u/Feeling_Highway_2821

I forgot to share this update with you guys. Change Now has issued a refund for my transaction.

I didn't post this earlier because my child was sick, and I had other things going on.

I want to thank everyone in this community and everyone who reached out, commented, and pushed for a resolution. When I kept receiving generic replies, I thought my money was gone and that I had been scammed.

I never did anything wrong. I was just trying to buy Monero while the market was going down because I wanted to protect what little capital I had.

Thank you so much to everyone who supported me, especially the MODs and Killora.

I learned an important lesson from this: never rush, and never swap a large amount above 10k in one transaction. I was trying to save on fees, but I almost put my entire capital at risk.

I still have some resentment toward Change Now because of the stress they put me through. Behind every transaction there is a real person. I have a family, bills to pay, and a sick child to take care of. This situation caused a lot of stress.

Again, thank you all for your comments, support, and help during this difficult time.

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I need help guys and I don't know what to do anymore.

Almost a month ago I used change now to exchange into Monero while the price was dropping. Since then my funds have been frozen. I have provided all Docs they requested and Every time I email them I get the same copy and paste reply saying they're looking into it, but nothing actually happens. It's a lot of money for me and I'm starting to feel like I made the biggest mistake trusting them. No refund, no exchange, just waiting and getting nowhere. Has anyone here actually managed to get their funds back from Change now ?! Is there someone I should contact, or is legal action my only option at this point.

Change now, if anyone from your team sees this, please release my funds or refund..

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I’ve been running a small CPU mining setup for testing and learning purposes, mainly to understand variance and payout behavior rather than focusing on profit.

From what I understand, solo mining has extremely high variance where you’re essentially waiting on a block discovery event, while pool mining smooths that into consistent proportional payout

What I’m trying to figure out is where people generally draw the line in practice. Not from a profitability angle, but from a variance and expected time to reward perspective.

At low hashrate, I assume the probability distribution makes solo rewards so sparse that it becomes mostly theoretical, but I’m not sure what thresholds people typically consider meaningful enough to justify staying solo even for experimentation.

For those running small CPU or mixed setups, do you still keep anything on solo for variance testing, or is everything usually pooled once you’re below a certain hashrate range??