Forked Bitcoin, how to solo mine with RPC to daemon

[digitalcitizen]

Hi there,

I forked Bitcoin for a bit of fun, and the mining is working on my laptop (very low difficulty), but I'd like to go a little faster by setting up the daemon on a VPS, and pointing some mining software to it from another VPS with a few CPUs or a GPU, if GPU mining software is still available for Bitcoin but can do alt-coins with same PoW.

I would buy a USB miner or a small ASIC, but I don't know if they can use RPC creds.  They normally mine to a pool as I understand it, and understand stratum.

Problem is I'm having difficulty finding mining software that will mine a sha256d alt-coin and can use RPC credentials, since I don't have a pool set up just yet.  And won't complain about an invalid coinbase address.  I suppose that might be an issue.

Any tips?  Thank you.

[Drakyla]

Since your moving it to VPS (i`m guessing under linux) just install on the same machine and pool (Mpos , Unode and so on .. just pick one there is a lot of guides how to do it) and connect it to the moved node . This way you can use GPu`s , or old usb sticks or asics and such to speed it up .

[adaseb]

Which block did you fork bitcoin from? Did you make a new Genesis block with Difficulty 1 or did you fork it from the current block height?

If its the latter then it will be next to impossible for you to find the next block, the difficulty afterwards would go down but its impossible for you to find enough blocks to cause the difficulty to adjust down.

If its block 0, then you can try and make a pool and just connect an ASIC to that pool using Getwork. From what I tried before, a regular old Antminer worked fine with Getwork.

There is also GPU software but you will need to dig for it since for the last 8 years nobody actually GPU mined BTC with a video card.

[digitalcitizen]

Which block did you fork bitcoin from? Did you make a new Genesis block with Difficulty 1 or did you fork it from the current block height?

If its the latter then it will be next to impossible for you to find the next block, the difficulty afterwards would go down but its impossible for you to find enough blocks to cause the difficulty to adjust down.

If its block 0, then you can try and make a pool and just connect an ASIC to that pool using Getwork. From what I tried before, a regular old Antminer worked fine with Getwork.

There is also GPU software but you will need to dig for it since for the last 8 years nobody actually GPU mined BTC with a video card.

Thank you, I will do that and see if getwork is still there able to be used.

I made a new genesis block with a difficulty of 1.  I will have to give MPOS a go and see about that, if getwork is not supported (it's a fork of a recent Bitcoin, which as you know dropped getwork a while back for getblocktemplate).  Still, some CPU miners support getblocktemplate.

Thanks again.

[digitalcitizen]

Since your moving it to VPS (i`m guessing under linux) just install on the same machine and pool (Mpos , Unode and so on .. just pick one there is a lot of guides how to do it) and connect it to the moved node . This way you can use GPu`s , or old usb sticks or asics and such to speed it up .

Cheers, thank you 

[AmoreJaz]

almost all mining hardware öf recent"will work  for what you need, but it does depend on your software abilities also... with the wrong software your hash rate will be either hurt very much or may not even work at all, but that is not hardware.
so try to pair the hardware that you use with the software from the time period of when the hardware was released.
the old gridseeds are good for proof of concept and simple to setup and run
good luck

[digitalcitizen]

almost all mining hardware öf recent"will work  for what you need, but it does depend on your software abilities also... with the wrong software your hash rate will be either hurt very much or may not even work at all, but that is not hardware.
so try to pair the hardware that you use with the software from the time period of when the hardware was released.
the old gridseeds are good for proof of concept and simple to setup and run
good luck

Thanks, that was very useful information.  The software is very recent; this one is based on Bitcoin Core 0.17.0 and I'll patch it up for 0.17.1 if it seems worthwhile.  I probably should keep up with it since at some stage the checkpoints and chainwork being considered obsolete or even useless will be removed.  Seems like a major series of changes are coming before the first non-experimental release, 1.0.

Anyhow yes, I am sure the software will handle the latest gear.  Someone just put in a lot of hashpower and sent the difficulty up and very quickly mined 50 blocks in a fraction of the time I did.  I have a pool I'm setting up based on the code-base for ecoining (Peercoin pool) and it's fantastic software, so that will be the real test I think, with multiple ASICs pointed there.