Question is are you going to be better off? I suspect unless you are running at least 50TB you will be better off in a Pool?
Rich
Hi Rich,
I've got +100TB.
I've poolmined 535 blocks in about 6 months.
I did love to share this within a pool for the community, but my favorite pool is down now.
Some other pools, I didn't "like" their "business-model"...
I've solved
it (temporary) to find another pool, but I think I'm better off alone.
Happy bursting!
Cheerz,
Wieme
That is very interesting, as I guessed at 50TB to be sufficient for Solo Mining. I have only been mining Burst for just over a Month and have gradually built up to only 30TB in that time. Doing the maths it still seems that I am better off in a Pool as on a good Day I might see 6 Blocks but I still have occasional Days with none and so the "other" income is all important.
Good Luck on your own...
Rich
One important difference.
Solo mining needs a local wallet.
Pool mining uses the pool wallet.
If your local wallet is not kept online and in sync 24/7 then you might get more burst in a pool, simply because you don't have a lot of wallet outages at the pools, and that the average pool operator will know quite fast if his wallet is down (hundreds of users will alert him)
I am solo mining 81TB now, on 3 PC's each running their own wallet, and i have missed blocks where i had a good deadline only bc a wallet had stopped working for some reason, or the wallet worked, but didn't manage to propagate the block for some reason.
So... until you have a verifiable stable wallet running under your own control, i think it might be best to use a pool, so you can concentrate on having your miners running well.
I am running 3 private wallets for mining, and i think they are doing okay, but i have outages. If i was to start a pool, i would have to put in some work to get those wallets more stable.
who know, perhaps I might make more on a pool, simply bc a good pool wallet loses me fewer blocks due to technical issues than my local ones. (windows 10, original java wallet)
moved to luxe's jminer this weekend, and it helped a lot on stability - the original POC miner was tough on RAM and CPU, which made mining slower that with jminer.
i don't want to take sides, but i think burst.ninja has a cool informative interface, once you figure out what it's all about, and i think if i was to mine, i would probably go there. Then pinballdude would be a colored bar instead of black as it is now...