Topic: ViaBTC vs ckpool for solo mining (Read 134 times)

Actually, is better to have peers than relays )
You should give a try to vkbit.

Cheers.

Nope.
It's purely the size of their total hash rate that determines how often they find blocks. That applies to any pool. FYI: a block is found by a single chip in a miner. That's why even a 1-chip stick miner does occasionally find a block  

Via just has more miners pointed at it and remember that these days that usually means hundreds of chips in each miner. Same goes for -ck solo pool, for whatever reason folks love throwing tons of (most often rental) hash at it so they sometimes find several (say, more than 5) blocks each year - their last 3 were from a single user who pointed >1ExH at it for a total of maybe a week.

As far as infra goes, Kano actually has better network block work distribution than most much much larger pools do. It is not that difficult or expensive to setup but most pools do not bother because network distribution speed mainly only matters in an orphan race (which are fairly rare). Given the number of blocks they find it pretty much does not matter whereas for small pools they need every speed advantage they can get when they find a block. Kano's setup broadcasts the block found message to the Bitcoin network worldwide within just a few 10's of ms so as many other pools as possible pick it up and start building on it Same applies to getting the block found message from other pools and sending out new work to Kano users to start building on it.

As far as work generation goes - again not that complex or hard to do right. Safe bet that Kano's extraordinarily high-performance main server at least matches what any large pool is running and it certainly far exceeds -ck's setup...

I was thinking along the lines of fact that ViaBTC is a well established pool.

I am aware that not all blocks mined with the ViaBTC coinbasemessage are solo blocks but they have some which indicate individual users and these are still quite common.

I was thinking that with ViaBTC being such a popular pool that they have a far better server implementation surrounding things like the process of propagation and higher spec hardware.

Yeah as NotFuzzyWarm said, only the localisation of nodes matters, and we could add, of course, the fee that the pool owner is taking from your block reward, which is important too.

Solo is SOLO! How much total hash rate is pointed there does not matter because for solo mining size of the pool is irrelevant - all that matters is the amount of hash YOU are sending to it If Via's solo part is hitting 1 block per hr it is only because they have a shitton of solo users pointed there.

As for 3rd choice use Kano's pool and set it up for solo. Unlike -ck or even Via, Kano has 10 nodes across the globe giving fastest network access and block distribution. FYI, -ck has just the one node which is located in the US, Via has at least 2 nodes.

Lets say I want to send 1-20ph to a pool for solo...

I know I can see my best hash on ckpool...

ViaBTC is knocking out at least 1 block an hour...

What is behind the decision making when choosing between these 2 pools?

Perhaps there is a 3rd alternative, what would that be and why?