Topic: [∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 2% fee solo mining 256 blocks solved! - page 174. (Read 88138 times)

Thank you, chillfactr and powrslave, for the replies.  Much appreciated.

I was trying difficulty of 128 before but went and tried the 32 as suggested.  What I never realized is that there seems to be two pools behind this software.  First pool is Pool #0 and the second is Pool #1.  The pool "management strategy" is set by default to Failover so that would indicate two pools, at least.  There is also Round Robin and other management strategies to choose from.

What is happening now is that when I use the --suggest-diff 32, it seems to be modifying Pool #1.  Pool #0 still sits at difficulty 10,000.  And the Pool #0 seems to be the default because when I use verbose display mode it still says 10,000 difficulty.   I can manually force the software to use Pool #1 with the lower difficulty, which I did.  Now it's mining with the difficulty of 32 (well, it raises it to 72 automatically).  Still "Share above target" continually.

What is odd, though, is that even though it prints "Share above target" using Pool Management -> Information I see this:

cgminer version 4.11.1 - Started: [2021-03-15 05:56:56.210]
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(5s):149.1G (1m):137.6G (5m):134.9G (15m):130.1G (avg):134.0Gh/s
A:106510  R:144  HW:23  WU:1872.7/m
Connected to solo.ckpool.org diff 72 with stratum as user BTC_address_removed.Worker1
Block: 801f1356...  Diff:21.4T  Started: [06:47:35.338]  Best share: 83.7K
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\[U\]SB management \[P\]ool management \[S\]ettings \[D\]isplay options \[Q\]uit
0: GSH 10038528: BM1387:02+ 200.00MHz T:200 P:200 (47:94) | 99.8% WU: 98% | 46.41G / 44.54Gh/s WU:622.3/m
1: GSH 10038553: BM1387:02+ 200.00MHz T:200 P:200 (47:94) | 97.8% WU: 98% | 41.45G / 44.51Gh/s WU:621.9/m
2: GSH 10038573: BM1387:02+ 200.00MHz T:200 P:200 (47:94) |  100% WU: 99% | 59.06G / 44.98Gh/s WU:628.5/m
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Share submissions: 1311
Accepted shares: 1309
Rejected shares: 2
Accepted difficulty shares: 89848
Rejected difficulty shares: 144
Items worked on: 178081
Discarded work due to new blocks: 28618
Stale submissions discarded due to new blocks: 0
Unable to get work from server occasions: 0
Submitting work remotely delay occasions: 0

It seems to be mining anyway?
Unless I am misunderstanding, it does seem to be mining.
Please correct me if I am wrong or if the results don't look right for the hashrate.  I am very new to these Newpacs and to cgminer and I appreciate the advice and expertise.

cgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333 -u BTC_address_removed.Worker1 -p x --suggest-diff 32 --gekko-newpac-freq 200

Connected to solo.ckpool.org diff 10K with stratum as user BTC_address_removed.Worker1

im not sure, but your diff is at 10K?

is there an option for auto?

Hi all.  I don't know if I am supposed to just reply to this thread with a new question or start a new one.  Let me try replying and someone can tell me if I did it the wrong way.  Thanks in advance.

I am trying to solo mine using cgminer 4.11.1 to do some hobby/lottery solo mining using 3 GekkoScience NewPac USB ASIC miners.

No matter which flags I use I cannot get past the error of Share above target.

My start command is here ...

       cgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333 -u BTC_address_removed.Worker1 -p x --gekko-newpac-freq 200

And my results are here ...

