How many XMR do I get if I solo mine a block?

If you solo mine a valid Monero block and the network accepts it, you receive the whole block reward: normally 0.6 XMR plus the transaction fees included in that block. You do not split it with other miners, but finding a block is unpredictable, and you must wait 60 blocks before you can spend the reward.

What makes up your reward?

Your payment has two parts:

• Newly created XMR: Monero’s standard reward is 0.6 XMR per block.
• Transaction fees: You also receive the fees paid by people whose transactions are included in your block.

Monero entered tail emission around June 2022. This means it keeps creating a small, ongoing reward for miners rather than eventually stopping new coin creation. Under the current rules, that standard 0.6 XMR reward continues indefinitely.

For example, if your block includes 0.002 XMR in transaction fees, your total reward would be 0.602 XMR. That is an illustration, not a prediction of the fees you will receive.

There is one technical exception: Monero can reduce the newly created portion of the reward when a miner produces a block above the network’s full-reward size threshold. For an ordinary block without that size penalty, 0.6 XMR plus fees is the right way to think about your payout.

You get the whole reward—or no block payout

True solo mining does not pay you small amounts for each hour your computer runs. Your computer makes repeated attempts to find a valid block. If it succeeds and that block stays in the accepted blockchain—the network’s shared transaction record—you receive its reward.

If you do not find a block, you earn no block reward, even though your computer still uses electricity.

Monero produces a block roughly every two minutes across the entire network. That does not mean your own computer will find one every two minutes. Your chances depend on your hashrate, meaning how much mining work your computer performs each second, compared with everyone else mining Monero.

A slower computer gets the same reward for a successful block as a faster one. It simply has a lower chance of finding one.

When can you spend the XMR?

Newly mined Monero is locked for 60 blocks. With an average block time of about two minutes, that is roughly two hours, though the actual wait varies.

Finding a possible block is also not quite the same as receiving a lasting reward. Occasionally, two miners find competing blocks close together. If your block is left out of the chain the network ultimately accepts, it becomes an orphaned block, and you do not keep a spendable reward from it.

Does running a node or using P2Pool change this?

Running your own node—software that checks and shares Monero’s blockchain—does not earn XMR by itself. You need mining software actively doing mining work.

P2Pool is different from true solo mining. It lets miners combine their work without a central pool operator. Rewards are divided among eligible participants according to their recent contributions, so you should not expect the entire 0.6 XMR plus fees just because you participate.

The bottom line

For a normal, accepted solo-mined block, you get 0.6 XMR plus its transaction fees, with no reward sharing. The difficult part is finding that block; payment is not guaranteed by time spent mining.