Title: Help needed setting up solo mining Post by: MEPHuk on January 21, 2014, 06:31:31 PM Hi, i need help setting up solo mining. I found this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=83371.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=83371.0), but i wont be mining litecoin. But will most of that notepad entry still be relevant for other coins ? (say. offerings).
Thanks in advance MEPH Title: Re: Help needed setting up solo mining Post by: MEPHuk on January 21, 2014, 08:05:10 PM Anyone ?
MEPH Title: Re: Help needed setting up solo mining Post by: kfactor on January 22, 2014, 12:09:33 AM Quick & Dirty Method
If you haven't already, setup bitcoin-qt (latest is 0.8.6) and download the blockchain. Once bitcoin-qt is up to date, shut it down (close application) and do the following: Assuming windows machines 1) Navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\your_user\Application Data\Bitcoin (If you can't find this folder, enable "show hidden files" in your control panel under folder options / view) 2) In the above folder edit or create "bitcoin.conf" and insert the following: daemon=1 server=1 gen=0 rpcuser=your_chosen_user_name rpcpassword=your_chosen_user_password rpcallowip=127.0.0.1 rpcallowip=192.168.2.* rpcport=8332
3) Save bitcoin.conf file 4) Navigate to your bitcoin-qt install (probably C:\Program Files\Bitcoin) 5) Launch bitcoin-qt in server mode. You can do this a few ways: A) Hold shift and right-click anywhere in the bitcoin folder and select "open command window here". In dos box type "bitcoin-qt.exe -server". Bitcoin will load and your solo pool is running. or B) Create a batch file anywhere on your machine with the following code, which when run will open a box and prompt you to hit a key before launching bitcoin-qt in server mode. Name the batch file anything.bat @echo off echo Press any key to run Bitcoin-QT Server mode pause CD C:\Program Files\Bitcoin start bitcoin-qt -server Now that bitcoin-qt is running in server mode, point your stratum proxy or BFGminer to bitcoin-qt (port 8332) and start hashing! Here is a shortcut example to launch BFGminer in solo mining mode: C:\bfgminer\bfgminer.exe -o 127.0.0.1:8332 -u my_rpc_user -p my_rpc_password In the above instance BFGminer is running on the same machine as bitcoin-qt. Insert whatever other commands you need to get your miners talking to BFGminer. You should be good to go ... Cheers :) Title: Re: Help needed setting up solo mining Post by: MEPHuk on January 22, 2014, 03:02:04 PM Thanks for the reply ! The batch file you mentioned, you said save it anywhere on my machine.. would inside the wallet qt folder be ok ?
MEPH Title: Re: Help needed setting up solo mining Post by: kfactor on January 22, 2014, 04:01:15 PM Thanks for the reply ! The batch file you mentioned, you said save it anywhere on my machine.. would inside the wallet qt folder be ok ? MEPH That will work fine, but as a general rule you don't want to be going into the application data folder (where wallet.dat resides) to run executables. Title: Re: Help needed setting up solo mining Post by: MEPHuk on January 23, 2014, 12:36:28 AM Ok, thanks for the reply !
MEPH Title: Re: Help needed setting up solo mining Post by: harkonnen on January 26, 2014, 10:32:35 AM Great article.
Thank you, kfactor. |