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[bible_pay]

Where do people download the bbp xmrig software again?

https://github.com/biblepay/xmrig/tree/master/binaries

Is this the best location?

Yeah normally i just download directly from github, all about your taste i guess. Directly from pool page also a option.

I am using port 3001 on rx.biblepay.org - the block height says 2062258

Height should be 184675. Am I mining on the correct chain? That block height looks awfully high, like it is testnet chain or something...

I haven't tried xmrig in a long time, so I could be mistaken too.

As we covered in testnet we display the randomX height there and when you solve BBP shares then we pass through BBP height and bbp diff.

So that part is A-OK.

Where do people download the bbp xmrig software again?

https://github.com/biblepay/xmrig/tree/master/binaries

Is this the best location?

Heres the link again:

https://wiki.biblepay.org/Upgrade_to_RandomX




Anyone who gets the "failed to load winring driver", just disregard that til tomorrow.
It only offers a 3% speed increase, and I will explain how to enable that tomorrow once we work out the remaining issues and the chain gets rolling again.




Praise Jesus, we solved it!  Whew.

EDIT:  That block was solo mined, btw.

EDIT 2:  Unfortunately diff is still 5000, we probably need to solve one more to get it down to 2500, due to DGW's history.

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[Borgholio]

Where do people download the bbp xmrig software again?

https://github.com/biblepay/xmrig/tree/master/binaries

Is this the best location?

Yeah normally i just download directly from github, all about your taste i guess. Directly from pool page also a option.

I am using port 3001 on rx.biblepay.org - the block height says 2062258

Height should be 184675. Am I mining on the correct chain? That block height looks awfully high, like it is testnet chain or something...

I haven't tried xmrig in a long time, so I could be mistaken too.

https://i.imgur.com/tDIR32B.jpg

What are the huge pages and 1gb pages in your miner?  They both show as unavailable for me.

[bible_pay]

Where do people download the bbp xmrig software again?

https://github.com/biblepay/xmrig/tree/master/binaries

Is this the best location?

Yeah normally i just download directly from github, all about your taste i guess. Directly from pool page also a option.

I am using port 3001 on rx.biblepay.org - the block height says 2062258

Height should be 184675. Am I mining on the correct chain? That block height looks awfully high, like it is testnet chain or something...

I haven't tried xmrig in a long time, so I could be mistaken too.

What are the huge pages and 1gb pages in your miner?  They both show as unavailable for me.

Oh wow, we could be on to something with that (I've got your IP and I have been collecting some data btw).

Anyway, my numbers arent exactly correct but I believe you need 1 gig of ram per huge page.  The miner will automatically use them if it can.

I believe you need 256meg of free ram per thread, minimum.  How much ram does your machine have?

[Borgholio]

Where do people download the bbp xmrig software again?

https://github.com/biblepay/xmrig/tree/master/binaries

Is this the best location?

Yeah normally i just download directly from github, all about your taste i guess. Directly from pool page also a option.

I am using port 3001 on rx.biblepay.org - the block height says 2062258

Height should be 184675. Am I mining on the correct chain? That block height looks awfully high, like it is testnet chain or something...

I haven't tried xmrig in a long time, so I could be mistaken too.

https://i.imgur.com/tDIR32B.jpg

What are the huge pages and 1gb pages in your miner?  They both show as unavailable for me.

Oh wow, we could be on to something with that (I've got your IP and I have been collecting some data btw).

Anyway, my numbers arent exactly correct but I believe you need 1 gig of ram per huge page.  The miner will automatically use them if it can.

I believe you need 256meg of free ram per thread, minimum.  How much ram does your machine have?

I have 16gb total.  Task manager is showing the miner is using 2.3gb for a single thread.

[bible_pay]

Where do people download the bbp xmrig software again?

https://github.com/biblepay/xmrig/tree/master/binaries

Is this the best location?

Yeah normally i just download directly from github, all about your taste i guess. Directly from pool page also a option.

I am using port 3001 on rx.biblepay.org - the block height says 2062258

Height should be 184675. Am I mining on the correct chain? That block height looks awfully high, like it is testnet chain or something...

I haven't tried xmrig in a long time, so I could be mistaken too.

What are the huge pages and 1gb pages in your miner?  They both show as unavailable for me.

Oh wow, we could be on to something with that (I've got your IP and I have been collecting some data btw).

