You're not including transactions?
What?
https://blockchain.info/block-index/383941Transaction Fees 0.1392 BTC
My question now going forward (for everyone, not specifically Friedcat), for an company like this, is there any advantage to using the pools at all?
Solo mining provides
1) No operator fees
2) All transaction fees (which have been consistently rising since Bitcoin started)
3) Less risk from pool owner trust
4) Less risk from pool downtime and DDOS attacks
At a cost of
1) More variance (who cares when you have significant hash power)
If another fork event occurs, friedcat will have to be on top of it and potentially change the version of the protocol used for solo mining. See