[Guide] Noob guide to solo mining USB Erupters with cgminer

[izzotheschizo]

I think its working. thank you so much.
the annoying led went off, (thank god)

bes 0:            | 336.0/327.4/ 0.00 Mh/s  | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none

does that sound right?

[frankenmint]

Just out of wondering but wouldn't this work instead of going through all the file stuff?   If not then would the way up top work?



and then download cgminer or bfgminer and make a file called mine.bat


open up mine.bat should look something like this.

Thanks!  This is being quoted so I can find it easily in my own history later.  I'll be coming back to this in Feb.

[Zeek_W]

By far this is the best guide I've seen for this.  I just got my $10 lottery stick in the mail.  I clicked on the zadig link and it says I dont have permission to access the file.

Thanks for the support! Be sure to think of me when you mine that elusive block

The links appear to work now - not sure what happened there :/

[Trongersoll]

Just how much hash power can be aimed a BitcoinQT and have things function correctly?

[Trongersoll]

What's the Bitcoin-QT flag to sign a block?  Can't seem to find the reference now.
Thanks,
Sam

Did you ever get an answer to this? is it something that the mining software might be modified to do?

[os2sam]

What's the Bitcoin-QT flag to sign a block?  Can't seem to find the reference now.
Thanks,
Sam

Did you ever get an answer to this? is it something that the mining software might be modified to do?

No I haven't gotten an answer yet.

I don't know if the mining software could do it or not.

It's a normal function of the Bitcoin Client, but as with many functions of the Client it isn't documented in a place I can find it.  I had seen several times people posting it in various threads but I can't find any of those old threads at the moment.  But I haven't really tried too hard yet either.

Sam

[izzotheschizo]

one block erupter gets 336 Mh/s.  Did you really not know that?  some people overclock them or put 7 in a hub, but then your errors go up.  so basically its less efficient to do that.  but at 1 cent a day per blockeurpter, I guess it doesn't really matter.

if you can find a pool with a low enough threshold, you might be able to make ten cents a day with one.  the time I checked my ten dollar lottery stick was worth $20.  this is because bitcoins sky rocketed over the last 30 days.  but once the difficulty goes up enough they wont be worth nothing.

[qtronix]

how does it no what wallet to pay into. don't you have to put --coinbase-addr-

[os2sam]

how does it no what wallet to pay into. don't you have to put --coinbase-addr-

It goes into the Bitcoin client wallet that you are mining against.  As far as I know you don't need to put "--coinbase-addr-" in your miners command line.  People have been solo mining long before BFGMiner and GBT Ever existed.

[qtronix]

how does it no what wallet to pay into. don't you have to put --coinbase-addr-

It goes into the Bitcoin client wallet that you are mining against.  As far as I know you don't need to put "--coinbase-addr-" in your miners command line.  People have been solo mining long before BFGMiner and GBT Ever existed.

thanks, i am thinking of going solo.

[os2sam]

how does it no what wallet to pay into. don't you have to put --coinbase-addr-

It goes into the Bitcoin client wallet that you are mining against.  As far as I know you don't need to put "--coinbase-addr-" in your miners command line.  People have been solo mining long before BFGMiner and GBT Ever existed.

thanks, i am thinking of going solo.

Doesn't BFG Miner have a readme for solo mining?  That should be helpful I would think.

The "--coinbase-addr-" wouldn't hurt as I think it goes specifically to the address in your client that you specify.  That way it would be easier to search for in the blockchain.

[izzotheschizo]

If I was going to tip someone it would be Luke-jr no offense.
flag to sign block    --coinbase-sig "Found with a ten dollar block erupter my nigga!"

[os2sam]

Just how much hash power can be aimed a BitcoinQT and have things function correctly?

I'm solo mining on two different machines with local Bitcoin-QT's (v0.8.5) one each.  40 Erupters on one and 34 on the other.  Both seem fine.  I have regular pools setup as failovers and shares get leaked to those on block changes but the rest of the time the client holds up just fine, so far.  Next task is to combine all my erupters on the same P4 Vista machine and see how well it works now.
Sam

[qtronix]

Just how much hash power can be aimed a BitcoinQT and have things function correctly?

I'm solo mining on two different machines with local Bitcoin-QT's (v0.8.5) one each.  40 Erupters on one and 34 on the other.  Both seem fine.  I have regular pools setup as failovers and shares get leaked to those on block changes but the rest of the time the client holds up just fine, so far.  Next task is to combine all my erupters on the same P4 Vista machine and see how well it works now.
Sam

i am going solo as soon as qt is downloaded 

[os2sam]

i am going solo as soon as qt is downloaded 

Good luck with it.  I just want to have my rig running without having to look at it anymore.  We'll see how well that works for me.
Sam

[qtronix]

i keep getting (bitcoin qt exe server the ntvdm cpu has encountered an illegal ) every time i try to start the server.

[bomberb17]

So IF we find a block how would we know it? Where will the 25BTC be stored?

[os2sam]

So IF we find a block how would we know it? Where will the 25BTC be stored?

In your Bitcoin-QT client that your mining against.

[TomCoin]

put testnet=1 to your config i you wanna see how it looks like to find a block. You should find one withing 1-2 hours. (port 18332) everthing else stays the same.

[somatic]

This guide worked great for me, thanks. The only difference is that the new cgminer (3.9.0) no longer accepts the -G option. I simply removed it and it works fine.