Gridseed 5 Chip Solo Mining issue.

[darkforces1]

Hello. I was hoping someone would know but I need a newer version of CGminer that supports pure solo addressing. I can do this in Cgminer 4.1.12 with my gekko miners but the gridseed  I cant find anything newer than 3.8.5 and it doesn't support this argument,

--btc-address <arg> Set bitcoin target address when solo mining to bitcoind (mandatory)

I was reading about following the instructions for compiling a new build from Github but I dont see anything about compiling the gridseed libraries or support files into it.

this is an example of the arguments I use for a gekko or antminer to pure solo mine with to a local node.

cgminer.exe -o http://127.0.0.1:8536  -u pos  -p cap --gekko-newpac-freq 450 --btc-address CeNJXn5KgXeaFMtgVwuJaK2rU8uPcGNCgi


The --btc-address argument is not supported by cgminer verison 3.8.5 which seems to be the most recent version that does support gridseeds.

Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated in brining this older miners back to life. Thank you in advance.

[OgNasty]

I used to own gridseeds a very long time ago (probably my worst hardware purchase ever, that was actually delivered).  It looks like you're mining Bitcoin with them?  If so, this isn't really the place for getting good help.  Try the mining support section.  As long as you're mining Bitcoin and not altcoins, that's where you'll find the best help.  I put a link below to that section of the forum and at the bottom of this page you'll see a "move" link that you can use to move this thread into that section.  I think it's your best chance to actually get quality help for the problem you're having.  Good luck!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=40.0

[darkforces1]

I will try over there but I am mining Cheetah(CHTA) and Nengcoin (NENG) coins with them. We use a local node wallet to pure solo mine in a way that makes it decent for older hardware and you make a little money too. :-)

 

[JayDDee]

Here's a stupid question, why is this a new option? Solo mining isn't anything new, how did it ever work on old versions
of cgminer?

[darkforces1]

Here's a stupid question, why is this a new option? Solo mining isn't anything new, how did it ever work on old versions
of cgminer?

There are different types of solo mining. The most common is solo pool mining like over at ckpool. This is called pure solo mining using a local node/wallet to mine against locally. In standard pool mining you just need your standard address port user pass.  In pure solo mining you need your local address 127.0.0.1:port user (which is the local pc user name) pass which is the local PC password and then a wallet address to send to. Its the last part that newer versions of gcminer support but I havent found one that supports gridseeds that can use it.

[honglu69]

Bump up old thread.  Have we found new solution to solo mining Cheetahcoin on local wallet with cgminer newest version 4.12.1?

I just purchased gridseed 5 chip,  these little USB  ASIC miners feels quite cool, green and red light.  Nengcoin scrypt mining side  is working perfectly fine.  

the sha256 side there is GC3355-cgminer repo that is based off old cgminer version that does allow btc-address kind of solo mining.  It mines fine with other coins like WCN widecoin at pool, but it won't work on cheetahcoin solo mining (probably won't work on pool either) because of same old error that required gekko newpac/compac F to upgrade to newer version:  "errors: (bad-cb-height) bla bla"

Gridseed 5 chip is mainly scrypt miner.  The sha256 side cost too much energy 10 G/s on 70 watts, probably not worth mining sha256 side other than curiosity to play with it.

[honglu69]

Have another testing on CGMiner Dmaxl  version, which support dual mining side in linux on both sha256 and scrypt.

The sha256 side on gridseed 5 chip is working on WCN etc sha256 coins, but not on Cheetahcoin solo wallet mining, same error:

 

[2024-05-02 13:24:31] Rejected 0d143042 Diff 20/1 GSD 0  (bad-cb-height)  <-00000368.3a1ebe38 M:C D
:1.000 G:19:00:00:0.000 O (0.000) W:1714670671.555 (0.000) S:0.011 R:13:24:31

This is actually same or quite similar to gekko newpac device old error that requires newer version cgminer v4.12 to work on Cheetahcoin (CHTA) solo mining while cgminer v4.11 failed last year.

So far the best software for gridseed 5 chip device for scrypt side mining is cpuminer-gc3355, which works well with NOMP-neng private solo pool setup.

[OgNasty]

I used to own gridseeds a very long time ago (probably my worst hardware purchase ever, that was actually delivered).

I saw this thread and thought to myself, I haven't heard the name gridseed in a long time.  I should probably pop in there and mention that ordering these from the company was the single worst Bitcoin hardware purchase of all time for me.  The manufacturer lied to me about the product claiming it was new and more efficient, etc...  Then overcharged the hell out of me and sent me a bunch of gridseeds instead of their new miner.  All in all, for me gridseeds were weeks of heartache and stress, a pain in the ass to eventually offload onto someone else, and when it was said and done I think I lost more than 5 BTC and mined basically nothing.  These things should be wiped from existence.

[honglu69]

I used to own gridseeds a very long time ago (probably my worst hardware purchase ever, that was actually delivered).

I saw this thread and thought to myself, I haven't heard the name gridseed in a long time.  I should probably pop in there and mention that ordering these from the company was the single worst Bitcoin hardware purchase of all time for me.  The manufacturer lied to me about the product claiming it was new and more efficient, etc...  Then overcharged the hell out of me and sent me a bunch of gridseeds instead of their new miner.  All in all, for me gridseeds were weeks of heartache and stress, a pain in the ass to eventually offload onto someone else, and when it was said and done I think I lost more than 5 BTC and mined basically nothing.  These things should be wiped from existence.

I agree with you that Gridseed 5 chip is not really suitable for bitcoin or sha256 altcoin mining.  Dual chip is not true, it is mainly a scrypt ASIC USB device.

But for new kind of scrypt coins Nengcoin (NENG) tailored to home smaller miners and solo miners and has restriction on big ASIC rigs,  I am pretty happy with gridseed 5 chip device so far.  This is great beginning or low cost device for new miners to start for learning, and possibly making some money on Nengcoin (NENG).  The electricity cost running gridseed 5 chip on scrypt only is so cheap, well suited for high cost regions in north america or europe.