Topic: [∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 2% fee solo mining USA/DE 255 blocks solved! - page 482. (Read 1514844 times)

If all the coin ends up at the generation address, how is your fee address paid?

Having a chance to read a relatively compact yet complex and well structured bit of C is a great resource for beginners to learn from an expert. So thanks a lot for creating and open-sourcing the code.

Could you recommend a good resource to learn modern style, multi-threaded and safe C? I've got K&R but that doesn't have the paradigms and approaches that I think would actually be used these days - or should I just go to kernel.org and start reading


On the pool, it's great to give another option for miners to choose from. As smaller miners find that it's not economic to mine with low volatility, perhaps embracing the high volatility and having a lottery ticket option can give a good reason for some of these guys to keep going.

Good luck - I hope someone finds a block or two on the pool soon.

It's about time you made a pool.  I've always felt you got too much sleep 

I will be trying this out with an S1 I inherited yesterday

This pool is designed to fill a niche and be complementary to a comprehensive regular pooled mining solution currently under development with the ckpool code which will hopefully be able to open up to the public in the near future.

In addition to providing a unique service to miners, this pool is a technology development demonstration and testing ground for the massively scaleable ultra-low overhead  ckpool code under heavy development.  It is intentionally designed to be extremely low frill and minimally featured but provide maximum performance.

There are no configuration options and all miners will initially start out at diff 1024 but the pool offers full vardiff support from ultra low speed devices to any sized massive pooled solo farms. While shares have no intrinsic value at all with this solo mining, they provide useful feedback to miners wishing to monitor their performance locally.

Enjoy, and good luck!

http://solo.ckpool.org

No frills, no fuss 2% fee anonymous solo bitcoin mining for everyone

No registration required, no payment schemes no pool op wallets

Note that mining here means contributing to segwit activation since this is the logical choice for the bitcoin network moving forward. Bitcoin unlimited is a disruptive hostile fork that does not have bitcoin's best interest at heart and they do not have the expertise to maintain the network's health safely and securely.

Configuration:
Just point your miner to: stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333 or port 443
Asicminer tube/prisma owners need to point to a special proxy at solo.ckpool.org:3335
If you use an incompatible rental service that refuses to work on port 3333 try port 4334

Set your username to your btcaddress with any or even no worker extension, and any password.
eg: cgminer -o stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333 -u 1PKN98VN2z5gwSGZvGKS2bj8aADZBkyhkZ.0 -p x
If you enter an invalid address you will be rejected

Pick the server nearest you!
Server locations:
US Mid: mine to solo.ckpool.org:3333
Germany: mine to de.ckpool.org:3333
Mainland China ONLY:
    cnsolo.ckpool.org:3333
    cnsolo.ckpool.org:4334 For High Diff/Low bandwidth mining only.

Blocks solved:
https://btc.com/stats/pool/Solo%20CK

Suitable for:
    Large mining farms
    Regular miners struggling to recoup costs who wish to take extra risk for greater reward potential for part or all of their hashrate
    The last backup for all miners who don't have a solo setup or wish to avoid the overheads of running one
    Miners with old/inefficient miners that will never earn any rewards through regular mining that wish to leave it mining as a lottery

Proxy support:
Miners with many devices wishing to consolidate their devices into a single connection to solo ckpool are recommended to use the complementary ckpool code as ckproxy stratum proxy (for linux).
Ckpool code is available here: https://bitbucket.org/ckolivas/ckpool

Statistics:
Simple total pool statistics can be found at http://solo.ckpool.org/pool/
Solo.ckpool.org currently only displays minimal per user and per worker information based on btcaddress.
To access this, enter your BTC address at the end of: http://solo.ckpool.org/users/
or your workername at the end of: http://solo.ckpool.org/workers/

Advantages over regular solo mining:
Mining at solo.ckpool.org avoids the overheads of running a full bitcoin node that requires both great storage and bandwidth for optimal performance.
Solo.ckpool.org is extensively connected to high speed low latency bitcoin nodes for rapid block change notification and propagation.
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.

How it works:
ckpool automatically takes your bitcoin address and gives you a unique stratum connection mining to your own address.
If you find a block, 98% of the block reward + transaction fees get generated directly at your bitcoin address!
There is no need to worry about passwords, logins, withdrawals, authentication or pool wallet hacks.
You remain anonymous apart from your btc address.
All you need to confirm you are mining to your own address is to examine the coinbase and template sent to you over stratum.
Note that if you do not find a block, you get no reward at all with solo mining.
2% goes to 1PKN98VN2z5gwSGZvGKS2bj8aADZBkyhkZ to operate the pool and contribute to further ckpool code development.


Pool code and pool operated and created by Con Kolivas, creator of cgminer and ckpool.