Anyway, my numbers arent exactly correct but I believe you need 1 gig of ram per huge page.  The miner will automatically use them if it can.

I believe you need 256meg of free ram per thread, minimum.  How much ram does your machine have?

I have 16gb total.  Task manager is showing the miner is using 2.3gb for a single thread.

Ok thats not it then, anything more than 4gb is probably fine.

On a side note the only strange problem I see from your machine so far, is your machine constantly reconnects (about once every 10 minutes), authorizes in the pool successfully, we get your BBP address and Monero address (the correct ones) successfully and give you something to mine, but then we never hear from your machine again (it basically never knows when it solves a BBP share).  So either it discards the reply, or, it cant contact us with a solution.  Since you dont see rejects on your screen, it sounds as if its not really mining on the bbp side.

I did extend the pool server timeout to 10 minutes to try to accomodate that behavior and it appears that did not help your case.

Ill have to give you some commands to enable verbose logging.

In the mean time is there any way you can try windows mining from another machine, just to ensure that it fails only on one machine?  That will help isolating network issues and binary issues.

[sunk818]

Can the bbp xmrig be compiled with CUDA (nvidia)? This miner is intentionally only CPU right?

[Borgholio]

Where do people download the bbp xmrig software again?

https://github.com/biblepay/xmrig/tree/master/binaries

Is this the best location?

Yeah normally i just download directly from github, all about your taste i guess. Directly from pool page also a option.

I am using port 3001 on rx.biblepay.org - the block height says 2062258

Height should be 184675. Am I mining on the correct chain? That block height looks awfully high, like it is testnet chain or something...

I haven't tried xmrig in a long time, so I could be mistaken too.

https://i.imgur.com/tDIR32B.jpg

What are the huge pages and 1gb pages in your miner?  They both show as unavailable for me.

Oh wow, we could be on to something with that (I've got your IP and I have been collecting some data btw).

Anyway, my numbers arent exactly correct but I believe you need 1 gig of ram per huge page.  The miner will automatically use them if it can.

I believe you need 256meg of free ram per thread, minimum.  How much ram does your machine have?

I have 16gb total.  Task manager is showing the miner is using 2.3gb for a single thread.

Ok thats not it then, anything more than 4gb is probably fine.

On a side note the only strange problem I see from your machine so far, is your machine constantly reconnects (about once every 10 minutes), authorizes in the pool successfully, we get your BBP address and Monero address (the correct ones) successfully and give you something to mine, but then we never hear from your machine again (it basically never knows when it solves a BBP share).  So either it discards the reply, or, it cant contact us with a solution.  Since you dont see rejects on your screen, it sounds as if its not really mining on the bbp side.

I did extend the pool server timeout to 10 minutes to try to accomodate that behavior and it appears that did not help your case.

Ill have to give you some commands to enable verbose logging.

In the mean time is there any way you can try windows mining from another machine, just to ensure that it fails only on one machine?  That will help isolating network issues and binary issues.

Tried from another machine, no change in behavior.

[bible_pay]

Can the bbp xmrig be compiled with CUDA (nvidia)? This miner is intentionally only CPU right?

This miner already comes with the CUDA code, compiled in it, and afaik its ready to run on GPUs of most every kind (AMD & Nvidia) if you enable the switches.

But know that running randomx on video cards is slightly slower than on the CPU (one of the main reasons we ended up going with this, as that should protect us in the future).

There is a study in a pdf - I think its embedded in the source code - with hash speeds per architecture and video cards.
There is a github discussion between the randomx developers talking about how to hose the video cards.

Anyway the idea is, the randomx algo picks the machine language for your platform and runs it with a JIT compiler, so everyone is pretty much "equal".
People with more RAM have an edge, but the RAM is also taken into account with cost of ownership too.

Where do people download the bbp xmrig software again?

https://github.com/biblepay/xmrig/tree/master/binaries

Is this the best location?

Yeah normally i just download directly from github, all about your taste i guess. Directly from pool page also a option.

I am using port 3001 on rx.biblepay.org - the block height says 2062258

Height should be 184675. Am I mining on the correct chain? That block height looks awfully high, like it is testnet chain or something...

I haven't tried xmrig in a long time, so I could be mistaken too.

What are the huge pages and 1gb pages in your miner?  They both show as unavailable for me.

Oh wow, we could be on to something with that (I've got your IP and I have been collecting some data btw).

