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

[Belligerent Fool]

I'm trying my luck solo mining again, wish me BTC

[greenuser]

Good luck Belligerent Fool 

Hello all using this thread.  This is my first post on a bitcoin forum plus, I am also new to Bitcoin.  I have educated myself as best I can given that the info is so distributed around the net as it is and, I have been mining in Slush pool for a month.  I have read some of this thread but it is 441pages long so apologies in advance for asking stupid stuff.

I have two Bifury x2 with active cooling that run at 4.2Gh/s each, and one AntMiner U3 giving 60Gh/s and powered by an old Fujitsu ATX, all running on an old Dell Inspiron 6000, laptop 1.7GHz processor / 2G RAM / Win7 with two instances of cgminer-4.9.2. (one instance for the two Bifury x2 & the other for the AntMiner U3 )
I also have a S3+ 444Gh/s.  That is a total of 512Gh/s pulling 445watts at the wall (including the laptop an external drive and a exsyx powered USB hub).

It has bee a big learning curve.  I have more than 20years experience in electronics but no real computer experience (well no more than the average housewife has), but I can now write .bat & .conf files. I am also out of work as there is no call for PCB assemblers now that pick and place machines can surface mount components so quickly.  I now care full time for my disabled partner who is an army veteran without a pension and is quite unwell.  We live on a very tight budget with little prospect of me working again due to my age.  If I could find a block, we could have a holiday and eat well for a while and I could afford to see a dentist too.

So...  I am looking for advice and this is where you guys come in.    Up until now I have had my ~500Gh/s pointing at Slush giving me 10mBTC every 4 days at the current difficulty of 113G . (No holiday there!)  So solo may give me a chance?

I am currently downloading the blockchain with bitcion-qt on to a 120Gb external drive with the old Inspiron (currently 3+ days in and now have 28.8Gb on the drive and still syncing... 1 year and 7 weeks to go).

I had planed to still run the S3+ on slush to help pay for the electric and solo mine with the rest via my full node but, I think I have to open port 8333 on my hub once the blockchain downloads - hmmm more to research I guess)

However, now that I have discovered solo.ckpool.org I could point the U3 and  Bifury x2s at solo.ckpool.org:3333 or de.ckpool.org:3333 (not sure which one as I am in south west of UK) and use my full node as backup as it will have UPS too... and also give me a some deference against ckpool going down.

Also, I don't know if the 1.7GHz possessor will run the U3 and the Bifury x2s as well as bitcion-qt. Maybe I will run only one instance of cgminer-4.9.2.
I had to shut down the U3 once the blockchain started to download because it had lots of HW errors. The two the Bifury x2s run ok though.

I know this is a ckpool thread and sorry for throwing so many of my problems out here but.... Ideas, critique welcome! 
Is a ~68Gh/s solo mining rig futile?  Am I just some mad old woman trying to work a miracle with a load of old junk? 
I know finding a block is a long shot, but its the best I can mussel up at the moment and my only chance of a holiday for myself and my man.
 
Thank you all in advance.

[xZork]

Can you guys bestshare/share to me, I will appreciate it.

"bestshare": 79520145.633671209, "bestever": 79520145

What this relates to, and how does it work? Is it difficulty related, or..

Thanks.

1 U3 playing the lottery

"bestshare": 2102158.0663473425, "bestever": 11519889

[hodedowe]

Good luck Belligerent Fool 

Hello all using this thread.  This is my first post on a bitcoin forum plus, I am also new to Bitcoin.  I have educated myself as best I can given that the info is so distributed around the net as it is and, I have been mining in Slush pool for a month.  I have read some of this thread but it is 441pages long so apologies in advance for asking stupid stuff.

I have two Bifury x2 with active cooling that run at 4.2Gh/s each, and one AntMiner U3 giving 60Gh/s and powered by an old Fujitsu ATX, all running on an old Dell Inspiron 6000, laptop 1.7GHz processor / 2G RAM / Win7 with two instances of cgminer-4.9.2. (one instance for the two Bifury x2 & the other for the AntMiner U3 )
I also have a S3+ 444Gh/s.  That is a total of 512Gh/s pulling 445watts at the wall (including the laptop an external drive and a exsyx powered USB hub).

It has bee a big learning curve.  I have more than 20years experience in electronics but no real computer experience (well no more than the average housewife has), but I can now write .bat & .conf files. I am also out of work as there is no call for PCB assemblers now that pick and place machines can surface mount components so quickly.  I now care full time for my disabled partner who is an army veteran without a pension and is quite unwell.  We live on a very tight budget with little prospect of me working again due to my age.  If I could find a block, we could have a holiday and eat well for a while and I could afford to see a dentist too.

