Topic: Solo Mining If Slush's pool goes down (Read 1800 times)
i am using a the raspberry pi web interface. This is all kind of new to me. I was using an old laptop running cgminer till it went down. In the web interface it says i can switch pools with a click of a button
If you set it as a backup pool you will always keep mining on slush unless there was a problem at Slush's. Are you misunderstanding how failover works? If you want to mine at a different pool you have to put it first in the pool list. If the first pool fails you go to the 2nd pool, but as soon as the first pool is working again your miner will switch back to the first pool. If you want it to not return you have to change your failover strategy to round robin (in cgminer you do this by adding --round-robin)
I tried that but it just switches me back to slush's pool when i test it
The easiest way is by using a solo pool like the one I run:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/yh-solockpoolorg-1-fee-solo-mining-usade-251-blocks-solved-763510
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/yh-solockpoolorg-1-fee-solo-mining-usade-251-blocks-solved-763510
I had some questions about my set up. I am running a raspberry pi with raspbian for rockminer. In the web UI under pools I was wanting to do solo mining just in case slush went down. I just don't know what to put for the url and worker and password. I am running about 23 terra hashes so solo mining wouldn't be terribly useless.
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