NiceHash multi-algorithm SOLO mining pool [BTC/LTC/DASH blocks found!]

[nicehash]

NiceHash multi-algorithm solo mining pool & blockchain lottery.

solo.nicehash.com

Cross your fingers to get a full 12.5 Bitcoin, 25 Litecoin or dynamic Dash block reward!

• NiceHash solo mining & blockchain lottery is an advanced multi-algorithm stratum based solo mining pool for Bitcoin, Litecoin and Dash. You can use it as a regular solo mining pool by connecting your miners to our solo mining stratum servers. Moreover you can also rent hashing power on NiceHash/WestHash and point it to our solo mining stratum servers and play some blockchain lottery.
  
• If you find a block, 99.5% of the block reward + transaction fees get generated directly at your address. Therefore there is no login, no need to worry about passwords, withdrawals, authentication or pool wallet hacks. No funds are kept by pool but are rather directly generated to your address.

Connect your miners or rented hashing power from NiceHash/WestHash to:

stratum+tcp://stratum.solo.nicehash.com:3334 for Bitcoin
stratum+tcp://stratum.solo.nicehash.com:3333 for Litecoin
stratum+tcp://stratum.solo.nicehash.com:3336 for Dash

You should use you Bitcoin/Litecoin/Dash address as worker username and any password.
You can add worker name by adding ".workername" at the tail of your Bitcoin/Litecoin/Dash address; example:

Code:

stratum+tcp://stratum.solo.nicehash.com:3334 -u yourAddress.Worker1 -p x

If you enter an invalid address you will be rejected (authorization error). Make sure you use valid/existing address when connecting!

The pool fee is 0.5%. If you find a block, 99.5% of the block reward + transaction fee rewards get generated directly at your address. The main stratum pool code is based on ckpool, therefor 10% of our fee for Bitcoin mining is directly donated to Con Kolivas BTC address 148KkS2vgVi4VzUi4JcKzM2PMaMVPi3nnq as contribution for his work on stratum pool core development.

Each time a new block is found a notification will be automatically posted to Twitter @NiceHashSolo - https://twitter.com/NiceHashSolo: therefore you're welcome to follow us on Twitter @NiceHashSolo

[aurel57]

If you enter an invalid address it will be ignored and earnings will be donated to the pool. Make sure you use valid/existing address!

I think I like the way CK has his solo pool set up that if you try and mine with a invalid address your rejected....sure would hate to think someone would find a block only to not get rewarded.

[philipma1957]

If you enter an invalid address it will be ignored and earnings will be donated to the pool. Make sure you use valid/existing address!

I think I like the way CK has his solo pool set up that if you try and mine with a invalid address your rejected....sure would hate to think someone would find a block only to not get rewarded.

Not to bite the hand that feeds me as I am paid for the signature by nice hash.  I suggest that some invalid address check be used.

Even if  you fill a pot with  coins of 'dumb' miner errors and give it as a promo to anyone mining with you. Each solo block gets half the mistaken coins and you keep the other half.

I will send some hash at your solo pool in a few minutes.

[jonnybravo0311]

If you enter an invalid address it will be ignored and earnings will be donated to the pool. Make sure you use valid/existing address!

I think I like the way CK has his solo pool set up that if you try and mine with a invalid address your rejected....sure would hate to think someone would find a block only to not get rewarded.

That would be awful...

nicehash, how does the pool handle a scenario like this where a block is found but the address to which the reward is to be sent is invalid?  Are there any checks in place to alert a miner that the address.worker construct is not correct?

[philipma1957]

the miner with a wrong address would not find a block as I understand this. I would think his hashrate would be proxied to a subset of wrong hash and no one would know if it was rented if it hit a solo block

 
Here is my rental and I know the address is valid

[aurel57]

the miner with a wrong address would not find a block as I understand this.  

Yes unless I am reading it wrong I also see it that way, that a miner could be mining and never know he is not going to get the block if he finds one. That is why I pointed it out, as I have copied and paste a wallet address before and some how missed a digit.

[philipma1957]

I am renting a bit  in the solo pool  I paid for the rental at westhash and it is order number

Order   Type         Status    Price BTC/TH/Day      Remaining BTC      ETA hours      Limited TH/s    Miners    Speed TH/s
#318636   Standard   Alive     0.0103                0.03248520               17.16              5.00                4            4.4122

It is one more option of renting and mining which is good.

I will still use ck's pool



here I am

http://solo.ckpool.org/users/1JdC6Xg3ajT3rge3FgPNSYYFpmf53Vbtje


and here I am selling hash to nicehash

https://www.nicehash.com/?p=miners&a=1&addr=1JdC6Xg3ajT3rge3FgPNSYYFpmf53Vbtje


If you look at this closely there is a method to what I am doing.

So I like the new option.  I would like very much that a bad btc addy is dealt with in a nicer manner for miners.

I do like that I can use the 3 sites in a way that favors me if I am patient. Most likely my method above will end up how I mine at home.

[nicehash]

And we found our first block, it is a Dash block:

http://explorer.dashninja.pl/block/000000000015d029cc371f10364148e42d0ef0d81835dcf217f8a845f3ae3c67

Congratulations to XjjX3WjJhS8B9123xMhWRG4TrU4xhw8kXY

[jonnybravo0311]

And we found our first block, it is a Dash block:

http://explorer.dashninja.pl/block/000000000015d029cc371f10364148e42d0ef0d81835dcf217f8a845f3ae3c67

Congratulations to XjjX3WjJhS8B9123xMhWRG4TrU4xhw8kXY

Congrats.  Now would you be so kind as to address some of the questions raised by Phil, auelf57 and myself?

