Solo mining with BITMAIN AntMiner U1 (USB)

[jonnybravo0311]

Solo mining can be fun, and is very much like playing the lottery.  I have 5 U2s that solo mine.  Is it likely they'll ever solve a block?  Nope.  I thought it was unlikely my S1 would solve a block, but last week it did just that... boy do I wish I was solo mining then.

It's unlikely I'll ever win the PowerBall either, yet I'll still buy a ticket or two.  Winning that buys me a whole lot of hashing power

[jwcastle]

If your computer is on anyway, why not?  The little USB stick is doing all the work so it's not slowing your computer down while it's doing its thing.

If you get lucky, good for you! If not, nothing lost really...

JWC

[LendingTree]

So, I am running the bitcoin core wallet, and it is synching.  Where do I input the  "bitcoin-qt.exe -rpcuser=username -rpcpassword=password -server -listen" at?

[Crossbow376]

So, I am running the bitcoin core wallet, and it is synching.  Where do I input the  "bitcoin-qt.exe -rpcuser=username -rpcpassword=password -server -listen" at?

Which version are you using? Since 0.9.0, the RPC client has been removed from the bitcoin core wallet.

[LendingTree]

So, I am running the bitcoin core wallet, and it is synching.  Where do I input the  "bitcoin-qt.exe -rpcuser=username -rpcpassword=password -server -listen" at?

Which version are you using? Since 0.9.0, the RPC client has been removed from the bitcoin core wallet.

I am using Bitcoin Core v0.9.1.0-g026a939-beta (64-bit)

[Icon]

just an fyi if you are trying to solo mine you'll need a relay node to notify your miner that the block has changed else you will be working on old useless work.
I suggest using a large pool as the relay node

example of my solo.bat file


@ echo off
d:\bfgminer\bfgminer -o 127.0.0.1:8332 -u x -p cat -o  btcguild.gigaforge.com:3333 -u y -p egg --coinbase-addr     1JafVRe23oLSku4FBwBE3rJAKc9Y8wZM5z --coinbase-sig "Yep Icon did it again!"

O and add a coinbase-addr to tell the blockchain where to deposit the btc you mine

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PS



Also if your solo mining with the newest bitcoinqt client the .0.9.1 you can still use the old bitcoin.conf file simple run the bitcoin-cli.exe file afterwards to get it to accept connections


example of the bitcoin.conf:



server=1
rpcuser=x
rpcpassword=y
rpcport=8332
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1

[LendingTree]

So, I simply copy the below into a .cmd file, and run it?

d:\bfgminer\bfgminer -o 127.0.0.1:8332 -u x -p cat -o  btcguild.gigaforge.com:3333 -u y -p egg --coinbase-addr     1JafVRe23oLSku4FBwBE3rJAKc9Y8wZM5z --coinbase-sig "Yep Icon did it again!"

Where I change the bfgminer to the path on my computer, and change the pass and user names to my username?

[Icon]

yep if you got in the bfgminer folder and your on the same pc as the qt client and synced is running and you have added the bitcoin.conf file to were your wallet.dat file is located.. should work.. and make sure you run the bitcoin-cli.exe before you run bfgminer. and what ever pool you are relaying off use your pool login/password info so you can get info about the block the network is on.

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[-ck]

just an fyi if you are trying to solo mine you'll need a relay node to notify your miner that the block has changed else you will be working on old useless work.

Not true when solo mining with cgminer which checks for new blocks automatically and will update as soon as possible.