So, you got your bitaxe or other solo miner, but what now? Well, set it up and point it to a mining pool, of course. But you might ask yourself which one to use. In this post, we recommend pools for bitcoin solo miners which are all community maintained and offer solo mining with zero fees. Including our own, self-hosted mining pool! 😀

Public Pool	Stratum tcp URL: public-pool.io
	Port: 21496
	The original public pool, maintained by the creator of the public pool software. This pool is the most widely used and allows you to engage in solo Bitcoin mining with straightforward setup and zero fees.

Go Brrr Pool	Stratum tcp URL:
	Port: 3333
	Our fork of the original public pool offers zero fee mining and is hosted in a high bandwith location in Germany to provide improved performance for European solo miners. We created our own version of a Bitcoin Core container to ensure ZMQ support, and our pool has been running stable with almost no downtime since August 2024.

Noderunners Pool	Stratum tcp URL: pool.noderunners.network
	Port: 3333
	Noderunners run Miners too! This is the mining pool of our Dutch friends, the Noderunners, hosted in the Netherlands, it’s offering solo mining with zero fees. The frontend is part of their awesome community website, Noderunners.network

Ckpool Solo	Stratum tcp URL: solo.ckpool.org
	Port: 3333
	The longest running bitcoin solo mining pool to our knowledge is from ckpooldev, block 853742 was mined via ckpool. This pool takes a flat 2% fee