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Hi,
 I have started solo mining today after 3days in a pool, it took a while for me to setup using bitcoin-qt and Bfgminer but now i think its working.....

I say think because its showing when a new new block is found but My ICA 0: reads 334.1 / 333.5 / 0.00Mh/s when i was in a pool i had 330 + across all 3 of these is this correct?

or have i done something wrong

Hope You can help 

Here is a screen shot of my bfgminer window

http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/6592/dlb0.png


i am just after some confirmation that i am solo mining correctly and that i'm not just watching blocks being created lol

with pool mining its easy to see you are working but solo mining i'm unsure if i did it all correctly

i am on windows 7
with a usb erupter

I can't see anything on that screenshot, but if it tells you the difficulty of the network then it's working. You won't get a block easily on your own though... With an erupter, you'll need around TEN YEARS. And that ONLY if the difficulty doesn't change at all.

thank you very much for your reply. I do see the difficulty so it must be working.

i understand that it could take up to 10 yrs to mine a block but i feel like i need to be in it to win it as i was not making very much in pools.

same questions.

You might be earning very little in pools, but you'll earn nothing on solo mining unless you buy really, really good hardware.

Solo mining is.. lottery :/ Even with "strong" hardware, you should stay in pool.. And by strong I mean 500GH/s and more, so imagine being solo with 0.333 GH/s :(

Its a lottery with lottery odds (at this hashrate) but without the lottery winnings.

Mine on a pool, use the profit to buy scratch off tickets. I'd bet you'll end up with more in the end.

thanks for all the replys its something i'm going to look into more

 is it possible to have 2 usb erupters running on 1Pc - one Mining solo the other in a pool so i can enter the "Lottery" and mine with a pool?

There is a way to specify certain USB devices in bfgminer and cgminer. I'd imagine it is possible to run two separate instances of cg/bfg with one mining a pool, and one on it's own.

Not a lot of people would want to run them this way though, so you'll likely need to read the readme to figure out how to set it up. I doubt there is a "how-to" for this anywhere, in other words.

I agree that solo mining is like the lottery. I NEVER considered solo mining, and assumed I'd never find a block.

I've written a small application that displays cgminer stats. At one point I added some code that turns the "number of blocks found" red instead of green when a block had been found. I thought "Too bad I'll never see this code work in REAL Life." It wasn't even two weeks later that I found a block! The morning I woke up and saw that red number 1 on my block found display was the ONLY time I've wished I'd been doing solo mining... lol

I guess I'm a confirmed pool miner...

I was on several pools then I finally got bfgminer compiled right to allow me to solo mine with my blades.

Right now I have bfgminer to blance between bitcoin and zetacoin solo each, and bitparking.

The way I look at it, I will mine zetacoins, and if I just happen to get a btc block then I'll be happy.