Title: I can't get solo mining to work at all :( Post by: jondecker76 on December 13, 2013, 11:12:52 PM I've spent the entire day trying to get bitcoind set up for solo mining on a spare server (runing Ubuntu 12.04 server edition) after getting some Asicminer Erupter blades in today. I have the latest bitcoind installed and working fine (I.e. I have an rpc user/password setup in bitcoin.conf, and can connect to the daemon and issue commands such as getinfo, etc. just fine)
I think the problem is that I'm trying to access the bitcoin server from outside of localhost (127.0.0.1) I've searched everywhere and I can't find any instances where people are solo mining where bitcoind is running on remote machines. I am quite positive that everything is configured correctly - this is driving me crazy! I'm a very experienced linux administrator and programmer, so having such problems doing something so trivial is pretty frustrating. Here is my bitcoin.conf (edited with fictional information of course) Code: rpcallowip=192.168.50.* #have tried rpcallowip=* as well I am starting bitcoind like this: Code: bitcoind -daemon I've tried various miners on my 192.168.50.* subnet, including my new ASICminer blades, an Android CPU miner and cpuminer on another computer. None of them will even connect successfully. I can run cpuminer on localhost just fine - i just can't get anything to work from outside of localhost. I've even tried rpcallowip=* with no success. Does anyone have any idea at all what is wrong?? Yes, I understand that there is a good chance that I won't ever solve a block solo mining and I'm well aware of the odds - but it is something that I would like to do. Thanks! Title: Re: I can't get solo mining to work at all :( Post by: jondecker76 on December 14, 2013, 01:19:01 AM Still playing with this and watching the debug log.. What does all of this mean? :
Code: 2013-12-14 01:18:02 AcceptToMemoryPool: 96.241.49.200:8333 /Satoshi:0.8.5/ : accepted 2c9a3570a3f11a80c1edb9520aec4cd39f6aaca0655b06fa22c25ab005d2cdfa (poolsz 85) Title: Re: I can't get solo mining to work at all :( Post by: traiz on December 14, 2013, 02:13:50 AM Try bgminer and cgminer (just to see if it works)
There may be a conflict since you're using an ASIC Title: Re: I can't get solo mining to work at all :( Post by: jondecker76 on December 14, 2013, 02:31:24 AM Try bgminer and cgminer (just to see if it works) There may be a conflict since you're using an ASIC The blade has it's own integrated mining software, so it's not possible to slave the ASICs with other software. There shouldn't be a problem, as the blade uses the getwork protocol used by bitcoind I'm about to give up for the night. At least I have it set up through a stratum mining proxy for now hashing on a pool. Title: Re: I can't get solo mining to work at all :( Post by: Trongersoll on December 16, 2013, 07:42:08 PM Try bgminer and cgminer (just to see if it works) There may be a conflict since you're using an ASIC The blade has it's own integrated mining software, so it's not possible to slave the ASICs with other software. There shouldn't be a problem, as the blade uses the getwork protocol used by bitcoind I'm about to give up for the night. At least I have it set up through a stratum mining proxy for now hashing on a pool. Blades maybe(are) too fast for bitcoind to keep up with. try putting a proxy between the blades and bitcoind. |