You seriously want to solo mine instead of pool mining? Do you have some amazing mining rig or what?
I for instance solo mine with a 300 MH USB Block Erupter, because "Pool Mining" is not profitable in my case
Solo mining with 300 mh/s? That doesn't really seem like much when you compare it to the +100 gh/s ASICs.
It won't earn anything mining regular, so he uses it like a lottery.
Considering even if you were to start mining with 1 TH/s machine you just bought (May delivery) it is highly doubtful that you will get your initial investment...
Example: if you were to get a 1TH/s for $3,500 pay no electricity, and assume diff goes up by 20% per increment and price of BTC $600... You will lose $1,300 by end of 2014. Your loses can add up to $2,000 if you include electricity...
Argument is that most people are mining to support the network, that is true however the 1% of the people the likes of big farm owners with Peta hashes are in it for the profit. They adding more hashing power each day, and thus increasing the diff and by November network diff could be 100G (100,000,000,000)
Forecast for amateur miners not looking good at all, at the moment ASIC manufacturers are rolling in money as they pre-mine with the machines and delivery it to you few days / weeks / months later, big farms are benefiting from creating their custom boards and bulk buying the chips.
Just for FYI, I am not saying Bitcoin won't survive but Bitcoin mining is not sustainable anymore, it is no longer Zero sums game any more...
