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1  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: Basic Mining Reward Question on: August 07, 2023, 12:11:14 AM
All things you said above look like you are pointing to solo mining, all calculators out there are not for solo mining and it is not so accurate. If you are a solo miner you can get the whole block reward which is around 6.25 but if you are mining on the pool there are a few types of payment methods how the pool pays you to mine on their pool like PPS(fixed rate), PPS+ and PPLNS.

If you want to know more about how they work then check this Mining pool payment methods

And I'd like to add this calculator which includes break-even analysis for long-term projection.
- https://www.mycryptobuddy.com/BitcoinMiningCalculator


So to confirm these calculators assume you are running in a pool? But in this case the calculators must assume that the pool will win a certain percentage of the block rewards right? How would they even begin to guess what that percentage would be?
2  Bitcoin / Pools / Basic Mining Reward Question on: August 06, 2023, 11:08:14 PM
Hello, I have a quick question regarding mining rewards.

I've been looking to invest in a few ASIC's but something is causing me a little bit of confusion. I've been looking at a bunch of calculators but with my understanding of how mining works, I'm not sure how these can be considered accurate at all.

Ignoring things like difficulty, block reward, BTC price etc, my biggest question is how can it give you an X amount of bitcoin mined per hour figure. If the rewards are only given to the miner that actually solves the hash, surely it's just completely random who gets the reward.

I.E You could wrong for 5 years and never receive a single bitcoin for your troubles. Is this just a pure probability answer? Do these calculators assume that you are mining in a pool of some sort that gives you X amount of a block reward for each block?

Sorry if that is not a coherent question, I'm just struggling to understand how they can give you an X amount figure for your BTC gained.


Thanks!
3  Bitcoin / Mining / I have cheap electric, wondering if mining is now something that I can do profit on: August 01, 2023, 11:38:42 PM
So I can now get my electricity for $0.05 per KWh. This is a new opportunity that has landed in front of me and I have the capital to invest a decent chunk into this. I was wondering if it is currently profitable to be doing it from scratch whilst paying the price listed above.

I've done a lot of research throughout reddit and toyed with some of the calculators but thought I'd post with my actual situation to see what other people thought.

Thanks for the time and hopefully I haven't broken any rules posting this!
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