Solo Mining-Correctly set up?

[Jdumond]

Folks-

I am very new to this, though I am well read through these forums.

I have guiminer/bitcoin

I am attempting some solo mining, have set passwords, and flags but I am not sure whether or not it is working properly

my GUIMINER under console simply says "listener for Miner 1 Started"

I see my M/hash rate on the bottom of the GUIMINER, along with difficulty 1, and block 3363.

I assume all is working properly I just wanted to verify as to not waste my time.

is there any verification show within the bitcoin program itself?


*on a side note (and not plugging for faster help) these forums are extremely informative, and besides this hiccup, I have found every single answer.



Thanks all, any help would be appreciated.

[Jdumond]

bueller??

[SomeoneWeird]

If it say's it's only on difficulty 1, somethings not right. Try running bitcoin.exe in server mode, then pointing a miner from guiminer to 127.0.0.1 with the rpc user/pass.

[Jdumond]

Running command: poclbm.exe --user=J****** --pass=** -o 127.0.0.1 -p 8332 -d0 --verbose -server
Listener for "miner1" started


followed your instructions still to no avail.

I am currently having guiminer set my conf file for me, does the server info appear correct?

[SomeoneWeird]

set rpcuser and rpcpassword in bitcoin.conf
"bitcoin.exe -server"
"poclbm.exe --user=<rpcuser> --pass=<rpcpassword> -o 127.0.0.1 -d0"

[kjj]

Your node needs to process the entire block chain before you can generate.  It'll take a while.  The current block number is north of 126,000.

[acamus]

I made the same mistake, let the client download the whole block chain first. It takes a while and is annoying but necessary

[Dobrodav]

"Hashes Dificulty 1" showing in GUMiner, when it set to solo mining, is just a measure that show you, that GPU load did not go in vain.

[Freakin]

Solo mining is probably not worth your time, BTW

[guy12345]

Hey,

let's say I'm at the university from 10 am to 4 pm and during this time I can power my laptop with an Nvidia Quadro NVS 135M on the university's bill. When I start mining in the morning I'd always have to download all the blocks (whatever that is) and wait till then?
That's really annoying...

Is there a way to 'save' the downloaded blocks?

Regards,
guy

[kjj]

The client caches the block chain.  You'd only need to download the new ones.

[dishwara]

You can download block chain database offline & then copy it to the folder where wallet.dat is stored.
Usually C:\Users\YOUR USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin

http://bitcoin.bluematt.me/bitcoin-nightly/blockchain-nightly/
download latest xxxx tar.gz.
Extract the file blk0001.dat & blkindex.dat to the above folder replacing old ones.
You can run bitcoin.exe -rescan, so that it rescan everything instead of downloading.
you have your block chain saved.

[Jdumond]

is there any confirmation on the Bitcoin client itself that solo mining is set up properly?

I currently see in GUIminer

Difficulty 1, Hashes 4.............................120MH/s

Just turning it on a few minutes ago.

Thanks