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May 08, 2018, 05:17:02 PM |
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Yes, the difficulty has increased dramatically as this coin is becoming more and more popular.
It is already virtually impossible to find a block as a solo miner on a home pc, even with a decent cpu.
It sounds like one of the goals for this coin is to make it accessible to everyone with a pc, you even said "Everyone with a PC has a CPU, everyone with a PC can mine NERVA."
If that is the goal for this coin, I feel that pools are necessary, because as it is now, the only people who are finding blocks are those with giant cpu mining farms, powerful servers, etc.
Getting 1 nerva a day from a pool would be better than throwing hashes into the air and never finding a block.
I know its still possible to find the occasional block, but this coin is so new, the hashrate/difficulty will only keep increasing if/when it gets more attention, this problem is only going to get worse until only those with cpu farms can bother mining it.
I agree that solo mining is a nice idea to avoid centralization from pools etc, but I feel like it is impractical and will not help the coin in the long run.
The only other option I can see would be to dramatically reduce both block time and reward per block, but I'm not sure if that is an effective solution or even actually feasible, and even if it were, would eventually lead to the same situation we have now anyways once the difficulty increases enough, unless the block time itself was somehow systematically reduced with difficulty..
Anyways I am very excited for this project, and I hope you can take the time to read my thoughts and consider adding support for pools for this coin, or perhaps creating a bounty for someone else to make it possible.
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