Bitcoin Mining Pool Questions

[joshuatowns]

I'm pricing some hardware to possibly start mining Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency. Let's suppose I wanted to start my own pool. How many computers would I need at a minimum to see the benefits? And if you had $50k to spend, would you take the risk and buy the equipment? I've got a vacant rental that I own that I could use. I also have fast wifi.

[1715129673]

1715129673

[Biffa]

Having your own pool would be the same as solo mining. In order to see any type of benefit you would need to up your budget to around $800,000 and get about 10PH of mining kit.

Even then its dubious. There is a reason people with millions of dollars of mining kit still use pools like kano and slush etc.

[kimmy724]

Setting up a sha-256 mining pool is very time consuming . It takes deep technical knowledge on OS , compiling and running the daemon in 24/7 manner.

[jatin729]

why slushpool worker is not active ?
it shows ! on active workers

[os2sam]

why slushpool worker is not active ?

Dunno,
Why don't you try posting in the Slush thread?  Maybe somebody there knows something about that pool.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1976.msg24844#msg24844