Feathercoin Stratum Server

I have my Solo FTC server up and running with multiple rigs connecting and finding blocks.

Whenever I start the mining_proxy.exe it does not work properly. Keeps saying invalid credentials even though i set the credentials in the bat file on load.

Anyone get Stratum and or VARDIFF to work with FTC?

Nutnut

Personally no but a good few have as most of the pools run stratum and many with vardiff.

Daft question though, what miner are you using as CGMiner doesn’t need the proxy?

FoBoT

i have used mining_proxy.exe to connect to stratum backend at coinotron.com

here is my .bat file when used with cpu miner, you should be able to substitute another miner and it should work
the ping line is to give time for the proxy to fully run before the miner starts

start cmd /c “mining_proxy.exe” -pa scrypt -o coinotron.com -p 3337
PING 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 3000 >NUL
START /B /wait /LOW minerd.exe --userpass=: --url=localhost:8332

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This is likely due to you not pointing the mining proxy to your stratum server. By default it points to slushs bitcoin pool. Follow the above example for how to specify your stratum server to point the mining proxy to.

If you are GPU mining though, it would be wise to avoid the mining proxy altogether. This is only used for miners that cannot support stratum by default such as poolers cpuminer (minerd) which is just a cpu miner.
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Of course I pointed the proxy at my server!

Ok, maybe I am doing this wrong then, do I need a stratum server running and not the proxy? Should I be skipping the proxy and find just a solo stratum server?
I though that’s what the proxy was is Stratum? Am I wrong?

Thanks

I am not using a pool. I am running my own pool. I am mining from the Feathercoin wallet. I have 2 rigs remotely connected to it and mining now. I want to get Stratum installed and VARDIFF install. How do I do that?

Thanks so much!

Thanks D2, that helps a lot.

I do not agree with you that you need 40+Mh/s in order to be profitable at solo mining. I mean look at the hash rate distribution, most people are waaay under that and you must assume that if they have slow speeds and are mining solo it is working out for them. I have enough power to be in spot 6 of the has rate distribution and I have found a block in my first 4 hours so I think your statement is a little false and maybe even misleading so people don’t try to solo mine!?

But besides that thanks for your help. Looks like I will just keep stumbling around till I deiced to give up and just leave it with no stratum. :)

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Alternatively, you could set up your own p2pool: http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?topic=863.0

With p2pool you are running your own node but your hash rate doesn’t need to be insane as you are getting a shared reward that is split between the entire p2pool network.

http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?topic=863.0
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Ok nice, I am looking now! :D However doesn’t that defeat the whole purpose of “solo” mining?

Here is the chart I was looking at http://www.coinarmy.com/feathercoin-pools-ftc/

Nutnut

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Thanks D2, that helps a lot.

I do not agree with you that you need 40+Mh/s in order to be profitable at solo mining. I mean look at the hash rate distribution, most people are waaay under that and you must assume that if they have slow speeds and are mining solo it is working out for them. I have enough power to be in spot 6 of the has rate distribution and I have found a block in my first 4 hours so I think your statement is a little false and maybe even misleading so people don’t try to solo mine!?

But besides that thanks for your help. Looks like I will just keep stumbling around till I deiced to give up and just leave it with no stratum. :)
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I mined solo for a while - here’s the results. http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?topic=1170.0

Day 1 was good but then it all went to crap (at one point i went 29 hours without a block) and went back to the pool mining. I have 15MHs+ and should of had a block every 7 hours.

pool mining or p2pool is your friend IMHO.

Oh, and you can have stratum whilst solomining with cgminer by specifying a second pool in your config that has stratum and use the --failover-only switch. it will mine to the primary pool (your wallet) but pull stratum from the secondary pool. As for Vardiff - your solomining behind your wallet so you will be mining at the ftc diff level.

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Thanks D2, that helps a lot.

I do not agree with you that you need 40+Mh/s in order to be profitable at solo mining. I mean look at the hash rate distribution, most people are waaay under that and you must assume that if they have slow speeds and are mining solo it is working out for them. I have enough power to be in spot 6 of the has rate distribution and I have found a block in my first 4 hours so I think your statement is a little false and maybe even misleading so people don’t try to solo mine!?

But besides that thanks for your help. Looks like I will just keep stumbling around till I deiced to give up and just leave it with no stratum. :)
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I mined solo for a while - here’s the results. http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?topic=1170.0

Day 1 was good but then it all went to crap (at one point i went 29 hours without a block) and went back to the pool mining. I have 15MHs+ and should of had a block every 7 hours.

pool mining or p2pool is your friend IMHO.

Oh, and you can have stratum whilst solomining with cgminer by specifying a second pool in your config that has stratum and use the --failover-only switch. it will mine to the primary pool (your wallet) but pull stratum from the secondary pool. As for Vardiff - your solomining behind your wallet so you will be mining at the ftc diff level.
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Rock on man, thank you for all this very useful information! I will definitely be using what you said! :D Thank again!!