Looking for an UP TO DATE ~~How to...~~ guide - Bitcoin solo mine / node

[bbOOmm]

I can find plenty of the how to guides on how to set up a full node and solo mine Bitcoin with older versions of Ubuntu and the older Bitcoin core's, but nothing recent. I have set up a full node in the past, but that was with a far older core.

I've tried wiggle my way through the process but always come up with some RPC errors that say something about RPC is not used anymore, use Bitcoin-CLI....

Soooo, I'm looking for a ~How To~ guide with step by step instructions ( preferably with the actual cli commands since I'm not a total Ubuntu/Linux guru ).

Now before you say - its un profitable to solo mine..... The node I'd like to set up is for one, to support the network, and two so I can solo mine with a single miner lottery style..... and for the education since bitcoin core has changed abit.

For reference, I would be using Ubuntu 14.04 64bit server since this is actually being installed on a Dell PowerEdge. The desktop version of Ubuntu is just a little too clunky on a server.

Thanks in advance....

[hodedowe]

I'm messing with Eloipool right now. It has several ~sorta step by steps and the project gets zero support, but you can check it out. Maybe you'll have better luck than I do since you've got some linux experience.

Eloipool
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=61731.new#new

A guy that got it running's thread

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=158105.0;all



I'm posting in the original thread (top linked above) as I find problems. So far the block submission is wonky and there's an issue with bitcoin-rpc, but I'm working my way through it as I have the time.


Aside from that you could download bitcoind, put the config file in the data directory with server=1 and an rpcuser/pass and rpcallowip=youripaddress, then mine away.

Hope that helps

[VirosaGITS]

I can find plenty of the how to guides on how to set up a full node and solo mine Bitcoin with older versions of Ubuntu and the older Bitcoin core's, but nothing recent. I have set up a full node in the past, but that was with a far older core.

I've tried wiggle my way through the process but always come up with some RPC errors that say something about RPC is not used anymore, use Bitcoin-CLI....

Soooo, I'm looking for a ~How To~ guide with step by step instructions ( preferably with the actual cli commands since I'm not a total Ubuntu/Linux guru ).

Now before you say - its un profitable to solo mine..... The node I'd like to set up is for one, to support the network, and two so I can solo mine with a single miner lottery style..... and for the education since bitcoin core has changed abit.

For reference, I would be using Ubuntu 14.04 64bit server since this is actually being installed on a Dell PowerEdge. The desktop version of Ubuntu is just a little too clunky on a server.

Thanks in advance....

May i recommend a simpler way to do this; with a pool?

You would pay 0.5% fee if you found a block, but that 0.5% is possibly recoup'd by the lower orphan rate mostly caused by the propagation effect.

The very trusted -ck's pool is how i would do it; http://solo.ckpool.org/

[bbOOmm]

I can find plenty of the how to guides on how to set up a full node and solo mine Bitcoin with older versions of Ubuntu and the older Bitcoin core's, but nothing recent. I have set up a full node in the past, but that was with a far older core.

I've tried wiggle my way through the process but always come up with some RPC errors that say something about RPC is not used anymore, use Bitcoin-CLI....

Soooo, I'm looking for a ~How To~ guide with step by step instructions ( preferably with the actual cli commands since I'm not a total Ubuntu/Linux guru ).

Now before you say - its un profitable to solo mine..... The node I'd like to set up is for one, to support the network, and two so I can solo mine with a single miner lottery style..... and for the education since bitcoin core has changed abit.

For reference, I would be using Ubuntu 14.04 64bit server since this is actually being installed on a Dell PowerEdge. The desktop version of Ubuntu is just a little too clunky on a server.

Thanks in advance....

May i recommend a simpler way to do this; with a pool?

You would pay 0.5% fee if you found a block, but that 0.5% is possibly recoup'd by the lower orphan rate mostly caused by the propagation effect.

The very trusted -ck's pool is how i would do it; http://solo.ckpool.org/

I thought of taking the easy way.... but I like a challenge and I like learning how to do things so I can possibly pass on my knowledge later.

If I cannot figure out how to set up a node with this new core and Ubuntu, I'll probably have to find a solo pool.

[bbOOmm]

I can find plenty of the how to guides on how to set up a full node and solo mine Bitcoin with older versions of Ubuntu and the older Bitcoin core's, but nothing recent. I have set up a full node in the past, but that was with a far older core.

I've tried wiggle my way through the process but always come up with some RPC errors that say something about RPC is not used anymore, use Bitcoin-CLI....

Soooo, I'm looking for a ~How To~ guide with step by step instructions ( preferably with the actual cli commands since I'm not a total Ubuntu/Linux guru ).

Now before you say - its un profitable to solo mine..... The node I'd like to set up is for one, to support the network, and two so I can solo mine with a single miner lottery style..... and for the education since bitcoin core has changed abit.

For reference, I would be using Ubuntu 14.04 64bit server since this is actually being installed on a Dell PowerEdge. The desktop version of Ubuntu is just a little too clunky on a server.

Thanks in advance....

May i recommend a simpler way to do this; with a pool?

You would pay 0.5% fee if you found a block, but that 0.5% is possibly recoup'd by the lower orphan rate mostly caused by the propagation effect.

The very trusted -ck's pool is how i would do it; http://solo.ckpool.org/

I thought of taking the easy way.... but I like a challenge and I like learning how to do things so I can possibly pass on my knowledge later.

If I cannot figure out how to set up a node with this new core and Ubuntu, I'll probably have to find a solo pool.

Well if you do take the easy way CKpool has a there under the pools subcategory and it will give you some information on how to read and check stats.

I wound up putting Ubuntu desktop on the server and got it to play nice... graphically quite slow, but data crunching, nice and fast. I then added the ppa for the bitcoin core and downloaded the wallet / core.... its syncing with the network ... 42 more weeks to sync. Once that is done I'll start with the hair pulling of trying to get the thing set up and talking for solo lottery style mining.

Thinking ahead, I put the blockchain data SOLELY onto a 300GB SCSI drive with RAID 1 mirroring to an identical drive.... I shouldn't have to download  the blockchain again and I shouldn't run out of drive space for at least another year ... lol.

The next rabbit I'm going to try to pull out of the hat is to use that same server to run another node for a different coin simultaneously and again do solo mining. Again with a RAID 1 mirror of the blockchain.