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Alternate cryptocurrencies => Mining (Altcoins) => Topic started by: pastet89 on February 16, 2014, 06:53:50 PM



Title: Solo mining when you have just USB stick
Post by: pastet89 on February 16, 2014, 06:53:50 PM
Hi,

as title says, this is the question that is bothering me. AFAIK, with solo mining, you need lots of disk space in order to download the blocks.
One solution I can think about is running the wallet and server on my laptop within the same home router DHCP network as the rigs and point the rigs to my laptop.
However, I am not quite sure how to do this, can you please help me with some ideas?  ::)

Thanks in advance!


Title: Re: Solo mining when you have just USB stick
Post by: rmines on February 16, 2014, 07:01:40 PM
You can use a wallet that doesn't need the full blockchain, such as MultiBit

Have a look at this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=252937.0


Title: Re: Solo mining when you have just USB stick
Post by: pastet89 on February 16, 2014, 08:36:21 PM
HI,
thanks.
However, I am talking about new alt currencies...


Title: Re: Solo mining when you have just USB stick
Post by: Wipeout2097 on February 16, 2014, 08:40:30 PM
You don't need "lots". I have a mining rig that boots from a 30GB usb pen with Windows 7 64bits and many utilities installed. I have 2 wallets open and there are still 16 GB free.