You can do either! But with my small hash rate w S9’s decided to join a pool. My chances of winning the lottery would be about 1 in 50 million lol.

There are multiple pools you can try, but the nice thing is you typically get steady payouts based on your hash rate. There are multiple ways pools do this that you can check out, but essentially it’s a small steady stream throughout the day.

When you configure your miner, there is a place to copy and paste the URL of the mining pool you would like to join and you can creat a name for your miner, which you can then search and link to on the pool website/app to start collecting sats. From there, you can withdraw to a wallet!

I’ve tried several different pools, but I’m currently in via BTC which I’ve liked so far. Here is an example of what the app looks like.