[TUTORIAL] Solo Mining Litecoins Guide--Windows!

[LiteBit]

One thing that is helping me out is setting up a --failover-only with a second pool, a real pool that has long polling. That way cgminer gets the LP notification, and your litecoin daemon will benefit and switch to the new block faster than if you didn't have a second pool.

Thanks for the heads up on the --failover-only !

[PandaMiner]

Thanks for the heads up on the --failover-only !

You're Welcome!  *cough*Lf9WKM61AhmXchG2Ph2cftHKSQhxHutcdk*cough*

[powersync]

Should I solo-mine with 2 m/h or is that no enough for a variance?.  First day I got 5 blocks...that was 3 days ago.  I havent found a thing since.  I tested the miners by letting them fail-over to a pool and all seems well.  What is the percentage of finding a block after 3 day?  Has to be in the high 90s.

PS

[tacotime]

Should I solo-mine with 2 m/h or is that no enough for a variance?.  First day I got 5 blocks...that was 3 days ago.  I havent found a thing since.  I tested the miners by letting them fail-over to a pool and all seems well.  What is the percentage of finding a block after 3 day?  Has to be in the high 90s.

PS

It's totally random, I've mined with 2mh/s at the lower difficulties (~10) and sometimes I wouldn't see blocks for three days, and then suddenly i'd get 3, etc.  Just let it keep running and don't check it for a while, when you come back in a week or so you'll have lots of blocks.

[thirdchance57]

reaper stops working a split sec after it says "you are mining litecoins"

cgminer also stops working when i try to mine bitcoin... had to switch to bfgminer just to mine bitcoin. ? strange win7 64 happens with antivirus disabled also.

[Vorksholk]

reaper stops working a split sec after it says "you are mining litecoins"

cgminer also stops working when i try to mine bitcoin... had to switch to bfgminer just to mine bitcoin. ? strange win7 64 happens with antivirus disabled also.

What card are you using?

[meebs]

Should I solo-mine with 2 m/h or is that no enough for a variance?.  First day I got 5 blocks...that was 3 days ago.  I havent found a thing since.  I tested the miners by letting them fail-over to a pool and all seems well.  What is the percentage of finding a block after 3 day?  Has to be in the high 90s.

PS

It's totally random, I've mined with 2mh/s at the lower difficulties (~10) and sometimes I wouldn't see blocks for three days, and then suddenly i'd get 3, etc.  Just let it keep running and don't check it for a while, when you come back in a week or so you'll have lots of blocks.

the guaranteed payment of a PPS pool is nice.. but when I was on notroll.in I found 2900 ltc worth of blocks for 2580 of pps payments, which is kind of a bummer.

[420]

reaper with aggression 12 slows down my computer at 84khash

aggression 11.5 only gets 42khash

[DobZombie]

Code:

 cgminer version 2.9.5 - Started: [2012-12-01 21:15:30]
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 (5s):24.00M (avg):452.8Mh/s | Q:2096  A:0  R:12  HW:0  E:0%  U:0.0/m
 TQ: 0  ST: 3  SS: 0  DW: 73  NB: 41  LW: 0  GF: 5  RF: 0  WU: 6.5
 Connected to 127.0.0.1 without LP as user username
 Block: 61ff8945e2b363c7607cc7fa...  Started: [22:07:31]  Best share: 2.03K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GPU 0:  62.0C 1569RPM | 36.89M/452.9Mh/s | A:0 R:12 HW:0 U:0.00/m I: 1
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 [2012-12-01 21:59:06] New block detected on network
 [2012-12-01 21:59:22] New block detected on network
 [2012-12-01 22:00:26] Pool 0 not providing work fast enough
 [2012-12-01 22:00:26] New block detected on network
 [2012-12-01 22:01:32] Found block for pool 0!
 [2012-12-01 22:01:32] Rejected 06af923b Diff 38/24 BLOCK! GPU 0
 [2012-12-01 22:01:37] Found block for pool 0!
 [2012-12-01 22:01:37] Rejected 058131a1 Diff 46/24 BLOCK! GPU 0
 [2012-12-01 22:03:06] New block detected on network
 [2012-12-01 22:03:46] New block detected on network
 [2012-12-01 22:05:35] Pool 0 not providing work fast enough
 [2012-12-01 22:07:25] New block detected on network

Does this mean I'm not solving any blocks?  Does this mean I'll never solve blocks?

