Topic: Solo Mining with Hardware (Read 1281 times)

yes seen his pool - thanks! - though it feels like cheating should be able to get it working on my box!

but with the difficulty so high I guess there is just no way to really know for sure or get much help since it seems no one is solo mining these days!

There is always Ozcoin's solo pool as an option.

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So, I have noticed that when I use the failover pool my miner doesnt detect blocks on the network ?

[2014-03-17 19:54:19] Started bfgminer 3.10.0
 [2014-03-17 19:54:19] Probing for an alive pool
 [2014-03-17 19:54:19] Network difficulty changed to 4.25G (30.42Ph/s)
 [2014-03-17 19:54:19] No suitable long-poll found for http://126.0.0.1:8332
 [2014-03-17 19:54:19] Pool 0 http://127.0.0.1:8332 alive
 [2014-03-17 19:54:19] Pool 1 http://stratum.btcguild.com:3333 alive
 [2014-03-17 19:54:19] Pool 1 is hiding block contents from us
 [2014-03-17 19:55:19] Block change for http://127.0.0.1:8332 detection via  http://stratum.btcguild.com:3333 stratum

then it just hangs there and doesnt detect any blocks on the network - though if i turn verbose mode on I can see that my ASIC's are hashing away ?

If I leave out the 2nd pool and add

--no-longpoll

Then it works fine, and i can see blocks being found on the network no problem ?

 [2014-03-17 20:06:06] Started bfgminer 3.10.0
 [2014-03-17 20:06:06] Probing for an alive pool
 [2014-03-17 20:06:07] Network difficulty changed to 4.25G (30.42Ph/s)
 [2014-03-17 20:06:07] Pool 0 http://127.0.0.1:8332 alive
 [2014-03-17 20:06:58] New block detected on network   <-- new found block here!

So based on further digging I have updated the scan-time options to be

--scan-time 2 --queue 2 --expiry 2 --no-submit-stale

if there is anything else I can do feedback is much appreciated!

I would also like to know if I run my bicoind on a separate server, can I solo mine on multiple boxes by pointing them all to the same bitcoind server especiall if i am using

--coinbase-addr 12SVJ3o3jSSnR4PDKWAPLDHnoY7qiFUu1C --coinbase-sig "This is VMFX's block"

to direct my payout address ?

...or would I be better installing a private mining pool like eloipool for this ?

Hi all,

I have been lurking for a while here as I have grown my rig from GPU to ASIC and now to a couple of Antminer S1s - next step will be 2TB's  and beyond and thanks to everyone here for all the help in getting there to date.

I am re-purposing all my U1's for solo mining, since their return against my new rigs is now negligible and i find watching the mining hardware keeps me company whill I am geeking out here writing code.

I am trying to find out what the best setup for BFGminer (or CGminer for that matter) for solo mining using a hardware rig (for me thats currently 10 Antminer U1's giving me around 20GH of solo mining speed).

Assuming I have the latest version of bitcoin-qt running, and the latest version of BFGminer, from what I understand :

1. I need to have long-polling enabled to make sure I am not working on dead shares ? and to do this I need a failover pool ?

2. I need to optimize my settings for scan time, queue, expiry and turn no submit stale on

Is there anything else I REALLY need to be doing ? I can only assume that the large pool operators have tweaked the hell out of their setups for solo mining - care to share ?

Here is my BFGminer setup :

./bfgminer \
 -o localhost:8332 -u bitcoinduser -p bitcoindpass \
 -o http://stratum.btcguild.com:3333 -u user_worker -p pass \
 --failover-only \
 --api-listen \
 --scan-time 1 --queue 4 --no-submit-stale \
 -S Antminer:all --set-device antminer:clock=x0881 \
 --coinbase-addr mywalletaddress --coinbase-sig "This is VMFX's block"

Any help much appreciated!