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Originally Posted by holograph
its doesn't matter whether you are solo or pool mining, statistically over period of time it comes out to be plus minus the same. advantage of a pool that collectively pool solves blocks faster. also size of pool doesn't matter; larger pools gives you more consistent payouts with less amounts, smaller pools have more variance in solving blocks, give larger payout cut but less frequently. solo mining is not worth it unless you have over few GHashes or you are very very very patient
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Talking about patience... the calculator suggests that for my modest 0.057Ghash/sec setup it will take an average of 1 year, 129 days to earn 50BTC. (Hmm. If it did take that long then we might be down to 25BTC by then.)
Technically it's profitable, with the hardware cost (cheap card added to an existing system) being covered in 24 days, but waiting 1 1/2 years for the first sign of revenue - paying ongoing electricity costs in the meantime - would require a hell of a lot of patience.
And if you happen to solve a block in 5 days and get excited, what happens if the next one takes 2 years?
I'll stick with pools.
