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Quote from: DaveF on December 29, 2022, 03:03:18 PM

There are 2 theories you can use.

1) Any of the PPS+ pools, due to the nature of what you are trying to do in terms of not always having them running due to power then you don't want them on a PPLNS with ramp up and ramp down times. Going to be way to variable. You are better off with one with close stratum nodes but in the end that probably matters very little.

2) Point them towards a solo pool and hope for the winning ticket. But the odds really are that you will never find a block and never get any payouts. So although good as a project it's never going to get you any money.

-Dave

viabtc.com pps+

you can separate every worker.

assuming the sticks do 300 gh they earn 1.8 cents a day not counting the power spent.

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Quote from: DaveF on December 29, 2022, 03:03:18 PM

There are 2 theories you can use.

1) Any of the PPS+ pools, due to the nature of what you are trying to do in terms of not always having them running due to power then you don't want them on a PPLNS with ramp up and ramp down times. Going to be way to variable. You are better off with one with close stratum nodes but in the end that probably matters very little.

2) Point them towards a solo pool and hope for the winning ticket. But the odds really are that you will never find a block and never get any payouts. So although good as a project it's never going to get you any money.

-Dave

I agree that PPLNS most probably would be a waste of time and energy

Braiins wouldn't be too bad, however, I haven't figured out how to get detailed information about individual miner's activities. One solution would be to produce logs for cgminer and send them to me all couple of months, but this seems to be too much work unless I invest a lot of time for writing an analyzer tool.

Solo pool is not an option. If someone has one of the solar minerchargers, he should get an incentive. A lottery ticket is imho not the right way to go...

Never worked with Luxor pool before, testing it out and they have a nice API.

At the end of the day: Yes, there will be some Sats per user. But the idea is that a minercharger can further help to decentralise. Using a gekko-pod, for example, produces about 1.7 Th/s, which is some cents per day. And more people will get into Bitcoin - which would be the nicest side-effect ever.

Just an example: My tractor's alternator broke down. Instead of trying to organize a new one, I charge the battery now through a solar panel which I use as a roof. Once the battery is charged, the "tractor" starts mining. In a typical summer, this produces about 100'000 Sats. Not a lot, I know. But it is like an alternative form of staking sats

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There are 2 theories you can use.

1) Any of the PPS+ pools, due to the nature of what you are trying to do in terms of not always having them running due to power then you don't want them on a PPLNS with ramp up and ramp down times. Going to be way to variable. You are better off with one with close stratum nodes but in the end that probably matters very little.

2) Point them towards a solo pool and hope for the winning ticket. But the odds really are that you will never find a block and never get any payouts. So although good as a project it's never going to get you any money.

-Dave

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Quote from: hZti on December 27, 2022, 11:11:32 AM

Buying a lottery ticket is also basically pointless, still people win in the lottery from time to time. The same is for USB Miners. From time to time people find blocks with them, even if most people will not be able to find a block during their lifetime.

Currently working on a solar-powerd e-bike charger which is mining once the bike is charged. So in my area alone, there are several hundreds e-bikes. If hundreds would use the device and mine toward one pool, I think it could make a difference

Big "if", though ....

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Quote from: Atrax on December 16, 2022, 01:26:03 PM

Solo-mining with USB-sticks seems to be a bit pointless, doesn't it?

Buying a lottery ticket is also basically pointless, still people win in the lottery from time to time. The same is for USB Miners. From time to time people find blocks with them, even if most people will not be able to find a block during their lifetime.

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Quote from: Atrax on December 16, 2022, 01:26:03 PM

I also used (and liked) kano.is in the past. But hell: Last block was found 417 days ago.

Well you didn't want to worry about reaching payout levels. Also when the blocks do pickup his payout is pretty small too.

Quote from: Atrax on December 16, 2022, 01:26:03 PM

Solo-mining with USB-sticks seems to be a bit pointless, doesn't it?

Not sure about the USB stick's but the Pods have found blocks on solo pools.
Can't bank on it but it does happen. At least use a solo pool as the last failover in your list.

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Quote from: os2sam on December 16, 2022, 01:07:45 PM

I prefer Kano.is for what your asking about.

I mined there during 2019/20 with one and then two Gekko R606 pods and got a payout every block the pool found.

This pool has very good statistics and you can create worker for each individual miner if you like.

Many do solo mining for small mining hardware. And some have found blocks for themselves. Both Kano.is and solo.ckpool.org are popular solo mining pools.

I also used (and liked) kano.is in the past. But hell: Last block was found 417 days ago.

Solo-mining with USB-sticks seems to be a bit pointless, doesn't it?

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I prefer Kano.is for what your asking about.

I mined there during 2019/20 with one and then two Gekko R606 pods and got a payout every block the pool found.

This pool has very good statistics and you can create worker for each individual miner if you like.

Many do solo mining for small mining hardware. And some have found blocks for themselves. Both Kano.is and solo.ckpool.org are popular solo mining pools.

Atrax

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Hi,
I'm trying to tap into the wisdom of more experienced miners.
Mining with a small device - a USB-stick or a Pod-Miner - the payouts over time are very small, and it may take an eternity to reach the threshold for the payout.

So I'd like to "pool" some micro-miners:

All rewards go to one address. Once or twice a year, the rewards are being paid out and then sent to the participants of the micro-mining via the Lightning network.

However, this would require that I can get from the pool detailed statistics for every single miner to see, for example, how many shares were submitted.

Does anybody know of a pool which would supply this data?

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