SoloLuck

Problem

SoloLuck is a solo mining pool for Bitcoin, and since September for Bitcoin Cash and DigiByte too. It charges no fee and holds nothing on a miner’s behalf: the miner’s own address is the username, and a block that miner finds pays that address directly. It is made above all for small machines at home: a Bitaxe, a NerdMiner, an Avalon Nano.

A pool usually proves itself with its record. A solo pool has none until one of its miners wins, and, as its home page said on 30 September 2026, no Bitcoin block had been found on SoloLuck yet. The site still has to answer a new miner’s first question, if I find a block, do I get paid?, with what it can show: true figures, arithmetic that can be checked, and a page where miners watch their own machine.

Thinking

• Live data, and “—” instead of 0. Every figure comes from live data. A zero says nothing happened; a dash says there is no reading. On a pool, a false zero is a small lie that looks like data.
• The formula, worked. Beside the calculators, the odds are written out as P = 1 − e^(−t/T) and worked through, so a miner can check a number instead of trusting it.
• Corrections are annotated, not rewritten.
• Trust has its own place. The navigation has four groups: Mine, Learn, Trust, Community. Trust holds the ways to check the pool: verification, payout proof, uptime history, a risk disclosure.
• Claims carry sources. Guides and blog posts cite a source for each claim and keep a record of their reviews.

Surface

The home page opens with “Mine alone. Stand together.”, then what the next block pays in BTC and in dollars, the Bitcoin price and the pool’s live figures. The site is in English, in a light and a dark theme.

• Connect. The setup page asks for the miner’s hardware and Bitcoin address, checks the address’s checksum, then shows the exact settings to copy or to scan as a QR code.
• Watch. Every address has a public stats page showing its best share over time, a view added because a miner asked for it. There is a dashboard, a status page, high scores and a census across pools.
• Work out the odds. A calculator for each chain; the odds calculator can be embedded on another site through oEmbed. Your Block shows exactly how the reward of a found block would be split.
• See who has won. Solo Legends records the blocks small miners have won on solo pools, verified on-chain, with a page for each block.

Structure

Information architecture

The four groups head both the navigation and the footer, with the same pages under them in each.

Built from data

The content is kept as data (JSON). Every page generated from it brings its own structured data and its own sitemap entry, so a page is listed from the moment it exists: guides, blog posts and a page per Solo Legends block. That record is also open data, in JSON and CSV, under CC BY 4.0.

Code

• One server written with Python’s standard library renders every page as HTML: inline CSS, charts as inline SVG, no framework.
• The home page’s content security policy, default-src 'self', tells the browser to load nothing from a third party.

Search

One h1 on the home page; structured data for Organization, WebSite, Service and FAQPage; lang="en", with hreflang for en and x-default only.

The record

SoloLuck went up on its own address on 20 June 2026 with an odds calculator, an FAQ and a sitemap. Then it changed in steps: a rebuilt navigation and one footer on 2 July, the open dataset and an embeddable calculator on 14 September, and a page per block on 18 September, every deploy passing a gate of automated checks. The pool’s own numbers (miners, hashrate, blocks) describe the mining, not the website, and are not in the record.