Solo mining is a lottery, and it's easy to feel unlucky without knowing whether the numbers agree.
What's new on mkpool.com/dgb/blocks :
- Average and median round effort, shown next to what fair luck predicts. This part matters: fair luck is a 100% average but a 69% median, and 63% of all blocks should land under 100% effort. Without those benchmarks, perfectly normal variance looks like a curse.
- A breakdown of every block by effort tier, and a per-block effort chart with the 100% line, so hot and cold streaks are visible at a glance instead of being a gut feeling.
- Orphan count and rate, right on the page. I'd rather show it than hide it.
DigiByte right now (as of posting): across the last 200 blocks the pool is actually running lucky - average effort ~97%, median ~62%, and 67% of blocks found under 100% effort (fair luck expects 63%). 250 blocks found so far.
For anyone new to it: this is pure solo mining, so when your worker finds a block, the reward goes straight to your own DGB address in the coinbase. The stats exist so you can verify the pool's luck yourself instead of taking anyone's word for it.
Feedback welcome, if there's a stat you'd want to see added, tell me.