I went to Coinbase and generated more btc addresses.  Have them in their now per your advice!

Thanks again for looking out for me!!!

Thank You

THANK YOU!!!

I believe I have it done right now.

I have two (2) S3's on there for now.  I will add at least one (1) S3 on their each month more than likely.

Thanks again very much.

I have nothing but Mac's at the house.  I've used Mac's since 2000.  I do have Parallel's to use Visio and QuickBooks on Windows 7 but that's about all I use Windows for.  I APPRECIATE NOT HAVING TO INVEST TIME TO LEARN HOW TO USE CGMINER OR BFGMINER, lines of code, etc...

THANKS AGAIN VERY MUCH!!!

Again, PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF LOOKING IN "MINER STATUS" IN THE "FOUND BLOCK" COLUMN IS SUFFICIENT TO KNOW IF I HAVE FOUND A BLOCK?

I'M ASSUMING YOU WOULD KNOW AS WELL IF I FOUND ONE?

David

Well, I tried what I assumed was right and it appears to be hashing on your pool.  My S3 says it is "Alive."  I also see your pool address and my worker (BTCaddress).

Is it sufficient to pay attention to "Found Blocks" in "Miner Status" of my S3's to know if I have found a block?

Hi everyone,

I just PM'd Ruu with a message.  I know it's late... 2:54am my time.  Just curious if someone can help by having a look at this copy of a Personal Message I've sent to Ruu?








To setup my S3's to hash on your solo pool; I have three "pool" options.  I know I need to have your address in the "Pool 1" in "Miner Configuration."

I'm just a little confused about the address.

In your example you have the following:

Set your username to your btcaddress with any or even no worker extension, and any password.
eg: cgminer -o stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333 -u 1PKN98VN2z5gwSGZvGKS2bj8aADZBkyhkZ.0 -p x

What is confusing me is in the color RED



When I log in to my Bitmain Antminer S3+ and go to "Miner Configuration" should it look like the following:

Pool 1                  stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333
Pool 1 worker       1FAqPBCr19f3tJybRoaeNxih1hsmK9bMEH
Pool 1 password    any

Also,

when I put multiple S3's on your pool I would like to have a worker extension for each S3.  I'm pretty sure the .0 at the end of the BTCaddress is an example you have given as the worker extension.  However, I'm one who likes to be 100% sure.  This is only my 5th day of mining.  So, please bare with the "Newbie."  LOL

What is confusing me is the -p x  

Would that worker extension added to my BTCaddress look something like the following:

1FAqPBCr19f3tJybRoaeNxih1hsmK9bMEH.1

I think what is confusing me the most is the -u and the -p x

Your help would be appreciated greatly!!!

WOW!!!

THANKS VERY MUCH!!!

MAKES THINGS LOTS EASIER FOR US NOVICES WITHOUT THE RESEARCH.  I BELIEVE THEIR .5% FEE OF THE BLOCK FOUND IS WELL WORTH IT!!!

THANKS AGAIN!!!

AGREED

THANKS VERY MUCH!!!

I have copied this.

I hope cgminer in Windows OS will not be very hard to learn and use.  Does it require a lot of babysitting?  I hope not...

I really would like solo mine with some of my S3's without a whole lot of learning curve time.  I plan on down loading cgminer onto Windows OS via Parallel's on my Mac.

Look at pictures or videos on youtube and you will see 100's of Bitmain's hashing out in China or other places.  I doubt very seriously they are doing it through a pool.  They have to be doing it solo.  I don't know what is required to do solo and what software/application is needed to mine solo.  That's why I've been looking into it and ran across what I previously posted from BitSolo.

I don't know if it helped you because I'm not familiar with cg or bfg miners at all.

On BitSolo's website http://bitsolo.net/how-to/, THEY lead me to believe you can use "ASIC HARDWARE," such as a Bitmain Antminer to mine with cgminer.  I could be misunderstanding.  I'm just now researching it today after finding their website last night.  I don't know a thing about WINDOWS OS.  I've had Mac's since year 2000.  I'm wanting to put 2 Bitmain Antminer S3's on BitSolo's pool IF I CAN.  It appears you can using cgminer but I'm not sure because I know NOTHING about the program.  It would be something else I have to learn about mining.

Okay, now I know what "pool hopping" is.

As you know, I'm not using cgminer of bgfminer.  I'm just using Bitmain Antminers with no program.  The only thing I've seen here lately, which refers to solo mining on BitSolo, may give you a tip [or not] for setting up ASIC hardware in cg or bfg-miner.

