I am currently solo mining with CK SOLO pool as I had concerns that Knots running through Tor would make it so using DATUM to mine would be slower than connecting to a pool like CK for instance.
Is this true? Would solo mining using datum on start9 be slower than just connecting my miner to CK? Would rather use datum if it’s the same.
I’ve you’ve set your instance of Knots to only work through TOR (by default it connects to peers to download blocks over clearnet because this is quicker) then yes, you very well may get blocks with a slight delay. I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t be able to start hashing productively until you have the most recent block, though there wouldn’t be any specific delay in connecting to the pool itself.
The second question I don’t really understand.