CryptoCode solo pool is live: BTC, BCH, LTC and DOGE

The CryptoCode solo mining pool has been open to everyone since 26 September, at pool.cryptocodes.eu. There are three chains: bitcoin, bitcoin cash, and litecoin together with dogecoin. Each chain has a port for your own miners and a port for rented hashrate. If you find a block, 99% goes to your address, directly in that block. The pool keeps 1%.

What has opened?

Six ports, all solo and all with a 1% fee:

Each chain runs on its own synchronised full node. There is no account or registration: your address is your username.

How do you connect your miner?

Three fields in your miner's settings:

1. Pool URL: the endpoint from the table, for example stratum+tcp://pool.cryptocodes.eu:3333 for bitcoin.
2. Username: your own address. For bitcoin cash in the form bitcoincash:q…. To see several miners separately, add a dot and a name after the address, for example your-address.basement.
3. Password: x.

For litecoin and dogecoin the pool asks for two addresses, litecoin first and then dogecoin: LTC-address.DOGE-address. If one is missing or invalid, the pool refuses the connection. That way a reward never ends up at the wrong address. Litecoin addresses starting with L, M or ltc1q all work.

Put your own miners on the regular port. The rental ports start at a high difficulty because rental platforms require it, and a Bitaxe will hardly ever find a share there.

How does the payout work?

The block pays out itself. The coinbase transaction of the block your miner finds contains two payouts: 99% of the block reward plus transaction fees to your address, 1% to the pool. So the pool never holds your coins. There is no minimum amount, no payout round and no pool wallet that could be emptied.

What you do need to know:

• Maturity. Newly mined coins can only be spent after 100 confirmations for bitcoin, bitcoin cash and litecoin, and after 240 for dogecoin. That is a protocol rule.
• Verifiable. Any block explorer shows which amount went to which address.
• Litecoin and dogecoin separately. One share can yield a litecoin block, a dogecoin block or both. Each block pays out on its own chain.

The current block reward is 3.125 BTC for bitcoin, 3.125 BCH for bitcoin cash, 6.25 LTC for litecoin and 10,000 DOGE for dogecoin, plus the transaction fees in that block.

How big is the chance of a block?

Small, and it is important to know that in advance. Your chance per block is your own hashrate divided by that of the whole network. At the last check, on 28 September, mempool.space estimated the bitcoin network hashrate at about 951 EH/s. That gives you this:

‘Expected waiting time’ is an average, not an appointment. Small miners have found blocks, and a large one can go years without finding anything. In the long run, the expected return of solo mining is roughly the same as that of a shared pool. The difference is in the spread: a shared pool often pays a small amount, a solo pool almost never pays a large amount. Count on zero and treat a block as a windfall.

For bitcoin cash, litecoin and dogecoin the odds are different, because their network hashrate and block time differ. That network hashrate changes daily, so calculate with the current figure.

Rented hashrate on the pool

If you have no hardware of your own, you can rent hashrate and send it to a rental port. That works with NiceHash, Mining Rig Rentals and, recently, also with MineShop's HashStrike, which allows a custom stratum URL. Enter your own address as the username in the rental order.

Be extra careful with the numbers here. Rent costs money by the hour, and rental prices are usually above what the hashrate earns on average. At that same check, HashStrike charged 55 sats per TH/s per day, 3% less with the code CRYPTOCODES (53.35 sats), against an average return of around 47.5 sats. What you rent is a chance, not an income. How renting via NiceHash works is explained in the NiceHash guide.

What the pool is not

• Not a shared pool. There will be no shared mode either. If you want a predictable monthly amount, a regular pool suits you better.
• Not an investment product. The pool is a technical service. Electricity costs keep running whether you find a block or not.
• New. The pool has been open since 26 September and has no track record yet. You can follow how it performs on the live pool statistics page.

CryptoCode has its own stake in this: the 1% fee goes to us. That is why it is stated here.

Who is this for, and who is it not for?

Do it if you already have a Bitaxe, NerdQaxe or similar miner running, for example for the heat, and you do not mind if nothing comes for years. Or if you want to see how a block is found and broadcast, rather than watching a balance tick up.

Better not if you need the proceeds for the electricity bill, if you buy hardware specifically for this and count on earning it back, or if you think a bigger miner makes the outcome certain. It only shortens the expected waiting time. What hardware uses and earns in practice is covered in our explanation of bitcoin mining and the heat calculator.

Frequently asked questions

What does the CryptoCode solo pool cost?

1% of every block found, on every chain. That fee appears as a separate payout in the block itself. There are no other costs.

Do I need to create an account?

No. Your bitcoin, bitcoin cash or litecoin/dogecoin address is your username. The password is x.

Can I join with a Bitaxe?

Yes, on port 3333 for bitcoin or 3334 for bitcoin cash. Any miner that speaks stratum can join. For litecoin and dogecoin you need Scrypt hardware.

Why litecoin and dogecoin on one port?

Dogecoin is mined together with litecoin (merged mining): the same work counts for both chains. You only enter two addresses.

When do I get my reward?

Directly in the block you find, as a separate payout to your address. You can spend it after 100 confirmations, for dogecoin after 240.

Is solo mining better than a regular pool?

Not on average. The expected return is roughly the same; solo trades a small, predictable amount for a small chance of a whole block.

All ports and the full explanation are on the solo pool page.

Sources

Last checked on 28 September 2026.

• Ports, fee and payout: cryptocode.nl/minen/solo-pool, measured on the running pool on 26 September 2026 (99% miner, 1% pool on all public ports).
• Protocol rules: Bitcoin Core and Litecoin Core (coinbase maturity 100 blocks), Dogecoin Core 1.14.9 (nCoinbaseMaturity 240).
• Bitcoin network hashrate: mempool.space/api/v1/mining/hashrate/1w
• HashStrike rental rate: hashstrike.mineshop.eu
• Expected waiting time and chance per year: own calculation, network hashrate ÷ own hashrate × 10 minutes.