 cgminer version 4.11.1 - Started: [2021-03-14 16:23:47.095]
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 5s):128.7G (1m):112.0G (5m):59.33G (15m):24.55G (avg):124.2Gh/s
 A:10000  R:0  HW:2  WU:1735.6/m
 Connected to solo.ckpool.org diff 10K with stratum as user BTC_address_removed.Worker1
 Block: 255e192e...  Diff:21.4T  Started: [16:25:10.382]  Best share: 13.9K
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\[U\]SB management \[P\]ool management \[S\]ettings \[D\]isplay options \[Q\]uit
 0: GSH 10038528: BM1387:02+ 200.00MHz T:200 P:200 (47:94) | 91.0% WU: 92% | 46.14G / 41.93Gh/s WU:585.8/m
 1: GSH 10038553: BM1387:02+ 200.00MHz T:200 P:200 (47:94) | 93.0% WU: 92% | 40.30G / 41.78Gh/s WU:584.1/m
 2: GSH 10038573: BM1387:02+ 200.00MHz T:200 P:200 (47:94) | 92.7% WU: 89% | 41.83G / 40.49Gh/s WU:565.7/m
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[2021-03-14 16:27:11.919] 1: GSH 1 - Device reported nonce: 01d118b1 @ 3e (4)
[2021-03-14 16:27:11.919] GSH 1: Share above target
[2021-03-14 16:27:11.919] 1: GSH 1 - AsicBoost nonce found : midstate2
[2021-03-14 16:27:11.928] 0: GSH 0 - RX0: 84:AF:8E:A7:00:3A:9E
[2021-03-14 16:27:11.928] 0: GSH 0 - Device reported nonce: 84af8ea7 @ 3a (4)
[2021-03-14 16:27:11.928] GSH 0: Share above target
[2021-03-14 16:27:12.161] 1: GSH 1 - RX0: 83:F4:1A:45:02:44:9D
[2021-03-14 16:27:12.161] 1: GSH 1 - Device reported nonce: 83f41a45 @ 44 (0)
[2021-03-14 16:27:12.161] GSH 1: Share above target
[2021-03-14 16:27:12.161] 1: GSH 1 - AsicBoost nonce found : midstate3
[2021-03-14 16:27:12.166] 0: GSH 0 - RX0: 84:DF:B9:B8:01:3F:8B
[2021-03-14 16:27:12.166] 0: GSH 0 - Device reported nonce: 84dfb9b8 @ 3f (0)
[2021-03-14 16:27:12.166] GSH 0: Share above target
[2021-03-14 16:27:12.232] 2: GSH 2 - RX0: 88:48:63:0A:01:42:91
[2021-03-14 16:27:12.232] 2: GSH 2 - Device reported nonce: 8848630a @ 42 (0)
[2021-03-14 16:27:12.232] GSH 2: Share above target
[2021-03-14 16:27:12.232] 2: GSH 2 - AsicBoost nonce found : midstate1


Does anyone have any ideas to help me?
I would sure appreciate some advice.

Thank you!

I want to update this.

I have 0.01755 btc in my coinbase account that is the donated money.  I made a lot on my doge holdings on my trezor wallets and found my trezors froze the doge for 4 days.

So I am less happy with using the trezor for longer holds.

I have 0.01755 btc which is about 1053 usd held. I will hodl it till June or till coins get to 100k.

So coins are on coinbase and are safe.

I will then send to ck.

No, there's no stealing of blocks. These days with blocks being only 6.25 BTC, transactions are a bigger part of the reward than ever, regularly constituting over 10% of the reward. Now that bitcoin is exceedingly popular, transaction counts increase and a block without transactions do not benefit the network at large, delaying transactions. There is also the risk of creating an invalid fork when building on transaction free blocks, which has happened in the past, invalidating all blocks built on that fork.

I have 2 questions. I am running a somewhat Dinky 70TH/s setup. Is it possible for the 10PH/s maniacs to literally steal a block from me? Also, I noticed whilst re-reading the intro "Unlike regular pools, ckpool never mines transaction-free blocks due to its ultra-scaleable code which has miners on both new blocks and transactions concurrently." and I was curious what the problems are which are associated with "Transaction-free blocks."

Thank you for at least the idea of a lottery pool. I guess I just want to be assured it truly is one.

