Hi everyone,
I have been trying to set up solo mining (just interested in learning how to hook up to the network) using bitcoinqt and bfgminer as advised, but I cant seem to quite get there even after searching all over the internet. I have successfully installed bitcoinqt and bfgminer, and I am pool mining with btcguild.
I have made a bitcoin.conf file with the following in it and put it in the home/.bitcoin folder.
rpcuser=bitcoinqt
rpcpassword=123
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=8332
server=1
gen=1
rpcssl=1
However, I have no idea if bitcoinqt is running as a server when I open it...?
When I try to run bfgminer in the terminal and enter the url -
http://localhost:8332, username and password, it tells me "pool set up failed", also without asking me for a bitcoin address to direct mined bitcoins to.
I must be doing something obvious wrong, but I just cant figure it out. I would be very grateful if somebody could point out what Im doing wrong.