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Board Mining
Re: Bitcoin - expected hashrate-bitcoin conversion
by
Pieter Wuille
on 15/05/2011, 13:08:56 UTC
You need on average 4295*difficulty Mhash before you generate a block (with a reward of 50 BTC, currently). At 260Mhash/s, that means approximately once a month. You're better off mining in a pool which such a hashrate, where you get much more frequent but smaller payouts.