Anyway, my numbers arent exactly correct but I believe you need 1 gig of ram per huge page.  The miner will automatically use them if it can.

I believe you need 256meg of free ram per thread, minimum.  How much ram does your machine have?

I have 16gb total.  Task manager is showing the miner is using 2.3gb for a single thread.

Ok thats not it then, anything more than 4gb is probably fine.

On a side note the only strange problem I see from your machine so far, is your machine constantly reconnects (about once every 10 minutes), authorizes in the pool successfully, we get your BBP address and Monero address (the correct ones) successfully and give you something to mine, but then we never hear from your machine again (it basically never knows when it solves a BBP share).  So either it discards the reply, or, it cant contact us with a solution.  Since you dont see rejects on your screen, it sounds as if its not really mining on the bbp side.

I did extend the pool server timeout to 10 minutes to try to accomodate that behavior and it appears that did not help your case.

Ill have to give you some commands to enable verbose logging.

In the mean time is there any way you can try windows mining from another machine, just to ensure that it fails only on one machine?  That will help isolating network issues and binary issues.

Tried from another machine, no change in behavior.

Hmm, that really points to your network then, I would think, since its not happening with anyone else yet.

The good news is since we are only on block #2, we can still try to figure other things out.

Do you have any strange networking setup, like VPN, and are your machines running any proxies, I mean do the tcp packets flow straight out of the LAN through a normal router?

Where do people download the bbp xmrig software again?

https://github.com/biblepay/xmrig/tree/master/binaries

Is this the best location?

Yeah normally i just download directly from github, all about your taste i guess. Directly from pool page also a option.

I am using port 3001 on rx.biblepay.org - the block height says 2062258

Height should be 184675. Am I mining on the correct chain? That block height looks awfully high, like it is testnet chain or something...

I haven't tried xmrig in a long time, so I could be mistaken too.

What are the huge pages and 1gb pages in your miner?  They both show as unavailable for me.

Oh wow, we could be on to something with that (I've got your IP and I have been collecting some data btw).

Anyway, my numbers arent exactly correct but I believe you need 1 gig of ram per huge page.  The miner will automatically use them if it can.

I believe you need 256meg of free ram per thread, minimum.  How much ram does your machine have?

I have 16gb total.  Task manager is showing the miner is using 2.3gb for a single thread.

Ok thats not it then, anything more than 4gb is probably fine.

On a side note the only strange problem I see from your machine so far, is your machine constantly reconnects (about once every 10 minutes), authorizes in the pool successfully, we get your BBP address and Monero address (the correct ones) successfully and give you something to mine, but then we never hear from your machine again (it basically never knows when it solves a BBP share).  So either it discards the reply, or, it cant contact us with a solution.  Since you dont see rejects on your screen, it sounds as if its not really mining on the bbp side.

I did extend the pool server timeout to 10 minutes to try to accomodate that behavior and it appears that did not help your case.

Ill have to give you some commands to enable verbose logging.

In the mean time is there any way you can try windows mining from another machine, just to ensure that it fails only on one machine?  That will help isolating network issues and binary issues.

Tried from another machine, no change in behavior.

Hmm, that really points to your network then, I would think, since its not happening with anyone else yet.

The good news is since we are only on block #2, we can still try to figure other things out.

Do you have any strange networking setup, like VPN, and are your machines running any proxies, I mean do the tcp packets flow straight out of the LAN through a normal router?

2nd question, also, do you have all windows boxes or have you also tried the linux version by any chance?




Praise Jesus, we just solved the second RX block!

Diff has dropped to 2033!

Should help us much more on the next.

Ill investigate to see if it was solo.

[Borgholio]

Where do people download the bbp xmrig software again?

https://github.com/biblepay/xmrig/tree/master/binaries

Is this the best location?

Yeah normally i just download directly from github, all about your taste i guess. Directly from pool page also a option.

I am using port 3001 on rx.biblepay.org - the block height says 2062258

Height should be 184675. Am I mining on the correct chain? That block height looks awfully high, like it is testnet chain or something...

I haven't tried xmrig in a long time, so I could be mistaken too.

https://i.imgur.com/tDIR32B.jpg

What are the huge pages and 1gb pages in your miner?  They both show as unavailable for me.

Oh wow, we could be on to something with that (I've got your IP and I have been collecting some data btw).

