I went over the last 100 block in the block chain explorer, most of them are PoS blocks, and the PoW blocks are all the pool's,
So there's no big farm because it would show a lot of PoW blocks that don't belong to any of the pools...
It's just the issue with the targeting system, that PoS block affect the difficulty of PoW blocks...
In the mean time - pools are dropping, if the net hash was 60-70 M/h now both the pools combined are 45 M/h and i see no reason to solo mine when block time is ~5 mins now instead of 30 secs
So there's no big farm because it would show a lot of PoW blocks that don't belong to any of the pools...
It's just the issue with the targeting system, that PoS block affect the difficulty of PoW blocks...
In the mean time - pools are dropping, if the net hash was 60-70 M/h now both the pools combined are 45 M/h and i see no reason to solo mine when block time is ~5 mins now instead of 30 secs
Thanks! The last sentence, are you saying we should or shouldn't solo mine?
I just thought about it some more, PoS blocks and nethash that comes from PoS only affect the difficulty (and block time in turn), but the distribution of block between miners should stay the same IMO, so i guess solo mining is still a valid option, it will just take longer because of the ~5 mins block time, but the pools have the same issue so either option is valid
hope it would be fixed or looked into soon, i stopped solo mining for now because of the long block time :/
After I replied, I did try solo mining. The problem was the cgminer reported a high difficulty. The share required was 401K (at the time) which would take me a couple of hours unless I was very lucky. Then the PoS blocks were coming through every 32 or 31 seconds like clockwork - each time cgminer would then work on the new block, so in reality the block time is 30 seconds or so, but the difficulty is too high for solo mining - at least for me with only up to 2Mh.
