Five Months of AtlasPool

Today marks five months since AtlasPool went live on November 3, 2025. What started as a single endpoint with a handful of miners has grown into a globally distributed solo mining pool serving over 550 users and 960 active workers across nine regions on six continents. This article is a look back at where we started, how we got here, and what the numbers say.

Why AtlasPool Was Created

AtlasPool was born from a simple observation: solo Bitcoin miners deserve better infrastructure. The existing options for solo mining were limited. Most pools ran from a single geographic location, with little investment in latency optimization or global availability.

For solo miners, every rejected share is wasted work. High latency increases rejection rates, and an unreliable pool means wasted hashing time. Unlike pooled mining where variance smoothing absorbs inefficiencies, solo miners bear the full cost of these problems. A miner in Sydney connecting to a pool in Virginia is at a measurable disadvantage compared to one connecting to a local endpoint. And a pool that goes down, even briefly, means every connected miner is hashing for nothing until the connection is restored.

AtlasPool was built to solve both of these problems: latency and availability. The core idea was to deploy ckpool, the battle-tested, open-source solo mining software written by Con Kolivas, across multiple locations worldwide, and use BGP Anycast routing to automatically connect each miner to the closest endpoint. One hostname, solo.atlaspool.io, handles everything. No manual server selection, no guessing which endpoint is fastest. And with nine independent endpoints, the pool is resilient by design.

Building the Global Network

AtlasPool launched on November 3, 2025 with a single endpoint in Ashburn, Virginia (US). From there, the network expanded rapidly as demand grew and miners from different regions requested lower-latency connections.

Endpoint Timeline

• 🇺🇸 Ashburn, VA (US) November 2025
• 🇺🇸 Portland, OR (US) November 2025
• 🇩🇪 Frankfurt (DE) November 2025
• 🇦🇺 Sydney (AU) November 2025
• 🇭🇰 Hong Kong (HK) November 2025
• 🇧🇷 São Paulo (BR) November 2025
• 🇮🇳 Mumbai (IN) December 2025
• 🇬🇧 London (UK) February 2026
• 🇿🇦 Cape Town (ZA) March 2026

Each endpoint runs its own ckpool instance with a dedicated Bitcoin full node, ensuring fast block template updates and minimal propagation delay. Statistics from all endpoints are aggregated and made available via atlaspool.io.

User Growth

AtlasPool started with roughly 13 active users in early November 2025. Five months later, that number has grown to over 550, approximately 42x growth.

Month	Avg Users	Month-over-Month
November 2025	~19	— (launch)
December 2025	~59	+212%
January 2026	~121	+106%
February 2026	~264	+118%
March 2026	~456	+72%
April 2026 (current)	~551	—

The growth followed three distinct phases. The first few weeks were the early adopter phase: small numbers, big percentage swings, as the first miners discovered the pool. December through January saw sustained acceleration with consistent 15–25% weekly growth as word spread. From February onward, the weekly growth rate settled to around 10%, but the absolute numbers kept climbing. The pool was adding 40–50 new users per week.

Worker Growth

Active workers tell a similar story but with higher absolute numbers, since many users run multiple mining devices. The pool started with roughly 21 workers and has grown to over 960, approximately 46x growth.

Month	Avg Workers	Month-over-Month
November 2025	~33	— (launch)
December 2025	~125	+281%
January 2026	~236	+89%
February 2026	~506	+115%
March 2026	~821	+62%
April 2026 (current)	~965	—

The workers-per-user ratio has been remarkably consistent, settling around 1.75. This suggests most AtlasPool users run one or two mining devices, with a smaller group of power users running several. A typical distribution for the solo mining community.

What Drove the Growth

Several factors contributed to AtlasPool's growth over these five months:

• The global endpoint network gave miners a tangible reason to switch: measurably lower latency and fewer rejected shares compared to single-location pools. AtlasPool was purpose-built for high availability and low latency from day one, and that reliability has been a key differentiator.
• The solo mining community, particularly Bitaxe, NerdQAxe++, Canaan, and NerdOCTAXE users, grew significantly during this period. More miners entering the space meant more demand for quality infrastructure.
• Word of mouth within the solo mining community on X, Discord, and Reddit proved to be the most effective growth driver. Miners who experienced the many benefits of AtlasPool told others.
• Media coverage helped introduce AtlasPool to a wider audience. A great interview with WantClue on YouTube and another with The Bitcoin Mining Show and Cinco Doggos gave viewers a deep look at what AtlasPool is and why it was built. In January, blockdyor published a favorable review of AtlasPool that brought in another wave of new miners.
• The resources section, including solo mining calculators, the target share probability tool, and educational articles, helped establish AtlasPool as more than just a pool. It became a resource for the solo mining community.

Infrastructure Milestones

AtlasPool was designed from the ground up for availability. The pool has maintained 100% uptime since launch: no outages, no unplanned downtime. Every architectural decision, from multi-region deployment to BGP Anycast routing, was made with reliability as the top priority.

Behind the user-facing growth, the infrastructure broke new ground for solo mining:

• AtlasPool became the first solo Bitcoin mining pool to leverage BGP Anycast in conjunction with stratum endpoints deployed across six continents.
• AtlasPool was the first solo pool to support IPv6, TLS encryption (port 4333), and a dedicated high-difficulty port (port 4334), all together.
• Built a comprehensive monitoring dashboard with real-time metrics across all nine endpoints.
• Deployed the Best Shares Leaderboard, a live ranking of the highest-difficulty shares found by AtlasPool miners.
• Launched the solo mining calculator suite with four tools for block probability, time-to-block, target share difficulty, and best share statistics.
• Added internationalization support with nine languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Polish, Hebrew, and Arabic.
• Expanded from a single US endpoint to nine endpoints across six continents.

By the Numbers

What's Next

Five months in, AtlasPool is still early. The solo mining community continues to grow as more hobbyist miners enter the space with devices like the Bitaxe, NerdQAxe++, Canaan Avalon Nano and Avalon Mini, and NerdOCTAXE. Our focus for the coming months is on continuing to expand the endpoint network based on miner demand, improving the dashboard and monitoring tools, and building more resources to help solo miners understand and optimize their setups.

Thank you to every miner who has connected to AtlasPool over these first five months. Whether you've been here since day one or joined last week, you're part of what makes this pool work. Solo mining is a long game, and we're here for it.