iwantmyhomepaidwithbtc2: Thanks for the info on that post, looks interesting and verifying payout address is very helpful.

DaveF: Sounds like wireshark could be very helpful, however I am not clear on what I would be seeing with the stratum data, would you have any links or anything that would show some examples of how to disseminate this info? I will try it out soon, but without giving it a try at the moment FAFO method I'm just trying to collect some more insight from everyone on how to do this.

kano: Interesting, if I think what your saying is correct the ASIC has cgminer or something similar already running onboard.....i am not using braiins. Lol. Is there a way I can tap into the onboard cgminer program to view stratum data?

And again, I am just trying to find out how to view the stratum data. Next I need to figure out what I'm looking at.
So any help with examples that can demonstrate the breakdown of the comms would be very helpful.


Thanks again everyone

I want to view the stratum data between mining pool and my ASIC - how to do this?

Basic but hard to find info on this

Only relevant info I've found thus far:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=763510.msg8796431#msg8796431
Specifically post #102

However, this only works for cgminer??? No need for cgminer when running an asic pointed at a pool

I would like to view stratum data between my ASIC (S9) and mining pool.

The previous answer mentions wireshark....would this be my option? What particulars do i need to setup this connection to monitor stratum data?

All help appreciated

I did buy it used so anything is possible there

I am using BFGMiner to solo mine, I don't want to pool necessarily, I like the lotto aspect of mining, don't even care if I ever mine a block. Trying to learn more about the mining process, low level

When I use my S9 on CKPool or F2Pool it works just fine.

When I direct my S9 to my stratum proxy BFGMiner it works fine with the exception that it reboots every 15min

I've watched the kernel log right up to reboot nothing reallly stands out there

The one thing that does stand out:

GH/S(RT)        GH/S(avg)
8,522.037       32,435.59       These numbers were taken with chain 8 disconnected to see if it was causing any issues. But the difference of about 4x between RT and avg remains the same with chain 8 online.

This exaggerated GH/S(avg) is the only thing I see different between pool mining and solo mining

Has anyone seen this issue and have any recommendations? Stratum proxy settings need tweaking?

thanks

Chain 8 has a higher freq than 6 and 7.

Would there be a reason why someone would have modified the unit to run higher on one hash board?

Can I change this one board back to match the others?

Unit runs fine on pools

Solo via BFGMiner on Stratum proxy it restarts every 15 minutes - Also solo R/T hash rate is 13.5 while AVG hash rate is 4x that around 53 any ideas why that would be?

Latest 2019 Firmware installed

6 63 606.00 4,352.29 4,301.09 1 - 54
7 63 606.00 4,351.08 4,376.64 0 - 46
8 63 655.23 4,565.78 4,792.08 0 - 48

Total
189 622.41 13,000.00 13,469.81

I am trying to learn all the technical aspects of mining bitcoin, and am trying to break the process down piece by piece while it is in motion

I appear to be successfully hashing latest block on Bitcoin with my setup:
Dedicated Bitcoin core, BFGMiner with stratum proxy, Antminer S9 connected and hashing

I am fairly happy that I have gotten this far but want to really dig in more, I want to "see" more of what is happening almost like opening up a running transmission on a car

Also,
My Antminer S9 reboots itself it seems every 15minutes. Why is this? What can I do to keep it running consistently without rebooting? It runs fine on ckpool, no reboots just chugs along happily.


How do I interpret the logfile? 

 [2021-03-14 17:21:02] SSM: RECV: {"params": ["anonymous", "604e9a32-0", "e4d7", "604e9a32", "657fec6e"], "id": 6436, "method": "mining.submit"}
 [2021-03-14 17:21:02] Generated stratum header 20000000fa0a6ddbd906875ff1183cc324a13bd14c8c7e58000134470000000000000000e9f71c6 acf38e73e9b54647a4eb0d951f97f02268d3f782a5d84380166b90c59604e9a5d170d1f8c000000 00
 [2021-03-14 17:21:02] Work job_id (null) nonce2 bbffe4d7
 [2021-03-14 17:21:02]  Proof: 0000000003d280b1c2dcd3d21a00ff9468c2ad8cd75f4e9d91d60215f68044c5
Target: 0000000000000000000d1f8c0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
TrgVal? no (false positive; hash > target)

Does anyone have any ideas how I can pull the block header data out of BFGMiner so that I can see what it is really working on?

I am concerned that possibly everytime bitcoind  issues a new createnewblock  string that BFGMiner drops the work it was doing and starts on this new data without a new block having been found
 on the blockchain


I have plenty of questions to ask but hopefully this initial post can  shed some light on these first

Thanks

Possible to execute on ASIC platform or would code need to be rewritten to use these somehow? If so how do we go about doing that? Or possibly use FPGA’s?

Thanks BurtW for the informative reply. So what happened to #55? I do get a kick out of directory.io

What happened to puzzle transaction #55? No trophy, no collision, just on to the next one?

Also if we are checking against bloom filter of known addresses with positive balances how are we specifically targeting any particular address ie any puzzle transaction at all? Is it the complexity of the private key that is supposedly wildly basic/uncomplex and therefore most likely to be the next find?

How often is directory.io updated? I still have some pages I'd like to check but I'm about ready for some new material

Just airing out my stupid for a little bit, thanks for the smax

When stopping LBC in terminal during sleep period, Ctrl+C gives me "stop gracefully by using ^e" or something like that, yet Ctrl+C still achieves my purpose and even says notifies host of not finishing homework or whatever which makes me feel better. Tried Ctrl+E didn't do anything.

Please help me gracefully exit the LBC when I desire.

Tbh the pool is renewing my interest in linux, however my knowledge of keyboard shortcuts and the finer details of the OS are eluding me, I just wanna get my CPU's down and dirty collidin-n-findin

Thanks,

-J