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With 2 GPUs, aprox 800 Mh/s. Wish me luck  ;D

Good luck!

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/278/4/5/fury_feisar_by_threedmaniak-d5gsdmv.jpg

wipeout is not a videogame. it's a way of life.

Good luck! Hope you get at least 1 satoshi!

I'll be more realistic and hope you get at least 25BTC ;)

hey you joined me and my CPU!!

First one to hit a block has to pay the other ok :P

Thanks for the F-Bomb in the subject line.  We really don't have enough of that now do we?  Yes that is sarcasm.

But good luck in your solo mining endeavor.  I will be following suit in another difficulty change, or two.  Yes that is genuine support for the idea.
Sam

Good luck, why not do it with USB eruptor as its 100x more energy efficient :)

Bon voyage!

Not tomorrow. Just look at the difficulty...... You should had started today.

Wipeout with Oculus Rift would be EPIC!

try to find a LTC block with your hw.

The PC is still downloading the blockchain via a crappy wireless connection, so I guess I'll only start Friday...

Yes, Wipeout is a way of life, so were Amiga games and is Unreal Tournament! ;D

45 years on average, according to a bitcoin calculator  ;D

Does it consider future difficulty increase?

I don't think so, 45 years isn't long for 800Mh/S, I remember seeing like 3000 years for 3 USB Eruptor. After factoring the difficulty increment..

With the cost of power, I think you should buy lottery other than do the solo mining, maybe you can be rich sooner. ;D

If you want to involve luck into mining sign in ozco.in and mine on POT. Yesterday my 400MH/s Lancelot found nice 2M share and paid 0.0028 BTC instead of 0.00000009 normal share...
Good luck.

Why not you sell away your GPU and do 9900x payout on primedice.com. You still have 0.01% chance which is higher then what you are doing now :)

What he should do is capture the miner session and live stream it so everyone can watch too  ;D

Can you point me to threads on how to solo mine?

Damn, what a pain in the ass it has been trying to make it work.

I'll try tomorrow (sunday). If I can't make it, screw this

Mining solo is a perfectly valid choice which is quite underrated. I'm mining solo with my 6 usb erupter simply because I don't care about the small profit I would make with pool mining.
So I rather take my chances with solo mining. The biggest share I found so far is only 8.5M but I don't loose my hope, and it's fun to check every morning if there is a "surprise".
Obviously I'm also still fully contributing to the bitcoin network, whether I will mine a block or not.

What trouble are you having?  Setting up solo mining is very easy.  I thought you were using a couple GPU's?

I pointed my 19-20Ghs at my Bitcoin-QT .85 and it worked fine.  It leaked shares on block changes but the rest of the time it seemed to keep my hardware busy.

I was unable to generate the .bin's for any kernel. It took me a while to figure out that I had to do one at a time, i.e. disable card at the Device Manager. Then I made it, but the cards started mining at high voltage (wtf!?), risking to toast the GPUs or the PSU (which already happened before I bought the Corsair)

Finally, the miner isn't unable to connect to the rpcport of bitcoin, while it had no trouble when I solo mined 2 scrypt coins.

In the middle of this and to had to the mess, the wireless dongle crapped out.

Tomorrow I'll try again for the last time. If it works, I'll provide an URL and password for VNC viewer  :)

You have a better chance wining the lottery  :P

Off it and take the power cost to any online gambling site you choose. You have better chance...

Thought about doing this also, I don't have the attentions span to not see a reward. Id give up quick

So how is your mining? Have you found a block?

Let moi summarize:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment

You will need to start a cult of custodians for your experiment since difficulty will only increase exponential thanks to BTC developers.

May I suggest you this very instructive book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz  :P

You are a brave soul.

Good luck!

Gah, I forgot about this!

Didn't keep my promise. Shame, shame  :-[

Just curious, what did you end up doing it with your GPU?

Good choice, but isn't it better to sell it away while it still have values?

I got a few BE's soloing, Only 5 (1.6GHs) For about a month now, Nothing yet LOL  ::)

Nice, better and more fun then playing the lottery :)

I once did that and gave up trying after trying for a month...

It definitely doesn't hurt to go solo with something like USB BE's, or even a blade, especially if the electricity was already being used. Honestly for someone who wants the least investment with the best potential payout, the best bet is to do exactly that.. grab a few USB BE's or a blade and just let them sit and work.

I've been going solo a few times lately with my equipment. Here's to hoping.

That's the way to do. You must have big balls.

I dunno if this is directed to me or the OP, but just a couple days ago I found a block.

Of course it was just hours before switching to solo.. that's my luck.

