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April 26, 2024, 06:37:49 PM |
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Hi,
I’m not new to bitcoin, I’ve been running my node for years, and I mined for fun back in 2013/2014 (with some block erupters but it was already too late), still the amount I mined back then for 2 months became a decent chunk of my net worth today (I never sold).
I’ve been intrigued by some new solo miners recently and I ordered a 4TH/s silent miner for home, and I want to try my luck with solo mining. But I want to mine my own block, put my own signature in it, and help the network in the process (and I hope more people will do it this way)
But even back in the day, mining to bitcoin node directly was dead, and everyone was using mining pools, and as I understand it, pool owners use custom versions of bitcoind to mine, but I’m not exactly sure if it’s necessary if we don’t need to select transactions differently and mine empty block etc.
My understanding is that I need a good connectivity to other nodes in order to publish the block as quickly as possible.
So my plan is:
I have access to a very high speed fiber internet (ping is 1ms)
I will run my node in an orange pi 5 plus (8 cores, 16gigs Ram, and a good pcie3 ssd, 2.5g ethernet port). In an effort to have an efficient way of doing it.
I plan to use ck pool solo mining software (other suggestions?)
I'll probably add some friends with other asics silent miners after setting everything up.
My questions:
Do you think the orange pi 5 plus is enough to run a low latency node? any distro recommendations?
How can I connect to other low latency nodes to insure a good block propagation? Or is the official bitcoind already optimized to do that?
Should I run a special bitcoind fork?
I'm still not sure how the zmqpubblock works and if I can notify multiple nodes at the same time? any explanation will be appreciated.
Are there additional considerations that I need to take into account?
Thank you!
Notes just in case:
I'm aware of how unlikely it is to mine a block solo (I'm a software developer)
I don't care much about the cost, if the miner is silent it's all good, I care more about the experience than the reward.
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