As stated in the post above CPU Mining for BTC is really not that advisable. If you want to earn some crypto with your cpu I would advice mining an Altcoin whose mining algorithm favors cpus like Monero or Veruscoin. After collecting some rewards you can exchange them for BTC or you can use hashrate rental services like nicehash (if you trust them) that pays their workers in BTC. But dont expect much profit unless you own a few high end server-grade processors.

CPU mining for bitcoin is like mining rock for gold with a toothpick. The rock never shows any effect whatsoever and doesn't even known you're mining. That's how the pool is. Please don't waste your time CPU mining bitcoin (or GPU mining for that matter.)

Hello, newbie here!

I'm using cpuminer-multi with -u my_address -a sha256d -o stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333 -t 4 with my_address being my wallet public key... It has been running for a couple of weeks now but if I try to check my stats with https://solo.ckpool.org/users/my_address I receive a 404...

Can someone please help me understand how to fix this?

cpuminer output looks good, I'm receiving jobs from the stratum channel... e.g.:


[2021-02-28 23:41:55] solo.ckpool.org:3333 asks job 4294967295 for block 672620


Thank you!

Thanks for this explanation, it's really useful and intuitive. I also found additional reference where it's explained more in-depth:
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/1506

@HarrySquater The difficulty set by the pool is basically just an accounting method which allows a bit of feedback from the pool to you. If the pool only accepted 21.7T shares then none would see their hashrate because the pool wouldn't know how to calculate it. By also accepting shares lower than the network difficulty however the pool can calculate your hashrate and give you an indication that you're actually mining and you can see how well your mining rig is performing. So no, you don't need to adjust the difficulty set by the pool.

Thanks for the response. I already read about that stuff and rn I'm playing around with a few  USB Antminers but I would also like to know what is the information that is being logged by the miner. In my case I use BFGMiner.

Forget mining with CPU or GPU. It does not make any sense even as lottery.

Not seeing stats for such slow rates is normal on this pool. Actually it makes no sense at all to try with this. Please consider NEWPAC usb miner if you want to have some fun with bitcoin mining (at least to see your stats ))). Not for earnings. You will earn nothing. It's also very doubtful as a lottery. Use solochance.com to estimate your chances of finding a block.

Hello everyone! I was able to connect to the pool and start mining. Although my hash rate is tiny I would like to know what exactly happens when I get a message like
`Accepted CPU 1 Diff 17k/10k`
Do I somehow need to adjust the difficulty that is set by default (10k) to be closer to the pool difficulty which is currently 21.7 T?
Any reference articles on that where I can read the explanation myself? Tried looking it up in few places already but to no avail.
Thank for your help!

it was a drunk accusation mikey    but i will give you this, you take criticism well.   you didnt get all keyboard warrior like i did 
and yes the other person i compared you to, does know it all 

Thanks.   Just wasn't sure if it was normal or not.  I found the info below - but i think maybe it was my miner's network connection.


ST: STaged work items (ready to use).

SS: Stale Shares discarded (detected and not submitted so don't count as rejects)

NB: New Blocks detected on the network

LW: Locally generated Work items

GF: Getwork Fail Occasions (Pool server slow to provide work)

RF: Remote Fail occasions (Pool server slow to accept work)

Stale shares are normal your miner may have been working on some work and a new block was found before it could submit hence stale work. getwork fail not sure about.

Is something up with the pool?  Been mining a few weeks now, never a stale share or a GF - but  yesterday i had 17 stale shares and GF: 2

ST: 1  SS: 17  NB: 3600  LW: 1623749423  GF: 2  RF: 0

Does that occasionally happen?  I'm a newbie with btc mining.

LOL, not even sure if this a serious "accusation" or just a "joke" I surely don't have the greatest sense of humor., however, if you carefully read my post and the one which I replied to, you will see that I dropped a bomb of possitvity and optimism and explained "in some detail" how solo mining chances are not all that bad compared to the lotto as opposed to what has been mentioned in the post I quoted.

With that being said, I am sure you are not a newbie just as sure as I am of that fact that I am nowhere near experienced, we all are here to learn (maybe except for the other person you compared me to ).