Tried it for a month and not getting anything and continues :)

The more you solo-mine, the bigger your balls get.

lol... until one day you hit a block, and you explode ;)

It will be the ultimate orgasm. You'll probably die from it but it definitely worth it as we all die one day.

lolz, heart attack? :)

As some point you should consult with you physician if this condition continues to increase.  Some situation lasting just longer than four hours suggest you seek medical help  :o

Haha, agree but 4 hours is alittle short right? I tried 3 days before giving up solo CPU mining for primecoin...

Beter solo mine a real gold in Alaska now

Now that's an idea.

Lets set up a Group Buy. Buy shares to fund a solo mining expedition for physical gold to Africa or wherever else gold is found.

Nice but who would accept such an expedition ?

...Someone with really really big balls I guess.

Regardless of testicular girth, if you can get the money together, I am game for a 6-month long hunt.

:-)

Doesn't matter who's balls is bigger. What are you going to do if you still don't get any block after a year? continues??

The cards will probably work nicely as a heater during colder days even if he doesn't find a block  :D

Im going to solo with three jallies I ordered if they ever show up. Same idea... nothing or big, that's the way to go.

Maybe worth a shot to team Mine. Get a few buddys you trust/ trust you, and mine hit a block and share with friends. I know you prolly want the whole block to yourself but nobody wants to wait a year to get paid once. Then get paid again 6 years later

How did it go? :D

LOL as in pool mining.

SOLO mining is overrated, I tried and wasted 1 week getting nothing....

Nothing or big, thas the only use for my 2 USB Block Errupters now.

pool- random # people, random hash power. One person always benefits more.
team- You know and trust the few you team up with.  Share block equally, 5 person team 5 btc each.

So a pool, kinda, maybe one of them little kiddy pools from walmart. Just big enough for a few people and a fart.

Just like dodge ball, there will be high power and low power teams. Even the small kid with the helmet wants to be part of the team. Most people will only want power players, Some may be kind and pick up slack for others.

Thats worse then lottery..

Yes! I've joined in the solo mining fight, with one BE. Still having fun with pushpool, but I think I'm more or less set up.

Waiting for that day, sometime after I'm dead, when I get "Upstream: Accepted" in pushpool...

Been solo mining on my CPU at 1.2 Mh/s. Gonna get me a block hopefully before the end of the century.

Might solo mine with some block erupters just for the hell of it.

FUCK IT! Haha.

Best of luck.

lolz, how long already did you do this? Why waste your energy and a good CPU?

been thinking about turning all my block erupters to solo for a few days a month,    maybe every friday and saturday sunday.....   just try my luck!

Have you found a block yet?

You can ask this again 10 years later and still the same :)

good luck!! ahha solo mine!!

Ok, I am going to solo mine with my GPU for a day.... Just need some luck and I will be 10k richer.. :)

Solo mining is overrated, gambling is underrated

Why not solo mine primecoin or litecoin instead? Your odds are much better...

i would rather do this than buy a lottery ticket.

I was going to say this too, the odd for lottery is higher then solo mining..

Really?? On what formula are you coming up with this?? just wondering.

Well, look at the network hashrate and compare to the hashrate that you have.. it should be about 0.000000001 depending on your hash rate....

Erm, FYI you can mine PTS with CPU...... its called protoshare....

I would say its about the same as lottery.... both having really low odds...

I don't get it, the difficulty is 500million what do 2M share do?

Hope you get a block!  ;D

I've started solo mining on an old clunker PC with three RedFuries over the weekend.

As I figure it, mining is all about luck. The chance that I can solve a block with a red fury (or even a block erupter) is the same whether i am in a pool or solo.

The only difference is that if my miner solves a block whilst in a block, i get next to nothing for it. I keep earning a trickle of income regardless.

On the other hand, even if after six months I am able to get a single block in solo, I will be laughing all the way to the bank (my wallet, actually).

So here is to all those brave souls who are out there.

I promise to come back to this thread if I hit the jackpot. If someone else is successful before me, do post here.

Slightly bigger cut of the 25 BTC shared pie.

better use usb asic.

Can you read?

OMG I FOUND A BLOCK!

https://blockchain.info/block-height/270578

alas, I was pool mining.

POT is a payment type that rewards for solving higher difficulty shares.  If you beat the current difficulty you get 25BTC + fees.  Say you solve a 10 million dif share, the pool kind of pats you on the back by paying you more for that share (even though they get nothing for it).  Of course they have to skimp somewhere so regular shares a worth a lot less.  Kind of like PPS on a curve.

I believe only Ozcoin had it (recently removed).

In Soviet Russia, blocks solo mine YOU!

Good luck, dude

Hope you catch a big fish  ;)

I'm solo'n LTC with 2 gpus @ 720 khash.

Regardless of the odds its really 50/50. ;)  eg. You will or will not find a block.

Good luck to all. May the Satoshi be with you.

At least soloing on LTC have higher chance then Bitcoin. Good choice :)

Thx :)

PPC and/or BTC are next. lol