Topic: [∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 2% fee solo mining USA/DE 255 blocks solved! - page 242. (Read 1514780 times)

NP Greenuser. Just remember if you see that your mouse isn't acting right or your computer is having trouble behaving it is likely the U3 fighting for resources with QT-core. Kill one of them and you should be OK, then you can start it back up once you're finished using the computer.

Oh, and port 8333 will need to be open if you want full connections on your router. Port 8332 is the "mining" port, so you'll need that one open on your laptop's firewall, but not at the router (unless you rent some hash and point it at your own node).

Good luck!

Thank you hodedowe.  That means so much to us both. Maybe after the supply of money has been decentralized, Government policy making will be next. Or... those that declare war will be the first to lead their solders into battle rather than hide behind their desks.  Freedom has a price, but some pay more than others. But we are O/T.

Yes I think you are right 1.7Ghz is a little small.  I would like to contribute to the network though with a full node (social conscience an all!). After all, we all use them.  Maybe Karma will reward me with the privilege of solving a block.
But yes, the laptop runs full time in order to run the Bifury's and the U3 which it copes with ok. Also, the mining takes the chill off the living room plus, the cat likes to sit on top of the warm laptop when the lid closed.
I will keep you informed what works and what does not when the bc-qt sync finishes. I may be able to underclock the U3 and use my node as a backup option to solo.ckpool.  I think the U3 will give 10Gh/s when at set at 100 MHz and 725mV, but yes thanks to solo.ckpool and good people like -ck anyone can solo mine. 

Thank you for your input.

Hello greenuser! Maybe I can help. First, thank your husband for his service. His sacrifice is what makes us all free to use BTC and shout at will at whatever gives us grief. A big, fat, thank you.

Now, on to your problems. For solo mining you're going to blow a lot of electricity running a full node and mining on it. If your computer isn't on all the time normally I'd just point my stuff at ckpool and let it run. That will save you some $$$ on the power bill..

If your computer is running all the time you may still have problems since you're running a U3 and the core Bitcoin-qt on a 1.7 ghz machine. That's a lot of work for a small processor. Don't whip the baby. In short, I wouldn't run a full node in your situation.


Now for the "futility" argument - no, it's not entirely futile to solo mine with 68 GH/s. It may never happen though, at least not in your lifetime. Of course it could happen tomorrow. It's like buying a lottery ticket you know. You may win and you may not. You still keep playing

For reference, we had one guy hit a block with 1.5 TH/s a week or so ago. My block was hit with 430 gh/s on an S3 miner with a bad chip, but that was when diff was 51billion and September of 2015. It's now 103 billion and almost 4 months later with no hit.


So in summary you should absolutely run your solo mining rigs but again, don't expect anything for a good long while. It's just gambling right now. Keep your pool mining going as well so you have some income coming in and keep your fingers crossed. And plan wisely for when you win. Luck favors the prepared, Dahling!  

1 U3 playing the lottery

"bestshare": 2102158.0663473425, "bestever": 11519889

Good luck Belligerent Fool 

Hello all using this thread.  This is my first post on a bitcoin forum plus, I am also new to Bitcoin.  I have educated myself as best I can given that the info is so distributed around the net as it is and, I have been mining in Slush pool for a month.  I have read some of this thread but it is 441pages long so apologies in advance for asking stupid stuff.

I have two Bifury x2 with active cooling that run at 4.2Gh/s each, and one AntMiner U3 giving 60Gh/s and powered by an old Fujitsu ATX, all running on an old Dell Inspiron 6000, laptop 1.7GHz processor / 2G RAM / Win7 with two instances of cgminer-4.9.2. (one instance for the two Bifury x2 & the other for the AntMiner U3 )
I also have a S3+ 444Gh/s.  That is a total of 512Gh/s pulling 445watts at the wall (including the laptop an external drive and a exsyx powered USB hub).

It has bee a big learning curve.  I have more than 20years experience in electronics but no real computer experience (well no more than the average housewife has), but I can now write .bat & .conf files. I am also out of work as there is no call for PCB assemblers now that pick and place machines can surface mount components so quickly.  I now care full time for my disabled partner who is an army veteran without a pension and is quite unwell.  We live on a very tight budget with little prospect of me working again due to my age.  If I could find a block, we could have a holiday and eat well for a while and I could afford to see a dentist too.

So...  I am looking for advice and this is where you guys come in.    Up until now I have had my ~500Gh/s pointing at Slush giving me 10mBTC every 4 days at the current difficulty of 113G . (No holiday there!)  So solo may give me a chance?

