How does Kaspa's block rate affect small-scale miners?

Kaspa's high block rate dramatically reduces mining reward variance, making solo or small-scale mining far more predictable. In most proof-of-work networks, reward variance is the key barrier for small miners — if you control only a tiny share of the network's hashrate, you might wait days between rewards, making steady income nearly impossible without pooling resources with thousands of other miners. With 0.1% of Kaspa's total hashrate, a miner finds a block roughly every 17 minutes; the same 0.1% share on Bitcoin means waiting approximately 7 days between blocks. Lower variance matters because it means smaller miners can earn predictable income without depending on — or ceding control to — large mining pools.