it is still just 1 miner in the pool that finds a block.
It's more like a single asic chip to make it even "worse ", a single S9 chip that hashes at 0.07th hits a block that is worth a quarter of a million $, isn't that crazy?
Anyone hit any blocks in awhile or is it all pool mining now?
it's probably all pool mining, even the ones that mine solo use a pool to solo mine anyways, there could be a few guys who maintain their node and mine against it, but you can probably count those on the fingers of a few hands.
to mine solo realistically (ie a block a day) takes 2eh
2eh is
20000 s19's!
2000 s19's = 200,000th or 200ph
200 s19's = 20,000th or 20ph
20 s19's = 2,000th or 2ph
so at 8500 a unit 170,000,000. 170 million in gear
and 70,000 kwatts an hour or 70 megawatts an hour.
so at 4 cent power it is 2800 an hour which is 67,200 a day in power to hit about 1.2 blocks a day and you laid out 170 million in gear
so 1.2 x 6.3 = 7.56 coins a day 332,640 comes in and you burn 67,200 = 265,440 daily profit or 96.8 million a year
and that means your did not pay off the s19's n a year.
with fee free mining