A mining query that I hope someone can help

[derekleong75]

Assuming I have multiple computers in a local network all connected to the Internet.

Can I:

Install a qt wallet for my currency of choosing.
Sync it and run it in server mode, accepting user x and password y over z port.
Set all the other computers to mine to it using the same user and password.

Will the combined hashing power be aggregated even if all the machines log in using the same user/pasword?

Basically what I am asking is can I do the above as a kind of solo mining operation but combining multiple machines hashing power together.

[jfrenchy]

i think you have to run pool software which your miners point towards, and the pool in turn points to your bitcoind

[derekleong75]

Thats a problem as I am not so technically inclined.

[os2sam]

You don't need to run pool software to do what your talking about.  There are options in the QT Clients to allow connections from other computers.  Run Bitcoin-qt.exe -? to get a listing of command line options.  I'm not sure which ones you would need though as I solo mine with a local bitcoin-qt and mining software.

But if you have high hash rate ASIC's then you may need the pools software for performance reasons.

[crazyates]

i think you have to run pool software which your miners point towards, and the pool in turn points to your bitcoind

The pool software that you're talking about only acts as a middle-man between the miner and the bitcoind. It tracks who's sending how many shares, and at what difficulty, and creates a database of rewards and payouts for any miner moving through before passing successful blocks onto the bitcoind.

This process can be done without a middle-man if you don't mind losing any sort of tracking, reward splitting, webserver plugin, etc, which is basically what the OP is talking about.

[os2sam]

The last time I looked cgminer did not support direct mining to the bitcoin client.

Don't know why you would think that?  I do it all the time.  It has always worked.  Why wouldn't it?

[os2sam]

The last time I looked cgminer did not support direct mining to the bitcoin client.

Don't know why you would think that?  I do it all the time.  It has always worked.  Why wouldn't it?

On bitcoin?

Or are you talking about alt-coins?

There are entire threads here on setting up pools for solo mining because you can't do it with stock bitcoind and cgminer.

I'm talking about bitcoins.  That's all I mine.

The entire thread is the guy asking if he can point multiple machines on his LAN at one Bitcoin-QT/Altcoin-QT in server mode.  And the answer is yes you can.  Now if he has allot of hash power it may not be a great idea or the best performance.  But he can do it.

When I do it I'm only using 3 to 30Ghs and that works OK.

I still don't see why you think CGMiner can't mine against a Bitcoin-QT?  It is getwork only but it works.  Always has.

[os2sam]

Didn't work for me when I did it ages ago with FPGAs.  But I didn't spend a lot of time on it.  I wasn't eager to miss out on 50 BTC blocks because something was set up incorrectly.

Hmm, I don't know what problem you may have had.  But I have solo mined with ufasoft, phoenix and many versions of CGMiner and they have all worked.

Of course with high hashrate ASIC's it probably wouldn't be efficient enough.  I started using Graet's solopool.net when I found out about it.

It would be nice if the QT Clients supported stratum and/or CGMiner supported GBT.  Maybe one day .