neoeny152,
You seem to be experienced with bitcoin, your answers are great and didactic
It is hard to learn the information about the mining, I am a beginner, and various information in the pools I do not understand and I think something is wrong and it is not wrong, just lack of information =/ like my previous post
clarify to me what is the 'hit a block' that you say
If I find a block, do I get any bonuses?
I've totally been there, no worries.
It's very difficult and rare to hit a block on an individual basis, especially on more established coins. That's the reason for a pool though, everyone works together to get block rewards and split the reward evenly based on work done. So to answer your question, if you hit a block personally via a pool, no you don't get a bonus. You'd have to solo mine for that, which if you are pretty small is not advisable.
Read about PPS vs PPLNS, that's a great place to start. Just google them and read opinions on them. I like both, but I think PPLNS is more fun.
Here's the thing, if you're at a smaller pool that hits blocks less often then it may feel like you're getting paid less but that's not really the case. The smaller pool has less people to share the rewards with so you get more per hit with a smaller pool. With a bigger pool that hits every 10 mins you get much much less of the reward because you have to share it with many more people. In the end, as long as your pool hits about once a day everything should work itself out over about a 30 day period to be almost the same amount of coin with either pool based on your hashrate.
No matter which pool or reward type you choose, just be sure to stick with them for a long period of time and you should make the amount of coins your hashrate says you should make (check 'whattomine' calculators or similar).
Oh just to clarify, when I say "hit a block" I'm mean solve a block and get the reward for it. The pool is confirming transactions and getting paid for making that confirmation.
Thank you very much for the explanation
I saw, the payment for each block found is divided to the group according to the total individual amount of share, each block has a code, I could see that in transactions, the value that I get for each block found appears and shows which block.
I am a beginner and my rig is small, only 1 video card 1080, I actually bought this pc for games but after I discovered the bitcoin it will be no more for games ahhahaha
so you said it then, no matter if I'm small, I can continue in MPH because in the end my income will be the equivalent of my video card (hashrate) or even more if I'm lucky
it will take time to mine enough money to add another video card, but I will continue to mine, I believe that the fall in the currencies will facilitate mining, so when the currency rises I will try to sell
thank you!
