Solo mining on the pool: a complete guide
How to mine Pearl for whole blocks using the pool's infrastructure, what the odds really look like, and when solo is the right call.
What solo mining is here
Solo mining on this pool means you use the pool's servers and stratum, but you mine for whole blocks on your own instead of sharing every block with the round. When one of your rigs finds a block, you keep the entire reward minus the pool fee, which is the same one pool mining pays. Nobody else shares in it, and you share in nobody else's.
How to turn it on
Prefix your wallet address with "solo:" in your miner's configuration, for example solo:YOUR_PRL_ADDRESS. That single change is the whole switch. Everything else, the server, the port and the miner, stays the same, and you can flip back to pool mining any time by removing the prefix and restarting the miner.
Understand the odds before you commit
Solo mining is all about variance. A big rig might find several blocks in a lucky week and then none for a long stretch; the long-run average is the same as pool mining, but the payout arrives in rare, large lumps instead of many small ones. Open the solo mining calculator, enter your hashrate, and read the median time to a block and the odds over a period before you decide.
Who solo suits
Solo fits large rigs and patient miners who can ride out the dry spells and prefer keeping whole blocks. If a steady, predictable income matters more to you, or the median time to a block is longer than you are comfortable waiting, proportional pool mining is the better fit. Both run side by side on the same pool.