Newbie - mining experiments

[nekkidtruth]

Just posted a response to another person doing the same thing. Here you go.

Workers not working?

You’ve set yourself up with a Zcash node and are mining using your CPU. Unfortunately, we’re long past the profitability of CPU mining. Your CPU gets you 6 Sol/s when the network hashrate is over 300 million Sol/s (300 MSol/s). Your chance of finding a block is literally 0%. In order to find a block mining solo, you would need at least 300-500 thousand Sol/s (300-500 KSol/s). Even then, it would still be luck based and it would probably take months for you to find a block on your own. That bei…