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Originally Posted by dyna mo
then they lose the combined computing power, severely limiting their odds of mining a block, i believe......
the edge comes in all th emachines working as together
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no, I don't think the odds change... I'm slightly simplifying it but if odds of getting a block are 1 in a million every 10 mins, then if you have 1 million machines mining, one of them will get a 50BTC (or whatever) block every 10 mins...
you don't have to mine "together", actually there isn't even such a thing as mining "together", when you join a group, you each mine separately, one of you "wins" a 50BTC block then that block gets shared among all the group participants...