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 I solo mine with a nerd miner 😂 
 
 okay perhaps too optimistic 🙂 
 I calculated the percentage change of winning a block solo mining here:

https://habla.news/u/mhardcastle@nostrplebs.com/1725912959496

I warn you now, it's not good 😂  
 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000119426751592357% I like those odds!

https://m.primal.net/LCdJ.png  
 I'm not sure about your numbers. I'm not smart enough to know these things off the top of my head, but it looks like your conversion from EH/s to H/s is off by a lot of zeros. According to a couple of hashrate converters, the current 581 EH/s is 581,000,000,000,000,000,000 H/s. Six commas vs the 18 you used. Am I missing something? I'm probably wrong.  
 To be fair, the odds are still shit even when compared to winning the jackpot in a lottery. My math shows that currently with a single 625 GH/s Bitaxe and 580 EH/s network hashrate, odds are something around 1 in 928,000,000. 
 Not zero then 😂 
 High enough for me to give it a go! Sometimes I stare at my BitAxe trying to will it to win a block 🤣 
 Have you considered the fiat national lottery 😂 
 You're right! 

What a dumb ass I am.

I have updated the article.

Thank you 🙏 
 
 Not a dumbass at all! All these zeros are a lot, lol. You had the balls to put information out there and risk being wrong. That's not nothing! 
 I’ve kept the hash rate, which was correct at time of publishing