How to Mine Monero (XMR) on a Solo Mining Pool

⚠️ Solo Mining Pool

This is a solo mining pool. Each miner competes independently for the full block reward. Whoever finds the block receives the reward directly in the coinbase transaction, minus the pool fee. With low hashrate, blocks may be infrequent — this is expected behaviour, not a malfunction. [Pool fee: 2%]

Never use an exchange address for mining. Why not?

Quick start — XMRig

Download XMRig

SSL (encrypted)

stratum+ssl://xmr.eu.ownblock.io:4141

TCP (standard)

stratum+tcp://xmr.eu.ownblock.io:4242

Option A — single command:

./xmrig -o xmr.eu.ownblock.io:4242 -u YOUR_MONERO_ADDRESS.WORKER --coin XMR

Option B — config file (config.json):

{
  "pools": [{
    "url": "xmr.eu.ownblock.io:4242",
    "user": "YOUR_MONERO_ADDRESS.WORKER",
    "coin": "XMR"
  }]
}

Replace YOUR_MONERO_ADDRESS with your Monero address and WORKER with your rig name (e.g. rig1).

The worker is appended to the address with a dot: ADDRESS.WORKER.

Important: this pool only accepts standard Monero addresses starting with 4, required by the direct coinbase payment system.

NiceHash

NiceHash is fully compatible with this pool and is the recommended way to rent hash rate. When creating an order on NiceHash, use port 4242 and your Monero address as the username. NiceHash provides stable, on-demand computing power — ideal for solo mining.

Enter these values in the NiceHash order form:

Algorithm

RandomXmonero

Host

xmr.eu.ownblock.io

Port

4242

Username

4YourAddress…xyz.workername

Your Monero address (starts with 4) followed by .workername — e.g. 4AbC…xyz.rig1

Password

x

Any value works — x is the conventional choice.

Important: this pool only accepts standard Monero addresses starting with 4, required by the direct coinbase payment system.

⚠️ MiningRigRentals (MRR)

MiningRigRentals is compatible with this pool. However, some rigs on MRR may be NiceHash resellers — you may be paying a markup over NiceHash prices with added latency. We recommend using NiceHash directly when possible.