Mining is not a race - in fact, the mining being progress-free is a really important part of PoW. If you have a low power setup, you have a very small chance of

Mining is not a race - in fact, the mining being progress-free is a really important part of PoW. If you have a low power setup, you have a very small chance of winning the reward, but it's proportional to your power over the total network power. There's unfortunately some things that make it a bit of a race - network latency and block verification time. That's why there's so much work spent on shrinking these (the FIBRE network, libsecp256k1)