Well, when there will be a pool?)
Haha there is no way a pool can handle all the DDoS attacks happening now that Ethereum is the most profitable coin to mine.
Solo mining is your only option.
How many ETH do you with a regular 280x GPU currently?
Using platform: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Using device: Tahiti(OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1573.4))
GROUP_SIZE = 64
DAG_SIZE = 8388593
Trial 1... 28043946
Trial 2... 27688960
Trial 3... 27688960
Trial 4... 28043946
Trial 5... 27688960
min/mean/max: 27688960/27830954/28043946 H/s
inner mean: 27807288 H/s
Actual mining: ASUS Radeon R9 280X R9280X-DC2T-3GD5GPU 0: core=1070MHz mem=1600MHz util=99% powertune=-1 fanspeed=70 temp=64C
ethminer Mining on PoWhash #d217ded5⦠: 27557610 H/s = 911605760 hashes / 33.08 s
ethminer Mining on PoWhash #d217ded5⦠: 27558745 H/s = 925450240 hashes / 33.581 s
ethminer Mining on PoWhash #d217ded5⦠: 27559038 H/s = 939294720 hashes / 34.083 s
ethminer Mining on PoWhash #d217ded5⦠: 27560120 H/s = 953139200 hashes / 34.584 s
Network Difficulty:
125 GH/s
Average Block Time:
15 s or (Avg. 31,000 ETH per day)
R9 280X Hash Rate:
27.5 MH/s
Average ETH per day for an R9 280X at 125 GH/s network difficulty:
(27.5 / 1000 / 125) x 31000 = 6.82 ETH or 6.37 ETH on stock frequencies