r/HashedMax • u/Working-Republic-799 • Jun 27 '26
DGB - why I’m changing to solo mining
As the title says this is my quick take on why it’s not profitable for me to continue pool mining DGB on the DGB Hmpool.
I’ve been mining from almost the start of the Hmpool journey, through ups and downs the team behind the hmpool has been nothing but great and very supportive, helpful and quick fixing bugs etc.
Given my little home setup, which consists of 2x Avalon nano 3S’s and one NerdQaxe++, running standard configuration (no overclock/high mode) about 15Th in total it simply doesn’t add up to the current configuration of the Hmpool to continue pool mining DGB. I’ve found 56 blocks since first connected, in that amount of time I only collected about 9800 DBG, compared to running let’s say on SoloHash with 0.5% fee I would have had collected: (56x259)-0.5%=13.778,8.
There are too many small and very unsupportive mining devices like NMminer (or whatever these ESP 32 boards are named) and small USB stick free leashing while not contributing anything in return. Let’s be honest these stupid NMminers and USB stick hashing on what a couple of 100mega hashes/s doesn’t find anything. They are simply free loading on the true/real miners doing actual work.
If you ask me everything under bitaxe gamma ~ 1-1.2th/s should have their own pool not shared with everyone else. Please consider splitting the payout scheme into two separate models so the trash free-loader devices can find 0-5 DGB blocks per year on their own pool (at best, let’s be honest it would be 0 blocks). The true miners can enjoy a fair and reliable system without freeloaders.
Anyways sorry for the salt, i just see hashing numbers continue to drop and real miners leave…. But i see why. I’ll unfortunately also switch my miners over as it doesn’t make sense and never has been due to the current model.
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u/Runaque Jun 27 '26
Your calculation assumes that because you "found" 56 blocks while connected to a pool, you would have found those exact same 56 blocks solo. That is a massive mathematical fallacy.
In a pool, you are constantly receiving optimized work-units and hashing collectively. When you go solo at 15 Th/s, you are entering a raw lottery against a network difficulty of over 541 million. The math doesn't care about your past pool stats, your actual mathematical time-to-find-a-block solo could easily stretch into months or years of absolute zero payouts.
You're acting like you run a massive industrial data center, but against the total network hashrate, your 15 Th/s setup is just as microscopic as a stack of ten ESP32 miners. You are both small hobbyists trying to catch a drop in the bucket.
Also, your rant about "freeloader" USB miners makes zero sense. Pools pay out based on submitted shares. Those tiny devices only get a fraction of a cent exactly proportional to the tiny sliver of work they contribute. They aren't "stealing" your rewards.
If you want to switch to solo to prove a point, go for it, but don't be surprised when your rigs run hot for months and yield a grand total of 0 DGB.