Please excuse my newbie question - I've been using pools for a while but I am new to solo mining... I searched but I couldn't find an answer anywhere:
If I mine on solo.ckpool.org, how do I find out if I found a block? Is there any way to find out/get notified if you found a block other than the payment (eventually) arriving in your wallet? That seems weird given that the information (I suppose) should be available to the operator of the pool, it is also shown (as statistics) on blocktrail.com, but it seems like it is not being shown anywhere to the users mining on ckpool. All I can see is the (very basic) stats of the ongoing hash, but not the result (if any).
Am I missing something?
Nope you're not missing much, except one fairly major point - when a block is found, it appears instantaneously (not eventually) in the user's wallet as it's generated directly at their address thus bypassing any pool wallets or waiting for payouts or incurring any extra fees. Since it appears instantly, I can't possibly notify the block finder any faster than that. As for more information, the pool is intentionally no frills and extremely high performance. A list on a page is not going to bring you the block any easier, it just incurs overhead and ultimately is of zero utility. This forum is where all the public notifications occur and we cheer each other on instead of it being impersonal. |
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It's nowhere in my current documentation and that's all that is relevant. Wikis go out of date very quickly I'm afraid... |
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Do you see anywhere saying it exists? |
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I have a WhatsMiner M3 that runs CGMiner 4.9.2. The official cgminer that I maintain and provide support for on this forum thread contains no M3 code. Seek help from whomever maintains your forked cgminer. |
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That's correct, though there is the ckpool-splns fork which does all the apportioning of reward via coinbase generation without a database, as used on ckpool.org
Does the SPLNS fork give the block finder a bonus in the block like p2pool does? No. It gives a small bonus for their next block found only. It can be a substantial bonus if they're a very small miner only. |
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can anyone assist with nicehash connection to ckpool error: Pool host: de.ckpool.org Pool port: 3333 Pool user: 1LpK6ZGaVguMytWWRuabnGJB2KrLTp5tyo Pool pass: x Algorithm: SHA256 Resolving pool host de.ckpool.org... OK Establishing connection with proxy... OK Establishing connection with pool 88.99.146.100:3333... OK Sending mining.subscribe... OK Sending mining.authorize... OK Received mining.notify subscription... OK Received mining.set_difficulty... Pool difficulty too low (provided=4000, minimum=65532) Waiting for pool to send higher difficulty. Received mining.notify work... OK Received mining.set_difficulty... Pool difficulty too low (provided=4000, minimum=65532) Waiting for pool to send higher difficulty. Received authorization result... OK Error: Read timed outYour pool is shown as incompatible therefore we encourage you to contact pool operator to make sure that the pool is using minimal/starting pool share difficulty which is compatible with our service (and thus compatible with today's miners), please send them link to our FAQ on this topic: https://www.nicehash.com/index.jsp?p=faq#faqb3. Thank you! Try port 4334 for rentals. |
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Another very lucky and very fat block  23.35 BTC is by far the largest reward seen on a block on the solo pool in the 12.5BTC block reward days. [2017-12-21 12:49:34.546] Possible block solve diff 10162266815006.533203 !
[2017-12-21 12:49:34.828] BLOCK ACCEPTED!
[2017-12-21 12:49:35.132] Solved and confirmed block 500433 by 1B5nA9AyLxtRmA16S4YCXR5D1r9Z9j1wBg
[2017-12-21 12:49:35.132] User 1B5nA9AyLxtRmA16S4YCXR5D1r9Z9j1wBg:{"hashrate1m": "1.81P", "hashrate5m": "1.66P", "hashrate1hr": "1.38P", "hashrate1d": "144T", "hashrate7d": "28.4T"}
[2017-12-21 12:49:35.132] Worker 1B5nA9AyLxtRmA16S4YCXR5D1r9Z9j1wBg:{"hashrate1m": "1.81P", "hashrate5m": "1.66P", "hashrate1hr": "1.38P", "hashrate1d": "144T", "hashrate7d": "28.4T"}
[2017-12-21 12:49:35.134] Block solved after 558164732853 shares at 29.8% diff
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well i got a question, solving 1/1 diff blocks.. am i wasting my upload bandwidth?
It's hardly any bandwidth at all. |
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First of all thank you Con for making your ckpool software available. I have one question that I've googled quite a bit but am still unclear what the answer is.
I am running ckpool without CKDB support, and my question is whether or not the rewards for solving a block will go to the BTC address provided by the worker or not?
