Topic: [∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 2% fee solo mining 256 blocks solved! - page 138. (Read 102344 times)

well at least you are plenty in the green. so you can roll the dice for quite some time before you are losing more than gaining lol. I haven't made one sat with my 92TH....as soon as it arrived I put it to solo mine lol let's see how long it takes!

All true!

I decided to join Willi9974's block party and we just happened to hit a block on my 2nd run with him!

I took some of those earnings and bought a good load of 23+ USB Miners (Now just about 9TH worth running and then really hit paydirt with the block! I'm still mining away here with slightly different tuning. https://solo.ckpool.org/users/3HhVptBBGDm8NoYk7YdafcuHy9KYwJzMWg)

I'm also waiting on 2 x Bitmain S19A Pro's (110TH) to get fired up at a remote facility which will also be pointed here.

Really praying that lightning strikes twice for me! Lol. I know it's a longshot but I also know only it's possible if I keep rolling the dice!

Well said. But I guess it isn't what he wanted to hear lol. Something similar happened to me the other day, trying to explain to someone the reason they're having trouble trying to mine Bitcoin is most likely because they're using a tutorial from 2017....which implies it's highly unlikely they did any meaningful amount of research and probably was trying to mine with a CPU or GPU. Me pointing all this out wasn't what they wanted to hear either and they got mad at me for it 
I appreciate you!

I said you can, I never said you should, and the article is a significantly summarised version of the whole interview, as mining is far more nuanced than that. You can mine by hand with pen and paper too, but you shouldn't do that either. A realistic minimum would be a USB stick miner. Less than that the odds are beyond astronomically low and the energy waste is enormous. Additionally the mechanism of mining with something other than an ASIC is so different that it doesn't really teach you about modern mining.

the status on the solo pool is very good to see how much shares are produced, please have a look an the starting page from this topic.

you can use always this Live View Link:
https://solo.ckpool.org/users/xxx

xxx is your BTC address


here are my records from all the past Blockparty Mining Runs.
somtime is a block very fast to find and somtime very hard...
the green lines are the lines wo got one or more blocks in this Blockparty Mining Run. you can alway see the invest and the return

the list should be complete except for 2-3 runs

Blockparty 2015 and 2016 we found 7 blocks

Blockparty Run 1   2015   5,5   25,207
Blockparty Run 2   2015   5   
Blockparty Run 3   2015   5   
Blockparty Run 4   2015   4,5   
Blockparty Run 5   2015   4,5447   
Blockparty Run 6   2016   7   
Blockparty Run 7   2016   4,75   74,99
Blockparty Run 8   2016   8,055   
Blockparty Run 9   2016   22   25
Blockparty Run 10   2016   20   
Blockparty Run 11   2016   16,4   24,8603
Blockparty Run 12   2016   16,8   24,905
Blockparty Run 13   2016   20   
Blockparty Run 14   2016   10,25   
Blockparty Run 15   2016      
Blockparty Run 16   2016   10   
Blockparty Run 17   2016   8,25   



