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Title: How can I SOLO mine any Altcoin
Post by: The_Clown on October 04, 2015, 12:50:31 AM
How can I SOLO mine any altcoin weather it be scrypt SHA etc i need help please respond

Title: Re: How can I SOLO mine any Altcoin
Post by: MarkAz on October 04, 2015, 05:31:54 AM
I can only speak with experience using an ASIC (A2 Terminator's) and CGMiner, but it's really pretty simple - you just install the wallet for whatever coin you're going to mine, and configure the RPC port, make sure that server is set in it's .conf file and that it allows the IP address of your hardware.  Then on the miner, just point it to the RPC IP and port where the wallet is running - and that's it!  Assuming you have everything setup correctly, it should be mining away, and if you look at CGMiner's stats, you should see it getting works, etc.

Each client is slightly different, so there's no one-size-fits-all way to get them running, but once you follow the instructions to get one one, and have it working - all of the others are almost the same, with maybe a few tweaks here and there to get them working. 

It's also worth noting that I had problems pointing more than one Terminator at a wallet, so in general just assume you can only point one machine at them - or if you want to use more, you'll have to setup a pool (like P2Pool) - but that is a story for another day.  ;)

Hope that helps!

Title: Re: How can I SOLO mine any Altcoin
Post by: tittiecoiner on October 04, 2015, 10:12:05 PM
A good how-to can be found in this post (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1196719.msg12578915#msg12578915)

Title: Re: How can I SOLO mine any Altcoin
Post by: LPape on March 07, 2016, 12:04:21 AM
Quote from: MarkAz on October 04, 2015, 05:31:54 AM
I can only speak with experience using an ASIC (A2 Terminator's) and CGMiner, but it's really pretty simple - you just install the wallet for whatever coin you're going to mine, and configure the RPC port, make sure that server is set in it's .conf file and that it allows the IP address of your hardware.  Then on the miner, just point it to the RPC IP and port where the wallet is running - and that's it!  Assuming you have everything setup correctly, it should be mining away, and if you look at CGMiner's stats, you should see it getting works, etc.

Each client is slightly different, so there's no one-size-fits-all way to get them running, but once you follow the instructions to get one one, and have it working - all of the others are almost the same, with maybe a few tweaks here and there to get them working. 

It's also worth noting that I had problems pointing more than one Terminator at a wallet, so in general just assume you can only point one machine at them - or if you want to use more, you'll have to setup a pool (like P2Pool) - but that is a story for another day.  ;)

Hope that helps!


example of conf file please

rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=password
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=9332
daemon=1
server=1
gen=0

Title: Re: How can I SOLO mine any Altcoin
Post by: WorkHorse78 on March 07, 2016, 07:42:49 PM
*** Example of config file***

{C:\Users\%Windowsusername%\AppData\Roaming\altcoin\altcoin.conf}
Code:
rpcuser=username ; Your Miner's Username
rpcpassword=password ; Your Miner's Password

rpcallowip=127.0.0.1 ; Open your Localhoast IP Address
rpcallowip=192.168.*.* ; Open IP Address from a different IP on Router
rpcconnect=127.0.0.1 ; Allow Miner to connect by Localhost.
rpcconnect=192.168.*.* ;  Allow Miner to connect by a different IP on Router

rpcport=9332 ; Port to Mine to(Check to make sure that your wallet supports a specific port)
listen=1 ; Wait for connections
daemon=1 ; May or may not be needed?
algo=sha256d ; Use Mining algorithm(Some wallets use different algorithms)
server=1 ; Allow Local Mining
gen=0 ; CPU Mining with Wallet Program(0 = off, 1 = on)

*** Example of Batch file***
{runaltcoin.bat}
Code:
cgminer.exe -o http://localhost:9332 -u username -p password --btc-address YourAltCoinAddress
pause ; Pause allowed after program finished for display of any errors.

If there are any other questions, I'm sure the Community here would love to help!

Title: Re: How can I SOLO mine any Altcoin
Post by: LPape on March 07, 2016, 08:08:10 PM
Quote from: WorkHorse78 on March 07, 2016, 07:42:49 PM
*** Example of config file***

{C:\Users\%Windowsusername%\AppData\Roaming\altcoin\altcoin.conf}
Code:
rpcuser=username ; Your Miner's Username
rpcpassword=password ; Your Miner's Password

rpcallowip=127.0.0.1 ; Open your Localhoast IP Address
rpcallowip=192.168.*.* ; Open IP Address from a different IP on Router
rpcconnect=127.0.0.1 ; Allow Miner to connect by Localhost.
rpcconnect=192.168.*.* ;  Allow Miner to connect by a different IP on Router

rpcport=9332 ; Port to Mine to(Check to make sure that your wallet supports a specific port)
listen=1 ; Wait for connections
daemon=1 ; May or may not be needed?
algo=sha256d ; Use Mining algorithm(Some wallets use different algorithms)
server=1 ; Allow Local Mining
gen=0 ; CPU Mining with Wallet Program(0 = off, 1 = on)

*** Example of Batch file***
{runaltcoin.bat}
Code:
cgminer.exe -o http://localhost:9332 -u username -p password --btc-address YourAltCoinAddress
pause ; Pause allowed after program finished for display of any errors.

If there are any other questions, I'm sure the Community here would love to help!

thanks for the help I will let you know if the miner can find it.

Title: Re: How can I SOLO mine any Altcoin
Post by: Grctest on April 07, 2016, 06:49:57 PM
You can solo crunch Gridcoin pretty easily. There's guides on how to do so on the main website: http://www.gridcoin.us


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