Solo vs. Pool Mining Experiment

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The Experiment

I purpose an experiment to test the results of mining solo vs. as a part of a pool.

The experiment is simple should happen like this:

For x amount of time, have some (who have the same rig) mine with a pool and some mine solo; then, compare the results in terms of number of grin mined. The experiment should take place during the same window of time to ensure the network variables correlate (ar_scale and difficulty).

If you want to take part in this experiment, let me know.

Round 1

Time period: January 20th - February 4th (21:45 UTC)
Rig: A single Nvidia 2080 Ti mining with cuckatoo_mean_cuda_rtx_31

@Askepios day 3.68 (88.42 hours) solo mine update

  • ~10,000 solutions found
  • ~ 8,000 shares accepted (I think the miner-server connection was interrupted while I was sleeping)
  • 0 Blocks found!
  • Since the start of this experiment, network difficulty and c31 hashpower has more than doubled.
  • Not feeling good about my chances of finding a block solo, going back to pool mining with my tail between my legs :slightly_frowning_face:.@colincr33vey @Newbie2
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Clocking in – my updates may be sporadic but I’ll log everything and check in when I can

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I did solo for almost week just to see what happened never found a block. Now mining on pool and have some grin finally.

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What algorithm? What’s your rig consist of? @tromp said at current network conditions, expected time to get a c31 block solo mining with a 2080 Ti is 15 days.

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I3 4gb ram system with Two 1070ti and one 2080 ti. Two 1070 were mining c29. The 2080 ti was mining cuckatoo_mean_cuda_rtx_31 i was seeing 1 reject so worried it wasnt working but switch to pool i can aleast say it works now. But where 15 days coming from to dont see where trump says this but Interested.
Thank you

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1/20/19 on gitter

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I believe he based this simply on the probability given the current network difficulty and ar_scale. He then went on to say about the 2080Ti on c31:

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This is what I mean to test!

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Thank you for responding. I’ll switch my rig to do solo on c31 and report back in 25 days.

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How to set up solo mining?

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im going to switch back to the pool. I will follow your post see if your luck changes.

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So which one is better by far? Solo or Pool mining?

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A week for nothing with solo mining.

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I did not successfully mine a block in a week. Interested to see conclusion from Askepios experiment.

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I think you are looking at 1,780 hours to mine a block at the current difficulty with a rtx 2080ti (C31).

And it’s only going to get harder as time goes on. I would just stick to a (good) pool.