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Topic: Solo mining with BITMAIN AntMiner U1 (USB) (Read 5894 times)

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legendary
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Ruu \o/
just an fyi if you are trying to solo mine you'll need a relay node to notify your miner that the block has changed else you will be working on old useless work.
Not true when solo mining with cgminer which checks for new blocks automatically and will update as soon as possible.
hero member
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Merit: 503
yep if you got in the bfgminer folder and your on the same pc as the qt client and synced is running and you have added the bitcoin.conf file to were your wallet.dat file is located.. should work.. and make sure you run the bitcoin-cli.exe before you run bfgminer. and what ever pool you are relaying off use your pool login/password info so you can get info about the block the network is on.

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newbie
Activity: 28
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So, I simply copy the below into a .cmd file, and run it?

d:\bfgminer\bfgminer -o 127.0.0.1:8332 -u x -p cat -o  btcguild.gigaforge.com:3333 -u y -p egg --coinbase-addr     1JafVRe23oLSku4FBwBE3rJAKc9Y8wZM5z --coinbase-sig "Yep Icon did it again!"

Where I change the bfgminer to the path on my computer, and change the pass and user names to my username?
hero member
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just an fyi if you are trying to solo mine you'll need a relay node to notify your miner that the block has changed else you will be working on old useless work.
I suggest using a large pool as the relay node

example of my solo.bat file


@ echo off
d:\bfgminer\bfgminer -o 127.0.0.1:8332 -u x -p cat -o  btcguild.gigaforge.com:3333 -u y -p egg --coinbase-addr     1JafVRe23oLSku4FBwBE3rJAKc9Y8wZM5z --coinbase-sig "Yep Icon did it again!"

O and add a coinbase-addr to tell the blockchain where to deposit the btc you mine Smiley

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Also if your solo mining with the newest bitcoinqt client the .0.9.1 you can still use the old bitcoin.conf file simple run the bitcoin-cli.exe file afterwards to get it to accept connections


example of the bitcoin.conf:



server=1
rpcuser=x
rpcpassword=y
rpcport=8332
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
newbie
Activity: 28
Merit: 0
So, I am running the bitcoin core wallet, and it is synching.  Where do I input the  "bitcoin-qt.exe -rpcuser=username -rpcpassword=password -server -listen" at?

Which version are you using? Since 0.9.0, the RPC client has been removed from the bitcoin core wallet.

I am using Bitcoin Core v0.9.1.0-g026a939-beta (64-bit)
hero member
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So, I am running the bitcoin core wallet, and it is synching.  Where do I input the  "bitcoin-qt.exe -rpcuser=username -rpcpassword=password -server -listen" at?

Which version are you using? Since 0.9.0, the RPC client has been removed from the bitcoin core wallet.
newbie
Activity: 28
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So, I am running the bitcoin core wallet, and it is synching.  Where do I input the  "bitcoin-qt.exe -rpcuser=username -rpcpassword=password -server -listen" at?
member
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If your computer is on anyway, why not?  The little USB stick is doing all the work so it's not slowing your computer down while it's doing its thing.

If you get lucky, good for you! If not, nothing lost really...

JWC
legendary
Activity: 1344
Merit: 1023
Mine at Jonny's Pool
Solo mining can be fun, and is very much like playing the lottery.  I have 5 U2s that solo mine.  Is it likely they'll ever solve a block?  Nope.  I thought it was unlikely my S1 would solve a block, but last week it did just that... boy do I wish I was solo mining then.

It's unlikely I'll ever win the PowerBall either, yet I'll still buy a ticket or two.  Winning that buys me a whole lot of hashing power Smiley
sr. member
Activity: 539
Merit: 255
What would your un:pw be?
legendary
Activity: 910
Merit: 1000
Does getting a block make a difference ?

You can get 25btc + tx fee if you find a block. Cheesy
sr. member
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Does getting a block make a difference ?
member
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Merit: 10
Have you been able to solo mine any SHA-256 altcoins?
sr. member
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Merit: 250
Bounty manager (https://t.me/Gudwinn)
with a couple ghs, megamultipool is your best bet.

newbie
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Merit: 0
When turning on some more verbose output in cgminer you seem to get a lot of these messages:


[2014-02-16 14:37:00] ANU 0: Share above target


Any understanding of what that is about? It seems that Internets are very brief/not enlightening on this particular topic.

Best share 54.3K today, while 13K yesterday (you got it right, I just mine for fun with the computer while it is turned on).


The target your miner is referring to is the artificially lower pool share target. Unless your solo mining your miner has no idea what the true target (difficulty) of Bitcoin is.
legendary
Activity: 1484
Merit: 1004
How do you solo mine btc Huh I have 10 BE that I will like to put on solo just for fun.

Anyone can help?  Grin
legendary
Activity: 1288
Merit: 1004
I would love to have about 20 S1 Ants.
18 would be on BTCGuild and 2 I would let solo mine.
That would be great.
newbie
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How to do it:
1) Get Bitcoin wallet https://bitcoin.org/en/download
2) Run Bitcoin wallet app: "bitcoin-qt.exe -rpcuser=username -rpcpassword=password -server -listen" and wait for the BTC blockchain go through (this takes serious time)
3) Get cgminer from v3.12.3 or later (this version has official support for AntMiner U1) http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/
4) Run bitcoin mining software "cgminer.exe -o 127.0.0.1:8332 -u username -p password" and it will automatically start to mine with the U1 (ANU 0)


 cgminer version 3.12.3 - Started: [2014-02-14 14:50:35]
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 (5s):1.647G (avg):1.600Gh/s | A:0  R:0  HW:20  WU:22.5/m
 ST: 2  SS: 0  NB: 51  LW: 0  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to
 127.0.0.1 diff 2.62G without LP as user username
 Block: c0d78cc9...  Diff:2.62G  Started: [17:38:39]  Best share: 21.3K
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 [P]ool management [ S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 ANU 0:                | 1.595G/1.600Gh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:20 WU:22.5/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [2014-02-14 17:21:13] Network diff set to 2.62G



What's your best share? For me 21.3K today..


Please let us know when/if you ever find a block. Best of luck!
newbie
Activity: 27
Merit: 0
My U1 solo miner got a Best share of 8.88M today.

That'd have brought a block back in April, 2013  Grin


Just got my ant today and started on BTCGuild.....
BestShare
9,865,189

!!!! no block  Grin
full member
Activity: 130
Merit: 100
My U1 solo miner got a Best share of 8.88M today.

That'd have brought a block back in April, 2013  Grin
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