I personally have not found blocks while renting
solo on nice hash. But i have sent a fair amount of btc to my nicehash wallet to try! I was super lucky to be a member of Willi's block party a few runs ago, when we found a block
. I think it was 12 people who contributed to the group rental and split the reward. It was block 780525.
I have seen several people hit by renting. You can see if you look back far enough in this thread. There was a person from russia who only rented 5PH and hit, within the last couple months, but then he posted that due to some virus or malware, someone stole most of his BTC
. Also you can see from past posts that someone renting a huge amount of hashpower hit two blocks, not too long ago. That person never stepped forward, but they certainly have balls of steel for how much they spent on rental, as was noted above by others. It paid off though with two blocks! It is definitely possible. but it is a gamble. If your electric rate is too high for home or hosted mining, you are better off just renting on nicehash, in my opinion. You have to be careful not to overpay on nicehash though. The mining power goes to the highest bidder, and some people overpay, especially recently. So you have to bid a reasonable amount, and be patient to wait and get your hashes once the overpriced bids run out. I would guess that many, if not most, of the 273 solved blocks on the pool are from rentals.