Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com

[sickpig]

15? The range seems to indicate a max val of 10, no?

[xyzzy099]

I thought getwork-based solo mining didn't work well or at all anymore, and that you needed a stratum proxy of some kind to achieve reasonable efficiency, especially with a large amount of hashpower.

BFGMiner will use GBT for solo mining, not getwork.

[CMMPro]

Sorry guys...for clarity I didn't solo mine it, it was on Giga's pool.

I logged in and there it was listed in the blocks found showing I mined a block.

I WAS thinking about solo mining once things start to pay back more, I'm approaching "fiat breakeven" on the cost of my Saturn so solo mining may be fun to try for a few months.

At the current diff I could find a block in 3 months (or less if I'm lucky).

It would be nice to wake up to a new virgin block sitting in it's own paper wallet.
THAT would be a trophy!

[xyzzy099]

I thought getwork-based solo mining didn't work well or at all anymore, and that you needed a stratum proxy of some kind to achieve reasonable efficiency, especially with a large amount of hashpower.

I solo mined alts for 10 minutes one day as an experiment and kept getting "pool is not providing work fast enough" error.

No idea if the same goes for btc solo mining.

Would be interested if anyone has set up stratum proxy for solo mining and how they did it.

Getwork is not fast enough for ASIC h/w - but BFGMiner will use GBT for solo mining, and you will not get those 'pool 0 is not providing work fast enough' messages.

[btc_uzr]

15? The range seems to indicate a max val of 10, no?

  you're totally right.

just looked up what the mentioned value was and then I though let's add the line from the documentation
should have read my own post before sending it  

[The Avenger]

15? The range seems to indicate a max val of 10, no?

  you're totally right.

just looked up what the mentioned value was and then I though let's add the line from the documentation
should have read my post before sending it  

Saw this in another thread:

In CGMiner you can increase your ST (Staged Work) by increasing your queue by going to settings and then queue and increase it from the default of 1 to 90 or so.  That will help.  Also setup some backup pools so that when Bitcoin-QT doesn't supply work fast enough you miner can leak some shares to standard pools.  That way it's not a complete loss.

I think the readme values might be out of date?

[The Avenger]

I thought getwork-based solo mining didn't work well or at all anymore, and that you needed a stratum proxy of some kind to achieve reasonable efficiency, especially with a large amount of hashpower.

I solo mined alts for 10 minutes one day as an experiment and kept getting "pool is not providing work fast enough" error.

No idea if the same goes for btc solo mining.

Would be interested if anyone has set up stratum proxy for solo mining and how they did it.

I'm pretty sure you need a stratum pool, not a proxy for solo mining:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=162788.0

Damn that's a complex post  

You could be right about needing a stratum pool, or how else will you be able to set the difficulty? It's not something you can set in cgminer, so it has to be somewhere further down the food chain  

[xyzzy099]

I thought getwork-based solo mining didn't work well or at all anymore, and that you needed a stratum proxy of some kind to achieve reasonable efficiency, especially with a large amount of hashpower.

I solo mined alts for 10 minutes one day as an experiment and kept getting "pool is not providing work fast enough" error.

No idea if the same goes for btc solo mining.

Would be interested if anyone has set up stratum proxy for solo mining and how they did it.

I'm pretty sure you need a stratum pool, not a proxy for solo mining:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=162788.0

Damn that's a complex post  

You could be right about needing a stratum pool, or how else will you be able to set the difficulty? It's not something you can set in cgminer, so it has to be somewhere further down the food chain  

Again, just use BFGMiner and your problems will be solved.  It uses GBT for solo mining, so you don't need stratum.

EDIT:  I should add that BFGMiner is already installed on your KnC miner if you are using Bertmod 0.3.

[jelin1984]

any details for solo mining

[The Avenger]

I thought getwork-based solo mining didn't work well or at all anymore, and that you needed a stratum proxy of some kind to achieve reasonable efficiency, especially with a large amount of hashpower.

I solo mined alts for 10 minutes one day as an experiment and kept getting "pool is not providing work fast enough" error.

No idea if the same goes for btc solo mining.

Would be interested if anyone has set up stratum proxy for solo mining and how they did it.

I'm pretty sure you need a stratum pool, not a proxy for solo mining:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=162788.0

Damn that's a complex post  

You could be right about needing a stratum pool, or how else will you be able to set the difficulty? It's not something you can set in cgminer, so it has to be somewhere further down the food chain  

Again, just use BFGMiner and your problems will be solved.  It uses GBT for solo mining, so you don't need stratum.

How do you tell it what difficulty to use?

[RoadStress]

Now this is new. cgminer is reporting ~2Mh/s on avg but the 5s is normal and pool speed is normal. This is with 0.99, but everything was fine from yesterday until i had to shut the miner off. It started normal, but after 30 mins i got this 2Mh/s. I don't care so much about cgminer as long as it's hashing, but this is interesting.

[xyzzy099]

I thought getwork-based solo mining didn't work well or at all anymore, and that you needed a stratum proxy of some kind to achieve reasonable efficiency, especially with a large amount of hashpower.

I solo mined alts for 10 minutes one day as an experiment and kept getting "pool is not providing work fast enough" error.

No idea if the same goes for btc solo mining.

Would be interested if anyone has set up stratum proxy for solo mining and how they did it.

