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What is solo mining?

Solo mining is mining without a pool: you keep the entire reward of any block you find, and you get nothing until you find one.

How it works

Your machine or your own node builds the block and you hash against the full network difficulty. The expected time to a block is the network's hashrate divided by yours, times ten minutes.

Why it matters

For a small miner it is a lottery ticket. For a very large one it removes pool fees and keeps control of what goes into its blocks.

Related terms

All terms: the Bitcoin mining glossary.

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