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Guide to solo mining bitbar:

All you have to do is follow the steps for other solo mining:

First, download the bitbar qt client:

• Windows zip - http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitbar/files/bitbar-win32.zip/download
  
• Official site for other builds (linux, source code): http://bitbar.biz/downloads

Set up a username and pass in bitbar.conf


Download cgminer (http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/2.11/cgminer-2.11.4-windows.7z) (http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/) {Don't forget the Catalyst drivers and SDK}, then in cgminer input your username and pass, then set the URL in cgminer to http://127.0.0.1:9344


Or create up a custom .bat file (ie minebitbar.bat) and input the above code into the bat file in a text editor. Set your own custom settings for maximum hashrate.

Is solomining viable at this point? Hard to say, if your hashrate is high >2000kh/s, then yes, perhaps. Current difficulty has risen due to the addition of bitbar to coinchoose and to the exchange bter. I would expect difficulty to lower in the coming days, when it does, it would be a great time to solomine if you can spare the hashpower.

Alternatively, join one of the pools! Use similar settings to the above, but with the url and port changed to the pools, and the username and password changed to your workers

https://btb.binarycoins.eu/
http://btb.ltcoin.net/

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OH  YEAH

Going through the recent blocks on the block explorer shows that a number of people are successfully solo mining. Very interesting. ;D

thank you very much

Forgot to mention one important detail. When solo mining, you need to start the qt program with the -server command.

So for example, create a .bat file again, call it bitbarserver.bat

edit the file in a text editor to contain


Then start your cgminer through your other .bat file as in the first post.

Also note that you must have installed and run bitcoin-qt before running bitbar-qt, bitbar-qt appears to depend on one file created by bitcoin-qt.

Will be using this, thanks.

Great guide!

You should expand on this, it's hard to get a single box to have a hashrate of >2MH/s.  If a user has a farm, or >1 computer, they need to be able to connect.

If your local home network is in the 192.168.0.1 range, then add a 2nd line in the conf that is


and then you can connect other PC's to mine to the single bitbard instance.

I just checked the bitbar mining calculator on coinwarz (http://www.coinwarz.com/calculators/bitbar-mining-calculator) and it shows it would take about .6 days to generate a block mining solo based on my hash rate, but this is heavily dependent on luck.  

I wonder if it is even worth mining solo given the current hash rate of the network.  It would be I guess if you have a GPU farm.

Hah, thanks for this guide! 1.2Mh and I found my first block after 10 minutes. Sweet! Probably won't find anything else for the next 7 days but at least it worked.  ;D

Hash rate has gone down recently due to coin hoppers moving away, so it should make it more realistic for the average joe.

Good to hear!

Yes.  And what the hoppers might have misunderstood is that the payout will adjust also.  Eyes open  :D

I may need to give this a shot...haven't stretched my wings with cgminer yet...just using reaper.  Can you solo-mine with Reaper?

You sure can, you just need to set the config file.

Looking at the network hash rate it might be time to get back into solo mining bitbar.

What is reaper? Should I mine with reaper or cgminer?

Depends on your GPU, but generally cgminer

I have tried solo mining on BTB once before but was unsuccessful. Well decided to give it another try and have everything setup and running. One of my rigs says its best share has been 1.04M but I did not get a block. I am also seeing some messages that say that pool 0 has become unavailable and the shares are stale. Any ideas?

I have been mining several other coins solo with no issues but this one is eluding me. I have about 9 Mh/s pointed at it right now. Going ot have to go elsewhere if I can't figure out what the problem is.   ???

Just to make sure. I got the right stuff and to recap it.
So I do the following :
First, download the bitbar qt client:

Windows zip - http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitbar/files/bitbar-win32.zip/download
Official site for other builds (linux, source code): http://bitbar.biz/downloads

Set up a username and pass in bitbar.conf

Code:
    server=1
    rpcuser=USERNAME
    rpcpassword=PASSWORD
    rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
    rpcallowip=192.168.0.* (home network)
    rpcport=9344

Download cgminer (http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/2.11/cgminer-2.11.4-windows.7z) (http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/) {Don't forget the Catalyst drivers and SDK}, then in cgminer input your username and pass, then set the URL in cgminer to http://127.0.0.1:9344

Run bat file with line  bitbar-qt.exe -server

then
Code:
    cgminer --scrypt -o http://127.0.0.1:9344 -u USERNAME-p PASSWORD

I know it's outdated but I wish to learn how to set up solo mining properly.

Let me know if I am wrong or feel free to quote and bold in red my mistakes.

Thanks!

So what if my miners are controlled with a ras pi via bfgminer or cgminer or whichever... and the wallet is on a different computer.  Please someone correct me but isn't the 127.0....address put in because the wallet is on the same computer as the mining software? So i could essentially mine and keep the wallet in 2 different spots in the world as long as the full IP is put in instead of the 127.0....address?