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I've mined bitcoin, litecoin and doge in the past. I haven't mined anything in a while ago. Then recently, I heard about Gridcoin. Which is funny because I've been using BOINC for years. Yet I never heard about GRC. They need a better publicist. But anyway...

I have two very related questions. The second question is:
How often will I get coins if I mine solo?
I know this all depends on what hardware I run, but I don't fully understand how mining works in this unusual system. I have one mac pro running, with four xeon cpu cores and one few-year-old high end GPU. I'm running a wide variety of whitelist projects. I am mining solo with just this machine. In what sized 'packets' are goings awarded, and how often am I likely to get a pack? Days? Weeks? Months? Decades?

Also I'm not sure I have things set up right.
BOINC is running just fine as always.
I've joined the Gridcoin group on every project.
And I have a fully sync'd up wallet set up on my boinc email address.
I've been running like this for a week or two with no coins. But more than that, I'm still getting weird messages from my empty wallet. I'm not sure if this is normal or of this means there's a problem? Things like:

Hi. Think a lot of your questions can be answered if you refer to https://gridcoin.us/Guides/boinc-install.htm which is the official guide for solo mining.

That said, I think you should probably start off with pool mining. Instructions are here: https://gridcoin.us/Guides/pool.htm

Also covered in the main Gridcoin thread here.