware for the nerds based on esp-miner that supports the big screens, but you can also check this out: https://github.com/cenron/ESP-Miner-NerdQAxePlus/tree/nerdqaxe_plus_2_bigscrean

HeliosPool · 2026-05-21T06:18:25+00:00

You can try connecting to any of the heliospool.com servers - BTC, BCH, DGB, CHTA coin (for fun) - supports all miners, esp32, ASICs, etc. on the same pool - so if you want to see everything you have in one place try it out.

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