How to check if Solo Mining works correctly
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Hi guys!
I’ve set up a small rig (2x1070) and configured it for solo ming. Yes I know “with this Hashrate you better go for pool mining”, “you’ll never solve a block”…
This Project will be scaled up sooner or later and I just want to gather some experience.
I was connected to the pool and it worked fine.
I have a synced wallet and configured the feathercoind to accept localhost.
I did Point the ccminer to the local Service and gave it a go.
I am Aware the it might take quite a while to eventually solve a block. But is there a way to see if it is working other than “just wait and see”?As I was in the pool, I adjusted the Intesity of the miner to create most valid Shares. More Intesity might result in higher Hashrate, but it won’t help if more stale Shares are generated. Obviously this all different in Solo, as I don’t get a Feedback in Terms of “Shares”. For the Network every Hash is useless if it’s not a solution to the current block…
I am a noob and this might be obvious to you guys. But I didn’t find anything online that answered this profoundly.
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I wouldn’t recommend solo mining currently, particularly as it doesn’t work in 0.9.6.x . This has not been a priority to fix, it is down for fixing in next version.
You can not see if solo mining is working until you get a block. To do something similar, I used to run my own node of p2pool on the local LAN. Obviously, you can set fees to zero etc.
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Hi wrapper!
Thanks so much for the reply! So at least it was not an obvious thing for me to miss, but in fact not easy to find out.
Please allow me to ask: What is the difference of running you own node with one miner (in my understanding this would be a pool with one client?) to actual solo mining? -
You are a node on the p2pool network. The difference (between totally solo mining) is you still “share” any blocks found (round the global pool).
The advantages over online pools, no central pool, no registration, no external pool, your own stats / charts / settings.
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P.S. even with guides etc, mining and developing crypto currency is for people “who like to play with computers”, to say the least.
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@wrapper
Damn, this is amazing! I did not see this yet. Thanks! I will have a look at this ASAP! (Can wait to get off work… Get home… Do ALL the chores… Kiss the wife and Kids good night… and start. ETA 10:30 pm :disappointed: ) -
You may find a guide I did useful.
https://wrapperband.github.io/FeathercoinWalletGuide/
https://github.com/wrapperband/FeathercoinWalletGuide
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@wrapper
Useful? - Nope. Nothing less than Excellent!
I have seen the guide before in my endavour to Setup the whole System in Ubuntu Server. Now it will help me again! -
In the end, solomining will give you approximately the same reward as poolmining. - You just have to be patient. For the “How to check if Solo Mining works correctly”, there is no indicatior, if you mine and you get displayed your hashes it looks fine. You wont get any message about submitted shares, as if you find a correct “Hash” its a Block. So if you miner says 1/1 ACCEPTED YAY! - You found a block.
Kindly regards,
ChekaZ -
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If anyone wants to know: SoloMining works for me. I solved a block after 5 days, which is above average. But this is a numbersgame. In the long run, it should level out to the to expect average value. So I hope :sweat_smile:
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@phlosen Congratulations!