So...  I am looking for advice and this is where you guys come in.    Up until now I have had my ~500Gh/s pointing at Slush giving me 10mBTC every 4 days at the current difficulty of 113G . (No holiday there!)  So solo may give me a chance?

I am currently downloading the blockchain with bitcion-qt on to a 120Gb external drive with the old Inspiron (currently 3+ days in and now have 28.8Gb on the drive and still syncing... 1 year and 7 weeks to go).

I had planed to still run the S3+ on slush to help pay for the electric and solo mine with the rest via my full node but, I think I have to open port 8333 on my hub once the blockchain downloads - hmmm more to research I guess)

However, now that I have discovered solo.ckpool.org I could point the U3 and  Bifury x2s at solo.ckpool.org:3333 or de.ckpool.org:3333 (not sure which one as I am in south west of UK) and use my full node as backup as it will have UPS too... and also give me a some deference against ckpool going down.

Also, I don't know if the 1.7GHz possessor will run the U3 and the Bifury x2s as well as bitcion-qt. Maybe I will run only one instance of cgminer-4.9.2.
I had to shut down the U3 once the blockchain started to download because it had lots of HW errors. The two the Bifury x2s run ok though.

I know this is a ckpool thread and sorry for throwing so many of my problems out here but.... Ideas, critique welcome! 
Is a ~68Gh/s solo mining rig futile?  Am I just some mad old woman trying to work a miracle with a load of old junk? 
I know finding a block is a long shot, but its the best I can mussel up at the moment and my only chance of a holiday for myself and my man.
 
Thank you all in advance.

Hello greenuser! Maybe I can help. First, thank your husband for his service. His sacrifice is what makes us all free to use BTC and shout at will at whatever gives us grief. A big, fat, thank you.

Now, on to your problems. For solo mining you're going to blow a lot of electricity running a full node and mining on it. If your computer isn't on all the time normally I'd just point my stuff at ckpool and let it run. That will save you some $$$ on the power bill..

If your computer is running all the time you may still have problems since you're running a U3 and the core Bitcoin-qt on a 1.7 ghz machine. That's a lot of work for a small processor. Don't whip the baby. In short, I wouldn't run a full node in your situation.


Now for the "futility" argument - no, it's not entirely futile to solo mine with 68 GH/s. It may never happen though, at least not in your lifetime. Of course it could happen tomorrow. It's like buying a lottery ticket you know. You may win and you may not. You still keep playing

For reference, we had one guy hit a block with 1.5 TH/s a week or so ago. My block was hit with 430 gh/s on an S3 miner with a bad chip, but that was when diff was 51billion and September of 2015. It's now 103 billion and almost 4 months later with no hit.


So in summary you should absolutely run your solo mining rigs but again, don't expect anything for a good long while. It's just gambling right now. Keep your pool mining going as well so you have some income coming in and keep your fingers crossed. And plan wisely for when you win. Luck favors the prepared, Dahling!  

[greenuser]

Hello greenuser! Maybe I can help. First, thank your husband for his service. His sacrifice is what makes us all free to use BTC and shout at will at whatever gives us grief. A big, fat, thank you.

Thank you hodedowe.  That means so much to us both. Maybe after the supply of money has been decentralized, Government policy making will be next. Or... those that declare war will be the first to lead their solders into battle rather than hide behind their desks.  Freedom has a price, but some pay more than others. But we are O/T.

Yes I think you are right 1.7Ghz is a little small.  I would like to contribute to the network though with a full node (social conscience an all!). After all, we all use them.  Maybe Karma will reward me with the privilege of solving a block.
But yes, the laptop runs full time in order to run the Bifury's and the U3 which it copes with ok. Also, the mining takes the chill off the living room plus, the cat likes to sit on top of the warm laptop when the lid closed.
I will keep you informed what works and what does not when the bc-qt sync finishes. I may be able to underclock the U3 and use my node as a backup option to solo.ckpool.  I think the U3 will give 10Gh/s when at set at 100 MHz and 725mV, but yes thanks to solo.ckpool and good people like -ck anyone can solo mine. 

Thank you for your input.

[hodedowe]

Hello greenuser! Maybe I can help. First, thank your husband for his service. His sacrifice is what makes us all free to use BTC and shout at will at whatever gives us grief. A big, fat, thank you.

