Solo mining newb questions:

I’m running bitcoin core on Umbrel and just installed the public pool app to learn about solo mining. I’ve got a bitaxe pointed to the stratum address of the local public pool instance.

The public pool app can see the bitaxe activity, and I can see the job information being sent to the bitaxe in the bitaxe logs. It’s hashing away (and occasionally overheating), and everything appears to be working fine.

I’m assuming the bitaxe firmware is getting the block template from the public pool Umbrel app. Is this accurate?

If so, is the local public pool app generating its own block template based on my local node, or is it getting it from the ‘larger’ public pool?

Is the local public pool app decreasing the difficulty that’s being sent to my bitaxe, like most pools do? I’m assuming it is since I can see that many shares have been submitted by the bitaxe.

Is any of this configurable locally?

Is any of this able to be viewed via the CLI?

Appreciate any feedback.