Blockparty from 2021 and 2022, we found 2 Blocks

Blockparty   2021   Number    1      530.069.089.722   from   14.363.025.673.660   Block      Invest   0,163   Return   0.00   2,49%
Blockparty   2021   Number    2      1.673.333.594.025   from   13.672.594.272.815   Block      Invest   0,16   Return   0.00   5,14%
Blockparty   2021   Number    3      255.818.452.070   from   13.672.594.272.815   Block      Invest   0,16   Return   0.00   7,54%
Blockparty   2021   Number    4      480.981.753.180   from   13.672.594.272.815   Block      Invest   0,161   Return   0.00   9,91%
Blockparty   2021   Number    5      1.492.920.923.396   from   14.496.442.856.350   Block      Invest   0,16   Return   0.00   11,74%
Blockparty   2021   Number    6      173.257.644.531   from   15.556.093.717.703   Block      Invest   0,16   Return   0.00   13,29%
Blockparty   2021   Number    7      173.257.644.531   from   18.997.641.161.759   Block      Invest   0,135   Return   0.00   12,75%
Blockparty   2021   Number    8      46.475.618.906.793   from   20.082.460.130.831   Block   706369   Invest   0,182   Return   6,15   14,26%
Blockparty   2021   Number    9      160.675.519.812   from   21.659.344.833.265   Block      Invest   0,17   Return   0.00   2,19%
Blockparty   2021   Number    10      511.348.740.163   from   21.659.344.833.265   Block      Invest   0,19   Return   0.00   4,56%
Blockparty   2021   Number    11      1.052.178.599.025   from   21.659.344.833.265   Block      Invest   0,177   Return   0.00   7,04%
Blockparty   2021   Number    12      239.166.044.174   from   22.674.148.233.452   Block      Invest   0,17   Return   0.00   9,01%
Blockparty   2021   Number    13      160.258.737.055   from   22.674.148.233.454   Block      Invest   0,17   Return   0.00   11,38%
Blockparty   2021   Number    14      28.204.863.542.431   from   22.335.659.268.937   Block   712217   Invest   0,18   Return   6,16   13,93%
Blockparty   2021   Number    15      640.537.738.089   from   22.335.659.268.937   Block      Invest   0,191   Return   0.00   2,66%
Blockparty   2021   Number    16      553.106.975.578   from   22.335.659.268.937   Block      Invest   0,206   Return   0.00   5,47%
Blockparty   2021   Number    17      3.245.782.159.921   from   24.195.286.980.614   Block      Invest   0,2095   Return   0.00   7,83%
Blockparty   2021   Number    18      4.122.755.549.662   from   24.195.286.980.614   Block      Invest   0,204   Return   0.00   10,75%
Blockparty   2021   Number    19      690.812.089.343   from   24.195.286.980.614   Block      Invest   0,21   Return   0.00   13,72%
Blockparty   2021   Number    20      233.632.587.565   from   24.195.286.980.614   Block      Invest   0,214   Return   0.00   16,67%
Blockparty   2021   Number    21      282.863.413.240   from   24.195.286.980.614   Block      Invest   0,2025   Return   0.00   19,52%
Blockparty   2021   Number    22      546.839.382.747   from   24.272.331.996.980   Block      Invest   0,197   Return   0.00   22,19%
Blockparty   2022   Number    1      217.010.942.466   from   24.272.331.996.980   Block      Invest   0,175   Return   0.00   24,56%
Blockparty   2022   Number    2      4.005.963.680.498   from   24.272.331.996.980   Block      Invest   0,205   Return   0.00   27,33%
Blockparty   2022   Number    3      3.117.508.102.916   from   24.371.874.614.346   Block      Invest   0,205   Return   0.00   30,00%
Blockparty   2022   Number    4      163.372.847.014   from   24.371.874.614.346   Block      Invest   0,215   Return   0.00   32,85%
Blockparty   2022   Number    5      532.446.995.741   from   24.371.874.614.346   Block      Invest   0,215   Return   0.00   35,62%
Blockparty   2022   Number    6      239.411.398.267   from   24.371.874.614.346   Block      Invest   0,195   Return   0.00   38,24%
Blockparty   2022   Number    7      16.370.582.882.984   from   24.371.874.614.346   Block      Invest   0,195   Return   0.00   40,97%
Blockparty   2022   Number    8      5.464.223.628.149   from   24.371.874.614.346   Block      Invest   0,205   Return   0.00   43,63%
Blockparty   2022   Number    9      16.799.691.276.961   from   26.643.185.256.536   Block      Invest   0,205   Return   0.00   42,41%
Blockparty   2022   Number    10      632.594.216.042   from   26.643.185.256.536   Block      Invest   0,19   Return   0.00   44,94%
Blockparty   2022   Number    11      1.073.309.575.534   from   26.643.185.256.536   Block      Invest   0,188   Return   0.00   47,36%
Blockparty   2022   Number    12      175.708.462.577   from   26.690.525.287.406   Block      Invest   0,185   Return   0.00   49,71%
Blockparty   2022   Number    13      1.365.791.872.716   from   26.690.525.287.406   Block      Invest   0,185   Return   0.00   52,14%
Blockparty   2022   Number    14      1.443.621.792.905   from   27.967.152.532.435   Block      Invest   0,19   Return   0.00   52,16%
Blockparty   2022   Number    15      2.114.784.272.115   from   27.967.152.532.435   Block      Invest   0,16   Return   0.00   54,32%
Blockparty   2022   Number    16      4.562.330.664.094   from   27.550.332.084.344   Block      Invest   0,17   Return   0.00   56,65%

yeah it is an amazing story. i hope to be the guy that finds a block on a single asic. well, i will keep dreaming lol

so the hash power you rent on nicehash isn't for a set amount of time? how do you know when it will end and you are no longer submitting shares with your wallet address in their miners?

by the way, how is the block party going so far?

