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

[wavelengthsf]

Sorry folks - newbie question:

I've got a few block erupters pointed here, so pretty much the minimum hashpower one is allowed to participate with while I figure out the intricacies of mining before I point some more hash power at it. I love the idea of solo mining and using a pool like this is great for those of us who can't figure out how to run our own full node and do it independently. My total shares are over 100K at this point, but my best ever is only 30K - which seems a bit of a difference from expected based on the explanation above, and I'm not sure I can attribute this to pure luck.

My difficulty is being assigned by the pool as a 1/1, and I only occasionally break through with a higher number. I've seen multiple times on this thread that this is merely for confirmation that one is mining and doesn't actually change your chances of finding a block. Its still based on overall hashpower. My question is if difficulty is the TARGET (ie, the correct mining solution must be a number above the target difficulty), how can difficulty be assigned to a miner from the pool? Is it merely a representation of my successful hash's difficulty level (ie, most of my successful hashes are difficulty 1)? Is my difference between total shares and best ever share a reflection of my low hash power and random variance, or my allocation of work by the pool?

There are two targets - the one that the pool accepts and the one the network accepts as a valid block.

Your 1 if the difficulty that the pool will accept. It recognizes you have a lowered powered machine, and it'll let you submit at that minimum level. As long as your erupters submit a share with difficulty of 1 or higher, the pool will accept it.

Now, the network difficulty is much, much, much higher. Your miners are essentially trying random numbers, mixing them with some other data, and hashing that. It is possible (but unlikely) and of your shares will actually be high enough for the network difficulty. It'd be over 1, so it'd be accepted, and it'd be over the difficulty target, so it'd solve for a block.

Thing of it like rolling dice.

Imagine you get a block if you roll 2 trillion dice and they all land on 6. For every dice that lands on 6, you get a point.

Your 1 share is proof that you're rolling the dice. If three of those land on 6, you get 3 points.  (your share would be 3/1 in this example).

If all of them land on six, you get 2 trillion points, and you find a block.

Now there's a lot more nuance than that in mining, but hopefully it explains the concept.

[manduul]

So, putting in walletaddress.whateverthename is correct?

Like 1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.s9onthebalcony ?

I said "amen" before I clicked "Save&Apply".

[-ck]

So, putting in walletaddress.whateverthename is correct?

Like 1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.s9onthebalcony ?

I said "amen" before I clicked "Save&Apply".

that will work but you should create an account so you can see all the stats...

then it will be manduul.s9onthebalcony

There's no such thing as accounts here. You're mixing this pool up with another one.

[manduul]

So, putting in walletaddress.whateverthename is correct?

Like 1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.s9onthebalcony ?

I said "amen" before I clicked "Save&Apply".

that will work but you should create an account so you can see all the stats...

then it will be manduul.s9onthebalcony

There's no such thing as accounts here. You're mixing this pool up with another one.

That's what I figured. It was clearly written to use your wallet address as your username   you can also see your stats using your wallet address too.

[uzas]

Please excuse my newbie question - I've been using pools for a while but I am new to solo mining... I searched but I couldn't find an answer anywhere:

If I mine on solo.ckpool.org, how do I find out if I found a block? Is there any way to find out/get notified if you found a block other than the payment (eventually) arriving in your wallet? That seems weird given that the information (I suppose) should be available to the operator of the pool, it is also shown (as statistics) on blocktrail.com, but it seems like it is not being shown anywhere to the users mining on ckpool. All I can see is the (very basic) stats of the ongoing hash, but not the result (if any).

Am I missing something?

Nope you're not missing much, except one fairly major point - when a block is found, it appears instantaneously (not eventually) in the user's wallet as it's generated directly at their address thus bypassing any pool wallets or waiting for payouts or incurring any extra fees. Since it appears instantly, I can't possibly notify the block finder any faster than that. As for more information, the pool is intentionally no frills and extremely high performance. A list on a page is not going to bring you the block any easier, it just incurs overhead and ultimately is of zero utility. This forum is where all the public notifications occur and we cheer each other on instead of it being impersonal.

Hi, I'm new and have some questions. So if I connect from Europe and I'd like to mine in solo in your pool I have to indicate deckpool.org:3333 on my miner, right?
Once my miner is mining where can I find my miner's work or how can I know that everything is ok?
Thanks

[Gws24]

input the address your mining to on the site under statistics: http://solo.ckpool.org/

[thedreamer]

Hey all. Happy New Year! 

So what's the calculation for the necessary hash rate to solve 1 BTC per day? I lost my saved link to the site for it. 

[-ck]

Hey all. Happy New Year! 

So what's the calculation for the necessary hash rate to solve 1 BTC per day? I lost my saved link to the site for it. 

Do you mean one block or one bitcoin? You need 7.5PH to average 1 bitcoin per day. You need about 95PH to solve one block per day...

[thedreamer]

Hey all. Happy New Year! 

So what's the calculation for the necessary hash rate to solve 1 BTC per day? I lost my saved link to the site for it. 

Do you mean one block or one bitcoin? You need 7.5PH to average 1 bitcoin per day. You need about 95PH to solve one block per day...

WOW, the diff has risen since last I solo mined.
95PH for a block. Just nutso. Can't even hit that with a rental anymore. WOW..

Good luck guys!

