Topic: [∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 2% fee solo mining USA/DE 255 blocks solved! - page 241. (Read 1514780 times)

No luck hitting a block yesterday, so what do we do ? ......... Try again today

Thanks os2sam, i will have a play around, i guess speech marks make a difference.  I will maybe start a thread on the topic and see if i can get a definitive answer. I don't want to go too O/T.  It would be nice to see  members blocks being solved and posted here rather than me waffling on 

I wouldn't bother with the suggest diff as it really doesn't matter.  Your miner will find a few 1k diff shares eventually and adjust down automatically.  And if it finds  a share meeting or exceeding current difficulty you will have found a block anyway.

To comment out a line in your .bat file just put a "rem" at the beginning.  That means remark and you can put your explanation text after the rem.

Edit: I don't know about the .conf or configuration file.  I only use .bat or .cmd files and put all my commands in them and use the rem statement allot.

The diff is unimportant with solo mining; it's only cosmetic. If you're planning on changing your hashrate by plugging and unplugging hardware, just forget setting diff and let the pool choose it for you slowly over time.

That's working fine now -ck, also using de.ckpool.org:3333   If i may ask you.... or anyone else out there, if I were to add my U3 (or any other miner for that fact), would i need to adjust the "suggest-diff"  : value?  I.E if i were to go up from the current ~7.2Gh/s to lets say 68Gh/s, how much would i need to increase from 5 or decrease from 5?  Is there a formula?  How proportional is suggest value in relation to 1K Diff?  Sorry if it seems a dumb question but i would like to understand.

Also, can I “uncomment” or “comment out” lines in a the configuration file, in order to add my own notes and help me navigate around code? And if so, how is it done?  Do i just drop the speech marks?

Thank you again.

Yeah that CISCO GFW in china (setup by CISCO) has all sorts of targetting and randomness in it.

An article about some of the human rights CISCO has helped the Chinese Govt violate:
http://www.itworld.com/article/3021961/eff-says-cisco-shouldnt-get-off-the-hook-for-torture-in-china.html

Think about that next time you consider buying anything from CISCO

Thank you -ck, CornishPixie, and hodedowe, you are true gentlemen for helping me out.
I will tip you if i solve a block 
Finding 25btc in my wallet would be life changing for me and my fella,
I know its a long shot but you've got to be in it to win it i guess!
fingers crossed hay?.
Warm wishes,  Paula

It's not a different server - it's the same pool just with multiple ports listening for connections. Some people mine through proxies that can only connect to http server ports. Then there's the GFW of China which is more suspicious of non http ports and blocks and filters them more aggressively.

Just out of curiosity what is the :443 port for, ddos protection backup server ?

and as you are in the UK I would move to the German servers

Miners closer to Europe please use one of:

    de.ckpool.org:3333
    de.ckpool.org:443
 

You have less than 10GH and are mining at diff 1000. Shares will come very very infrequently. Eventually the pool will adjust your diff down to something suitable for your hardware when it sees a few shares from you. Alternatively you can choose your diff with the --suggest-diff command. Given your total hashrate a diff of about 5 will do so you can add
to your config.

 
Hi all, can anyone help me out?
(I hope i am posting this in the correct place, I don't want to upset anyone here, so if wrong, i will try remove it, anyway apologies in advance as i am new to bitcoin, computing and mining)

So....I just pointed a couple of my small miners at solo.ckpool but things don't look right.
my cgminer.conf looks like this:  (i am in UK by the way)


cgminer starts ok, loads conf file and displays this:

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cgminer version 4.9.2 - Started: [2016-01-14 20:22:56]
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(5s):6.809G   (1m):2.801G   (5m):627.8M   (15m):231.4M   (avg):7.88Gh/s
A:0  R:0   HW:0  WU:114.0/m
Connected to solo.ckpool.org  diff 1K with stratum a user 15z9mzGXqSY3hpprvU7Ai
Block: 32a6008f...   Diff: 113G  Started: [20:22:56] Best share:  176
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(U)SB management (P)ool management (S)ettings (D)isplay options (Q)uit
0:  BXM 0           :                                    |3.879G / 3.647Gh/s  WU:52.6/m
1:  BXM 0           :                                    |3.357G / 4.124Gh/s  WU:61.4/m
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[2016-01-14 20:22:42] Started cgminer 4.9.2
[2016-01-14 20:22:42] Loaded configuration file cgminer.conf
[2016-01-14 20:22:45] Probing for an alive pool
[2016-01-14 20:22:54] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 1000
[2016-01-14 20:22:55] Waiting for work to be available from pools.
[2016-01-14 20:22:56] Pool 0 message: Authorised, welcome to solo.ckpool.org 15
z9mzGXqSY3hpprvU7Aiah3rr5Jf1j4n7!
[2016-01-14 20:22:56] Network diff set to 113G
[2016-01-14 20:22:56] Work available from pools, resuming.
[2016-01-14 20:23:01] API running in IP access mode on port 4028  (1528)

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That's it.  the log window just stays displaying as above and does not move onto mining.
there is no:
Accepted xxxxxxxxx Diff x.xx/xxxx XXX 0 pool 0
Accepted xxxxxxxxx Diff x.xx/xxxx XXX 0 pool 0
Accepted xxxxxxxxx Diff x.xx/xxxx XXX 0 pool 0 ..... etc

Where am i going wrong?  If i take the solo.ckpool out of the conf, it mines to slush ok but i want to solo
I need to get this right before i add my U3 or any more miners
Thank you in advance for your time,
Warm wishes, Paula
(maybe i will bring blocks and luck too!)

Just put to mine 10 s3 ! hope i am lucky

Thanks for all the work -ck!!!

Since there's not much blockage action happening at the moment I thought I'd give you an update about the pools.

Main solo is purring along fine with its extra DDoS protection and is grossly overpowered for the current load but looks set to stay in its current guise.

DE has gained popularity a lot and is about half as popular as the main solo pool. It also is grossly overpowered for any load it sees.

SG is still new and has only a tiny trickle of miners at the moment.

Main solo and De are popular enough and here to stay and are equipped to cope with any amount of mining that anyone decides to throw at them. I can't justify opening any more nodes at this hashrate and relative popularity and it's early stages to know what to make of the SG node so I'll wait a couple of weeks before assessing how popular it is before deciding what to do with it.

I reach to 138M with an U3 here... 
Not enough luck 
But still trying... 

Hahaha here's hoping, I have had 1TH at minimum pointed at the the pool for the last week and will continue to do so just for lucks sake

I swear -ck BTC Solo Pool is due for a block or 2 soon

Take your discussion elsewhere please. This is the thread for solo.ckpool.org

thanks, that sounds good advice.
I thought i may add, the rig in question is for mining only, i have another laptop that i use for email, forums, banking, watching you tube etc.
So the old Dell will be on for mining and node 24/7 thus leaving my slightly newer machine for everything else.  Maybe i can get a raspberry to run the U3.  Failing that, i sell the U3 and put the money towards another S3 which has no demands on my old Dell.
If anyone has any old hardware they want to donate to my node project, it would be appreciated. I will pay postage.