Glossary · deep dive

Solo mining

Mining without joining a pool: if you find a block, you keep the whole reward, but you may wait a very long time.

solo mining means trying to find a whole block yourself. If you succeed, you keep the entire block reward. You do not share with a mining pool.

The wait

At today's hashrate a single home machine is a tiny slice of the network, so the average wait for a block is measured in decades. That is why most miners pool.