Solo mining newbie help needed

[reaxion]

Hi,
 I have started solo mining today after 3days in a pool, it took a while for me to setup using bitcoin-qt and Bfgminer but now i think its working.....

I say think because its showing when a new new block is found but My ICA 0: reads 334.1 / 333.5 / 0.00Mh/s when i was in a pool i had 330 + across all 3 of these is this correct?

or have i done something wrong

Hope You can help 

[reaxion]

Here is a screen shot of my bfgminer window




i am just after some confirmation that i am solo mining correctly and that i'm not just watching blocks being created lol

with pool mining its easy to see you are working but solo mining i'm unsure if i did it all correctly

i am on windows 7
with a usb erupter

[aerodactylrider]

I can't see anything on that screenshot, but if it tells you the difficulty of the network then it's working. You won't get a block easily on your own though... With an erupter, you'll need around TEN YEARS. And that ONLY if the difficulty doesn't change at all.

[reaxion]

thank you very much for your reply. I do see the difficulty so it must be working.

i understand that it could take up to 10 yrs to mine a block but i feel like i need to be in it to win it as i was not making very much in pools.

[webants]

same questions.

[Jacce]

You might be earning very little in pools, but you'll earn nothing on solo mining unless you buy really, really good hardware.

[Tommygun]

Solo mining is.. lottery :/ Even with "strong" hardware, you should stay in pool.. And by strong I mean 500GH/s and more, so imagine being solo with 0.333 GH/s

[pontiacg5]

Its a lottery with lottery odds (at this hashrate) but without the lottery winnings.

Mine on a pool, use the profit to buy scratch off tickets. I'd bet you'll end up with more in the end.

[reaxion]

thanks for all the replys its something i'm going to look into more

 is it possible to have 2 usb erupters running on 1Pc - one Mining solo the other in a pool so i can enter the "Lottery" and mine with a pool?

[pontiacg5]

thanks for all the replys its something i'm going to look into more

 is it possible to have 2 usb erupters running on 1Pc - one Mining solo the other in a pool so i can enter the "Lottery" and mine with a pool?

There is a way to specify certain USB devices in bfgminer and cgminer. I'd imagine it is possible to run two separate instances of cg/bfg with one mining a pool, and one on it's own.

Not a lot of people would want to run them this way though, so you'll likely need to read the readme to figure out how to set it up. I doubt there is a "how-to" for this anywhere, in other words.

[cardcomm]

thanks for all the replys its something i'm going to look into more

 is it possible to have 2 usb erupters running on 1Pc - one Mining solo the other in a pool so i can enter the "Lottery" and mine with a pool?

There is a way to specify certain USB devices in bfgminer and cgminer. I'd imagine it is possible to run two separate instances of cg/bfg with one mining a pool, and one on it's own.

Not a lot of people would want to run them this way though, so you'll likely need to read the readme to figure out how to set it up. I doubt there is a "how-to" for this anywhere, in other words.

I agree that solo mining is like the lottery. I NEVER considered solo mining, and assumed I'd never find a block.

I've written a small application that displays cgminer stats. At one point I added some code that turns the "number of blocks found" red instead of green when a block had been found. I thought "Too bad I'll never see this code work in REAL Life." It wasn't even two weeks later that I found a block! The morning I woke up and saw that red number 1 on my block found display was the ONLY time I've wished I'd been doing solo mining... lol

I guess I'm a confirmed pool miner...

[caminilegroup]

I was on several pools then I finally got bfgminer compiled right to allow me to solo mine with my blades.

Right now I have bfgminer to blance between bitcoin and zetacoin solo each, and bitparking.

The way I look at it, I will mine zetacoins, and if I just happen to get a btc block then I'll be happy.