bitcoin-qt - Good enough for 40GH/s solo mining?

[LordFlashheart]

I'm thinking of investing in some new hardware that should see me upwards of 40GH/s. However I keep reading that the bitcoin-qt server will not cope with the load.

Is this true? What other solo mining options are avaliable that would cope?

I assume there must be something around if the basic ASICs can do 30GH/s.

Thanks.

[Hawkix]

You will not submit difficulty-one shares. Just the winning one. So, the bitcoind will sleep bored for a week or two (or five) before you will find a winning block.

[Nezin]

Yes, bitcoin-qt or bitcoind should be perfectly capable of supporting 40 GH/s solo mining.

"Sleep" is a bit of a misnomer; bitcoin-qt/bitcoind will still be serving getwork requests.

[Graet]

when asics are here 40Gh/s will be like owning 2 x 7970s now, not really viable to solo on unless you are happy to take huge variance

currently large miners that want to solo use some sort of pool software backend between miners and bitcoind, they don't need a frontend.

[LordFlashheart]

Thanks everyone for the swift replies.

I will go ahead with hardware and wait to if ASICs actually hit the market before putting money down.

[zxyzxy]

why is bitcoin-qt required as an installation when solo/pool mining?