[minerbobbert]

So my hashrate has been zero for the past few hours, despite my miner being connected to the pool and my miners still getting hot and having their blinky lights blink. I keep getting confirmation of each new block as its found, but my miners aren't finding any shares. Anyone know what is going on?

[chillfactr]

So my hashrate has been zero for the past few hours, despite my miner being connected to the pool and my miners still getting hot and having their blinky lights blink. I keep getting confirmation of each new block as its found, but my miners aren't finding any shares. Anyone know what is going on?

Check your address settings, sounds like your mining shitcoin if you keep hitting blocks, or on some kind of test setting

[citronick]

So my hashrate has been zero for the past few hours, despite my miner being connected to the pool and my miners still getting hot and having their blinky lights blink. I keep getting confirmation of each new block as its found, but my miners aren't finding any shares. Anyone know what is going on?

Check your address settings, sounds like your mining shitcoin if you keep hitting blocks, or on some kind of test setting

if you backup pools are pointed to zpool/sha256 then your will get shitcoin blocks evry other minute

[minerbobbert]

Not mining shitcoin.

Sorry if I wasn't clear: I was connected and mining successfully to the pool. Then, I wasn't. I never restarted my computer or my miner, it simply stopped processing shares. The pool is still active, when I say I'm still getting confirmation of each new block, it's the detection on the network every ten minutes saying a block is found, not that I'm mining them. It's like my miners simply stopped for some reason:

https://imgur.com/a/bL3oN



Edit: restarted my miner, that didn't fix it. Went to bed. Woke up and it was working again after being checked out for half the day. Anyone know what is going on here?

[wavelengthsf]

Not mining shitcoin.

Sorry if I wasn't clear: I was connected and mining successfully to the pool. Then, I wasn't. I never restarted my computer or my miner, it simply stopped processing shares. The pool is still active, when I say I'm still getting confirmation of each new block, it's the detection on the network every ten minutes saying a block is found, not that I'm mining them. It's like my miners simply stopped for some reason:

https://imgur.com/a/bL3oN

You could try to restart your miner and see if that helps. Your pool diff shows 4k - which is the starting difficulty. Makes me think your difficulty isn't adjusting downwards for your low hashrate.

[minerbobbert]

Not mining shitcoin.

Sorry if I wasn't clear: I was connected and mining successfully to the pool. Then, I wasn't. I never restarted my computer or my miner, it simply stopped processing shares. The pool is still active, when I say I'm still getting confirmation of each new block, it's the detection on the network every ten minutes saying a block is found, not that I'm mining them. It's like my miners simply stopped for some reason:

https://imgur.com/a/bL3oN

You could try to restart your miner and see if that helps. Your pool diff shows 4k - which is the starting difficulty. Makes me think your difficulty isn't adjusting downwards for your low hashrate.

So I did restart my miner, that didn't fix it.

Basically I went to bed and left it on in the non-functioning state, woke up and it was working again after being checked out for half the day.

If my pool showed the starting 4K difficulty rate, I'm not sure that makes any sense as I was already connected and mining at my proper low-hashrate adjusted difficulty before it stopped, and now its back working again. But when it was working prior, the difficulty was 1...

Also, just for my education - what does it mean when the "pool difficulty is 4K?" I thought difficulty was the target for the hash which only matters when discussing whether a solution is sufficient to find a block, not pre-determined... Now that it is working again it says difficulty 1.

What does the pool's assigned difficulty mean?

[ComputerGenie]

Also, just for my education - what does it mean when the "pool difficulty is 4K?"...What does the pool's assigned difficulty mean?

The shortest answer is that as long as your miner is running it is creating solutions at diff 1 and the pool says "do not send me any result that is lower than a diff 4000 solution".



(this is how your local hashrate is calculated)
(this is how your hashrate is calculated "at the pool")

[-ck]

Happy New Year everyone, may those blocks fall thick and fast. 

[minerbobbert]

Also, just for my education - what does it mean when the "pool difficulty is 4K?"...What does the pool's assigned difficulty mean?

The shortest answer is that as long as your miner is running it is creating solutions at diff 1 and the pool says "do not send me any result that is lower than a diff 4000 solution".



(this is how your local hashrate is calculated)
(this is how your hashrate is calculated "at the pool")

Ok, I think I get it now. Does this make sense?

My miner got reassigned difficulty 4k for some reason, so no work was being reported to the pool. This caused my reported hashrate to fall to zero. I kept mining but nothing broke the 4k threshold so I had no accepted shares on my miner. Then, I broke 4k and the pool reassigned my difficulty, and now it's reporting again?

So I just need to figure out why my difficulty got reset...

[wavelengthsf]

I know you're using BFGminer, but if you use cgminer, the pool will respect the suggested difficulty parameter.

[-ck]

Ok, I think I get it now. Does this make sense?

My miner got reassigned difficulty 4k for some reason, so no work was being reported to the pool. This caused my reported hashrate to fall to zero. I kept mining but nothing broke the 4k threshold so I had no accepted shares on my miner. Then, I broke 4k and the pool reassigned my difficulty, and now it's reporting again?

So I just need to figure out why my difficulty got reset...

That's correct. Any brief interruption to your connection to the pool is enough for it to create a new connection and each new connection starts at 4k diff unless you're using cgminer's --suggest-diff option.