I love gambling. I used to buy Eurojackpot tickets. 2 rows per week = 20 Euros/month. Chance of winning Jackpot if you play for an entire year? 0.000074%.
So, I bought an Avalon Nano S3 from Ali Exp. It mines at around 5.7 TH/s. If I leave it on for an entire year, the chances of mining a block, alone, is 0.03%. Solomining pays, like a coinflip, no attention to history. Each submitted share is a new lottery ticket to win 3.125 BTC. It draws the same amount of power as 2 regular lightbulbs, before we got LEDs.
Here comes the fun & educational part:
I had an unused Raspberry Pi. I bought a cheap 7-inch display from, Ali Exp. and put it to work. With a little help from Mr. GPT, and a few beers later, I put together Python code to display a few fun stats, pulling data from Avalon, CK Pool, and Memspace (see link to pic).
I also set up a bot in Telegram and coded the Raspberry app to send me a telegram everytime
anyone solo mines a block. It will also send me a telegram when I reach a new BestEver share, getting a near miss, the miner goes down (and when it comes up again), or if I should so lucky to mine a block myself, however unlikely.
Nevertheless, it's exciting and fun. I know, little things pleases little minds, right?
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