I understand how the pool works, it has to tune to a balance between number of shares reported and bandwidth. It looks like ckpool is steering to once ever 2 seconds or so. Starting with 10000 isn't that bad, and for a high performing miner that's probably too low, for a low powered miner that's too high, but it's a good middle ground. For a BitAxe it takes between 1-2 minutes to find an acceptable share.
To not accept a suggested difficulty from a miner I can understand, and is not mandatory for a pool. However, if the pool suggests a lower difficulty, it's weird that it doesn't accept this new difficulty until about 40 seconds after this message. In the stratum protocol it states: "The miner should begin enforcing the new difficulty on the next job received.", but switching to the lower difficulty at that point first will result in several shares accepted with 'Above target'. Not sure how to interpret this error message as well, or I'm missing something in the protocol, that could also be the case.
You can suggest a difficulty here if you use the --suggest-diff feature in cgminer, unless of course it's a broken fork that doesn't support it. I've no idea where the fault lies with the shares above target - be it the driver or the pool end - but shares have no intrinsic value here so I'm not interested in investigating further. |
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Hi CK, Willi,
When using the hi-diff port on solo.ckpool.org:4334 is there a way to specify the required difficulty?
I'm using Mining rig rentals and it suggests putting d=2328000 in the password field to specify the pool difficulty. I've done this but it does not seem to have made any difference and the stats page at MRR still says the diff is 1000000.
Help is appreciated, thanks.
No, as MRR and nicehash are using a non-standard way to set diff (ignoring the suggest-diff that was part of the original stratum protocol). There is zero point to setting diff anyway as ckpool adjusts very quickly to an optimal diff anyway, and ultimately the diff you mine at is irrelevant with solo mining anyway. |
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I recall around 400% diff max here. Other pools have had up to 800, and I think in the early days Deepbit had one block at 1800.
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Hi all,
Willing to give it a try on ckpool.
For the sake of good latency between miners and pool, I would like to know where to point nicehash or mrr miners; to USA or EUROPE?
iow: where is the stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333/4334 server located?
a tracert does bring me to the USA.
Can anyone confirm USA?
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Only total hashes count, it doesn't matter if it's 1 or 30PH or flat or up and down. Willy is doing the right thing.
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I think this is the first time I've seen 200% diff or pool luck, though I'm relatively new here. Good luck everyone, hope the next Block drops soon.
Frustrating, but it's happened a few times before and perfectly normal variance. |
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If so, is that because of the pool software? yes |
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The mining hardware gets a base of work that it can send off unique starting work to trillions of hashing units. Unless the hardware is a broken design there is zero chance of their work overlapping. Speed is irrelevant, every single hash unit operates on its own independently.
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Congratulations to our whale miner with 1.5EH for solving the 289th solo block solved at solo.ckpool.org ! [2024-05-30 03:08:08.005] Possible block solve diff 118808888859878.171875 !
[2024-05-30 03:08:08.116] BLOCK ACCEPTED!
[2024-05-30 03:08:08.122] Solved and confirmed block 845735 by 3Kbu2CKYAQ5F7FzbvMKDAXWK9AaMiQRjZj.trit05
[2024-05-30 03:08:08.122] User 3Kbu2CKYAQ5F7FzbvMKDAXWK9AaMiQRjZj:{"hashrate1m": "1.42E", "hashrate5m": "1.38E", "hashrate1hr": "1.35E", "hashrate1d": "725P", "hashrate7d": "150P", "shares": 22543766287400, "authorised": 1716946332}
[2024-05-30 03:08:08.122] Worker 3Kbu2CKYAQ5F7FzbvMKDAXWK9AaMiQRjZj.trit05:{"hashrate1m": "134P", "hashrate5m": "131P", "hashrate1hr": "124P", "hashrate1d": "49P", "hashrate7d": "8.71P"}
[2024-05-30 03:08:08.160] Block solved after 128314299876180 shares at 152.1% diff
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Congratulations to our whale miner on 3Bpbps9nD2YHtEsfEPwAsWx5F4HQ5yRbHg for solving block 288 on solo.ckpool.org [2024-05-21 13:21:25.707] Possible block solve diff 90277431202385.265625 !
