Welcome to the Pool category 
This is the spot to talk about mining pools — connecting your Bitaxe (or any miner) to one, comparing options, troubleshooting stratum issues, and sharing solo wins. 
Pool vs. solo, in one breath
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Pool mining → many miners combine hashrate and split rewards proportionally. Small, steady payouts.
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Solo mining → you hash on your own. Astronomical odds of finding a block, but if you do, the entire block reward is yours. No splits.
Most Bitaxes in this community run solo, because pool payouts from a 1 TH/s miner are essentially dust — but a solo win is life-changing.
Public Pool 
The community favourite is Public Pool — a fully open-source, solo Bitcoin mining pool.
A few reasons people love it:
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100% open source — both the stratum server and the GUI live on GitHub. -
Self-hostable — point your miners at the official instance, or run your own at home. -
Lean & maintainable — built from scratch for easy install, a modern UI, and low complexity.
More info: osmu.wiki/public-pool/about
Things to post here
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Your stratum config — what URL/port/worker setup are you using? -
Self-hosting Public Pool — guides, gotchas, Docker tips.
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Solo wins (or near-misses) — share the celebration! -
Pool comparisons — CKPool, Solo CK, OCEAN, public-pool, etc. -
Troubleshooting — share disconnects, rejected shares, or weird difficulty behaviour.
Drop your questions and setups below 
Happy hashing! 