Is it still possible to realistic solo mine or is the difficulty too high? If it is worth it to solo mine how do you do it? Through the gui wallet or through a separate app? Would love some help on trying to get started
Solo mine is fine. Just need the daemon with opencl
https://github.com/mbkuperman/boolberry-opencl
Or you could try setting up my pool code locally.
If anyone is going to connect to my pool, I suggest the keepalive version of the miners. It just has a heartbeat so miner doesn't timeout between share submissions and have to reconnect.
git clone -b keepalive https://github.com/clintar/cpuminer-multi-opencl.gi
for amd
or
git clone -b keepalive https://github.com/clintar/bbr-cudaminer.git
and if you are fancy and have IPV6, you can try connecting like so
./minerd -o stratum+tcp://[2600:3c03::f03c:91ff:febb:7e66]:5555 -u @clintar -p x -k http://[2600:3c03::f03c:91ff:febb:7e66]/scratchpad.bin
I don't know why, but just because you can.