[2024-05-21 13:21:25.789] BLOCK ACCEPTED!
[2024-05-21 13:21:25.789] Solved and confirmed block 844437 by 3Bpbps9nD2YHtEsfEPwAsWx5F4HQ5yRbHg.dog01
[2024-05-21 13:21:25.789] User 3Bpbps9nD2YHtEsfEPwAsWx5F4HQ5yRbHg:{"hashrate1m": "388P", "hashrate5m": "381P", "hashrate1hr": "398P", "hashrate1d": "766P", "hashrate7d": "189P", "shares": 29488008099257, "authorised": 1716149598}
[2024-05-21 13:21:25.790] Worker 3Bpbps9nD2YHtEsfEPwAsWx5F4HQ5yRbHg.dog01:{"hashrate1m": "177P", "hashrate5m": "162P", "hashrate1hr": "146P", "hashrate1d": "61.9P", "hashrate7d": "11.1P"}
[2024-05-21 13:21:25.826] Block solved after 152867444104230 shares at 183.8% diff
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VKBIT,
Would you be able to add "Diff" (Luck) to the individual miner screen/page?
Even though the main pool may be at 156%, individually we are all at something lower because no two miners are working the same block- (each miner is working a custom block because it has their BTC payout address in it).
Just a Thought... you have "Diff" (Pool Luck) on the main page.
Thanks -- great pages BTW
Sadly there is no reliable way to do this by user because of the way stats are reset and miners idle for over a month are reset. The closest approximation is "shares" per user, but it could give a falsely low diff percentage unless the miner has been mining constantly on the same user address without interruption. If that's enough to use then by all means shares / network difficulty as a marker of diff%. |
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I will say it again I don't see any reason you should not fire the normal pool up again.
I'm sure hashrate would land on it now with everything going on.
Spoke about it before but maybe there would be scope for it again now?
Pool is on fire!! Great to see the blocks flowing!
Keep lucky everyone <3
It's just one solitary miner. They could disappear at any time. A regular pool needs even more hashrate than solo currently has, or it will never attract other miners. In addition most big miners are run by committees and have stakeholders and shit that demands regular fixed income. This is why FPPS has taken off like crazy - a payment scheme that no small pool can afford to maintain. Whilst PPLNS is the fairest system, most if not all big miners aren't interested in the volatility of it. |
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Bloody hell!
AFAIK all 4 have been from the same person. Wonder what their rental cost them for this?
I don't think this is a rental. My guess is it's a large mining entity - probably swan mining - that is testing the feasibility of mining solo with their massive hashrate. If it's swan, then they have 7.5EH under their belts (and have said they are scaling to double this.) |
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Congratulations to our whale miner with 1EH for yet another lucky block, the 287th at http://solo.ckpool.org! [2024-05-16 16:35:31.060] Possible block solve diff 202625763993254.656250 !
[2024-05-16 16:35:31.139] BLOCK ACCEPTED!
[2024-05-16 16:35:31.146] Solved and confirmed block 843726 by 3GvCuC9Qmzv2L1vamkJatVPKJYfb4eNqa2.ace09
[2024-05-16 16:35:31.146] User 3GvCuC9Qmzv2L1vamkJatVPKJYfb4eNqa2:{"hashrate1m": "1.32E", "hashrate5m": "1.31E", "hashrate1hr": "1.02E", "hashrate1d": "108P", "hashrate7d": "16.2P", "shares": 2296250292276, "authorised": 1715866699}
[2024-05-16 16:35:31.146] Worker 3GvCuC9Qmzv2L1vamkJatVPKJYfb4eNqa2.ace09:{"hashrate1m": "160P", "hashrate5m": "150P", "hashrate1hr": "124P", "hashrate1d": "13.4P", "hashrate7d": "2.01P"}
[2024-05-16 16:35:31.182] Block solved after 14152645753798 shares at 17.0% diff
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Congratulations to the massive miner 3PFJX8ZrbGHjsf4r6wZk3aUHH9uxK4rwHJ with 750PH for yet another even luckier block in less than 24hrs as the 286th solo block solved! [2024-05-16 02:53:24.498] Possible block solve diff 1497925487558509.500000 !
