Okay, I've decided to solo mine. I was looking at my payouts from where I was mining Groestl, and with those payouts being at the bottom of the daily estimated range over a period of 48 to 72 hours (depending on the machine) on a pool accounting for around 25% of the network hashrate which should adequately smooth outliers and give an accurate long term average mine rate, I've decided that solo mining can't be worse, and with it now being stable, I think we should do our best to help get everyone up and running. Here's a quick, appetizer to hopefully get your mouths watering.
The abridged, super simplified, solo mining HOWTO Okay, this assumes you already have your rig built, OS and miner installed and configured. (I think that is a safe assumption for anyone who is waiting for a pool to come online.)
Solo mining, single rigONLY 3 THINGS TO DO:
- set up your wallet config file
- set up your wallet to run as a server
- set up your miner batch file to point to the wallet
Wallet config file key items: everything, but there's only 10 lines
Cut and paste what's posted here https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.6507800 into your diamond.conf file inside the same directory/folder where your wallet is found
Above the “rpcport” line,
add the following line: rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
Change the rpcuser and rpcpassword to something of your choosing
Save it as diamond.conf.
Create a shortcut of your Diamond wallet (diamond-qt.exe), right click, click properties
append --server to the end of the TARGET line(Example: "C:\Users\User\Wallets\Diamond Coin v2.0.1\diamond-qt.exe"--server)
Save it and run your Diamond Wallet as a server using that newly created shortcut.
Setup your bat/script startup file by
SIMPLY CHANGING 3 THINGS: your -o -u and -p switches (everything else stays the same)
-o 127.0.0.1:17772
-u your chosen user name that you gave to rpcuser in your diamond.conf file
-p your chosen password that you gave to rpcpassword in your diamond.conf file
Save and run. You're now mining solo.
Multiple Rig SetupsAll the same as above, except you need to:
In your diamond.conf file
change 127.0.0.1 to your subnet, for example 192.168.0.* (that's the most common, you could go with 192.168.*.* when in doubt)
(Don't forget to create any necessary firewall exceptions on your wallet machine.)
Change the -o switch in your bat/script startup file to the IP of your wallet machine, followed by a colon, and the rpcport number used (for example 192.168.0.30:17772 )
And you're off and
running mining.
This was meant to be deliberately simplified so as to remove some of the fear from this 'endeavor' and encourage newbies to get their feet wet. Hopefully you'll all find lots of other helping hands here to help fill in the gaps and correct any mistakes I've made and/or add to what I've left out.
It's easy as 1-2-3. Good luck, and good mining!And as nerioseole reminded us, there's a wealth of info out there, starting with google
https://www.google.com/#q=multiple+rig+solo+mining , but I doubt you'll need it.