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Re: How do I know if I find a block mining solo?
by
DannyHamilton
on 24/08/2012, 13:34:18 UTC
Can you try to count what is the possibility to get a bloct when solo and hashrate is 800MHash/s ?

;;bc,calc 800000
The average time to generate a block at 800000 Khps, given current difficulty of 2190865.9701029 , is 19 weeks, 3 days, 3 hours, 15 minutes, and 22 seconds

which of course gets harder every difficulty change at the moment
we are expecting the next increase of between 11 and 12% in 10 hours

of course it would be a killer to wait that long and get an invalid (orphan block)
And that is an average time to generate a block, there is no guarantee that you will generate a block by then.  You could easily end up having gone 38 weeks without generating a block.