Quote from: os2sam on June 14, 2011, 08:00:41 PM

icolsuineg,
I understand the ramifications of solo mining. It may be unlikely that it may bear any serious fruit. But there is a certain amount of randomness as to who will solve the puzzle.

My thoughts are that if you have a machine running full time anyway why not solo mine on it as well? It would seem to me that consistency could be as important as TH/s. I would hesitate to say that it's useless.

That said I'm not very happy with the removal of coin generation from the 0.3.22 client with no notice of it on the web site nor the readme file. I think removing that ability removes people that have limited technical aptitude from being involved with BitCoin and will slow down it's acceptance.

My 0.02 BTC worth

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Thanks for the input though,
Sam

Well, you have two options, you pick one:
1. You try to solve a block with verry little power, hoping you will get small block and get lucky. (and Luck it is, sometimes Bad one)
2. You enter a pool and get almost or absolutely constant earnings from your hardware.

Now, we did both in one with some guys at our forum - we made a pool, got 54k block solved, then the next one... well, lets say I'm on it for over 150 hours with over 35 GH/s at the beginning (most people dropped so now it is 13 GH/s) and we still haven't solved it. As I said - it's luck, first time big one, then very bad one.