You will gain GRC at almost exactly the same rate whether in a pool or on your own. The key differences are:
- In a pool you pay a tiny fee to withdraw your GRC into your wallet. This is literally negligible.
- The pool gives you less options to customise your project settings, so there is less room to optimise for your rig.
- The pool enables you to be paid out far more regularly if you are a user with low balance and low magnitude. Over the course of a year, the average payouts will be the same provided you stake at least once every 6 months when solo.
The network runs best (and most securely) if everyone were to run their own full wallet node and staked their own POR. Of course, the pool offers many benefits for new miners which I am sure we are all aware of. It is best used as a stepping stone to help you on your journey from entering the word of GRC to becoming a solo miner.
I figured, i just wanted to see for myself and share a visual statistic and get some more GRC faster. Either way still doing science!
Respect for doing the experiment.
Solo if you can, its better for the security of Gridcoin and gives you a voice in the voting, and reduces the voting weight of the pool operator too...
I still have my wallet staking as i still am earning por, just crunching in a pool for a while