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Topic: Am I right in thinking you have both good and bad days when mining? (Read 1169 times)

legendary
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I want to solo mine Digitalcoins though Sad
vip
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lol I know what you mean with the work units accepted actually, to this day I have never been able to set up solo mining because it's too damn frustrating and members here will troll you about profitability rather than help you Tongue
we setup
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-solopool-beta-262712
for the solo curious, can try without the extra effort of setting it all up and get some stats thrown in Smiley
legendary
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lol I know what you mean with the work units accepted actually, to this day I have never been able to set up solo mining because it's too damn frustrating and members here will troll you about profitability rather than help you Tongue
mjc
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Bad Day(s) : Waiting for your equipment to arrive, power outage (no back up), hardware failure

Good Days : Work units accepted

:-)
vip
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I'm aware of the basic rules behind mining the cryptocurrencies in general, when you've got low difficulty it's easier, when you have a pool you spread the misfortune amongst you all and get a better average/consistent return than if you were solo mining. So does that mean though that you can also have really bad days as well even in a pool? I've been mining away at DigitalCoins for the lulz so I can pay for a new webhost ( It was the only one that seemed to work alright too >_< ) and I noticed there were days when I did bloody fantastic and could get a good number of coins in just one night but then there have been times like now where I only manage to get out a couple occasionally.

I'm actually fairly happy with my return at the moment and I might even mine DigitalCoins each night when I'm not using my computer just to build a little stockpile for myself, I'm just wondering what everyone elses experiences were with these alt currencies.
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legendary
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So does that mean though that you can also have really bad days as well even in a pool?

there are many types of payouts and some methods have a higher variance than others. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_pools
legendary
Activity: 1540
Merit: 1000
I'm aware of the basic rules behind mining the cryptocurrencies in general, when you've got low difficulty it's easier, when you have a pool you spread the misfortune amongst you all and get a better average/consistent return than if you were solo mining. So does that mean though that you can also have really bad days as well even in a pool? I've been mining away at DigitalCoins for the lulz so I can pay for a new webhost ( It was the only one that seemed to work alright too >_< ) and I noticed there were days when I did bloody fantastic and could get a good number of coins in just one night but then there have been times like now where I only manage to get out a couple occasionally.

I'm actually fairly happy with my return at the moment and I might even mine DigitalCoins each night when I'm not using my computer just to build a little stockpile for myself, I'm just wondering what everyone elses experiences were with these alt currencies.
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