finding a block

[powrslave]

If you find a block with solo cgminer would you only know by your btc balance?

Would it be saved in a log or anything within cgminer? Or do you just view the blockchain block?

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[Avirunes]

If you find a block with solo cgminer would you only know by your btc balance?

Would it be saved in a log or anything within cgminer? Or do you just view the blockchain block?

Whatever you set up address for payout or address as username to start up the mining work,you will get the block reward (i.e 25BTC).
It will be shown in blockchain.To see in blockchain go to https://blockchain.info/blocks .Blockchain itself keeps a log in that page or you can check up on the bitcoin address where you will receive the block reward like   New Coins Generated => {Bitcoin Address}

[Amph]

the software will simply say "BLOCK!!!" and you will know it, or you will simply see an incoming transaction of 25 btc to your core wallet, because you need to leave it open while mining in solo

[os2sam]

You will also have a "Best Share:" equal to or greater than current difficulty.

[powrslave]

the software will simply say "BLOCK!!!" and you will know it, or you will simply see an incoming transaction of 25 btc to your core wallet, because you need to leave it open while mining in solo

I'm not using core wallet to solo but I understand what you are saying.

[os2sam]

try this version of cgminer

Why? Mainline CGMiner tells you everything you need to know without the risk of downloading trojans from strange places.

[RussiaCoinDotInfo]

the software will simply say "BLOCK!!!" and you will know it, or you will simply see an incoming transaction of 25 btc to your core wallet, because you need to leave it open while mining in solo

You have to be quick seeing a Block Found! message in between the other messages concerning the mining.  Once you close the Miner program, there should be a summary of the mining values and the number of blocks found (if any).  Good Luck, and keep us posted.

[kano]

As long as you are only bitcoin mining and not messing with multiple sha256 alt-coins, the API has a correct count of the number of blocks you found.
See the API-README

If you are using non-master cgminer clones where they've fuxored that, some of them (Bitmain for sure) screw up the block count, so it may not be correct.