Do I need to join a mining pool to earn consistent Kaspa rewards?

Not necessarily — Kaspa's architecture significantly lowers the reward variance that normally forces small miners into large pools. Mining pools exist because on most blockchains a small miner faces long, unpredictable gaps between rewards; pooling hashrate smooths that out. Kaspa's high block rate changes the equation: even a miner holding just 0.1% of the network's total hashrate finds a block roughly every 17 minutes, giving them a steady, predictable income stream without needing to share it with a pool. This is important for anyone considering Kaspa mining because it means the economics can work at smaller scale than they typically do on other proof-of-work networks.