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Topic: How does one tell they have successfully mined a block using bfgminer? (Read 949 times)

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We're going to need a bigger heatsink.
If you can't work out how to solo mine properly you can always use http://solo.ckpool.org/.
They charge a 0.5% fee, but you don't have to host a full node in order to mine.

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Greetings and apologies for posting what I'm sure seems like a ridiculous question, but how does one know ( apart from checking ones wallet of course )they have successfully mined a block using bfgminer while it is running?

The reason I ask is I read that the AS:  (accepted shares ) is always 0 when mining solo and will show AS:1 when it's mined a block.  Ive been using solo ckpool with bfgminer. Now about 30 mins ago I just checked bfgminer to see how it was going and noticed a 1 next to the AS like this AS:1 but that 1 turned into a 0 right before my very eyes in the space of 4 - 5 seconds.
Is that normal?

Hoping someone can shed some light on this for me please

Many thanks in advance
          

AS is not accepted shares, you should be watching the A value. Have a look here:

Code:
 
    ST: Work in queue
    F: Network Failures
    NB: New blocks detected
    AS: Shares in submission process
    BW: Bandwidth (up / down)
    E: # of shares * difficulty / 2kB of bandwidth
    U: Shares per minute
    BS: Best Share (highest difficulty block solved)

Line 6 - Combined Device Info

    Number of active mining devices (2 in this picture)
    3 Speed numbers in Mh/s
        First speed is last 5s avg speed
        Second speed is All Time Average (for this program run)
        Third speed is Effective Average (actual performance taking into account failures etc)
    A: Accepted Shares
    R:0+0: Rejected Shares + Discarded shares (and percent of total)
    HW: Hardware errors (total number / percent of total)

http://www.etcwiki.org/wiki/BFGminer_sections

Are you solo mining bitcoin?
newbie
Activity: 1
Merit: 0
Greetings and apologies for posting what I'm sure seems like a ridiculous question, but how does one know ( apart from checking ones wallet of course )they have successfully mined a block using bfgminer while it is running?

The reason I ask is I read that the AS:  (accepted shares ) is always 0 when mining solo and will show AS:1 when it's mined a block.  Ive been using solo ckpool with bfgminer. Now about 30 mins ago I just checked bfgminer to see how it was going and noticed a 1 next to the AS like this AS:1 but that 1 turned into a 0 right before my very eyes in the space of 4 - 5 seconds.
Is that normal?

Hoping someone can shed some light on this for me please

Many thanks in advance

          
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