Topic: [HOW TO] Solo Mining Philosopher Stones for Fun and Profit (Read 1201 times)

I agree and stopped immediately after verifying it worked. Philopolymath has more mining power than average and was looking for this.


Thanks. Will update to include these comments.

just a couple of comments -

if you make a new conf file or you change the conf file you have to exit and restart the wallet for it to take effect.  your wallet always has to be open when you are mining and your wallet has to be synched up to date to be able to mine.

good guide, and pretty much the way solo mining works for most coins

with current difficulty of phs, solo mining is not good idea

Make sure your philosopherstone.conf is spelled correctly.

I made that mistake. After I fixed it, I was able to solo mine.

NOPE same problem

cgminer.exe --scrypt -o 127.0.0.1:16282
DOES NOT HELP

i posted again, that line was wrong. should be

cgminer.exe --scrypt -o 127.0.0.1:16282 -u **Yourusername** -p **Yourpassword**

REALLY appreciate the help...
many have tried and gave up
3 months never solved yet!!!
so sick of pools I have 3 machines and 6Mhs waisted Because can't even get ONE working

AHA
but now have another error

THIS  ONE
cgminer.exe --scrypt -o localhost:127.0.0.1
gives me
Failed to resolve IP wrong url
and then
slow no url or credentials....

I downloaded the wallet and it is syncing (31% done). Once it syncs, I will check on my computer.

Tried with IP instead of local host..same problem

damn. that is supposed to be

cgminer.exe --scrypt -o 127.0.0.1:16282 -u **Yourusername** -p **Yourpassword**

credentials are whatever you set on the philosopher.conf for rpcuser and password.

Change the localhost to 127.0.0.1. They both should point to your machine, but your computer may be weird.

cgminer.exe --scrypt -o localhost:127.0.0.1 -u **Yourusername** -p **Yourpassword**

Ok so my config is in appdata/roam/philostone

listen=1
daemon=1
server=1
rpcuser=Philo
rpcpassword=pass
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=16282

And my miner.bat is

cgminer.exe --scrypt  -o localhost:16282 -u Philo -p pass


AND I STILL GET

Pool slow/down or url or credentials invalid


If I change miner.bat to

cgminer.exe --scrypt  -o 127.0.0.1:16282 -u Philo -p pass

I STILL GET

Pool slow/down or url or credentials invalid

After I posted a How To for Infinitecoins, someone asked about Philosopher Stones, so here it is.

The two things you need to solo mine Philosopher Stones (or any scrypt-based coin) are the client (aka wallet) and the miner.

These instructions are for a fresh install of both on Windows. It is assumed your client and miner software are on the same machine.

CLIENT INSTALL

1. Download the client from sourceforge. 1.3.0 is the most recent version.
2. Extract philosopherstone-qt.exe to a folder or the desktop.
3. Start-up philosopherstone-qt.exe, wait for it to load, then exit it.
4. Click on the Windows Start Button and in the search box enter %appdata% (include the % signs at beginning and end). Press enter and new window will pop open.
5. Scroll down and find the Philosopherstone folder. Double-click to open the folder.
6. Right-click in blank area of that folder. In the menu that appears, hover the mouse over new and a second menu will appear. Select Text Document.
7. A new file named document.txt will be created.
8. Double-click on the file. You should have Notepad open with a blank document.
9. Paste this into Notepad:
 

10. Change the **Yourusername** and **Yourpassword** to something else.
11. In Notepad click on File and then Save As.
12. Enter "philosopherstone.conf" as the File name (include the quotes). Change Save as type to All Files. Click Save.
13. Start-up philosopherstone.exe and let it sync. This will take a while.


MINER INSTALL - In this example, we will be using cgminer on a GPU.

1. Get your favorite version of cgminer. Remember 3.7.2 is the last version to support GPU mining.
2. Extract all the files to a folder.
3. Right-click in blank area of that folder. In the menu that appears, hover the mouse over new and a second menu will appear. Select Text Document.
4. A new file named document.txt will be created.
5. Double-click on the file. You should have Notepad open with a blank document.
6. Paste this into notepad:


7. Change the **Yourusername** and **Yourpassword** to went you entered above in Step 10.
8. In Notepad click on File and then Save As.
9. Enter "cgminer.bat" as the File name (include the quotes). Change Save as type to All Files. Click Save.
10. Double-click on the cgminer.bat file to start mining.
11. Tweak cgminer to get the best for your GPU.

If there is anything wrong, let me know.