Thank you hodedowe.  That means so much to us both. Maybe after the supply of money has been decentralized, Government policy making will be next. Or... those that declare war will be the first to lead their solders into battle rather than hide behind their desks.  Freedom has a price, but some pay more than others. But we are O/T.

Yes I think you are right 1.7Ghz is a little small.  I would like to contribute to the network though with a full node (social conscience an all!). After all, we all use them.  Maybe Karma will reward me with the privilege of solving a block.
But yes, the laptop runs full time in order to run the Bifury's and the U3 which it copes with ok. Also, the mining takes the chill off the living room plus, the cat likes to sit on top of the warm laptop when the lid closed.
I will keep you informed what works and what does not when the bc-qt sync finishes. I may be able to underclock the U3 and use my node as a backup option to solo.ckpool.  I think the U3 will give 10Gh/s when at set at 100 MHz and 725mV, but yes thanks to solo.ckpool and good people like -ck anyone can solo mine. 

Thank you for your input.

NP Greenuser. Just remember if you see that your mouse isn't acting right or your computer is having trouble behaving it is likely the U3 fighting for resources with QT-core. Kill one of them and you should be OK, then you can start it back up once you're finished using the computer.

Oh, and port 8333 will need to be open if you want full connections on your router. Port 8332 is the "mining" port, so you'll need that one open on your laptop's firewall, but not at the router (unless you rent some hash and point it at your own node).

Good luck!

[greenuser]

thanks, that sounds good advice.
I thought i may add, the rig in question is for mining only, i have another laptop that i use for email, forums, banking, watching you tube etc.
So the old Dell will be on for mining and node 24/7 thus leaving my slightly newer machine for everything else.  Maybe i can get a raspberry to run the U3.  Failing that, i sell the U3 and put the money towards another S3 which has no demands on my old Dell.
If anyone has any old hardware they want to donate to my node project, it would be appreciated. I will pay postage.

[-ck]

thanks, that sounds good advice.
I thought i may add, the rig in question is for mining only, i have another laptop that i use for email, forums, banking, watching you tube etc.
So the old Dell will be on for mining and node 24/7 thus leaving my slightly newer machine for everything else.  Maybe i can get a raspberry to run the U3.  Failing that, i sell the U3 and put the money towards another S3 which has no demands on my old Dell.
If anyone has any old hardware they want to donate to my node project, it would be appreciated. I will pay postage.

Take your discussion elsewhere please. This is the thread for solo.ckpool.org

[Belligerent Fool]

I swear -ck BTC Solo Pool is due for a block or 2 soon

[Nthused]

I swear -ck BTC Solo Pool is due for a block or 2 soon

Hahaha here's hoping, I have had 1TH at minimum pointed at the the pool for the last week and will continue to do so just for lucks sake

[carlosmnk]

Can you guys bestshare/share to me, I will appreciate it.

"bestshare": 79520145.633671209, "bestever": 79520145

What this relates to, and how does it work? Is it difficulty related, or..

Thanks.

1 U3 playing the lottery

"bestshare": 2102158.0663473425, "bestever": 11519889

I reach to 138M with an U3 here... 
Not enough luck 
But still trying... 

[-ck]

Since there's not much blockage action happening at the moment I thought I'd give you an update about the pools.

Main solo is purring along fine with its extra DDoS protection and is grossly overpowered for the current load but looks set to stay in its current guise.

DE has gained popularity a lot and is about half as popular as the main solo pool. It also is grossly overpowered for any load it sees.

SG is still new and has only a tiny trickle of miners at the moment.

Main solo and De are popular enough and here to stay and are equipped to cope with any amount of mining that anyone decides to throw at them. I can't justify opening any more nodes at this hashrate and relative popularity and it's early stages to know what to make of the SG node so I'll wait a couple of weeks before assessing how popular it is before deciding what to do with it.

[daddyfatsax]

Thanks for all the work -ck!!!

[bubu22]

Just put to mine 10 s3 ! hope i am lucky

[greenuser]

 
Hi all, can anyone help me out?
(I hope i am posting this in the correct place, I don't want to upset anyone here, so if wrong, i will try remove it, anyway apologies in advance as i am new to bitcoin, computing and mining)

So....I just pointed a couple of my small miners at solo.ckpool but things don't look right.
my cgminer.conf looks like this:  (i am in UK by the way)

Code:

{
"pools" : [
	{
		"url" : "stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333",
		"user" : "15z9mzGXqSY3hpprvU7Aiah3rr5Jf1j4n7",
		"pass" : ""
	},
	{
		"url" : "stratum+tcp://eu.stratum.bitcoin.cz:33335",
		"user" : "greenuser.CZ01",
		"pass" : "12345"
	},
	{
		"url" : "stratum+tcp://btc.give-me-coins.com:3335",
		"user" : "greenuser.GMC01",
		"pass" : "12345"
	}
],

"failover-only" : true,
"no-submit-stale" : true,
"api-listen" : true,
"api-port" : "4028",
"api-allow" : "W:192.168.1.0/24,W:127.0.0.1",
"au3-freq" : "225.0",
"au3-volt" : "775",
"bxm-bits" : "55"
}

cgminer starts ok, loads conf file and displays this:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
cgminer version 4.9.2 - Started: [2016-01-14 20:22:56]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(5s):6.809G   (1m):2.801G   (5m):627.8M   (15m):231.4M   (avg):7.88Gh/s
A:0  R:0   HW:0  WU:114.0/m
Connected to solo.ckpool.org  diff 1K with stratum a user 15z9mzGXqSY3hpprvU7Ai
Block: 32a6008f...   Diff: 113G  Started: [20:22:56] Best share:  176
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(U)SB management (P)ool management (S)ettings (D)isplay options (Q)uit
0:  BXM 0           :                                    |3.879G / 3.647Gh/s  WU:52.6/m
1:  BXM 0           :                                    |3.357G / 4.124Gh/s  WU:61.4/m
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[2016-01-14 20:22:42] Started cgminer 4.9.2
[2016-01-14 20:22:42] Loaded configuration file cgminer.conf
[2016-01-14 20:22:45] Probing for an alive pool
[2016-01-14 20:22:54] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 1000
[2016-01-14 20:22:55] Waiting for work to be available from pools.
[2016-01-14 20:22:56] Pool 0 message: Authorised, welcome to solo.ckpool.org 15
z9mzGXqSY3hpprvU7Aiah3rr5Jf1j4n7!
[2016-01-14 20:22:56] Network diff set to 113G
[2016-01-14 20:22:56] Work available from pools, resuming.
[2016-01-14 20:23:01] API running in IP access mode on port 4028  (1528)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

That's it.  the log window just stays displaying as above and does not move onto mining.
there is no:
Accepted xxxxxxxxx Diff x.xx/xxxx XXX 0 pool 0
Accepted xxxxxxxxx Diff x.xx/xxxx XXX 0 pool 0
Accepted xxxxxxxxx Diff x.xx/xxxx XXX 0 pool 0 ..... etc

Where am i going wrong?  If i take the solo.ckpool out of the conf, it mines to slush ok but i want to solo
I need to get this right before i add my U3 or any more miners
Thank you in advance for your time,
Warm wishes, Paula
(maybe i will bring blocks and luck too!)

[-ck]

Hi all, can anyone help me out?

0:  BXM 0           :                                    |3.879G / 3.647Gh/s  WU:52.6/m
1:  BXM 0           :                                    |3.357G / 4.124Gh/s  WU:61.4/m

[2016-01-14 20:22:54] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 1000

You have less than 10GH and are mining at diff 1000. Shares will come very very infrequently. Eventually the pool will adjust your diff down to something suitable for your hardware when it sees a few shares from you. Alternatively you can choose your diff with the --suggest-diff command. Given your total hashrate a diff of about 5 will do so you can add

Code:

"suggest-diff" : "5"

to your config.

[CornishPixie]

and as you are in the UK I would move to the German servers

Miners closer to Europe please use one of:

    de.ckpool.org:3333
    de.ckpool.org:443
 

[Nthused]

and as you are in the UK I would move to the German servers

Miners closer to Europe please use one of:

    de.ckpool.org:3333
    de.ckpool.org:443
 

Just out of curiosity what is the :443 port for, ddos protection backup server ?

[-ck]

and as you are in the UK I would move to the German servers

Miners closer to Europe please use one of:

    de.ckpool.org:3333
    de.ckpool.org:443
 

Just out of curiost what is the :443 port for, ddos protection backup server ?

It's not a different server - it's the same pool just with multiple ports listening for connections. Some people mine through proxies that can only connect to http server ports. Then there's the GFW of China which is more suspicious of non http ports and blocks and filters them more aggressively.

[greenuser]

Thank you -ck, CornishPixie, and hodedowe, you are true gentlemen for helping me out.
I will tip you if i solve a block 
Finding 25btc in my wallet would be life changing for me and my fella,
I know its a long shot but you've got to be in it to win it i guess!
fingers crossed hay?.
Warm wishes,  Paula