CKpool developer and administrator Con Kolivas introduced on X the launch of a brand new solo BTC pool situated in Brisbane, Australia. The objective of this Bitcoin mining pool is to service Oceania and Asia-Pacific miners.
The brand new AU solo pool is separated from the primary CK pool and the EU solo BTC mining pool because of latency and efficiency causes. As per the X put up, the AU BTC pool will function with low latency.
Con Kolivas said that blocks generated from the AU BTC mining pool shall be propagated between different sibling swimming pools. Furthermore, the AU BTC blocks will carry the identical signature from the primary CK pool however with the prefix “ckpoolau.”
The developer clarified that miners can have the choice to make the most of different sibling swimming pools for backup. The principle solo CK pool covers a lot of the world, however with comparatively decrease latency.
AU pool is probably going Bitaxe dominated
Con Kolivas predicted that the AU pool will comprise principally of Bitaxe mining rigs. He additionally predicted that the AU pool can have the bottom hashrate in comparison with different solo CK swimming pools. This is because of excessive electrical energy prices in Australia.
Presently, the typical value of residential electrical energy in Australia is AUD 33 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh), whereas business electrical energy prices between AUD 25 and AUD 45 cents per kWh. In america, the typical residential electrical energy charge is USD 12.89 cents per kWh (AUD 19.6 cents), in contrast with AUD 33 cents per kWh in Australia. That is 60% of what Australians pay for every kilowatt-hour of electrical energy.
The typical Bitaxe rig hashrate ranges between 0.4–1.2 Terahash (TH/s). This implies the electrical energy prices in Australia for operating a Bitaxe solo miner shall be AUD 16 cents per day on the common residential charge of AUD 33 cents, and between AUD 12 cents and AUD 22 cents per day at business charges of AUD 25 to 45 cents per kWh.
Whereas the day by day prices appear minimal, the possibility of fixing a Bitcoin block and profitable the mining charges of three.175 BTC will take 14,075 years based mostly on calculations from SoloChance.
A Bitaxe rig tends to promote for roughly USD 150 every, and dedicated hobbyists often run a cluster of two to 4 BTC rigs.
Bitaxe Miner
Solo Bitcoin miner racks in 3.175 BTC with 200 Ph/s
Yesterday, Con Kolivas congratulated a solo miner for profitable 3.175 BTC after fixing block quantity 904,989. The miner solved the 302nd solo block with an enormous hashrate of 200 petahashes per second (Ph/s). Con Kolivas wrote, “A miner of this measurement would clear up a block as soon as each ~35 days on common at present mining problem.”
He additional clarified {that a} miner of this measurement might be renting hashrate. It’s because the excessive hashrate of 200 Ph/s is far greater than the hashrate of accessible mining {hardware}. The developer mentioned that this miner began mining Bitcoin on January 9, 2025. That’s round 7 months solely.
In 2017, Con Kolivas opened a shared Bitcoin mining pool with zero charges. The pool offered prompt coinbase cost to miners. The developer created the pool as a service for the neighborhood. Nevertheless, he shut it down in 2020 as a result of it failed to draw sufficient hashrate to remain operating.
