Setup a Bitcoin Node and Solo CK Pool - 2025

This video is for anyone with a Bitcoin solo miner (like a Bitaxe) who wants to mine Bitcoin at home on their own solo pool and wants to know how to build everything from scratch. It covers adding a disk to Ubuntu, setting up Bitcoin Knots (for the Bitcoin Node), ckpool-solo (the mining "pool"), and web-based monitoring environments ckstats and mempool-space. You can find the instructions in my substack: https://pdath.substack.com/p/setup-a-... Chapters: 00:03:13 Create a build environment 00:09:03 [Optional] Add additional storage to store the blockchain on 00:12:13 Install Bitcoin Knots for Bitcoin’s mainnet 00:30:32 [Optional] Install Bitcoin Knots for testnet 00:39:22 Install ckpool-solo for mainnet 00:49:07 [Optional] Install ckpool-solo for testnet 00:56:34 Prove it works! 01:02:52 [Optional] Install ckstats for monitoring ckpool-solo on the mainnet 01:11:12 [Optional] Install ckstats for monitoring ckpool-solo on the testnet 01:16:24 [Optional] Install Electrum Server for mainnet 01:24:27 [Optional] Install Electrum Server for testnet 01:28:18 [Optional] Install mempool.space backend for mainnet 01:36:44 [Optional] Install mempool.space frontend for mainnet