Topic: Solo mining help - page 3. (Read 1127 times)

Hi philipma,

I tried to find the pools you mentioned above, and for ckpool & kano pool the browser did not want to go there saying that they have malware.
The only one that worked somehow was the viabtc pool.
As I am a new miner (I will be in short time), do you recommend viabtc pool over the braiins one? I know that braiins is very old, and somehow respectable, however I do not know too much about the fees, and other things a pool might have. I am in the process of documenting myself til my antminer arrives.

Thank you

Thank you.

Asking to participate is like asking for trust, i agree.
So to put this simple if any ...CK, Kano, and Viabtc or someone of you wanna help you could simply ask to be the block reward receiver, then you can share the reward as mentioned, if not then we have no option to pass the above points except the mutual trust.

Let me know. Thanks again.

Edit: Everything is paid directly, check templates, no pool hacks no withdrawals.

Common sense, it's all relative, Your reputation represents the amount of money someone is willing to risk dealing with you, you wouldn't risk 4k with a newbie coz while 4k isn't 6.25BTC it's still a lot of money to gamble with.

In fact, 5 years ago when I first joined the forum, I couldn't just start selling mining gears, You personally wouldn't trust me enough to send me 5k and sit tight waiting for gears to actually arrive, and I would understand, but at this point, it's pretty logical that after all the reputation I built, it would be plain stupid to run away with 5k or even 20k, but with 6.25BTC it's a whole different story, I know I wouldn't run away with people's money, but how would you know? you wouldn't, so why would I expect you to trust me with 6.25 BTC unless I don't understand how the world works?

Now imagine a newbie account asking you to send them 500$ without escrow. I personally wouldn't do that, let alone trust them with a whole block.

Also, if you could buy the same gears from the guy next door, pay in cash, and pick them up, it would make no sense to trust me even with $100, unless the price difference was really justifiable, this solo pool case is NOT justifiable, I see no benefits in ditching those pools and using this one.

Yeah I likely could be trusted enough to run a solo pool, but I have been here for 11 years. traded and escrowed 100's of thousands of dollars.

Also I ran successful solo-pool parties and sent out over 61btc in blocks hit.

  Plus at least 2 dozen people here on BTC  talk really know my name and my address. So 6.25 btc is not enough coin for me to leave my wife and my home of 30+ years. To escape to an anonymous location.


  I can recall mmpool.org leaving this site after dishing out 20 + blocks yet they claimed they were hacked. They left after last block and did not pay close to 200k

I can recall at least 1 solo pool hit just 1 block and by by so long farewell.

So 6.25 btc = 150k plus.

It is too much for any of us to risk when  there are at least 3 good solo pools to play.

Cksolo pool is a known payer.
kano pays his blocks
and viabtc pays their blocks.


The op is an unknown with zero KYC and no history of handling funds. It is a killer for most of us that have seen a lot of funds vanish.

BTW while I have trusted mikeywith with 3 and 4 k in coins and gear purchases I do not know whim well enough to risk 6.25 btc when I can do it with ckpool whom has paid me 3 solo blocks

I don't understand why would anyone take such things personal, I have been around the forum for 5 years +, and I traded hundreds of thousands of dollars here and on a large telegram group, I am an admin on one of the large telegram groups that trade Bitmain coupons in volumes of millions, a DT member here, top 20 most merited (was in top 10 not too long ago) I can go on with more things, but despite all that, I don't have the balls to go around asking people to trust me with a solo mining pool, it's just asking for WAY TOO MUCH.

Not bashing you here, but I think the chances I have in running a solo pool are greater than yours by a few orders of magnitude, and despite that, I know very well that it would be very naive of me to assume that people would trust me enough to mine to my solo pool, this applies to 99.99% of people, not just you and I.

In order for someone to mine to your pool you would need to pass two tests

1- Technicals: to ensure that your pool even works to begin with.
2- Trust: to ensure that you won't run away with the block.

Point 1 is doable, you could throw enough money at it and wala, approved, your pool finds blocks, so let's assume you have already passed this test, How on earth are you going to solve point 2?

I won't lie, I like how you present yourself, and if it was you vs another forum newbie who posted some shit using Chatgpt and stopped responding, I would choose your pool over his, but you are up against CK, Kano, and Viabtc (probably a few more well known and established pools that offer solo mining) so give me one fucking good reason why would I use your pool over the three I mentioned above?

heck, I can't even justify 1 day's worth of reward mining to a PPS pool I don't know, let alone risking a whole block.

Everything on plate and still skeptics @.
With this thinking, new pools cannot exist or appear without criticism, there is no problem, I agree that 99.9999% are scams, but no scam will have a public source and collaborations with different DIY miner projects with thousands of users trusting, also with the public source, until we can provide results, it will be very difficult to change your beliefs, the most correct thing would be to check before you set your belief.

I disagree it sounds hollow, public-pool is one of only a few mining pools that you can actually audit and run the code yourself. Secondly the code is proven to mine testnet blocks. Testnet is there specifically for the purpose of testing software for mainnet.

