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I came across this while mining solo on Kano.is.
"You can enable high difficulty on your Solo account if required."
At what point should a miner do this? Is this advantageous for a low hash power miner?
For a low hash miner, it wouldn't be advantageous.
If you were the gambling type, and wanted to rent miners for solo mining, most rental sites require a high difficulty of around 1000000 or more.
To do this, however, you need to do the following steps:
1) Already have a solo account - or create one now
2) At Account->Solo "enable high difficulty on your Solo account"
3) Run a proxy somewhere at difficulty 1000000 pointed to a worker of your choice on your solo account on the pool
4) In your account, set the difficulty of the worker to 1000000 on the Workers->Management page - the worker will appear as soon as you have started the proxy, if it didn't already exist
5) Stop and restart the proxy
6) Rental mine to the proxy
Note of major importance: you want the proxy to be in the direct line between the rental source and the node you mine to.
So e.g. if you had a rental source in West USA, you'd also create a proxy in West USA, between the rental source and either Phoenix or LosAngeles
As you increase difficulty on a worker, you increase it's variance.
Normally you don't touch difficulty, since the pool will set the difficulty correctly to allow low enough variance.
(about 1000 shares per hour)
Read Help->Workers
