Greetings everyone and Merry Christmas to all!
I have a question on solo mining DEM.
I'm new to the DEM mining and this forum and appreciate any advice you guys have. I'm using a Bitmain S3 (440 GH/s) and first did some pool mining at stratum+tcp://coinz.at:3454 to see what the payout was. I got 3 payouts about 5.2 DEM each, about 4-5 hours apart but I only stayed in the pool for 3 payments. It also doesn't have any information of what the pool fees are.
Then I switched to try solo mining at stratum+tcp://emark.securepayment.cc:3364.
The stats for my miner at
http://emark.securepayment.cc/stats.php show a payout was made at 2017-12-24 21:43:07 GMT-5 but the blockchain info doesn't show the transaction going to my address until 25th Dec 2017 08:06:40.
to my address for 48.5 DEM.
How long does it take for payments to show up at the block explorer? It seemed much faster with the ones from the coinz.at pool.
Also, trying to figure out which is better, solo or the pool and my initial estimates from the blockchain timestamps look like the pool was better than solo.
Timestamp Amount DEM Hr
12/25/17 8:06 48.50097 0.982331285
12/23/17 6:44 5.130644 1.189484699
12/23/17 2:25 5.191287 1.06719011
12/22/17 21:33 5.209763
If I use the timestamp from securepayment.cc (12/24/17 21:43) then solo beats mining by a pinch at (~1.24 DEM/hr). Before drawing too much criticism, I know this preliminary small sample isn't enough for a truly fair comparison so was hoping that some of you have already done such a comparison with real mining stats.
So which is better - pool or solo and by how much? Most people think solo is better but it looks to be better only a little. I'm thinking a pool with a lower than 3% fee would be better.
If the miner loses the internet connection or I have to reboot for some reason, do I lose the entire mining time and payout?
Also, if using securepayment.cc, what difficulty should be used? I've seen that for other cryptocurrencies but have no idea whether, for example, 8192 is better for me than say 32768. I don't understand what the "difficulty" for the miner really means.
Thanks again for any info!