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Title: Should I join a pool? Post by: kaetzchen on March 02, 2016, 01:41:07 AM First off, I'm very new to everything. I figured out how to get BTC mining working, joined a pool and a day later laughed at the 10 satoshi I made. After that I went looking into other coins, ended up here reading about ETH got it up and running and today I'm actively mining. I'm not looking to make a lot of money and i'm not interested in buying any new parts to make it more efficient. My gpu is a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, I run windows 7, power cost is .06 kWh, and my hashrate is 6 MH/s.
Would it be to my advantage to join a pool? I'm feeling a bit lazy atm so the thought of joining one just to see how it goes isn't very appealing, however I am interested in the long run and if it would make a difference I would rather figure it all out now. Title: Re: Should I join a pool? Post by: bathrobehero on March 02, 2016, 03:19:54 AM You definitely should. With your hashrate you'd need ~28 days to find a block on average with the current difficulty.
And of course you need a great internet connection to solomine successfully, especially when the time between blocks is so small as it is for Eth (17-18 seconds). Title: Re: Should I join a pool? Post by: kaetzchen on March 02, 2016, 03:38:47 AM Oh wow I didn't know it would take that long to find one :o thanks for letting me know!
Title: Re: Should I join a pool? Post by: CryptocurrencyNetwork on March 02, 2016, 05:44:42 AM Oh wow I didn't know it would take that long to find one :o thanks for letting me know! Pools are definitely the best choice. You can even use multipools that pay out in your selected crypto. |