Nice work Blissz! This is a great mod.
It looks like my blissz D3s don't crash now.
I've been trying different things and one of them was to solo mine.
Dash is way out of might league, but there are other X11 coins too.
Has anybody figured out yet how to switch to getwork instead of stratum?
Or maybe used some stratum-getwork proxy (if that is a thing at all).
The opposite of slush's pool getwork-stratum proxy
I guess as a final option (but very undesirable one) I could install a private pool, which I desperately try to avoid, because I've never done it and don't know how.
Is there a youtube video how to install X11 pool for dummies?
Preferably on Windows? LOL
tl;dr version: If you couldn't take the time to read through my ramblings you'd never manage to deal with all the conflicting software issues with a pool.. so just don't.
I did a little home pool. and omg.. EVERY piece of software out there to run pools has some kind of issue, unless you have EXACTLY the hardware/os combo that the guy who wrote it does. (okay I'm exaggerating... but not as much as you'd think)
Anyway apparently we had an electrical issue.. all the bitmain's are fine, but the comp that had the pool on it.. fan fired on video card (wouldn't think it would be that big a deal since it mostly doesn't get used unless the grandkids are using my laptop and I can't just ssh in.
hahaha) after replacing that I'm hung at initializing usb - still working on what is causing that.. thought it was the card reader, but nope. - so since I'm taking a break from the hardware issues... lemme break some stuff down on the "creating your own pool" thing.
#1 if you are just going to do it for your own use or only tell a couple of friends.. cool. - start spreading that out there and now you gotta go whole hog on security etc.. since every dinky asshole out there goes "target aquired"
#2 Software - you "can" run a pool on windows. only a couple of pools allow for that though. My favorite was coiniumserv - no one is working on it anymore though and it has alot of little annoying problems.. but hey if you really like digging through tons of code to see what the problems are.... hehe.. it has some pretty neat features, will run on nix or windows etc.. IF you are using a coin it is good with.. bam it will work out well.. half the time the only way to tell is to put it up and run it and see. it will work or it won't ... next nomp.. so.. umm yeah in theory it will run on windows.. never got it to work.. on nix..(oh I should clarify - I was using ubuntu 14 then 16 through all the *nix side stuff) it gave me more fits than it was worth. - next I went to unomp.. and lo after some twitching got it to work.. and pretty well too. but it didn't do all I wanted it to do... and as I was looking into some others.. poof.. comp died. I was going to try yiimp or yaamp next.. though recent pools based on those and the glitches they have had I'm a little concerned. but coiniumserv worked for a few coins.. and unomp worked okay for basic "I wanna make a pool so I can solo mine X" -
#3 hardware if you have less than 8gb ram .. stick with 1 maaaaybe 2 coins with 8gb you can do a few more, but when you see it start filling up the swap file constantly time to put a little more in. other than ram I have yet to see an issue other than I cobbled together the "server" from crap left in my garage ... so if you have an hold piece of trash laying around so long as you can get some memory into it .. or if you only want to do one specific coin - you "can" be good to go.
#4 everything else.. okay so you go to say github get your pool software.. got yourself a little ubuntu machine (or whatever) now the fun begins.. most of this stuff is written to use SPECIFIC versions of things that are getting harder and harder to find. half the time the OS is too up to date to effectively compile the sucker. Pretty much no matter which you pick or try.. you are going to have issues compiling - and you will feel that the computer hates you.. and it will be one thing after another...
So anyway I'd do coiniumserv first and try.. 'cause when it works it's nice. - there is a "better" version of it on one of the forks.. vagabond?something I think ... better as in more likely to work with newer coins. there is a pretty detailed step by step of configuring it all.. oh that's the other thing.. every and I mean EVERY one out there has something in it where the coder felt something was a "given" and assumes you already knew that or your distro just comes with "whatever" and it's not and it doesn't. then if that fails try unomp -
if you know that the coin you want to mine has had significant changes in the last couple of years or is a newer coin or is hybrid pow/pos then skip to unomp.
oh and when it comes time to compile coin wallets.. oh what fun.. half of them out there would compile fine on ubuntu12 - but then the pool software will be like.. wait what?!?! I was tempted to pick out a pile of wallets compile them all on 12 (if I can find it) and then upgrade it to 14 and put on pool software and see what happened. hehe. okay again this is some exaggeration.. some wallets will be fine, some will give you fits.. some will have a binary already built for your distro of whatever.
#5 a proxy... I'm working on it.
but I have like 50 pokers in various fires.. so ummmm yeah. I had something working long ago using a combo of stralheims??? can't remember the name proxy and bfgminer (where both were on the comp with the wallet) but I can't remember how I did it (it was a long time ago) sadly bfgminer while it can "be" a proxy it HATES cgminer based things.. and I mean hates.. I am surprised when you try to connect one that it doesn't pop up a message saying "cgminer detected - screw that guy" -
anyway... there is my 2 cents on that.
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