So for example if someone else wanted to connect to my ckpool instance and used their btc address to connect with, and they solve a block, will they get 99% of the block reward or does it go to the bitcoin address saved in my ckpool.conf file?
That's really a ckpool software question, not a question for this pool. The answer is it goes to the bitcoin address in the conf file though. Only solo.ckpool.org uniquely sends it to username addresses, and no, the code for that is not public. |
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hi ck and kano
sorry to hear about the falling out.
without ckdb, there's no "easy way" to have ckpool set the generation address to the address of the user who finds it, right? And ckdb is still "as-is" in this repo?
That's correct, though there is the ckpool-splns fork which does all the apportioning of reward via coinbase generation without a database, as used on ckpool.org is that fork public? edit: nevermind i found it so, ckpool-splns changes that control the coinbase generation are in stratifier? Is it all documented only in code? or also in a readme somewhere? Only in code. The code was meant only for my pool but I promised the users to make all the code fully open for verification. |
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hi ck and kano
sorry to hear about the falling out.
without ckdb, there's no "easy way" to have ckpool set the generation address to the address of the user who finds it, right? And ckdb is still "as-is" in this repo?
That's correct, though there is the ckpool-splns fork which does all the apportioning of reward via coinbase generation without a database, as used on ckpool.org |
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I have 5 usb miners with a hash rate around 9GH/s. I started last night.
I'm using bfgminer
Yes that is an insignificant hashrate. If you were using decent mining software such as cgminer, it would support the stratum standard for setting your diff with the --suggest-diff option which would allow the pool to set the diff according to your choice of diff without waiting for you to submit shares. Nonetheless shares are meaningless when solo mining and only used on this pool as feedback to miners to know they're successfully mining. If you wait long enough shares will start being accepted and then the pool will show your hashrate. |
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How long does it take for a user to appear under http://solo.ckpool.org/users/? I began mining last night, but when I try to enter my wallet address I get a user not found error. Thanks! What hardware, what hashrate? If you have an insignificant hashrate it could take hours before you show up. |
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hi guys.
and my greetings to -ck for his amazing contributions to the bitcoin society over the years.
i just got around your solo mining pool. i have an old server pc lying around, thought about dropping some measly hash power into this solo mining.
i know the chances are pretty slim, but its not like it will do any better sitting in the attic, gathering dust ...
could you recommend which utility should i use for cpu mining ?
as your cgminer app does not support cpu mining anymore, as far as i've read ...
Please read: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2415854.0Read, and understood. thats why i'm not mining with my Xeon processors in pools, its useless. reading the concepts of ckpool and solo mining, just for trying my luck, got me here. so you mean to tell me it is impossible for me to discover a block by chance, using CPU mining and solo.ckpool.org ? knowing there is a teeeeeeny tiny difference between totally impossible and very improbable ? The chance of finding a block CPU mining is less than one in the number of total particles in the known universe, but more than that, CPU miners are not welcome on my pools as they use up as much pool resource as multi-PH miners for nothing. |
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hi guys.
and my greetings to -ck for his amazing contributions to the bitcoin society over the years.
i just got around your solo mining pool. i have an old server pc lying around, thought about dropping some measly hash power into this solo mining.
i know the chances are pretty slim, but its not like it will do any better sitting in the attic, gathering dust ...
could you recommend which utility should i use for cpu mining ?
as your cgminer app does not support cpu mining anymore, as far as i've read ...
Please read: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2415854.0 |
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Hello All,
From a total noob (only somewhat informed recently)
I just installed two Avalon6s and I believe they are setup. Not using an AUC/usb converter as they are direct connected to two RPi(1,3). They appear to be connected to CkPool but are not doing any hashing. Just FLASHING GREEN.
1CLFECtFAis9aqEEwdtnLqgr7jN34WzCNJ.avalon1
and
1CLFECtFAis9aqEEwdtnLqgr7jN34WzCNJ.avalon2
Can I get some guidance please?
D
What do you have your pool details set to? |
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right but my understanding is that ver diff is a set of hash one has to complete then submit it to the pool, mine happens to be 4000 shares, well with a mere 333 mh/s by the time it did submit the 4000 shares the block would had already been solved by someone else. Meaning with that high of diff there is no point mining..  Ver diff is a way to save bandwidth. That's not at all how mining works. Time to do some more reading my friend. |
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doh! @ 333 mh/s going to be while Icon PS got got any low diff ports? Shares don't mean anything when solo mining, just don't worry about it. |
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well got miner running for over 8 hours and still not moved off the 4k diff Icon yer gotta find shares over 4k diff mate... |
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