I'm pretty sure you need a stratum pool, not a proxy for solo mining:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=162788.0

Damn that's a complex post  

You could be right about needing a stratum pool, or how else will you be able to set the difficulty? It's not something you can set in cgminer, so it has to be somewhere further down the food chain  

Again, just use BFGMiner and your problems will be solved.  It uses GBT for solo mining, so you don't need stratum.

How do you tell it what difficulty to use?

In solo mining, the difficulty is the network difficulty.  The only accepted share you will see is when you solve a block.

[vesperwillow]

Just figured I would report my results with the .99 firmware. It's been running stable since yesterday when I upgraded.

My mercury was running .96 prior, ~141GH most of the time.

With .99 it's been averaging ~155GH with dips into the high 140's.

Awesome work KNCMiner, thanks! I wonder if I will see 175 or 200 in the future? Lol

[CYPER]

Just figured I would report my results with the .99 firmware. It's been running stable since yesterday when I upgraded.

My mercury was running .96 prior, ~141GH most of the time.

With .99 it's been averaging ~155GH with dips into the high 140's.

Awesome work KNCMiner, thanks! I wonder if I will see 175 or 200 in the future? Lol

Where do you take these speeds from? Can you post a screenshot please.

Thank you.

[-ck]

Now this is new. cgminer is reporting ~2Mh/s on avg but the 5s is normal and pool speed is normal. This is with 0.99, but everything was fine from yesterday until i had to shut the miner off. It started normal, but after 30 mins i got this 2Mh/s. I don't care so much about cgminer as long as it's hashing, but this is interesting.

The beaglebone does not have a battery backed up clock in it. That means when you first start it, the clock is set to the year 2000. Then it does a time update from an ntp server and knows what the real time is, and cgminer thinks you've been hashing for almost 14 years...

[idee2013]

Just figured I would report my results with the .99 firmware. It's been running stable since yesterday when I upgraded.

My mercury was running .96 prior, ~141GH most of the time.

With .99 it's been averaging ~155GH with dips into the high 140's.

Awesome work KNCMiner, thanks! I wonder if I will see 175 or 200 in the future? Lol

Where do you take these speeds from? Can you post a screenshot please.

Thank you.

would like to see it, too

[The Avenger]

I thought getwork-based solo mining didn't work well or at all anymore, and that you needed a stratum proxy of some kind to achieve reasonable efficiency, especially with a large amount of hashpower.

I solo mined alts for 10 minutes one day as an experiment and kept getting "pool is not providing work fast enough" error.

No idea if the same goes for btc solo mining.

Would be interested if anyone has set up stratum proxy for solo mining and how they did it.

I'm pretty sure you need a stratum pool, not a proxy for solo mining:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=162788.0

Damn that's a complex post  

You could be right about needing a stratum pool, or how else will you be able to set the difficulty? It's not something you can set in cgminer, so it has to be somewhere further down the food chain  

Again, just use BFGMiner and your problems will be solved.  It uses GBT for solo mining, so you don't need stratum.

How do you tell it what difficulty to use?

In solo mining, the difficulty is the network difficulty.  The only accepted share you will see is when you solve a block.

Cool, thanks for explaining that.

[h438dlk34]

I thought getwork-based solo mining didn't work well or at all anymore, and that you needed a stratum proxy of some kind to achieve reasonable efficiency, especially with a large amount of hashpower.

I solo mined alts for 10 minutes one day as an experiment and kept getting "pool is not providing work fast enough" error.

No idea if the same goes for btc solo mining.

Would be interested if anyone has set up stratum proxy for solo mining and how they did it.

I'm pretty sure you need a stratum pool, not a proxy for solo mining:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=162788.0

Damn that's a complex post  

You could be right about needing a stratum pool, or how else will you be able to set the difficulty? It's not something you can set in cgminer, so it has to be somewhere further down the food chain  

Again, just use BFGMiner and your problems will be solved.  It uses GBT for solo mining, so you don't need stratum.

How do you tell it what difficulty to use?

In solo mining, the difficulty is the network difficulty.  The only accepted share you will see is when you solve a block.

Cool, thanks for explaining that.

There's a few settings under the stratum pool config file:
Vardiff = True/False #enable vardiff
Target difficulty = 16 #min share difficulty, int >=1
Share target = 2 #try to get a share every 2 seconds
Etc

These aren't the exact names for the settings, but they're close. I can check my config file for the exact settings if you really want to know.

[RoadStress]

Now this is new. cgminer is reporting ~2Mh/s on avg but the 5s is normal and pool speed is normal. This is with 0.99, but everything was fine from yesterday until i had to shut the miner off. It started normal, but after 30 mins i got this 2Mh/s. I don't care so much about cgminer as long as it's hashing, but this is interesting.

The beaglebone does not have a battery backed up clock in it. That means when you first start it, the clock is set to the year 2000. Then it does a time update from an ntp server and knows what the real time is, and cgminer thinks you've been hashing for almost 14 years...

Heh interesting. I'm seeing now that the date is 2000 in cgminer. Any idea when it's updating? Or should i just reboot it?

Edit: Restarted cgminer and it's updated now!

[soy]

Just figured I would report my results with the .99 firmware. It's been running stable since yesterday when I upgraded.

My mercury was running .96 prior, ~141GH most of the time.

With .99 it's been averaging ~155GH with dips into the high 140's.

Awesome work KNCMiner, thanks! I wonder if I will see 175 or 200 in the future? Lol

Where do you take these speeds from? Can you post a screenshot please.

Thank you.

May I ask your WU's?