Re: Just how difficult is mining (indie miners please give us data)
You seem to think solo-mining is different than pool mining. They really aren't. In solo-mining you are communicating directly to your bitcoind but you still request work and return found blocks. In pool mining you are making the same communications but with a pool server and you also return "shares" (low difficulty hashes) which acts as proof of work in addition to any found blocks.
The reason I though it would apply to poolmining only is because I assume pools need to make sure makesure the same nounces/hashes are not done by multiple workers thus wasting resources. Therefore requiring this polling every second and special steps. So there is a flaw in his example then.
PS: sorry it's hard to express yourself very well when typing this at work looking over the shoulder for boss; where we're not supposed to be on forums
