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Do you prefer to mine in a pool or on your own?

It's actually a jacuzzi.

Seriously though most "people" as in individuals are mining in pools since they have almost no chance of solo mining effectively.  Those who are able to solo mine are typically big boys who make their own "pool" or even sell off hash.

prefer a pool (kano.is of course) but I have solo as a 2nd preference for when kano is not available

Well it depends on the amount of hash power I own. In my current situation, only pool mining would be applicable to me if I want to get fractions of BTCitcoin but if ever happens that I own 200+ TH/s hashing power, I will choose solo mining as my sole option.

if i were to solve a block in 3 months or so at worst i would try solo mining, but you need 750 tera

in any other case i would always choose people also with the current diff trend it's a no brainer to choose pool over solo

Both. I only have a Sidehack Compac Stick, a U3 and an R1 going solo as a lottery. One Miner on Jonny's pool and everything else is pointed at kano.is and has been for some time now.

The little guys will never ROI and were bought for fun, so why not take a gamble at solo!  :D

I don't mine bitcoins but I mine doge coin and that on a pool.
I can't even think to solo mine, it will be just waste of power.

I have rented hash and hit a block solo mining (thanks ck-).  But with the diff getting so high it's tough solo mining unless you rent more that 1P.

i mine on my own but yet to hit a block the past 5 years

95% of my clients use pools and a few go solo.

I primarily use NiceHash :D

I'm split between antpool and ghash.io, I love the dependability of antpool but the gains are higher on ghash when we hit a block. I've got some hardware solo mining but it's all in places where I don't have to pay for electricity, set it and forget it kind of stuff. If my wallet ever jumps by 25BTC I'll celebrate, then promptly have a heart attack.

I appreciate you and every other miner who points hash to my pool.

To OP: I mine on my own pool.  Both my own hardware and rentals.


Of all the pools you could choose... antpool is not dependable.  They don't provide mining transaction fees to miners (you only split the base block reward).  They SPV mine, which has caused hard forks in the past.  They are one of the worst pools for submitting empty blocks.

So many other good choices out there...

I already mined with my own hardware. But it was a lot of noise and a lot of heat. I got tired of all that and sold all my miners.
Now I only do cloud mining and trading

Currently I'm mining bitcoin solo with 2 U2s with about 5ghs. I know that I won't ever find a block but at least I'm helping the network stay decentralized.

Pool is the only way to go.  If you want to get larger chunks of coin mine with myself or Johnny's pool.  Both are good will pay new pools. 

I'm currently mining solo with a 3.6 ghs usb stick with a Raspberry Pi. The chance that I'll ever find a block is basically non-existent, but why not :D

Where are you cloud mining? And have you gotten any profit from it?

for solo mining I need approximately 37 years to find a block :D
so im mining at the worlds first pool

yep all about pool mining otherwise you will grind and grind and see zero results.

At least with a pool you see profits/bitcoin coming in

Hi all, Great thread.
kano.is will be the pool of choice in this house in future if & when dust payments are paid.

Up until then/if that happens..... :) my pool of choice is bitcoin.cz.

Looking forward to upgrading hardware to one of the AntMiners available to say the least,  any recommendations?

Pools although I have been thinking about gambling for a lottery win and solo mining on the solo pool by CK.

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