Quote from: whiskers75 on April 17, 2013, 08:01:20 AM

Quote from: rainwater on April 17, 2013, 06:49:03 AM

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That depends on the rules of the pool, but as far as I know most of the popular pools don't offer any sort of bonus to anyone lucky enough to have been the one that found the necessary nonce.

yeah, you almost don't want to know, because it's sort of like "hey, I COULD have had 25BTC" Sad

Actually, you couldn't: the rest of the pool is contributing by finding incorrect solutions - thus increasing your chance of finding a correct solution. Tongue

*sighs* can't mine...

the fact that they submit incorrect solutions does not increase your chance

in theory, if you'd been soloing, you'd have found 25BTC

although in practice, when you mine you are trying to find a different block vs what you'd search soloing,