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Its not different. The issue you run into in both systems is that unless you have a large amount of specialized hardware, you will not be able to mine a block i
by martinko 6y ago
Its not different. The issue you run into in both systems is that unless you have a large amount of specialized hardware, you will not be able to mine a block in your lifetime.
The number of blocks being mined is constant for the entire mining ecosystem, so you are basically competing with all the other miners to create a new block.
- rsync 6y agoI see - so the protection one could gain from being a miner that the article alluded to would come not just from being a miner, but from successfully mining blocks. That distinction is needed since, no matter how slow and painfully inefficient I am, if I am running the miner I am, indeed, a miner on the network ...