Quote from: MineSweep on Today at 08:31:47 PM

Say you mine a bitcoin in solo mining
Is the 6.25btc block reward validated to your account?
Because if not you forfeit $280,000 by pool mining...

If you are solo mining and against the massively sizable odds against finding a block, you get one - yes you get the full reward + all tx fees in it and - whatever fee the service (pool) you use charges. Key point is that as I said depending on your hash rate and above all - Luck - you

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find the block within an hour or more likely years or possibly NEVER.

Using PPLNS with the much higher hash rate a pool provides you will get paid far sooner and certainly more often. Sure you split the rewards. So what - you are at least making

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and on a much more regular basis.