Thought I would start things early here and add a guide I created for Solo mining, this was for another coin so please remember to use the node info at launch (I will also update this once the conf info is posted)
All you should need to do is download the wallet and open it, then close so it creates the bitgold folder within your appdata folder. Create a file called bitgold.conf and copy this to the bitgold folder in your app data folder per below.
Bitgold.confdaemon=1
server=1
rpcuser=robertson
rpcpassword=password
port=5772
rpcport=
5773rpcallowip=127.0.0.1 (this is address you connect to your wallet with in the batch file)
rpcallowip=192.168.your subnet.* (normally it reads 192.168.1.* (the * meaning any number of IP address on that subnet)
addnode=TBC
addnode=TBC
Change the username and password to what ever you want the rest should be OK, the rpcport can be anything as long as it is the same in the bat file you create per below.
Bitgold.bat cgminer --scrypt -o 127.0.0.1:
5773 -u robertson -p password --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 8192 -g 2 -I 13 -w 256 --gpu-engine 1070 --gpu-memclock 1500
the stuff I have after the password is for my graphics cards (r9 280x) but you can either remove this or change for your setup.
Note the wallet must be open before running the batch file as it acts as server.Prob best to find another easy coin and test this prior to launch so you are ready to simply copy over conf file into the app data folder once you get the wallet then run the bitgold.bat file. (remember nodes change for different coins)
you will probably get a message stating no long pool can be found but just ignore this.
Hopefully this is all OK for you. Once you understand it is the same process for pretty much any scrypt coin.
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On a side note for SHA conis if your interested in solo mining with an S1 check the below but this is not easy and involves a lot of work to get running.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=162788.0 for solo on the Antminer S1 (I have not done this but my friend has and it works)
PS note from my friend when doing this below
1. Follow the step by step, even running the bitcoind and getting the message on the temp user and password.
2. You may need to install sqlite (which is not part of the step by step on the thread, but is mentioned on the very last page of the thread, page 8 )
3. After you have it tested and working on bitcoind (just use testnet so you don't spend too much time downloading the whole bitcoin blockchain, I copied the blockchain myself from another machine and put it on an external USB flash) then plan the altcoin you want to solo-mine
4. Git clone the source of the altcoin and follow the steps from where it was on the section similar to bitcoind. I could not get Version coin working, but it may be a problem with that git source as Chikun took 5 minutes to get it working (not counting the building of the application chikund from source code).
Warning: Don't install Ubuntu with LAMP. The mysql conflicts with sqlite which is used by stratum software (twisted is the name of the python application). Don't jump steps like I did or you will end up uninstalling to backout of the steps and then go forward.
Good luck with that :-) and thanks to Jeremy Catuira for the solo info on the S1.
