# Zano (ZANO) — Solo Mining Pools & Network State

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

## Network Overview

| Metric | Value | Unit |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Algorithm | ProgPowZ | |
| Network hashrate | 328533187784.0267 | H/s |
| Difficulty | 40041293000000.0 | |
| Difficulty, 24h average | 38274380000000.0 | |
| Difficulty, 7d average | 39870573000000.0 | |
| Block time, observed | 120.0 | seconds |
| Block reward | 1.0 | ZANO |
| Spot price | 5.3 | USD |
| Block value | 5.3 | USD |
| Market cap | 78774196.0 | USD |
| Tracked solo pools | 7 | count |
| Recommended solo pool | woolypooly.com (0.9%) | |

## Tracked Solo Pools

| Pool | Solo Fee (%) | Avg Hashrate 7d (raw) | Avg Hashrate 7d | Reliability | Pool URL |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| woolypooly.com | 0.9 | 184784760788.8889 | 184.78 GH/s | OK | https://woolypooly.com |
| herominers.com | 0.9 | 84141970086.9753 | 84.14 GH/s | OK | https://zano.herominers.com |
| pwnda.org | 0 | 11179300.955974845 | 11.18 MH/s | Low hashrate | https://pwnda.org |
| fastpool.xyz | 0.4 | null | — | Low hashrate | https://fastpool.xyz/zano |
| ethcore.ru | 0.5 | null | — | Low hashrate | https://ethcore.ru/pool/zanopoolsolo |
| homie-pool.xyz | 0.8 | null | — | Low hashrate | https://homie-pool.xyz/#zano-solo |
| superblockchain | 1.2 | null | — | Low hashrate | https://superblockchain.zapto.org/zano |

## 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 5090 | 84779000.0 | 84.78 MH/s | 5.4 days | 99.6% |
| 10× GeForce RTX 5090 | 847790000.0 | 847.79 MH/s | 12.9 hours | 100.0% |
| 100× GeForce RTX 5090 | 8477900000.0 | 8.48 GH/s | 78 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/Zano
- Coin economics & CoP datasheet: https://backpow.com/Zano.md
- All solo pools directory: https://backpow.com/solo-pools.md
- Solo mining odds calculator: https://backpow.com/Zano
- 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

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