Title: Feasibility of Solo Mining Feathercoins based on Difficulty Post by: Vorksholk on April 19, 2013, 12:44:53 PM I decided to put together a guide for people who want to see whether solo mining makes sense, based on their hashrate and difficulty. Here's some quick math, done with 1MH/s of Feathercoin (scrypt) mining power.
Difficulty 3.5: 4 hours 10 minutes for a block Difficulty 5: 6 hours Difficulty 7.5: 9 hours Difficulty 10: 12 hours Difficulty 15: 18 hours Difficulty 20: 24 hours To adapt this information to your rig, simple math comes in handy. For example, if you rig is 1.5MH/s, just divide each above time by 1.5 (6 hours divided by 1.5 is 4). If you rig is 0.5MH/s, divide each by 0.5. Difficulty scales linearly with hash rate of network, and a difficulty of 20 is 2x harder than one of 10. Given this, you can easily calculate higher difficulty. A difficulty of 40 would take 48 hours, and one of 80 would take 92 hours at 1MH/s. Title: Re: Feasibility of Solo Mining Feathercoins based on Difficulty Post by: js2082 on April 21, 2013, 07:06:06 PM thanks for the guide... the current difficult is 7??
Title: Re: Feasibility of Solo Mining Feathercoins based on Difficulty Post by: Gazylion on April 21, 2013, 07:47:04 PM When is going to be next FC difficulty? I suppose it will be high considering growing network hashrate.
Title: Re: Feasibility of Solo Mining Feathercoins based on Difficulty Post by: donjonson on May 05, 2013, 03:20:01 PM Great job Vork.
Diff 40 = 48 hours right? Title: Re: Feasibility of Solo Mining Feathercoins based on Difficulty Post by: donjonson on May 05, 2013, 03:31:45 PM Could explain a little more this please "Difficulty scales linearly with hash rate of network"?
Title: Re: Feasibility of Solo Mining Feathercoins based on Difficulty Post by: Vorksholk on May 05, 2013, 03:38:31 PM Great job Vork. Diff 40 = 48 hours right? Yup! Could explain a little more this please "Difficulty scales linearly with hash rate of network"? Basically, I'm saying that if a hashrate of x gives a network difficulty of 100, then a difficulty of 50 will have 0.5x, and that of 200 2x. Title: Re: Feasibility of Solo Mining Feathercoins based on Difficulty Post by: donjonson on May 05, 2013, 03:53:12 PM Got it! Thanks again, great guide!
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