# Vertcoin (VTC) — Solo Mining Pools & Network State

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

## Network Overview

| Metric | Value | Unit |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Algorithm | Verthash | |
| Network hashrate | 602800981.1708256 | H/s |
| Difficulty | 19.478044220223804 | |
| Difficulty, 24h average | 20.471 | |
| Difficulty, 7d average | 21.392 | |
| Block time, observed | 154.369 | seconds |
| Block reward | 6.25 | VTC |
| Spot price | 0.04289513 | USD |
| Block value | 0.26809456249999997 | USD |
| Market cap | 3197166.0 | USD |
| Tracked solo pools | 6 | count |
| Recommended solo pool | tazmining.ch (0.5%) | |

## Tracked Solo Pools

| Pool | Solo Fee (%) | Avg Hashrate 7d (raw) | Avg Hashrate 7d | Reliability | Pool URL |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| tazmining.ch | 0.5 | 21338049.29629629 | 21.34 MH/s | OK | https://tazmining.ch/#vtc2 |
| woolypooly.com | 0.9 | 249353518.42592585 | 249.35 MH/s | OK | https://woolypooly.com |
| miningpoolsweden.eu | 1 | 70323529.59876543 | 70.32 MH/s | OK | https://miningpoolsweden.eu/#vtcsolo |
| ethcore.ru | 0.5 | 665321.2469135801 | 665.32 KH/s | Low hashrate | https://ethcore.ru/pool/vtcpoolsolo |
| mining-dutch.nl | 1 | 2216184.024691358 | 2.22 MH/s | Low hashrate | https://www.mining-dutch.nl/pools/vertcoin.php |
| cyberpool.pro | 1 | null | — | Low hashrate | https://cyberpool.pro |

## 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 4070 | 917240.0 | 917.24 KH/s | 28.2 hours | 100.0% |
| 10× GeForce RTX 4070 | 9172400.0 | 9.17 MH/s | 2.8 hours | 100.0% |
| 100× GeForce RTX 4070 | 91724000.0 | 91.72 MH/s | 17 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/Vertcoin
- Coin economics & CoP datasheet: https://backpow.com/Vertcoin.md
- All solo pools directory: https://backpow.com/solo-pools.md
- Solo mining odds calculator: https://backpow.com/Vertcoin
- 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.