I am currently downloading the blockchain with bitcion-qt on to a 120Gb external drive with the old Inspiron (currently 3+ days in and now have 28.8Gb on the drive and still syncing... 1 year and 7 weeks to go).

I had planed to still run the S3+ on slush to help pay for the electric and solo mine with the rest via my full node but, I think I have to open port 8333 on my hub once the blockchain downloads - hmmm more to research I guess)

However, now that I have discovered solo.ckpool.org I could point the U3 and  Bifury x2s at solo.ckpool.org:3333 or de.ckpool.org:3333 (not sure which one as I am in south west of UK) and use my full node as backup as it will have UPS too... and also give me a some deference against ckpool going down.

Also, I don't know if the 1.7GHz possessor will run the U3 and the Bifury x2s as well as bitcion-qt. Maybe I will run only one instance of cgminer-4.9.2.
I had to shut down the U3 once the blockchain started to download because it had lots of HW errors. The two the Bifury x2s run ok though.

I know this is a ckpool thread and sorry for throwing so many of my problems out here but.... Ideas, critique welcome! 
Is a ~68Gh/s solo mining rig futile?  Am I just some mad old woman trying to work a miracle with a load of old junk? 
I know finding a block is a long shot, but its the best I can mussel up at the moment and my only chance of a holiday for myself and my man.
 
Thank you all in advance.

I'm trying my luck solo mining again, wish me BTC

It's been sometime since I've done the whole block find, been renting 1.5th for nearly a year.

It was this time last year I had my amazing block run of 5 in less than 2 weeks.
That money in the end went to good use and helped me out greatly, which I thank CK greatly for running this pool.

Sadly a year on, all I have to show for it is my car sitting on the drive, (damn imagine the car I could of had if it was at the current value).

Today, seems to be a lucky week again.... I've now finally amassed 1BTC via referrals on MMR - now I only normally post in here so it's you guys that have helped me achieve this. Didnt think it was possible with the initial low referral value, but lately someone has been hitting it really hard - I truely hope it pays off for you all who are renting.

Though please please guys be careful as to how much you are investing - Dont let it become an addiction and spoil your fun.

And remember you can find free btc (small value) from different faucets, they do eventually add up.

Only the redirector was affected by that attack so anyone already mining was unaffected. It should be back online now.

My sp20 started reporting solo as dead so I immediately figured I screwed something up but I pointed an s4 at it and it is now also reporting solo is dead. Oddly enough the geckos running in my office are still contributing quite well... this is odd.

port 3334 is up. I switched over to that

Is Solo down?  My miners are reporting dead on solo.ckpool.org:3333

"shares": 3937776045, "bestshare": 81536523136.822449, "bestever": 81536523136}

now only if it was a few weeks ago...... 

 If you're throwing 5ghs at the pool you WILL eventually hit a block. Heck, I hit with a simple 400 ghs S3. The thing is it may take you 5-50 years to hit or it may take you 30 days. It's all a numbers game.

The analogy I like to use is scratch-off lottery tickets. If you sit at the counter scratching tickets and you can do 10 per hour your chance of winning is pretty slim. If you clone yourself 100 times and 100 of you sit there scratching tickets your chances are much more improved. You can win much more often.

More TH/s = more clones of you. If you only have 400 gh/s then fire them up! Just don't count on a quick win. If you have 10 TH/s fire it up too! And your chances are much higher that you'll pull a winning ticket.

One of the last ones to hit a block here was using 1.5T, in the scheme of things, it's nothing!!

So you are saying it is pure luck factor. More TH/s you throw at it, more chances you have?

In other words, you could get solo block with the rig at 5GH/s, if you are extreeeeeeeemely lucky.

  sollo 
{"hashrate1m": "22.44T", "hashrate5m": "22.34T", "hashrate1hr": "22.41T", "hashrate1d": "21.04T", "hashrate7d": "20.04T ", "lastupdate": 1452626751, "workers": 7, "shares": 361291679, "bestshare": 57457254.480220214, "bestever": 906686229}

I got 10B+ on a Monarch BFL running at 500GH. :-)

How many TH/s?

"bestshare": 14892613.161111485, "bestever": 906686229}

It's just the highest share you've turned in since the last solve by the solo.ck pool and the highest share you've turned in ever, respectively. It's only for fun. It doesn't mean anything nor is it related to any progress toward finding a block by your miner.