Topic: Requesting Information (Read 673 times)

Oh, I stopped the solo mining. Just wanted to make sure everything worked. I moved on to pool mining another SHA256 coin.

But, technically, one COULD find a block solo mining with an insane amount of luck.

Solo BTC...your best share must be 6.98G and you're currently at 146??? Good Luck!

That worked, thank you.

Solomining to valid address: (my address)
Network diff set to 6.98G
Block height change to 296522 detected on pool 0

Best share: 146 (here's hoping)

You need to tell cgminer to not try using stratum so specify localhost:8332 as http://localhost:8332

Under Information in the Debug Window, the current number of blocks is 296451. I am running Bitcoin Core 0.9.1

Has the blockchain finished downloading and syncing?

What do you get when you type this?

root@ubuntu:~# bitcoind getinfo

The "blocks" should be over 296XXX.

Hello-

  I have been mining altcoins for a few months and I recently purchased an Antminer U2 to try mining SHA256 coins, most notably, trying to mine BTC. I have followed the Easy Set-up Guide here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/antminer-u2-easy-setup-guide-555638 and have downloaded the needed drivers/programs. The Antminer is being detected.

Now I am to the part where I am doing the conf file and the batch file to run CGMiner. I have the following for a conf file:

rpcuser=(myusername)   
rpcpassword=(mypassword)
rpcallowip=localhost
rpcport=8332
addnode=31.193.130.77
addnode=192.241.159.88
daemon=1
listen=1
server=1


And this for a command batch file:

cgminer  --anu-freq 220 -o localhost:8332 -u (myusername) -p (mypassword) --btc-address (mybtcaddress)


When I run the batch file, CGMiner comes up and says:

Started CGMiner 4.2.3
Probing for an alive pool
Waiting for work to be available from pools

The miner window goes blank after a minute and if i click the mouse in the window, it shuts down.

I have been searching for the last 2 hours for any other information about nodes, conf files, etc and this is where i have gotten. I know this is for solomining, but I am just trying it to make sure I can configure an ASIC correctly for solo mining. I expect no gains or blocks.

 I just want to know if I am configuring correctly and if there is a list of nodes I can add to the conf file.

Thank you