SOLO mining for fun and education.

[AreBar]

I love gambling. I used to buy Eurojackpot tickets. 2 rows per week = 20 Euros/month. Chance of winning Jackpot if you play for an entire year? 0.000074%.
So, I bought an Avalon Nano S3 from Ali Exp. It mines at around 5.7 TH/s. If I leave it on for an entire year, the chances of mining a block, alone, is 0.03% (approx. 3200 years to "expect" a block). But, solomining pays, like a coinflip, no attention to history. Each submitted share is a new lottery ticket to win 3.125 BTC.  It draws the same amount of power as 2 regular lightbulbs, before we got LEDs.

Here comes the fun & educational part:
I had an unused Raspberry Pi. I bought a cheap 7-inch display from, Ali Exp. and put it to work. With a little help from Mr. GPT, and a few beers later, I put together Python code to display a few fun stats, pulling data from Avalon, CK Pool, and Memspace (see link to pic).

I also set up a bot in Telegram and coded the Raspberry app to send me a telegram everytime anyone solo mines a block.  It will also send me a telegram when I reach a new BestEver share, getting a near miss, the miner goes down (and when it comes up again), or if I should be so lucky to mine a block myself, however unlikely.
Nevertheless, it's exciting and fun. I know, little things pleases little minds, right?

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[eb66]

I love gambling. I used to buy Eurojackpot tickets. 2 rows per week = 20 Euros/month. Chance of winning Jackpot if you play for an entire year? 0.000074%.
So, I bought an Avalon Nano S3 from Ali Exp. It mines at around 5.7 TH/s. If I leave it on for an entire year, the chances of mining a block, alone, is 0.03% (approx. 3200 years to "expect" a block). But, solomining pays, like a coinflip, no attention to history. Each submitted share is a new lottery ticket to win 3.125 BTC.  It draws the same amount of power as 2 regular lightbulbs, before we got LEDs.

Here comes the fun & educational part:
I had an unused Raspberry Pi. I bought a cheap 7-inch display from, Ali Exp. and put it to work. With a little help from Mr. GPT, and a few beers later, I put together Python code to display a few fun stats, pulling data from Avalon, CK Pool, and Memspace (see link to pic).

I also set up a bot in Telegram and coded the Raspberry app to send me a telegram everytime anyone solo mines a block.  It will also send me a telegram when I reach a new BestEver share, getting a near miss, the miner goes down (and when it comes up again), or if I should be so lucky to mine a block myself, however unlikely.
Nevertheless, it's exciting and fun. I know, little things pleases little minds, right?

Love to see it.

This is where bitcoin is really doing good things.

Mining is way better odds than the state lottery, plus you get an education in mining hardware and all these other things. It's an adventure!

[AreBar]

Ooops - sorry- My first post here, so don't know what I'm doing. Hopefully it works now.

[philipma1957]

I love gambling. I used to buy Eurojackpot tickets. 2 rows per week = 20 Euros/month. Chance of winning Jackpot if you play for an entire year? 0.000074%.
So, I bought an Avalon Nano S3 from Ali Exp. It mines at around 5.7 TH/s. If I leave it on for an entire year, the chances of mining a block, alone, is 0.03% (approx. 3200 years to "expect" a block). But, solomining pays, like a coinflip, no attention to history. Each submitted share is a new lottery ticket to win 3.125 BTC.  It draws the same amount of power as 2 regular lightbulbs, before we got LEDs.

Here comes the fun & educational part:
I had an unused Raspberry Pi. I bought a cheap 7-inch display from, Ali Exp. and put it to work. With a little help from Mr. GPT, and a few beers later, I put together Python code to display a few fun stats, pulling data from Avalon, CK Pool, and Memspace (see link to pic).

I also set up a bot in Telegram and coded the Raspberry app to send me a telegram everytime anyone solo mines a block.  It will also send me a telegram when I reach a new BestEver share, getting a near miss, the miner goes down (and when it comes up again), or if I should be so lucky to mine a block myself, however unlikely.
Nevertheless, it's exciting and fun. I know, little things pleases little minds, right?

I fixed the issue.

you have a merit so if you make around a dozen posts or so  you will not be a newbie.  you can then do an image.

good luck. and i like what you did so I gave a merit.

[AreBar]

Thanks / I really appreciate it!