A little confused? Solo mining...

markdil
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Joined: May 16, 2018

A little confused? Solo mining...

by markdil · · Post #19398

I am fairly new to mining. I have been mining LiteCoin solo. It seems I constantly get blocks from other coins with difficulties much higher than LiteCoin. But NEVER a LiteCoin block. Probability tells me I should. Maybe I am not understanding something. Could someone explain what is incorrect in my thought process?

Thanks!
ryguy
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Joined: Apr 01, 2018

Re: A little confused? Solo mining...

by ryguy · · Post #19409

Well I don't know what your hashrate is, but difficulty isn't the only factor in finding blocks.

However, as an example, presently if you have 100 GH/s solo mining LTC you'd likely find on average 1 block every 5 days. Viacoin with the same hashrate would get about 4 blocks per day. Also I think the reported difficulties are wrong. Viacoin's present difficulty is about 585K.
Last edited Wed May 16, 2018 03:11 PM UTC by ryguy; edited 3 time(s).