[∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 2% fee solo mining USA/DE 255 blocks solved!

[os2sam]

I have connected my GPU miner to solo ck pool, but i cannot see my stats when i navigate to the address. It says 404 not found.
http://solo.ckpool.org/users/1AHrgz7AYHwtScn7VVQBDfuRyzBb9kDazp

But in my cg miner i see the connection is successful and Im already mining with a small hash power 30 Mh/s. Any reason for this guys?

Please don't do that. You are only wasting power and shortening the life of your GPU trying to mine bitcoin. You don't see any stats because your hashrate is so low that you're not even registering on the pool since you haven't even submitted a single share. If you want to do fun very low hashrate "lottery" solo mining, find yourself a cheap usb stick and use that instead.

Why do 333Mhs at 2.5 Watt's when you can use 300 Watt's for 30 Mhs.  Where's the fun in that?

[os2sam]

Hi guys, im new to the forum and i have 2 x antminer s9`s arriving tomorrow.
ive never mined before but i have read up a fair bit and im fairly confident i
can set them up myself.
One question i have is whats the best address to connect to with my machines?
thanks

Well I could send you my Bitcoin address if you like.  But you should probably use yours.  So I would assume you have downloaded and installed the Bitcoin client and downloaded the blockchain.  So you should have a Bitcoin address.  You definitely want to have your own wallet and receiving addresses before you start mining.

Also two S9's won't find a solo block very often, so be aware of that.

[-ck]

sorry i havent made myself very clear, i know to use my btc address as my username.
the question i was asking is should i point my miners to here:
 stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333


do i have to download the blockchain? i thought this pool meant u didnt have to download it?

Yes point to that address and no, you do not need to download the blockchain, but you do need to have a wallet of some kind (obviously.)

[-ck]

thank you, i assure myfreewallet is suffice?

I've never heard of it which is a real concern. Don't use anything that doesn't have a reputation out there. Do some research, consider things like electrum, mycellium, greenaddress, exodus for software wallets and trezor and ledger nano for hardware wallets etc...

[AtraxPool]

is it ok to use an address at the coinbase exchange or is this not recommended?

You should download electrum wallet.
You should hold your own private keys.

When you use online services like this you are handing full control of your money over to a 3rd party as they hold all the data that you should be.

https://electrum.org/

This is a very good wallet to use it is quite simple to use and setup.

Make sure and backup your seed and your wallet.dat file which can be found in the %appdata% folder in windows.

There is a guide here if you are unsure how to set it up or just want more info.

http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/

[-ck]

on my antminer i have 3 fields to fill in
url
worker
password

im in europe so i assume i am better using eu server
In the url field do i put in "stratum+tcp://de.ckpool.org:3333"  or  "de.ckpool.org:3333"
in worker i should put my btc address right?
and password can be anything

thanks again

Yes that's correct.

[ComputerGenie]

im pretty sure its working

https://gyazo.com/79fffc019317730f4638f95754e78b98

You probably want to set the 2nd slot to "solo.ckpool.org" instead of having both slots 1 & 2 set at "de.ckpool.org. If the de link goes down, with both set to de, then both will be down and it will go right to 3.

[ComputerGenie]

Thank you computergenie, should i add in the stratum etc as well as solo.ckpool.org

Leave everything as it is, except put "solo" in place of "de" on the middle slot, and you're good to go.

[AtraxPool]

Code:

"shares": 667313338,
 "bestshare": 1202963229.359168,

Over the 1  Billion mark and counting!

[AtraxPool]

thanks again computergenie,
whats the bestshare thing all about, is that how close you are to the end of a block?

A block is found when a share's difficulty is higher than the network difficulty. 
"Best Share" is just a number to see how close you've come to finding a block. It's all completely random

So your share would have to more than the number below to "solve" a block.

Bitcoin Difficulty‎: ‎923,233,068,449

[ComputerGenie]

thanks again computergenie,
whats the bestshare thing all about, is that how close you are to the end of a block?