I'm solo-mining BTW

[Balthazar]

It seems that you started cgminer with wrong settings.

[CrownCloud]

Code:

 cgminer version 2.9.5 - Started: [2012-12-01 21:15:30]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):24.00M (avg):452.8Mh/s | Q:2096  A:0  R:12  HW:0  E:0%  U:0.0/m
 TQ: 0  ST: 3  SS: 0  DW: 73  NB: 41  LW: 0  GF: 5  RF: 0  WU: 6.5
 Connected to 127.0.0.1 without LP as user username
 Block: 61ff8945e2b363c7607cc7fa...  Started: [22:07:31]  Best share: 2.03K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GPU 0:  62.0C 1569RPM | 36.89M/452.9Mh/s | A:0 R:12 HW:0 U:0.00/m I: 1
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 [2012-12-01 21:59:06] New block detected on network
 [2012-12-01 21:59:22] New block detected on network
 [2012-12-01 22:00:26] Pool 0 not providing work fast enough
 [2012-12-01 22:00:26] New block detected on network
 [2012-12-01 22:01:32] Found block for pool 0!
 [2012-12-01 22:01:32] Rejected 06af923b Diff 38/24 BLOCK! GPU 0
 [2012-12-01 22:01:37] Found block for pool 0!
 [2012-12-01 22:01:37] Rejected 058131a1 Diff 46/24 BLOCK! GPU 0
 [2012-12-01 22:03:06] New block detected on network
 [2012-12-01 22:03:46] New block detected on network
 [2012-12-01 22:05:35] Pool 0 not providing work fast enough
 [2012-12-01 22:07:25] New block detected on network

Does this mean I'm not solving any blocks?  Does this mean I'll never solve blocks?

I'm solo-mining BTW

It says "452.8Mh/s" should be Kh/s or a few Mh/s I feel did you apply --scrypt to cgminer.exe before starting it ?

[DobZombie]

Ah yep, forgot --scrypt

Amateur hour here! 

[LiteBit]

Ah Daniel San... So important.

[DobZombie]

Ah Daniel San... So important.

Wax On?

[crazyearner]

So i am mining for ltc solo and i found some blocks but am not seeing any payments



Why am i not been paid into my ltc wallet??? any ideas

[420]

So i am mining for ltc solo and i found some blocks but am not seeing any payments



Why am i not been paid into my ltc wallet??? any ideas

I think those are just blocks found in the system about every 2.5 minutes

[tacotime]

Yup. When you find one it will say accepted and A will be greater than 0

With 300khs it'll probably take a week or two to mine a block

[crazyearner]

Yup. When you find one it will say accepted and A will be greater than 0

With 300khs it'll probably take a week or two to mine a block

well am a happy person woke up this morning

Status: 32 confirmations
Date: 13/12/2012 08:47
Source: Generated
Credit: (50.30 LTC matures in 88 more blocks)
Net amount: 0.00 LTC
Transaction ID: 892034c2142c9f7257187c69641d4563080f8213bd0963e69ccf2b7d37c8c45b

[BitCoiner2012]

Having problem:

LTC or BTC QT won't load, says it prog requires runtime to close in an odd way and won't open. Tried uninstalling, but the installer goes straight to that. Thoughts?

Are there any other clients I can try and mine with?

[Vorksholk]

Having problem:

LTC or BTC QT won't load, says it prog requires runtime to close in an odd way and won't open. Tried uninstalling, but the installer goes straight to that. Thoughts?

Are there any other clients I can try and mine with?

You could try mining with the daemon.