Re: Cooperative mining (270Ghash/s)

Oh definitely, I know it ends up even in the "end". I prefer the lower variance for sure, and hindsight is always 20/20! I had no way of knowing if I'd hit a block in 5 days as I did, or 25.. So it was definitely worth having the steady flow coming in to know everything's working nicely.

Take solace in the fact that if you were solo mining you almost certainly would NOT have solved that block since you would have been working on [all of] it in differently.

The odds of finding a block solo and finding a block in a pool are exactly the same.

Yes, of course they are and the odds at this person's hash rate is very very small. The implication of the original message was slanted towards "if I had only waited another couple of days, I probably would have found a block while sole mining". I was just trying add comfort to the fact that for that particular block, the odds would have remained small had he continued solo mining and thus, the .02BTC or whatever it was is probably more than he would have gotten for that particular block had he worked on it solo.