Quote from: RichBC on March 18, 2016, 10:15:07 PM

Quote from: wieme on March 18, 2016, 07:10:01 PM

Quote from: RichBC on March 18, 2016, 12:29:53 PM

Question is are you going to be better off? I suspect unless you are running at least 50TB you will be better off in a Pool?

Rich

Hi Rich,

I've got +100TB. Grin

I've poolmined 535 blocks in about 6 months.

I did love to share this within a pool for the community, but my favorite pool is down now.
Some other pools, I didn't "like" their "business-model"... Undecided

I've solved it (temporary) to find another pool, but I think I'm better off alone. Cool

Happy bursting!

Cheerz,
Wieme

That is very interesting, as I guessed at 50TB to be sufficient for Solo Mining. I have only been mining Burst for just over a Month and have gradually built up to only 30TB in that time. Doing the maths it still seems that I am better off in a Pool as on a good Day I might see 6 Blocks but I still have occasional Days with none and so the "other" income is all important.

Good Luck on your own...

Rich

One important difference.

Solo mining needs a local wallet.

Pool mining uses the pool wallet.

If your local wallet is not kept online and in sync 24/7 then you might get more burst in a pool, simply because you don't have a lot of wallet outages at the pools, and that the average pool operator will know quite fast if his wallet is down (hundreds of users will alert him)

I am solo mining 81TB now, on 3 PC's each running their own wallet, and i have missed blocks where i had a good deadline only bc a wallet had stopped working for some reason, or the wallet worked, but didn't manage to propagate the block for some reason.

So... until you have a verifiable stable wallet running under your own control, i think it might be best to use a pool, so you can concentrate on having your miners running well.

I am running 3 private wallets for mining, and i think they are doing okay, but i have outages. If i was to start a pool, i would have to put in some work to get those wallets more stable.

who know, perhaps I might make more on a pool, simply bc a good pool wallet loses me fewer blocks due to technical issues than my local ones. (windows 10, original java wallet)

moved to luxe's jminer this weekend, and it helped a lot on stability - the original POC miner was tough on RAM and CPU, which made mining slower that with jminer.

i don't want to take sides, but i think burst.ninja has a cool informative interface, once you figure out what it's all about, and i think if i was to mine, i would probably go there. Then pinballdude would be a colored bar instead of black as it is now...