OK...first...please no lectures on "solo mining is useless" etc. I do understand.
Second...I'm making this new post because I've been at this for a couple of months now, have 50 yrs in IT and banking, and suddenly realize how much of a nooby I can be at 67. Thank you in advance for your patience.
Anyway...I'm running a top-end mobo with a Radeon R9 290X and I've been getting consistent 825Mh/s rates with it on Slush's Pool. No problem.
I really wish to do some solo mining. I've got two more R9s and mobos, and too much idle time, I guess (and I don't pay for my electricity). No matter what I do, it seems it won't happen. I've seen comments on other boards that anything past v.0.3.21 of Bitcoin Core will not support solo (I'm running the most recent). That would be a bummer. I've also tried just about every .conf and .ini configuration imaginable.
I had some jpg's of the console, conf and ini files but can't figure out how to insert them here. I'll try to use text patches:
Console msgs when trying to start the solo miner:
2015-11-10 14:27:59: Running command: poclbm.exe myusername:mypassword@localhost:8332 --device=0 --platform=0 --verbose -r1
2015-11-10 14:27:59: Listener for "Actual 1" started
2015-11-10 14:28:01: Listener for "Actual 1": localhost:8332 10/11/2015 14:28:01, checking for stratum...
2015-11-10 14:28:01: Listener for "Actual 1": localhost:8332 10/11/2015 14:28:01, started OpenCL miner on platform 0, device 0 (Hawaii)
2015-11-10 14:28:01: Listener for "Actual 1": localhost:8332 10/11/2015 14:28:01, server error: Method not found
2015-11-10 14:28:01: Listener for "Actual 1": localhost:8332 10/11/2015 14:28:01, no response to getwork, using as stratum
2015-11-10 14:28:11: Listener for "Actual 1": localhost:8332 10/11/2015 14:28:11, Failed to subscribe
2015-11-10 14:28:13: Listener for "Actual 1": localhost:8332 10/11/2015 14:28:13, IO errors - 1, tolerance 2
2015-11-10 14:28:20: Listener for "Actual 1" shutting down (stopped it here)
The bitcoin.conf:
server=1
rpcuser=myusername
rpcpassword=mypassword
rpcport=8332
The poclbm.ini:
{
"profiles": [
{
"username": "username",
"balance_auth_token": "",
"name": "Default",
"hostname": "api2.bitcoin.cz",
"external_path": "",
"affinity_mask": 1,
"flags": "",
"autostart": false,
"device": 0,
"password": "pass",
"port": "8332"
},
{
"username": "myusername",
"balance_auth_token": "",
"name": "Actual 1",
"hostname": "localhost",
"external_path": "",
"affinity_mask": 1,
"flags": "",
"autostart": false,
"device": 0,
"password": "mypassword",
"port": "8332"
}
],
"bitcoin_executable": "C:\\Program Files\\Bitcoin\\bitcoin-qt.exe",
"show_console": true,
"show_summary": false,
"show_opencl_warning": true,
"console_max_lines": 5000,
"start_minimized": false,
"blockchain_directory": "C:\\Users\\Caprica\\AppData\\Roaming\\Bitcoin",
"window_position": [
45,
329,
765,
288
]
The file paths have been checked and are accurate. No firewall issue. I've mapped 8332 and 8333 in the router.
I need a cocktail...or two...