can someone please confirm or deny that solo mining is technicallly impossible with the current wallet?
technically it is possible, but practically you have no chance to solve the block if you are just home kina miner, unless you got big farm of gpus under control - they you can try.
there is 2932.8995MH/s in the network according to explorer :
http://bitsend.midnightminer.net/and "The ccMiner fork from krnlx is reported to provide 3.3+ MHS on Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 and around 6 MHS on Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GPUs according to the author."