I wish there was a solution that was easy to mine at your own solo pool? Maybe I'm too dumb? Tried reading about it, but can't figure it out. What would be really cool is if you could do it with usb miners.
You can point it to ck solo pool (stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333) and you are mining solo. You just set the miner worker to your personal bitcoin address and if you solve the share to hit a block you get 99.5% of the 25 BTC block to yourself.
I was trying to say I wish there was a solution to get 100% of the solo block.
Well, any 'other' solution will require you to setup and configure a well connected and fast configuration and you WILL expect to get more orphans than at solo.ckpool.org
So, as long as you are happy to have a much higher risk of losing the block, by all means setup your own solo mining, or mine solo some other way.
Note, however, you should always be running a full node at home to keep supporting bitcoin.
Wonder why a large pool is far superior? I thought my cable internet was fairly good.
you could have high quality network. but you need to mine your gear at a high quality server.
So lets say you point 5 s-7's at solo.ckpool that is 25th
in house you would need to run a fast internet 50gb down 25gb up would be minimum.
You need to run a pc as your server 24/7/365 lets say you run a cheap piece of gear it costs power. say a mac mini with 16gb ram and an ssd sized 250gb. an older 2012 with an i5 is about 600 usd to own and will cost you about 1 kwatt a day or 3 bucks a month to run.
you also need the net not to drop out since your provider will know you run a node for btc purposes.
So your startup to be independent is 500 or more for the pc and 36 to 100 a year in power and of course a rock solid net connection.
I guess you can do it that way.