I copied and pasted the following from http://bitsolo.net/how-to/

Bitcoin ASIC HardwareFollow this section if you have purchased bitcoin ASIC hardware.  

Download and install cgminer from cgminer homepage

Create a file named start.bat in the same directory you installed cgminer

Edit the file and put in the following
cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitsolo.net:3334 -u 1KbfPjjpwu5undFfGULwYpVyvo8gpdpCGH -p x

Change 1KbfPjjpwu5undFfGULwYpVyvo8gpdpCGH  to be your Bitcoin address.This is the address payments will be sent.

Run start.bat by double clicking on it.

You should now have a window with cgminer running and mining for you.

Graphics Card

Following this section if you are planning to mine with your graphics card.

Download and install BFGMiner version 3.6.0 from BFGMiner Download. Additional instructions can be found from BFGMiner Homepage.

Create a file named start.bat in the same directory you installed bfgminer.

Edit the file and put in the following:

bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitsolo.net:3334 -u 1KbfPjjpwu5undFfGULwYpVyvo8gpdpCGH -p x
Change 1KbfPjjpwu5undFfGULwYpVyvo8gpdpCGH  to be your Bitcoin address.This is the address payments will be sent.

Run start.bat by double clicking on it.

You should now have a window with bfgminer running and mining for you.



Watch and Wait
You need to keep your miner running at all times to mine. To find out if you have found a block look at the Best Share column on cgminer or BS on bfgminer. This will tell you your Best Share found so far. If this is higher than the network difficulty then you have found a block.

Additionally, when you have found a block it will show up in My Account tab and then be sent to your Bitcoin address :-)

This is the tough part so be prepared to watch and wait. To be honest, not many people have the mental attitude or patience to solo mine so you are a member of a select group if you make it past a week / month of solo mining.

Okay, thanks for the info.

I'm in it for my own profits and not to sell.  I suppose it depends on how much hashing power one has or plans to have.

IF YOU CAN, use your BTC to buy straight from Bitmaintech.com in China.  It's cheaper than buying from someone else and you KNOW you have a BRAND NEW rig that was not over-clocked.  The problem is, it takes a long time to get 1 BTC without a decent amount of hashing power.  That's why I used a credit card to get 10 S3's to avoid using my pay that I need for bills at present.  There will be costs on the front end for power consumption.  If your power is free, then that's a plus!  I don't know your situation.  I'm married and have a 3 year old with a mortgage, etc...  That's why I used credit to get started.

I'm about to order 6 more S3's as soon as I get paid from a class I'm doing next week.  I plan on using two of those to mine on BitSolo.

Will they allow you to mine for yourself without buying or selling your hashing power?

JUST A THOUGHT:

IF someone has an extra TH to go solo, it might be worth putting on BitSolo to get all 25 blocks.  The pool splits the rest.  One miner with just under 1 TH found 4 blocks in the month of August.  Can you imagine?  Over $40,000 USD in the month of August with approximately 1 TH.  WHAT LUCK!

Not sure what "GAW" is?

I can store 3 pools in each Antminer S3 in "Miner Configurations." I have Slush on #2 and BTC on #3.  I simply copy and paste from #2 or #3 into the #1 address pool to tell the S3 which pool I want to mine.  It takes no more than 1 minute to log into one of my S3's and change the pool address to the pool I wish to mine.  Even when I'm on the road training telephone technicians because I have a "static IP" assigned to my house.  This means I can connect to my network at the house while I'm away and have access to my S3's to monitor them, change clock speed, change pools, etc...

I have different "worker" names in each pool.  I don't have the same names on each pool.  I simply copy and past from one of the two pools I have already stored in #2 and #3 pool into the #1 pool choice.

I also have each S3 book marked and labeled as antMiner_1, antMiner_2, etc..  This way, once I log in to my network at the house, I simply click on the bookmark for whatever antMiner I wish to configure, monitor, etc...

Charter Communications did charge me another $20.00 each month for a static IP.  Which sucks, but it's worth having for monitoring video cameras and other things at the house. as well as having access to my antMiners while I'm away.

It's more simple than that:

It can be just one shift [even though I was in all 10 shifts for a combined total of more than 11 hours (1 hour 9 minutes for each shift)].

Two of my shifts had 3 blocks for a total reward of:  0.00186723 BTC [That was ALL 10 of my Bitmain S3's.]

IF you happen to have 3 blocks in all 10 shifts, simply multiply 0.00186723 x 10 shifts for a total of 0.0186723.

