Is it worth it to solo mine with a solid setup?

Hey everyone, I used to mine Bitcoin back in 2018-2019 and made some decent cash, but now it's tough to turn a profit with just a regular computer. I've been thinking about getting into ASIC miners and giving solo mining a shot, but I’m kinda lost on how to actually do it and whether it’s even worth my time. Are there any solid guides out there for solo mining? Also, if anyone has recommendations for a good ASIC miner, that would be awesome.

It really depends on what you're after, and what kind of budget you have. The first thing to establish is if you want to have maximum performance and you don't care about noise, heat, energy consumption, etc. If that's the case, then just grab a few Bitmain Antminer S19 Pro+ Hyd which will give you 198Th each at 5445W and 50db. There are other good ones as well if you can't find that one, here's a good list: https://www.asicminervalue.com On the other hand, if you want to mine at home with a quiet machine, then grab one or more Apollo BTCs and/or Compac Fs. Those are currently the best silent miners for home. Each Apollo can generate between 2-3TH/s+ depending on the amount of heat/noise/power you want. Each Compac F can run at about 300GH/s and are basically as quiet as you can manage to get a fan to run as they come without a fan although they need one. That's the hardware part done, now for the pool, there are a few out there, but the simplest one to run is ckpool solo as you just need to point the miner to the pool, no need to register or anything: https://solo.ckpool.org

Thank you for the information. I'm just curious, if I would be to do an experiment with, let's say, 10 ASIC usb stick miners, how much BTC would I make in one day on  a normal pool (not solo)?

you do not want the stick miners. 10 x 300gh = 3th that is about 33 cents a day if you want small you can buy a 1 board s9 clock it low and get 3th the same 33 cents. but the cost to buy 10 stick miners is in the 1000's and the cost to buy an s9 is in the 100's if you want small you can do the Apollo there is a thread on it here maybe it is 400 or 500 for a full kit. I would buy the Apollo or a 1 board s9 over 10 usb sticks all off the top of my head. but close enough to understand the math favors the usb sticks the least.

Yeah, spot on. I'll add that the Compac F does run more a bit more efficiently than the Apollo. Each USB miner mines 300GH/s at 15W, whereas the Apollo gets about 2.1TH/s at 120W (extremely quiet and efficient mode). Based on those numbers, the 7 USB miners required to match the Apollo hashrate consume 105W. But the price difference is huge, 7 USB Miners would cost you $1,629.98 [1, 2], whereas one Apollo BTC with power supply is sold for $574.99 [3] Also, something important specially for a newbie, the Apollo is ready to go in one single unit, and you can easily attach more if you want to. You just connect it to your computer, power it and you're ready to mine. The Compac Fs are great, but you need to tinker a bit more with them, get proper USB hubs that give you at least 2.4A per port, get proper fans and make sure they're running, tweak parameters for each stick, etc. Also for 7 sticks you'll probably need 2 USB hubs, so that's two power connections instead of one for the Apollo, etc. It's just more difficult to scale with the sticks. [1]: https://bitcoinmerch.com/products/4-x-gekkoscience-compac-f-with-fan-upgrade-bitcoin-merch%C2%AE-10-port-usb-hub-combo-up-to-1-4-th-s [2]: https://bitcoinmerch.com/products/3-x-gekkoscience-compac-f-with-fan-upgrade-bitcoin-merch%C2%AE-7-port-usb-hub-combo-up-to-1-05th-s [3]: https://shop.futurebit.io/products/pre-order-apollo-btc-a-bitcoin-asic-miner-and-desktop-class-computer-running-a-full-node-and-much-more-batch-1-ships-in-late-april-to-may?variant=33404745351267

I have done the sticks I have done s9's I have done the Apollo >>>> I still have the Apollo and it almost has paid itself off.

Factor in the costs of the USB hubs and fans and you're looking at an extra Compac F in price to pay for. Also, that's a lot of daisy chaining to do on a computer. Don't you think that would mess with kernel drivers a little and maybe cause a panic [Of course, never try this on Windows, as the OS will go up in flames before such a configuration is deployed at full speed].

Nope. The USB Ferrari miners are too expensive from anyone at the moment coz people are willing to pay way too much for them since they are hard to get. That's the actual cause.

Since when is your Apollo miner running?