Here is a testnet block https://mempool.space/testnet/block/00000000000000019607d7e70369c2e5a07d9f56380e4e9f03b24d25b62f5fbc , you can see public-pool name in the coinbase.

Difficulty you face is there is nothing to verify, no mainnet blocks found on either of the pools known to run your code.

I'm impressed that you coded a pool from scratch, and understand the catch 22 you are in trying to get people to use your pools whilst not having any proof they actually work.

Just pointing out your clever sounding catch phrase rings a bit hollow, no offence intended 

Hi All, just wanted to clear some things up.

vkbit.com is a fork of public-pool, a completely open source solo mining pool that I created over the last few months. https://github.com/benjamin-wilson/public-pool Official:  (https://web.public-pool.io). I have been working with Open Source Miners United on the Bitaxe project as well as Bitmaker and Nerdminers. I had determined that a new solo pool that is super easy to setup and run for yourself would be a great contribution to the community. I am currently hosting a small competition for nerdminers and so far we have over 2000 participating.

The project is very young and nobody has mined any mainnet blocks but I have successfully mined testnet blocks.

While you can't verify vkbit is running the published source code you can verify the Coinbase transaction being sent to your miners and I have helped them get it deployed.

Don't trust, verify.

I understand, i am not upset or something, i agree with all you have said.
Unfortunately is not easy as it was back in 2014 to make a name.
Thank you & i am sorry if i have caused any drama, i will stay quiet till we get some results to share.

The problem is you are an unknown and we have had more than one small pool run away with a block.

The idea that a newbie asked how to use your pool could mean you have a second account and are using it to lure people into mining on your solo pool.

I am not saying you are a thief but why mine with your unknown pool. when

ckpool
kano pool
viabtc pool

all are known payers of solo.

The only way you are going to draw miners is you use an escrow service to back your pool for a block or 2.

I have 4ph I would never point it to your pool for fear of you running off.

Why risk a loss of 6.25 btc on your pool

As I said, the pool is for solo mining.
I don't insist anymore, topic of this user who asked a question did not receive any concrete answer, instead he got hints that he's using the wrong pool and he shouldn't be doing that.
I didn't expect that and that's why I commented in the first instance.

Clearly you are a newbie.

Pool provided work difficulty has zero effect on finding a Bitcoin block.

If you aren't a solo pool, then your pool is off topic.


Aside:
... and as I've explained before, if someone wants X% solo and Y% PPLNS, (where X+Y = 100), then they just create two accounts on my pool and mine to both with X% hash rate on one account and Y% on the other account. Simple.
My pool has both Solo and PPLNS.

Do you have any block numbers solved by your pool so that we can take a look?


How difficulty can be adjusted for everyone according to their hashrate ? It doesn't make sense.
Are you making your miners mine BCH or other sha256 low difficulty coins and pay them in BTC ?

I had a look at your site and Telegram yesterday, but it didn't give me much more information.

I'm not casting stones, I'm simply pointing out that risking a one-chance-in-life reward with an unknown pool is not the best thing to do when you have pools that have been proving their worth for years. Ckpool doesn't put anyone at a disadvantage, everyone has an equal chance of finding a block in proportion to their hashrate, just like with any well-configured solo pool.

I clearly understand your concerns, but please verify don't trust.
Check the coinbase.

Anyway guys you need to do more research before throwing stones.
Check the web, check the telegram see the repository on Github.

Clearly i am not the newbie here.

I'm not saying that the CK pool is not good, on the contrary, it may suit some people, we initially started to make this pool with the CK pool source code, but it greatly disadvantages users with a low hash rate, because it is a solo pool, everyone works for themselves, so the difficulty had to be adjusted for everyone according to power, you can see many differences and transparency more than necessary.
Also, no one entrusts us with the earned bitcoins, they are shared directly, when someone succeeds, it is not shared by us, it is shared by the code itself when the result is sent.


You should try it wont bite https://vkbit.com.

OP you shouldn't trust a random solo pool. They might not send you your block reward if by chance you find a block.

This is solo mining, and it's a very risky bet to put your trust in a new, unknown pool that hasn't had any previous blocks. As mentioned above, you should solo mine with solo-ckpool, viabtc, or kano's pool if you really want low fees.

Don't risk 6.25 BTC with randoms, it's terribly risky, nobody knows them and you have no proof that their pool is working properly.

You are missing the point ...
No hard feelings.

I never heard of the vkbit.com pool and according to Whois it was just created last year if I were you I suggest use a well-known pool like https://solo.ckpool.org/ or Viabtc pool.

You can try them and update here if still didn't work then post the logs of the unit here just don't forget to put the logs inside the insert code tag so that we can easily read them.

Hi! I really need some help with solo mining. I have an antminer 9s and I enter all the info it says when I create a new pool. For example, stratum+tcp://pool.vkbit.com:3333
My btc wallet address and an x ​​as password. I have tried several times and on different mining pools but still it just says status "dead" What am I doing wrong??? I have braiinsos+
Sincerely
Martin