[2024-05-16 02:53:24.614] BLOCK ACCEPTED!
[2024-05-16 02:53:24.615] Solved and confirmed block 843650 by 3PFJX8ZrbGHjsf4r6wZk3aUHH9uxK4rwHJ.ace02
[2024-05-16 02:53:24.615] User 3PFJX8ZrbGHjsf4r6wZk3aUHH9uxK4rwHJ:{"hashrate1m": "716P", "hashrate5m": "759P", "hashrate1hr": "734P", "hashrate1d": "214P", "hashrate7d": "34.7P", "shares": 5000306366917, "authorised": 1715803124}
[2024-05-16 02:53:24.615] Worker 3PFJX8ZrbGHjsf4r6wZk3aUHH9uxK4rwHJ.ace02:{"hashrate1m": "52.8P", "hashrate5m": "52.1P", "hashrate1hr": "49.5P", "hashrate1d": "11.5P", "hashrate7d": "1.84P"}
[2024-05-16 02:53:24.652] Block solved after 8738661380109 shares at 10.5% diff
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Congratulations to our absolutely massive whale of a miner 38WdbKJRUf7efyAgmaoayrpY44U3d3FpvC who scaled up to 1.2EH for solving the 285th solo block at in only about 1/3 of the time they'd normally solve a block. [2024-05-15 16:54:06.844] Possible block solve diff 246141374487515.781250 !
[2024-05-15 16:54:06.924] BLOCK ACCEPTED!
[2024-05-15 16:54:06.928] Solved and confirmed block 843587 by 38WdbKJRUf7efyAgmaoayrpY44U3d3FpvC.ace10
[2024-05-15 16:54:06.928] User 38WdbKJRUf7efyAgmaoayrpY44U3d3FpvC:{"hashrate1m": "1.27E", "hashrate5m": "1.21E", "hashrate1hr": "1.02E", "hashrate1d": "653P", "hashrate7d": "156P", "shares": 24415492085075, "authorised": 1715606241}
[2024-05-15 16:54:06.928] Worker 38WdbKJRUf7efyAgmaoayrpY44U3d3FpvC.ace10:{"hashrate1m": "65.4P", "hashrate5m": "65.9P", "hashrate1hr": "63.7P", "hashrate1d": "37.3P", "hashrate7d": "7.88P"}
[2024-05-15 16:54:06.965] Block solved after 31558793237833 shares at 38.0% diff
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Hello CK,
I wanted to ask you if you have this information about the miners who solved the 284 blocks in the last 10 years, from which continents they are. I wanted to know how many would be from the USA and how many would be from Europe. Thank you a lot
I do not know, and given the pseudonymity offered by the pool I'm not inclined to check the logs to find their IP addresses and reveal it either. |
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For smaller miners, the presence of one massive miner has no effect on your mining, or chance to solve a block. There was a pool many years ago that used to prioritise communications to its biggest miners, but solo ckpool does not do that.
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And here is the console log summary [2024-05-13 03:40:46.765] Possible block solve diff 93168345101431.171875 !
[2024-05-13 03:40:46.856] BLOCK ACCEPTED!
[2024-05-13 03:40:46.857] Solved and confirmed block 843231 by 3EpYvBkWGaaUH1qDTs7Tboc6rCPJdYdXTE.alpha13
[2024-05-13 03:40:46.857] User 3EpYvBkWGaaUH1qDTs7Tboc6rCPJdYdXTE:{"hashrate1m": "449P", "hashrate5m": "451P", "hashrate1hr": "393P", "hashrate1d": "474P", "hashrate7d": "232P", "shares": 42885065268285, "authorised": 1715206490}
[2024-05-13 03:40:46.857] Worker 3EpYvBkWGaaUH1qDTs7Tboc6rCPJdYdXTE.alpha13:{"hashrate1m": "51.5P", "hashrate5m": "55P", "hashrate1hr": "53P", "hashrate1d": "21.7P", "hashrate7d": "3.78P"}
[2024-05-13 03:40:46.893] Block solved after 56879738007074 shares at 68.4% diff
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The author of the stats page VKBIT has kindly offered to maintain and update that statistics page so with his help you can now find it at this official page: https://solostats.ckpool.org/ |
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