Anyway, my numbers arent exactly correct but I believe you need 1 gig of ram per huge page.  The miner will automatically use them if it can.

I believe you need 256meg of free ram per thread, minimum.  How much ram does your machine have?

I have 16gb total.  Task manager is showing the miner is using 2.3gb for a single thread.

Ok thats not it then, anything more than 4gb is probably fine.

On a side note the only strange problem I see from your machine so far, is your machine constantly reconnects (about once every 10 minutes), authorizes in the pool successfully, we get your BBP address and Monero address (the correct ones) successfully and give you something to mine, but then we never hear from your machine again (it basically never knows when it solves a BBP share).  So either it discards the reply, or, it cant contact us with a solution.  Since you dont see rejects on your screen, it sounds as if its not really mining on the bbp side.

I did extend the pool server timeout to 10 minutes to try to accomodate that behavior and it appears that did not help your case.

Ill have to give you some commands to enable verbose logging.

In the mean time is there any way you can try windows mining from another machine, just to ensure that it fails only on one machine?  That will help isolating network issues and binary issues.

Tried from another machine, no change in behavior.

Hmm, that really points to your network then, I would think, since its not happening with anyone else yet.

The good news is since we are only on block #2, we can still try to figure other things out.

Do you have any strange networking setup, like VPN, and are your machines running any proxies, I mean do the tcp packets flow straight out of the LAN through a normal router?

2nd question, also, do you have all windows boxes or have you also tried the linux version by any chance?

Nothing out of the ordinary that I can think of.  All my PCs are connected to our router via WiFi, and the router is connected directly to Cox internet service.  I'll check the router firewall and see if there's anything funky in there.

No Linux boxes, all Windows.

[Borgholio]

Question - what IP address / URL does the miner attempt to connect to when it reports a share?  I can try pinging it to see if it's blocked.

[bible_pay]

Question - what IP address / URL does the miner attempt to connect to when it reports a share?  I can try pinging it to see if it's blocked.

You can telnet to it, which is slightly better because Ping can be blocked.

telnet rx.biblepay.org 3001

You should get a blank screen.

Question - what IP address / URL does the miner attempt to connect to when it reports a share?  I can try pinging it to see if it's blocked.

You can telnet to it, which is slightly better because Ping can be blocked.

telnet rx.biblepay.org 3001

You should get a blank screen.

And Im not sure if you can try this, but if you can, it would be really helpful to try to run a cat5 cable from a hub to the miner and just try mining that way (in contrast to wifi) just to see if it alleviates the network problem.

Ill keep thinking...

One other thing; if you try a static IP setting on your miner and set google as the DNS : 8.8.8.8, with a static IP, and try disabling ipv6.  It could be that we dont support ipv6 yet.  If you keep ipv4 on there checked, that will force all packets through ipv4.



Note about the old pool : nomp.biblepay.org

I will bring it up again and keep it on until it pays out the old balances.

[Borgholio]

Question - what IP address / URL does the miner attempt to connect to when it reports a share?  I can try pinging it to see if it's blocked.

You can telnet to it, which is slightly better because Ping can be blocked.

telnet rx.biblepay.org 3001

You should get a blank screen.

I got a blank screen initially, then I got this after a few seconds:

{"id":null,"method":"mining.notify","params":["14c",null,"1000005003dbc560105aec1b1ec3f7572205fbd72c17510fdada48fd853ce238cc14830ee3ed544 7a24bdc3e16ee160180480c7e1302bbece9d4916ccdbfa46c6a1bd076e5da7b5ee4a6011c000000 00","0e8314cc38e23c85fd48dada0f51172cd7fb052257f7c31e1bec5a1060c5db03",null,"00000000","1c01a6e4","5e7bdae5",false,"5e7bd65c"]}                                                                                 

[bible_pay]

Question - what IP address / URL does the miner attempt to connect to when it reports a share?  I can try pinging it to see if it's blocked.

You can telnet to it, which is slightly better because Ping can be blocked.

telnet rx.biblepay.org 3001

You should get a blank screen.

I got a blank screen initially, then I got this after a few seconds:

{"id":null,"method":"mining.notify","params":["14c",null,"1000005003dbc560105aec1b1ec3f7572205fbd72c17510fdada48fd853ce238cc14830ee3ed544 7a24bdc3e16ee160180480c7e1302bbece9d4916ccdbfa46c6a1bd076e5da7b5ee4a6011c000000 00","0e8314cc38e23c85fd48dada0f51172cd7fb052257f7c31e1bec5a1060c5db03",null,"00000000","1c01a6e4","5e7bdae5",false,"5e7bd65c"]}                                                                                 

Yeah, you can connect.  If you can try the other two things that might help.  Ill try to think of other things we can do.

