Doesn't your luck in finding blocks within the pool sort of differ from finding blocks on your own solo-mining?

Like ...the blocks you find would probably not be looked at by your miners unless you were within the pool so therefore you probably wouldn't have found those specific blocks... but i guess with that logic, you still have the same chances of finding a block either way.

I was on bitminter for 1 week when I found my first block. I'm running 20 gh/s, with pool mining I will basically never get to 25btc.

Does this mean that technically I had the same chances of finding that block while solo mining?

And if so, does anyone think I could actually find a block using a 20 gh/s, from my understanding its basically a crapshoot or near impossible. Or was my 1 block in 1 week a total anomaly?

Just wonderwandering here...

Quote from: digital on August 21, 2013, 01:18:33 PM

Quote from: BadAss.Sx on August 21, 2013, 01:08:56 PM

So why the big fuzz that i have found a block in my statistics lol?

People also use it to determine their individual luck. If you've found 5 blocks total, and have a total payout of 140 btc then your more profitable than you would be solo mining, hence lucky.

However if you have found 5 blocks total but have only been paid out 100 btc, then you're less profitable than you would have been solo mining, hence unlucky.

This is all assuming you only mined after the block halving.

Personally, I've found 7 blocks, and have been paid out 468 btc. So I'm well ahead of the game (95% of those stats were earned pre-block halving so my blocks count as 50 btc).