I just set up my first mining operation this past weekend, and had some questions about how it all works. If anyone can help with these, it would be greatly appreciated. I suspect there are others that have these questions as well :)
(1) If you have multiple mining computers, is it more beneficial to use the same account to mine on them all, or use separate accounts for each? It seems the downside of using separate accounts would be that your SP would be divided across many accounts. I don't know if using the same account on multiple machines though would reduce its throughput, or even possibly corrupt its mining. The Mining steem on multiple machines article by @orly seems to indicate that each mining node must have its own account. Is that correct?
(2) Where is the best place to go to see your history of blocks mined?
(3) If the price of Steem were to go way up in the future, will the reward for one mined block still remain one Steem of Steem Power?
(4) What are the main factors that will increase/decrease the amount of blocks mined (assuming static computing power)? Will more miners decrease the amount of blocks available to find? Will the difficulty to mine blocks increase as the size of the Steem blockchain increases? Are there any other factors?
(5) About a month ago, @cryptos posted How Much Can You Earn By Mining STEEM. At the time, he estimated that a 33 KHS hashrate miner could expect to get between 1 and 3 blocks per day if you were mining STEEM 24/7. Has that changed a lot with the addition of new people mining, or is it about the same today?
(6) What allows miners with relatively low computing power to still find blocks, when there are other miners out there with way larger operations and more computing power?
(7) Are there such things a "mining pools" for Steem? Would it make sense to have/join one, or would it be better to mine individually?
Also, I want to give a shout out / thanks to @cryptos for posting Getting Started Mining Steem on Windows - a great how-to guide on how to setup mining on a Windows computer. It was super helpful, and I was able to get started by just following the instructions!