Question - what IP address / URL does the miner attempt to connect to when it reports a share?  I can try pinging it to see if it's blocked.

You can telnet to it, which is slightly better because Ping can be blocked.

telnet rx.biblepay.org 3001

You should get a blank screen.

I got a blank screen initially, then I got this after a few seconds:

{"id":null,"method":"mining.notify","params":["14c",null,"1000005003dbc560105aec1b1ec3f7572205fbd72c17510fdada48fd853ce238cc14830ee3ed544 7a24bdc3e16ee160180480c7e1302bbece9d4916ccdbfa46c6a1bd076e5da7b5ee4a6011c000000 00","0e8314cc38e23c85fd48dada0f51172cd7fb052257f7c31e1bec5a1060c5db03",null,"00000000","1c01a6e4","5e7bdae5",false,"5e7bd65c"]}                                                                                 

Yeah, you can connect.  If you can try the other two things that might help.  Ill try to think of other things we can do.

How about right clicking on the bbp-xmrig.exe miner, and ensuring it is "unblocked" and Run as Administrator is checked?
Could possibly be network stack blocked at app level.

Then restart the mining batch file.

[sunk818]

Praise Jesus, we just solved the second RX block!

Diff has dropped to 2033!

Should help us much more on the next.

Ill investigate to see if it was solo.

Very good. All the pending mempool tx got confirmed, so that's good. I have some backlog on sunpool that I need to payout, so good to see blockchain is working and fully in sync.

[Borgholio]

Question - what IP address / URL does the miner attempt to connect to when it reports a share?  I can try pinging it to see if it's blocked.

You can telnet to it, which is slightly better because Ping can be blocked.

telnet rx.biblepay.org 3001

You should get a blank screen.

I got a blank screen initially, then I got this after a few seconds:

{"id":null,"method":"mining.notify","params":["14c",null,"1000005003dbc560105aec1b1ec3f7572205fbd72c17510fdada48fd853ce238cc14830ee3ed544 7a24bdc3e16ee160180480c7e1302bbece9d4916ccdbfa46c6a1bd076e5da7b5ee4a6011c000000 00","0e8314cc38e23c85fd48dada0f51172cd7fb052257f7c31e1bec5a1060c5db03",null,"00000000","1c01a6e4","5e7bdae5",false,"5e7bd65c"]}                                                                                 

Yeah, you can connect.  If you can try the other two things that might help.  Ill try to think of other things we can do.

How about right clicking on the bbp-xmrig.exe miner, and ensuring it is "unblocked" and Run as Administrator is checked?
Could possibly be network stack blocked at app level.

Then restart the mining batch file.

And I only have one other suggestion before we do things like wireshark.

Try adding "--keepalive" to the end of the params.

Unfortunately I tried --verbose logging, and it will not actually give us enough info to help diagnose a packet submission.  (I also tried verbose logging to file).

--keepalive doesn't work either.  Is it possible to solo mine with the miner?

[bible_pay]

Question - what IP address / URL does the miner attempt to connect to when it reports a share?  I can try pinging it to see if it's blocked.

You can telnet to it, which is slightly better because Ping can be blocked.

telnet rx.biblepay.org 3001

You should get a blank screen.

I got a blank screen initially, then I got this after a few seconds:

{"id":null,"method":"mining.notify","params":["14c",null,"1000005003dbc560105aec1b1ec3f7572205fbd72c17510fdada48fd853ce238cc14830ee3ed544 7a24bdc3e16ee160180480c7e1302bbece9d4916ccdbfa46c6a1bd076e5da7b5ee4a6011c000000 00","0e8314cc38e23c85fd48dada0f51172cd7fb052257f7c31e1bec5a1060c5db03",null,"00000000","1c01a6e4","5e7bdae5",false,"5e7bd65c"]}                                                                                 

Yeah, you can connect.  If you can try the other two things that might help.  Ill try to think of other things we can do.

How about right clicking on the bbp-xmrig.exe miner, and ensuring it is "unblocked" and Run as Administrator is checked?
Could possibly be network stack blocked at app level.

