Feasibility of Solo Mining Feathercoins based on Difficulty

[Vorksholk]

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.

[js2082]

thanks for the guide... the current difficult is 7??

[Gazylion]

When is going to be next FC difficulty? I suppose it will be high considering growing network hashrate.

[donjonson]

Great job Vork.

Diff 40 = 48 hours right?

[donjonson]

Could explain a little more this please "Difficulty scales linearly with hash rate of network"?

[Vorksholk]

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.

[donjonson]

Got it! Thanks again, great guide!