# Parallax (PLX) — Solo Mining Pools & Network State

Live solo mining pool comparison, network difficulty, block reward structure, and Poisson solo mining probabilities for Parallax, as measured by BackPow.

## Network Overview

| Metric | Value | Unit |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Algorithm | Xhash | |
| Network hashrate | 4850597084.740413 | H/s |
| Difficulty | 3026698000000.0 | |
| Difficulty, 24h average | 2980310000000.0 | |
| Difficulty, 7d average | 3185477000000.0 | |
| Block time, observed | 652.933 | seconds |
| Block reward | 50.0 | PLX |
| Spot price | 0.0058151 | USD |
| Block value | 0.290755 | USD |
| Tracked solo pools | 1 | count |
| Recommended solo pool | coolpool.top (1.5%) | |

## Tracked Solo Pools

| Pool | Solo Fee (%) | Avg Hashrate 7d (raw) | Avg Hashrate 7d | Reliability | Pool URL |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| coolpool.top | 1.5 | 695286955.3765435 | 695.29 MH/s | OK | https://coolpool.top/pool/prlxsolo |

## Expected Time to Solo Mine a Block (Poisson Model)

Block discovery is modeled as a memoryless Poisson process: `P(X >= 1) = 1 - exp(-t / T)` where `T = (Network Hashrate / Miner Hashrate) * Block Time`.

| Hardware / Scenario | Hashrate (raw H/s) | Hashrate (display) | Expected Time | 30-Day Probability |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1× GeForce RTX 5080 | 121658400.0 | 121.66 MH/s | 7.2 hours | 100.0% |
| 10× GeForce RTX 5080 | 1216584000.0 | 1.22 GH/s | 43 min | 100.0% |
| 100× GeForce RTX 5080 | 12165840000.0 | 12.17 GH/s | 4 min | 100.0% |

## Solo Mining Protocol Rules

- Direct Coinbase Payout: When a solo miner finds a block, the pool constructs the block template with the miner's payout address directly in the coinbase transaction.
- Con Kolivas' Solo CKPool: Regarded as the historical benchmark for Bitcoin solo mining. Its pure C daemon processes shares with zero database overhead and pays miners directly through coinbase transaction outputs.
- Maturation: Newly minted coins require confirmation maturity (typically 100 blocks on Bitcoin and most PoW networks) before they can be transferred or spent.
- Pool Fee Structure: Unlike PPS/PPLNS pools that deduct fees from shared round rewards, solo pools deduct their percentage fee exclusively upon block discovery.
- High Variance: Finding blocks solo is subject to Poisson variance; expected time is a mathematical expectation over many trials, not a countdown timer.

## Provenance

- Retrieved: 2026-10-07T20:25:28Z
- Canonical page: https://backpow.com/solo-pools/Parallax
- Coin economics & CoP datasheet: https://backpow.com/Parallax.md
- All solo pools directory: https://backpow.com/solo-pools.md
- Solo mining odds calculator: https://backpow.com/Parallax
- Live queries over MCP: https://mcp.backpow.com/mcp (tools `calculate_solo_mining_odds`, `get_coin_oracle`)
- Licence: CC BY 4.0 — https://backpow.com/llms.txt

Difficulty, hashrate and price move continuously. This file is a snapshot taken at the time above; for a current reading, query the MCP endpoint rather than caching this document.