21 AtlasPool Edition BitForge Nanos almost ready...!

@Public_Pool_BTC Respect for what you built. Public Pool filled a real gap when good solo pool options were limited, and running it yourself on repurposed hardware shows the kind of commitment the community appreciates. Solo mining has grown since then. With tens of thousands of Bitaxe devices (and similar miners such as NerdQAxe ) now relying on AxeOS or similar firmware defaults, the choice of primary pool has more impact than it used to. Public Pool’s single-server setup in one location worked for its era, but it was never designed for miners spread across the world. A single point of presence means higher latency for many users and creates an obvious availability risk. Public Pool has recorded 19 outage events totaling more than 17 hours of downtime in 2026 alone. The default pool that ships with AxeOS/NerdQAxe and serves many thousands of new miners deserves more than running on ewaste out of one location. AtlasPool was built specifically to address these limitations at global scale. It operates one full instance (including both ckpool and a Bitcoin node) at each of nine locations across six continents. BGP anycast on the solo.atlaspool.io hostname automatically directs each miner to the closest healthy location. This design delivers consistently low latency and has maintained 100% uptime since launch through geographic distribution and automatic failover. On the fee: AtlasPool charges 1.5% only on blocks found. This fee does not cover my operating costs. I am not running AtlasPool to generate profit. The fee simply helps offset the expense of maintaining a globally distributed, redundant infrastructure. My goal is to make the best possible solo mining pool available to the community, not to monetize it. Running your own node and stratum server is one approach, and we support miners who want to go that route. At the same time, a large part of the solo mining community wants a dependable hosted option that delivers strong performance and reliability without requiring them to operate their own infrastructure. AtlasPool was built for those users. We make it easy to connect and also support people who prefer to self-host. The community has outgrown what a single-server pool can reliably deliver at worldwide scale. With more miners depending on defaults in tools like AxeOS, it makes sense to evaluate whether the current default still serves users best, or whether a purpose-built global option would be a better fit for most people. I think AtlasPool represents that next step. I would encourage the AxeOS dev team and anyone choosing a primary pool to take a look at what we have built: atlaspool.io/ We are all trying to strengthen solo mining. I am open to feedback and happy to discuss how we can improve the experience for Bitaxe/NerdQAxe miners together. cc: @osmu_global @wantclue @skot9000 @Pmaxsd

🚨 Teaser Alert 🚨 The AtlasPool Edition BitForge Nano is coming — a special collaboration with @TheSoloMiningCo celebrating our pool’s color and branding themes. Each unit will be laser-engraved with a unique serial number. Only 20 will be available in this first run. Top-down preview dropping now. Full details reveal coming very soooon. Who’s ready?

We will upgrade the four remaining global endpoints in the coming days: Portland US, Ashburn US, Frankfurt DE, London UK. You might notice one single reconnect from your miners, which is expected.

Today on the podcast we've got a deep dive on @AtlasPool_io the new mining pool that is attracting a lot of attention and usage over the last 6 months! Tune in at 1pm on the @SoloSatoshi YouTube Channel Full video - youtu.be/Tj71sLBzwgo

Random useless fact: The most common best diff share in the last two years on the solo pools before reaching a block solving diff is ~38 trillion. I see no logical mathematical reason for this, it's just an unusual coincidence. It's also wildly variable how long after a 38T diff share that a block is actually solved, so don't use this as some superstitious reason to start high stakes gambling once 38T hits.

Ausolo is up and running again. The hardware sadly failed and the image was migrated to newer faster hardware thanks to mineracks. Mine on! x.com/ckpooldev/status/20583…