A valid block comes from a share that is higher than the network difficulty.
The "best share" is the highest difficulty share one has submitted.
Sadly, you can't "build on" a best share or "go up from there"; like Atrax said, it's all completely random.
Basically it's just there to make us feel good (or in the rare instance of it being super high with no block, letting us know if something is wrong).

[CryptoBuddha]

It's usually considered bad form and somewhat impolite to wander into someone's pool thread and tell people not to use it. Since you use it intermittently or for failover I forgive you but maybe consider what you just posted.

Oh sorry -ck if that was impolite, but wasn't that a fair answer to a guy who asked questions like what wallet to use, how to configure s9 and had no idea of how noisy it is? He's an obvious newbie and that's great with me, but I only wanted to clarify the difference between solo and pooled mining, that's it.
And yes, I'm using your great pool as a constant failover for my asics and every Friday I'm pointing all the hashrate I have here for 24hrs and I've been doing this for over a year now and encourage anyone to use it if they are interested.
Peace?

[Mikestang]

For some it's all or nothing, that's just as valid an outlook as any.  My dust miners are pointed to a pool, however, when my A6 and S5 were running I only pointed them here.

I think Patrick Henry summed it up when he said, "Give me a full block or give me death." or something like that. 

[-ck]

I will be updating the pool's bitcoin daemon to 0.15 based code soon. Unfortunately this is quite a substantial update that updates the UTXO database on moving from 0.14 which incurs some downtime for the bitcoin daemon. I will be setting up a failover bitcoind to handle the downtime of the bitcoin daemon but in the process I will need to restart the pool. I will use this opportunity to make some minor improvements to the pool but the downtime of the actual pool should be minimal.

[AtraxPool]

I will be updating the pool's bitcoin daemon to 0.15 based code soon. Unfortunately this is quite a substantial update that updates the UTXO database on moving from 0.14 which incurs some downtime for the bitcoin daemon. I will be setting up a failover bitcoind to handle the downtime of the bitcoin daemon but in the process I will need to restart the pool. I will use this opportunity to make some minor improvements to the pool but the downtime of the actual pool should be minimal.

Do you have a date or time in mind that you will start the update just so I can make the person who is watching my miners dose not freakout when they start beeping at him

Thanks CK

[-ck]

Do you have a date or time in mind that you will start the update just so I can make the person who is watching my miners dose not freakout when they start beeping at him

Hopefully in about 2 hours from now.

[AtraxPool]

Do you have a date or time in mind that you will start the update just so I can make the person who is watching my miners dose not freakout when they start beeping at him

Hopefully in about 2 hours from now.

Oh well looks like its a 3am wake up for him then.. haha... Beeep... Beeep... Beeeeeeep..

Will this reset my bestshare?

"bestshare": 1202963229.359168,

[-ck]

Do you have a date or time in mind that you will start the update just so I can make the person who is watching my miners dose not freakout when they start beeping at him

Hopefully in about 2 hours from now.

Oh well looks like its a 3am wake up for him then.. haha... Beeep... Beeep... Beeeeeeep..

Will this reset my bestshare?

"bestshare": 1202963229.359168,

No it should not, unless we find a block in the meantime.

[globber92]

Hello,

Complete noob, just got an X3 Prospero with lcd, and wanted to try my luck with solo mining. I'm just not sure how to set up my rig, the lcd has built in mining software and three options when setting up pool: Pool, Worker, Password. Would I have to set my Pool as "  stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333/1whatevermybtcaddressis" Worker as "randomname", and Password as "mypreference" or do i need cgminer and just configure it through terminal? Thanks in advance.

[-ck]

Hello,

Complete noob, just got an X3 Prospero with lcd, and wanted to try my luck with solo mining. I'm just not sure how to set up my rig, the lcd has built in mining software and three options when setting up pool: Pool, Worker, Password. Would I have to set my Pool as "  stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333/1whatevermybtcaddressis" Worker as "randomname", and Password as "mypreference" or do i need cgminer and just configure it through terminal? Thanks in advance.

Pool as "solo.ckpool.org:3333"
worker as "1whatevermybtcaddressis"
password as anything