Our lucky usb Miner Sledge0001
Great story and all is startet wir our Blockparty Runs 

Yes on Nicehash you have to configure your pool like this solo pool, select a protokoll like Sha256 and take the speed what you want and amount of BTC what you will spend in your rental, that is all.

Yes that was me. I had been mining for a few months with the Compac F's but I was also buying / renting hashpower from Nicehash on and off during that time.

When I ran out of Nicehash's power I just kept my little USB miners on and plugging away. A few days later one of my little usb soldiers hit the lottery.

I was asleep when it happened but I had about 8.45T of USB miners all from Sidehack / Gekkoscience pointed at the pool.

I am still mining here under another btc address and I will be forever grateful to all of those that helped me along this journey.

I am truly lucky.
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man that is incredible. I just can't imagine the feeling of checking and seeing that you hit a block. especially given the hash power you have or had....speaking of, did you use any of that bitcoin to buy an asic or you still plugging away with your compac F's?

I looked into nicehash marketplace the other day but didn't spend enough time to figure out how it works. i mean, it doesn't appear to be bought for a specific amount of time right? or is it? like you buy 1PHs for 1 day and it cost X amount of btc?

oh was that you that found the block with the 9 compac F's? if so, how long were you mining solo before that amazing day? that is incredible!
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Yes that was me. I had been mining for a few months with the Compac F's but I was also buying / renting hashpower from Nicehash on and off during that time.

When I ran out of Nicehash's power I just kept my little USB miners on and plugging away. A few days later one of my little usb soldiers hit the lottery.

I was asleep when it happened but I had about 8.45T of USB miners all from Sidehack / Gekkoscience pointed at the pool.

I am still mining here under another btc address and I will be forever grateful to all of those that helped me along this journey.

I am truly lucky.

It was actually 9 Compac  F's

And he's correct. You really should get an ASIC to have a better chance at solving a block.


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oh was that you that found the block with the 9 compac F's? if so, how long were you mining solo before that amazing day? that is incredible!

Good catch, and congrats on the block! I would frame it or something.

It was actually 9 Compac  F's

And he's correct. You really should get an ASIC to have a better chance at solving a block.

He was always saying get an ASIC, he was just saying that even smaller ASICs can find a block.

In the specific case where they recently found a block through solo mining at the ckpool it was a rig of 6 GekkoScience Compac F USB miners.

Those are tiny ASIC miners. Still ASICS though. Your new fancy Mac Studio won't be able to mine anything remotely similar to a single one of those USB ASIC miners, because the M1 Ultra chipset is just bad at Bitcoin mining comparatively speaking.

First time poster after lurking after your BTC Magazine article. And that's why I'm here. In that interview (talking about the multiple solo miners who've recently earned their BTC) you say ..."People believe that you need a powerful enough ASIC to actually solve a block, and that’s not true... but even the smallest miner can solve it.”

Now you're saying 'get an ASIC'. I'm actually going to get one of the new Mac Studios (very favorable terms thru connections) - already have a MBP for Xcode, was going to set it up and solo mine, knowing the odds, but just for the exercise of getting the Linux on, inst your software, and let it crank away. In some ways I'll be helping the fruit company tax their new rig, see what it can do. Am I taking your answer to the previous poster out of context? Thx in adv.

Longtime tech guy - FORTRAN - so respect what you've done.

I take an example for you to know difficulty and target in bitcoin network
Today, the block with bloch height: 726543, was found by F2Pool  pool.
F2Pool got a hash value: 0000000000000000000a0e711d57f1a3916ba51df413256f15f220bdb9f22ed8,   19 x '0',  a0e711....
For this hash value, a difficulty can be calculated by a formula,  difficulty is 27.99 T.
Now, bitcoin network set a current network difficulty is 27.55 T.  Once 27.99T > 27.55T,  then,  F2Pool found the block, got $$$$$$.
27.55T  is about  27, 550, 000, 000, 000.   

