Any solo miners here with less than 1GH/s?

nebiki

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Quote from: kokojie on June 20, 2011, 07:03:23 PM

not worth it, even with something like 10 GH/s, it's possible to go a full month without finding a single block if you got hit with a difficult one

they're all the same difficulty. but yes, imagine you'd have to get 5 mil shares for your first block. that would take you years. and at the current difficulty 5 mil shares is not too unrealistic.

kokojie

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not worth it, even with something like 10 GH/s, it's possible to go a full month without finding a single block if you got hit with a difficult one

evlew

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I thought about solo mining with my first 1ghps miner. In the end I went pooled and found a block in the first week of mining. Such is life. I couldn't possibly conclude that I would have found that block if I had been solo mining, though. Right? Hopefully? Not that I care, I'm just happy to be in the game either way.

bcpokey

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I've been on multiple pools with a lot of hashing power for a couple months now. I've found 0 blocks total. It's possible I just have really bad luck, but I'd still be one sad puppy if I had been hashing away on my hashpower and had nothing to show for it after all this time (I've gotten something on the order of 400BTC from pools, wish I had sold less @ $7 Sad

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Jack of Diamonds

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Quote from: LegitBit on June 20, 2011, 04:00:46 PM

Statistically it could take over a year for one block.. maybe never.. maybe five minutes after you turn it on.

All I can say is don't give up if you're solo. I was at slush for months, and one of my GPU's found 3 blocks in total while the majority stood at 0, with random single blocks spread across workers.

Seems like an extreme statistical anomaly, which it is (because I had up to 16 workers online) but that could be your single GPU.

LegitBit

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It is a gamble, the more power the more 'tickets' you are putting in the lottery.

I have a few CPU miners chugging away solo, they are not significant for pooled mining, but solo they at least have a chance of large rewards for very little hashrate, but my 1Ghash on GPUs are going to a pool.

Statistically it could take over a year for one block.. maybe never.. maybe five minutes after you turn it on.

Best deal is to setup your miners at a pool, then use a backup solo miner in case the pool goes down, that way you 'might' get a block in the downtime.

phewajack

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Solo miner, running 440 mh/s, ran solo for a while, realized I would basically never find a block, switch to pool mining. That is where it's at. Especially with difficulty increases and the increase in hashing power it's better to join a pool. I'm part of Slush's pool, http://mining.bitcoin.cz and have had really good luck in there so far. Have not found any blocks, but have made some bit coins, and at a rate greater than what it claims I should find a block myself.

My specs:
2x HD 5770's
Guiminer
Running 970/300 on each
220 mh/s per card

Mousepotato

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I was just wondering if there's any solo miners floating around who have less than 1GH/s of hashing power. When did you last find a block, if ever? How long did it take? What kind of MH/s are you running at? I'm just wondering if it's even worth solo'ing at this point.

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