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Bitcoin => Pools => Topic started by: emsit on April 14, 2024, 07:07:30 AM



Title: Bitcoin testnet Solo mining - RPC to Stratum. How?
Post by: emsit on April 14, 2024, 07:07:30 AM
Once upon a time, I mined a bitcoin testnet on an ASIC that is now 10 years old (Prospero X-1).
Now I wanted to go back to it and found that it doesn't work. I've spent many hours on this and I'm getting lost.

Mining via long polling, getblocktemplate... Doesn't work anymore, stratum is needed. But Slush0/stratum is also no longer developed, same as bfgminer (stratum-proxy)... I also tried P2Pool... I think getblocktemplate has changed and the older SW doesn't work anymore.

So, could someone direct me to a solution how to use Bitcoin core v26.1 and more for mining via the stratum protocol?

I want to have everything set up and ready for a possible transition to testnet4, since I have been running a testnet faucet for 10 years and I would hate to have to close it.


Title: Re: Bitcoin testnet Solo mining - RPC to Stratum. How?
Post by: paid2 on April 14, 2024, 03:30:29 PM
[Guide] Solo mine testnet bitcoins with cgminer, Bitcoin Core, and a Compac F (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5415335.0)

[Guide] Solo mine testnet bitcoins with bfgminer, Bitcoin Core, and a CPU/GPU (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5415861.0)

You can check with n0nce if you need some tBTC for your faucet: [For Developers] n0nce's Bitcoin Testnet Faucet [~10 tBTC] (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5467106)