In cgminer,  when a hash is hashed out by asic chip, it calculates a difficulty with the hash value. Then, compare it with past maximum
difficulty value. Then, record a new maximum difficulty value as the best difficulty or call Best Share difficulty.

Best Share (difficulty) is the best hash value you mining machine has achieved or worked out so far in this run.

In bitcoin mining, an extreme small hash value is sought for a block header data.  Hash value will be from 0000....00 (64 x '0')  to ffff...ff (64 x 'f'). Which is a space M for sha256 algorithm space. This space M can be divided into a lot of small space n1, n2, n3, ......nm.  So,  smaller than 19 x'0'  hash values is a specific space for bitcoin.  So, this specific space is a target space (space T). Smaller than 19x'0' hash value is  called target.

I don't know what is distribution of sha256 output hash value.  But, normal disribution is bell sharp, medium section got more chance to come out, extreme chance on both extreme end. More extreme smaller space, more difficulty hash value will fall in this space.

I have searched and not found so I am asking a rather elementary question.... What is the significance of the number to the right of the period on bestshare? What does that number mean (to the right of the decimal)?

Good luck to you guys!

Here's a new ATH of your hash rate:

Live View Link:
https://solo.ckpool.org/users/bc1qfh060205z8209u3wqv2xfpxnhn3z9c0wrazdrk

{
 "hashrate1m": "25.8P",
 "hashrate5m": "24P",
 "hashrate1hr": "22.9P",
 "hashrate1d": "4.42P",
 "hashrate7d": "691T",
 "lastshare": 1646782380,
 "workers": 35,
 "shares": 98854000000,
 "bestshare": 103699099656.4076,
 "bestever": 103699099656,
 "worker": [
  {
   "workername": "bc1qfh060205z8209u3wqv2xfpxnhn3z9c0wrazdrk",
   "hashrate1m": "25.8P",
   "hashrate5m": "24P",
   "hashrate1hr": "22.9P",
   "hashrate1d": "4.42P",
   "hashrate7d": "691T",
   "lastshare": 1646782380,
   "shares": 98854000000,
   "bestshare": 103699099656.4076,
   "bestever": 103699099656
  }
 ]
}

Bitcoin Difficulty:
27.550.332.084.344

Bestshare:
103.699.099.656
7.754.401.072
1.809.823.920
664.570.562
9.857.3093
21.379.393

we are startet with Blockparty 16
cross our fingers to get the block 266


Live View Link:
https://solo.ckpool.org/users/bc1qfh060205z8209u3wqv2xfpxnhn3z9c0wrazdrk

{
 "hashrate1m": "24.5P",
 "hashrate5m": "20.8P",
 "hashrate1hr": "3.75P",
 "hashrate1d": "170T",
 "hashrate7d": "24.3T",
 "lastshare": 1646764499,
 "workers": 33,
 "shares": 3428000000,
 "bestshare": 7754401072.127213,
 "bestever": 7754401072,
 "worker": [
  {
   "workername": "bc1qfh060205z8209u3wqv2xfpxnhn3z9c0wrazdrk",
   "hashrate1m": "24.5P",
   "hashrate5m": "20.8P",
   "hashrate1hr": "3.75P",
   "hashrate1d": "170T",
   "hashrate7d": "24.3T",
   "lastshare": 1646764499,
   "shares": 3428000000,
   "bestshare": 7754401072.127213,
   "bestever": 7754401072
  }
 ]
}

Bitcoin Difficulty:
27.550.332.084.344

Bestshare:
7.754.401.072
1.809.823.920
664.570.562
9.857.3093
21.379.393

well for starters, it could be that the post you got instructions from was made 5 years ago. much has changed and it's hard to imagine anything from that tutorial would still work.  but it also depends on your hardware...i suggest doing some further research on mining bitcoin. there are endless sites and tutorials and threads that are posted just this year. they will give you a much better idea of how to get started. if you still need help after that, come find me here and i'll do my best.
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That's very rude, uninformative, and unhelpful. Proxy setup is a configuration issue. Not 1 single helpful sentence.
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whoa there, calm down.  i said i'd help if you still needed it after you did some more research.  if you had responded with what kind of hardware you are trying to mine with, i could at least point you in the right direction or tell you if you even can use said hardware.  so what hardware are you trying to start mining with?