MINING SOLO WITH 4 CARDS

[mu50stang]

How do I setup GUI Miner to mine solo with 4 cards.  I have 2 in 1 machine and another 2 in another.  Thanks.

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[deslok]

unless those for cards are 6990s you're not going to make terribly much you're running between 3-4 gh tops and be lucky to solve a block per month so i have to ask why would you want to mine solo with that setup?

[mu50stang]

Wanna try something different.  Are you able to share on how to do it.  Thanks.

[Atroxes]

With 0% fee SMPPS/PPLNS pools, there's no reason, at all, to solo mine with that few GH/s.

If you somehow got your hands on 20GH/s+, then MAYBE solo mining would be an option. Although even at that speed, you might end up waiting weeks on end for a block. You could also get lucky and find 2 within 2 weeks.

Roll them dice!

[Graet]

you can mine *coins solo....apparently they are worthwhile....

so instead of telling the guy what he *should* do in your opinion, how about someone with solo experience help the dude get setup, seeing that was his question?>?>?

[Sukrim]

you can mine *coins solo....apparently they are worthwhile....

so instead of telling the guy what he *should* do in your opinion, how about someone with solo experience help the dude get setup, seeing that was his question?>?>?

http://www.google.com/search?q=bitcoin+solo+mining+tutorial

It's as simple as running bitcoind with a command line switch and then connecting your miners to this PC instead of to a pool. Also questions regarding GUIminer would best fit into "mining software", right?! 

[Mousepotato]

Just set up some solo workers in GUIminer and point them to localhost.  Port 8332, IIRC.  You're on a roll. It's time to mine solo.

[mu50stang]

If my computer restarts why solo mining do i lose anything and have to start over. 

[SleeperUnit]

If my computer restarts why solo mining do i lose anything and have to start over. 

Quick answer = No.

Long answer = If your computer happens to reboot in the few milliseconds between it finding a valid block and transmitting it to the network, then yes you will lose that block. The same is valid (and much more likely) in a pool; if your PC reboots before it could send a share it found, you won't get credit for that share.

[mu50stang]

So just to clear this up, when I'm solo mining each hash is its own attempt to find a valid block?

[Keninishna]

yup, but only 1 out of 1.8 million shares on average will make it.

[Sukrim]

It's a lottery, not a constant process with any guarantees.

[Tim the Magician]

I'm solo mining with multiple machines.

I run the bitcoin client on a non-mining machine with the '-server' flag..  I chose to run it on a different machine because I'm running AMD drivers with the 100% CPU bug and it seemed like the miners were bogging down the bitcoin client.

Before you can connect from your miners you will need to modify the Bitcoin.conf file.
More about this: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin
 
Basically you want to remove the ‘#’ from before the server, rpcuser and rpcpassword lines.
Change rpcuser to the username you want to use and rpcpassword to a password you want to use.

# JSON-RPC options (for controlling a running Bitcoin/bitcoind process)
 # server=1 tells Bitcoin to accept JSON-RPC commands.
 server=1

 # You must set rpcuser and rpcpassword to secure the JSON-RPC api
 rpcuser=Username
 rpcpassword=Password

Configure the miners to connect to the machine running the bitcoin software.. I use GUIMiner on the miners it is really easy to set up.

I started off pool mining.. got to a few bitcoins and decided to go solo.. now its day after day (week after week) of waiting with no results.  I’m going to stick with it but if I had to do it all again knowing what I know now I would stick to the pool mining.

Good Luck

[jjiimm_64]

I thought about solo mining, glad I did not.

I have been mining since June,

I have mined
3917077 shares at the guild, 1block
2470241 shares at btcmine, 3 blocks
1060853 shares at slush,     1 block
 some at deepbit, and ars  no blocks (not sure deep tells us)

the one at slush was my second day of mining, which made me want to go solo.. but I am glad I did not.  I have about 350btc now.  I would have 250 with the luck mentioned above.

good luck!

[minero1]

Assuming you are using guiminer in windows 7 and both computers are connected to the same router/switch go to the guiminer menu click solo utilities, solo password, enter whatever you want there, then set the client path to where your bitcoin client is installed, finally launch it as a server.

Try to find out whats your server IP address, if you're not sure type CMD in the run dialog box in the start menu, once the console opens up type "ipconfig" without quotes, a bunch of stuff shows up but you are only interested in the IPv4 address

Now in the client machine while setting the solo miner your host is the ip address of your server, the port is 8332 and the user and pass are the ones you set in the server's guiminer

i think that's it

[Mistafreeze]

I thought about solo mining, glad I did not.

I have been mining since June,

I have mined
3917077 shares at the guild, 1block
2470241 shares at btcmine, 3 blocks
1060853 shares at slush,     1 block
 some at deepbit, and ars  no blocks (not sure deep tells us)

the one at slush was my second day of mining, which made me want to go solo.. but I am glad I did not.  I have about 350btc now.  I would have 250 with the luck mentioned above.

good luck!

Deepbit tells you how many blocks on your advanced user settings page.