I'm not dumb.  It doesn't take 11 hours.  It would only take 1 shift with a block reward and simply do the math.  I did it during that 14 hour and 59 minute laps of time that we hit nothing on Slush.  So, I did make a little something during that 11 hours at BTC. I managed to make it back in time to Slush's pool to get .00981577 reward before that 15 hours dry spell came to a close.  That means one could add the .00981577 from slush and the .01631908 I earned during the 11 hours on BTC to come to a total of .02613485.  I simply got fortunate.  That's all.

So again, one could just use their hashing power during ONE SHIFT that has just 1 block reward [It doesn't take 3 block rewards; I just happened to get 3].  Simply multiply the shift reward for that 1 block times 10 shifts to come up with the total.  It's that simple.

Don't ASSUME I "don't understand" how to do math.

Don't ASSUME I would think I needed to be on their 10 shifts!  I just took a gamble THAT PAID OFF during that 14:59 minute dry spell we had here on slush!  I don't recommend taking that gamble like I did for that long.  I just got fortunate!  That's all...

I WOULD RECOMMEND STAYING ON SLUSH AND DON"T GAMBLE GOING SOMEWHERE ELSE.  ESPECIALLY FOR HOW LONG OF A PERIOD I STAYED AWAY!  I SIMPLY TOOK A GAMBLE THAT PAID OFF!

I wish I knew how many SHARES I could earn with my hashing power on BTC without hashing on their site.  IF I knew that, there would be no need to hash for even one shift.  One could simply go to the PPLNS STATS and look in PPLNS HISTORY.  THEN CLICK "VIEW" on one of the shifts; find you "shares" you could earn [IF you knew how many you could earn in a shift] then multiply the earnings from those shares by 10 shifts.  IT IS THAT SIMPLE

Don't assume things.  I was simply trying to help without going into a lot of great detail about the math.

Both pools would probably be close to the same if they both had approximately the same hashing power and same number of miners.  The difference in shares earned on BTC is much less than Slush because way more people mine on BTC than Slush.  Commonsense would tell someone their shares earned would be much less.  I found that I was 634th in rankings out of over 7,558 miners.  I was just curious what my shares would be and thought I would gamble while Slush was looking for a block and it paid off.  However, I don't feel it is worth the gamble again.

My opinion...

I switched over to BTC Guild with all of my 10 S3's going on it to figure out something.  What I figured out is the following:  .0186723 for 3 blocks in an 11 hour period.  I make .01746733 on average for each block we find on here.  That total for BTC Guild was for 3 BLOCKS.  

SLUSH RULES...    PERIOD!!!

I have to find 3 blocks on BTC for every 1 block we find on here!  It's a no brainer...   SLUSH RULES...   PERIOD!!!

The only way it would benefit me is if we did not find a block at all on here during that entire 11 hour period.  But how are we supposed to know that?  It's a gamble I'm not willing to take!!!

Sounds great!!!

I have ten (10) S3+'s going.  I first started mining with them September 22nd [When we found 13 blocks on Slush's Pool].  My first time to mine EVER!  Beginners luck I suppose...

I'm teaching a class next week.  I'm a contractor for CenturyLink.  I teach technicians how to use their meters to identify and locate troubles.  It's a four day course.  I used to teach as many as 42 to 45 classes a year.  I'm lucky to get 12 classes a year since 2010.  The economy has killed training budgets!  They cannot be as aggressive in training as they used to be until the economy changes for the better.  I clear approximately $4,500.00 for each class I teach.  I will use part of that to get 2 more miners and I'm using all of my bit coin I make from September 22 to November 22 to buy more S3's as well.  My goal is to have thirty (30) S3's going ASAP.  I have more classes coming up in November and December.

I bought two S1's through another seller on Amazon at $310.00 each but ended up canceling the order to buy ten S3's at $355.00 each BRAND NEW SHIPPED FROM BITMAIN.  It's cheaper to buy straight from Bitmain.  I used credit card to purchase them instead of cash.  Will be straight up cash from here on out.

That dude was upset I canceled the order on the two S1's.  He asked me why.  I didn't bother explaining.  HE KNEW WHY!!!  I got more than TWICE the hashing power with the S3's for only $45 more for each unit.  It was a no brainer!!!

I just bought a D Square 125 AMP sub panel to connect to the MAIN breaker panel.  I'm installing six (6) 20 AMP circuits (2400 watts each) to power up to thirty-six (36) S3's.  I will get busy installing six (6) 20 feet runs of 12/2 electrical wiring today and tomorrow.  I will not install the sub panel until I run the wire and install the receptacles (outlets) in the box I'm making for them near the racks I have set up in the recreation room downstairs.