Then restart the mining batch file.

And I only have one other suggestion before we do things like wireshark.

Try adding "--keepalive" to the end of the params.

Unfortunately I tried --verbose logging, and it will not actually give us enough info to help diagnose a packet submission.  (I also tried verbose logging to file).

--keepalive doesn't work either.  Is it possible to solo mine with the miner?

Not from xmrig, no, you can only solo mine from the core client.

[eternalenvoy]

May I know what the new link (CLI mode) is for the new version 1.5.0.7 in linux?

[Borgholio]

Question - what IP address / URL does the miner attempt to connect to when it reports a share?  I can try pinging it to see if it's blocked.

You can telnet to it, which is slightly better because Ping can be blocked.

telnet rx.biblepay.org 3001

You should get a blank screen.

I got a blank screen initially, then I got this after a few seconds:

{"id":null,"method":"mining.notify","params":["14c",null,"1000005003dbc560105aec1b1ec3f7572205fbd72c17510fdada48fd853ce238cc14830ee3ed544 7a24bdc3e16ee160180480c7e1302bbece9d4916ccdbfa46c6a1bd076e5da7b5ee4a6011c000000 00","0e8314cc38e23c85fd48dada0f51172cd7fb052257f7c31e1bec5a1060c5db03",null,"00000000","1c01a6e4","5e7bdae5",false,"5e7bd65c"]}                                                                                 

Yeah, you can connect.  If you can try the other two things that might help.  Ill try to think of other things we can do.

How about right clicking on the bbp-xmrig.exe miner, and ensuring it is "unblocked" and Run as Administrator is checked?
Could possibly be network stack blocked at app level.

Then restart the mining batch file.

And I only have one other suggestion before we do things like wireshark.

Try adding "--keepalive" to the end of the params.

Unfortunately I tried --verbose logging, and it will not actually give us enough info to help diagnose a packet submission.  (I also tried verbose logging to file).

--keepalive doesn't work either.  Is it possible to solo mine with the miner?

Not from xmrig, no, you can only solo mine from the core client.

Well I'm out of ideas.  Tried downgrading to 5.6.2 and no luck.  Even tried using my phone as a mobile hotspot to see if an entirely different internet connection would work, but it didn't.  The strange thing is, I actually DID see my BBP address on the pool page for about half an hour this afternoon after I got back from running some errands, but it vanished since then and hasn't come back.

[bible_pay]

Question - what IP address / URL does the miner attempt to connect to when it reports a share?  I can try pinging it to see if it's blocked.

You can telnet to it, which is slightly better because Ping can be blocked.

telnet rx.biblepay.org 3001

You should get a blank screen.

I got a blank screen initially, then I got this after a few seconds:

{"id":null,"method":"mining.notify","params":["14c",null,"1000005003dbc560105aec1b1ec3f7572205fbd72c17510fdada48fd853ce238cc14830ee3ed544 7a24bdc3e16ee160180480c7e1302bbece9d4916ccdbfa46c6a1bd076e5da7b5ee4a6011c000000 00","0e8314cc38e23c85fd48dada0f51172cd7fb052257f7c31e1bec5a1060c5db03",null,"00000000","1c01a6e4","5e7bdae5",false,"5e7bd65c"]}                                                                                 

Yeah, you can connect.  If you can try the other two things that might help.  Ill try to think of other things we can do.

How about right clicking on the bbp-xmrig.exe miner, and ensuring it is "unblocked" and Run as Administrator is checked?
Could possibly be network stack blocked at app level.

Then restart the mining batch file.

And I only have one other suggestion before we do things like wireshark.

Try adding "--keepalive" to the end of the params.

Unfortunately I tried --verbose logging, and it will not actually give us enough info to help diagnose a packet submission.  (I also tried verbose logging to file).

--keepalive doesn't work either.  Is it possible to solo mine with the miner?

Not from xmrig, no, you can only solo mine from the core client.

Well I'm out of ideas.  Tried downgrading to 5.6.2 and no luck.  Even tried using my phone as a mobile hotspot to see if an entirely different internet connection would work, but it didn't.  The strange thing is, I actually DID see my BBP address on the pool page for about half an hour this afternoon after I got back from running some errands, but it vanished since then and hasn't come back.

What happened with the right clicking of the exe and setting run as administrator checkbox and unblock?

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