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Old 03-29-2013, 04:15 PM  
mayabong
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Originally Posted by woj View Post
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...
I don't believe there are any very big bot nets out there. If so they do not have anywhere near a majority of the hashing power. I could have a 60 gh/s machine running and probalby woulnd't hit a block for a long time.
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