Thanks!

[nicehash]

Congrats.  Now would you be so kind as to address some of the questions raised by Phil, auelf57 and myself?

Sure, we're already working on address validator for all three coins (we have to modify code at a few places) so that invalid addresses will be rejected at authorization. Thanks for the feedback!

[philipma1957]

Congrats.  Now would you be so kind as to address some of the questions raised by Phil, auelf57 and myself?

Sure, we're already working on address validator for all three coins (we have to modify code at a few places) so that invalid addresses will be rejected at authorization. Thanks for the feedback!

A) you told us the current setup thank you for that.
B) you are efforting a fix thank you for that.

I like the new option here is why:

 I am using nicehash to rent 2.3th to you At 0.0106

 It rolls over to ck's solo pool

I am solo mining with westhash at your new solo section at 0.0099

So basically I am doing solo mining at a slight discount.

 still hard but just a little better odds for me then mining solo with ck alone

[jonnybravo0311]

Congrats.  Now would you be so kind as to address some of the questions raised by Phil, auelf57 and myself?

Sure, we're already working on address validator for all three coins (we have to modify code at a few places) so that invalid addresses will be rejected at authorization. Thanks for the feedback!

That's good news for folks that want to play the lottery... hate to have the winning numbers but lose the ticket

[nicehash]

We added two features:

1. If you enter an invalid address you will be rejected (authorization error). So no more "lost lottery tickets" Make sure you use valid/existing address when connecting!

2. You can set preferred mining difficulty. Our system is using vardiff and will automatically adjust optimal difficulty for your miner. Nevertheless you can set custom preferred difficulty by setting diff_xxx in your worker password, example for Bitcoin pool:

Code:

stratum+tcp://stratum.solo.nicehash.com:3334 -u yourAddress.Worker1 -p diff_2048

[aurel57]

We added two features:

1. If you enter an invalid address you will be rejected (authorization error). So no more "lost lottery tickets" Make sure you use valid/existing address when connecting!

2. You can set preferred mining difficulty. Our system is using vardiff and will automatically adjust optimal difficulty for your miner. Nevertheless you can set custom preferred difficulty by setting diff_xxx in your worker password, example for Bitcoin pool:

Code:

stratum+tcp://stratum.solo.nicehash.com:3334 -u yourAddress.Worker1 -p diff_2048

Very good! Thank you for being responsive!

[jonnybravo0311]

We added two features:

1. If you enter an invalid address you will be rejected (authorization error). So no more "lost lottery tickets" Make sure you use valid/existing address when connecting!

2. You can set preferred mining difficulty. Our system is using vardiff and will automatically adjust optimal difficulty for your miner. Nevertheless you can set custom preferred difficulty by setting diff_xxx in your worker password, example for Bitcoin pool:

Code:

stratum+tcp://stratum.solo.nicehash.com:3334 -u yourAddress.Worker1 -p diff_2048

Very nice!  Would you mind updating the original post to reflect this as well?  It currently states that if you connect with an invalid address and find a block the proceeds will be donated to the pool.

Also, I'd like to give you a +1 for this:

The main stratum pool code is based on ckpool, therefor 10% of our fee for Bitcoin mining is directly donated to Con Kolivas BTC address 148KkS2vgVi4VzUi4JcKzM2PMaMVPi3nnq as contribution for his work on stratum pool core development.

Con/kano deserve to be compensated for the work they've done and continue to do for the community.  Very nicely done, nicehash!

[daddyfatsax]

Pool is showing dead on my miners.

edit: nevermind, the pool just came back up.

[nicehash]

NiceHash solo mining Bitcoin pool found it's first block

The happy user already said thanks and sent us the print-screen of his/her lucky AntMiner S3:



Congratulations!

[kano]

NiceHash solo mining Bitcoin pool found it's first block

The happy user already said thanks and sent us the print-screen of his/her lucky AntMiner S3:

https://www.nicehash.com/download/NiceHash_solo_1st_Bitcoin_block.png

Congratulations!

Yeah I saw it in my pool popup when it happened ... but I wasn't sure if it was you or not.

Code:

ckpool UNKNOWN:
    "hash" : "000000000000000009bc29f1216fa5243bcb7cd10e06ef954b1802cadbc6a060",
    "size" : 386866,
    "height" : 352116,
    "difficulty" : 49446390688.24143982,

Would be good if you added a "btcsig" to the ckpool conf file like everyone else does: "/Kano" - "/solo.ckpool.org" - "/BitClub"
As it stands your coinbase sig just says "ckpool", which is in all the coinbase sigs of the pools that use ckpool that haven't removed "ckpool" from the code.

[nicehash]

Would be good if you added a "btcsig" to the ckpool conf file like everyone else does: "/Kano" - "/solo.ckpool.org" - "/BitClub"
As it stands your coinbase sig just says "ckpool", which is in all the coinbase sigs of the pools that use ckpool that haven't removed "ckpool" from the code.

OK, Kano, thanks for this, will make it "/NiceHashSolo".

[nicehash]

We implemented 1day/7days/30days graph stats per pool / user / worker. This gives you the ability to get user friendly insight into pool/user/worker current and past statistics. Enjoy!