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Topic: Do you mine in a pool or on your own? (Read 2822 times)

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legendary
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March 02, 2016, 10:41:07 PM
#23
Thread's become pointless and an excuse for sigspammers to increase post count.
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hero member
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February 29, 2016, 11:22:47 AM
#22
Pools although I have been thinking about gambling for a lottery win and solo mining on the solo pool by CK.
newbie
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February 29, 2016, 08:48:20 AM
#21
Hi all, Great thread.
kano.is will be the pool of choice in this house in future if & when dust payments are paid.

Up until then/if that happens..... Smiley my pool of choice is bitcoin.cz.

Looking forward to upgrading hardware to one of the AntMiners available to say the least,  any recommendations?
sr. member
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February 29, 2016, 02:36:15 AM
#20
yep all about pool mining otherwise you will grind and grind and see zero results.

At least with a pool you see profits/bitcoin coming in
legendary
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February 28, 2016, 04:13:22 AM
#19
for solo mining I need approximately 37 years to find a block Cheesy
so im mining at the worlds first pool
sr. member
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February 22, 2016, 12:01:20 PM
#18
I already mined with my own hardware. But it was a lot of noise and a lot of heat. I got tired of all that and sold all my miners.
Now I only do cloud mining and trading

Where are you cloud mining? And have you gotten any profit from it?
sr. member
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February 22, 2016, 11:59:13 AM
#17
I'm currently mining solo with a 3.6 ghs usb stick with a Raspberry Pi. The chance that I'll ever find a block is basically non-existent, but why not Cheesy
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February 22, 2016, 02:03:13 AM
#16
Pool is the only way to go.  If you want to get larger chunks of coin mine with myself or Johnny's pool.  Both are good will pay new pools. 
sr. member
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February 21, 2016, 05:33:47 PM
#15
Currently I'm mining bitcoin solo with 2 U2s with about 5ghs. I know that I won't ever find a block but at least I'm helping the network stay decentralized.
legendary
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February 21, 2016, 01:24:45 PM
#14
I already mined with my own hardware. But it was a lot of noise and a lot of heat. I got tired of all that and sold all my miners.
Now I only do cloud mining and trading
legendary
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Mine at Jonny's Pool
February 19, 2016, 02:21:24 PM
#13
Both. I only have a Sidehack Compac Stick, a U3 and an R1 going solo as a lottery. One Miner on Jonny's pool and everything else is pointed at kano.is and has been for some time now.

The little guys will never ROI and were bought for fun, so why not take a gamble at solo!  Cheesy
I appreciate you and every other miner who points hash to my pool.

To OP: I mine on my own pool.  Both my own hardware and rentals.

I'm split between antpool and ghash.io, I love the dependability of antpool but the gains are higher on ghash when we hit a block. I've got some hardware solo mining but it's all in places where I don't have to pay for electricity, set it and forget it kind of stuff. If my wallet ever jumps by 25BTC I'll celebrate, then promptly have a heart attack.

Of all the pools you could choose... antpool is not dependable.  They don't provide mining transaction fees to miners (you only split the base block reward).  They SPV mine, which has caused hard forks in the past.  They are one of the worst pools for submitting empty blocks.

So many other good choices out there...
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February 18, 2016, 10:54:11 PM
#12
I'm split between antpool and ghash.io, I love the dependability of antpool but the gains are higher on ghash when we hit a block. I've got some hardware solo mining but it's all in places where I don't have to pay for electricity, set it and forget it kind of stuff. If my wallet ever jumps by 25BTC I'll celebrate, then promptly have a heart attack.
newbie
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February 18, 2016, 06:02:32 PM
#11
I primarily use NiceHash Cheesy
legendary
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February 18, 2016, 03:24:05 AM
#10
95% of my clients use pools and a few go solo.
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February 18, 2016, 12:32:33 AM
#9
i mine on my own but yet to hit a block the past 5 years
legendary
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February 17, 2016, 04:04:38 PM
#8
I have rented hash and hit a block solo mining (thanks ck-).  But with the diff getting so high it's tough solo mining unless you rent more that 1P.
newbie
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February 17, 2016, 02:12:37 PM
#7
I don't mine bitcoins but I mine doge coin and that on a pool.
I can't even think to solo mine, it will be just waste of power.
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February 15, 2016, 08:33:07 PM
#6
Both. I only have a Sidehack Compac Stick, a U3 and an R1 going solo as a lottery. One Miner on Jonny's pool and everything else is pointed at kano.is and has been for some time now.

The little guys will never ROI and were bought for fun, so why not take a gamble at solo!  Cheesy
legendary
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February 15, 2016, 02:38:12 AM
#5
if i were to solve a block in 3 months or so at worst i would try solo mining, but you need 750 tera

in any other case i would always choose people also with the current diff trend it's a no brainer to choose pool over solo
legendary
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February 14, 2016, 11:21:34 AM
#4
Well it depends on the amount of hash power I own. In my current situation, only pool mining would be applicable to me if I want to get fractions of BTCitcoin but if ever happens that I own 200+ TH/s hashing power, I will choose solo mining as my sole option.
newbie
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February 14, 2016, 02:02:08 AM
#3
Do you prefer to mine in a pool or on your own?

prefer a pool (kano.is of course) but I have solo as a 2nd preference for when kano is not available
DrG
legendary
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February 14, 2016, 01:17:05 AM
#2
Do you prefer to mine in a pool or on your own?


It's actually a jacuzzi.

Seriously though most "people" as in individuals are mining in pools since they have almost no chance of solo mining effectively.  Those who are able to solo mine are typically big boys who make their own "pool" or even sell off hash.
newbie
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February 13, 2016, 11:02:43 PM
#1
Do you prefer to mine in a pool or on your own?

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