How long does a home computer search for a block of different cryptocurrencies?

Question

Cryptocurrency

1) How much does it take today for a home computer for ±1000$ to find a block of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dash, Litecoin (and others)
2) Can several computers unite in the search for the next block, dividing part of the work among themselves?

Answer 1

about a week of time
, but the trick is that the pools will find it faster, so the state of "almost found" will be
eternal
.

Answer 2

1) a lot. there are calculators of the corresponding coins in the tyrnet.
2) of course, he is a pool and pool in Africa.

Answer 3

A normal PC will take an unrealistically long time, most likely you will not wait.
It has long been meaningless to mine on computers, so far only special asic miner boards have some kind of disappearing meaning.