The EU solo ckpool is up and running! Connect to the pool via instructions at
EU Solo CKPool - Anonymous Bitcoin Mining
. Graphical stats available at
CKstats
Real-time and historical statistics for the CKPool Bitcoin mining pool using data from their API.
. Miners in Europe and Africa are encouraged to move to the new pool. Miners in The Americas and Asia-Pacific should still use
Solo CKPool - Anonymous Bitcoin Mining
 but the sister pool can be used as backup. This is an entirely separate pool from
Solo CKPool - Anonymous Bitcoin Mining
 and neither shares nor stats are shared across instances for overhead reasons. They only help propagate each others' blocks. Both will solve blocks with the same coinbase signature though.
Here's a little podcast I did with bitcoin mining world.
I've tentatively set up a new stats site courtesy of MrV_777 for trial. I'm personally hosting this one, but I've left his donation link intact since he did the work. Some other web devs are also working on alternatives, so do not assume this is the final form but please test it out. I may be hosting multiple in the future whilst testing them out. Http only for now:
CKstats
Real-time and historical statistics for the CKPool Bitcoin mining pool using data from their API.
Saturn captured in excellent conditions 2024-09-27 image
A phenomenon known as the Seeliger effect means Saturn's rings appear brighter when it's at its closest approach to Earth. This animated gif shows the alternating captures at opposition 2024 and two weeks later demonstrating this effect. image
Anyone using the solostats website for stats on
Solo CKPool - Anonymous Bitcoin Mining
 should know that it was being maintained by a 3rd party and in the last day they briefly put up a fee scheme which was not sanctioned by me and the breach of trust has made me decide to pull endorsement of it for now. Trust is very difficult to obtain in this space, and whilst it was probably a simple error of judgement, I'd find it hard to resume endorsing the site. The simple text stats available directly from the solo.ckpool.org site remain available as always.
Saturn captured in infrared 2024-09-22 image
Saturn captured in composite infrared 2024-08-18 image