I've been mining everyday for about 4 or 5 weeks now from the GUI, where you can just click the "advanced" icon and then click "start mining" icon. It asks me if I want to use the recommended # of threads which is 2 and I always do so. At bottom of screen I average only about 300 H/s and that's only about 1 in 10,000 chances of getting a block for a reward.
I assume I'll never earn anything doing this but I keep doing it because I've read things like "Solo mining helps strengthen the Monero network", "The more people that mine the harder it is for the network to be attacked", and "Every little bit helps".
So I was recently wondering, if I never work out a block, how am I helping mine anything? Hence, how am I helping the Monero network if my computer is never finding any block solutions? Am I helping the network at all?
Thank you!