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STEEM does not favor pool mining because of the need of your private key.
I have an old laptop that mines STEEM on 1 core and provides less than 1k hps,
I do get a block every other day, sometimes longer. On my 8 core cpu I use only 4 cores
with 20k hps and get a few blocks a day. The 20k hps generates about 2.0 to 3.0 Steem a day
on average, but since it's in steem power it also starts generating more steem daily just by holding it.
Steem is really promising in the fact it's a first of it's kind social media network based on the blockchain.
If one day Steemit gets 5% of twitter or facebook reach, you will be in a great shape holding the steem power you mined.

Thanks Joseph. I had a block show up overnight.