[TUTORIAL] Solo Mining Litecoins Guide--Windows!

[gILisH]

In the past two days I am unable to download http://zerosignalgame.com/reaperv13beta4_32.zip
is there another link to it ? or can someone send it to me ?
thanks

just downloaded it now without any problems...

reuploaded it:
http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/408144/reaperv13beta4-64-zip.html

Thanks man . the new link is working for me !!! awesomeness

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[svennand]

Soo glad im solo mining right now...
Seems like every pool is under Ddos attack at some time or the other. litecoinpool has been down all day.

Anyone having any luck with mining? just ordered 2x6970 and 2x7970 for an aditional rig=)

[FreshJR]

Is there a litecoin testnet network with a lot less hashing power so I can see if my setup is working?

I got this today.



So while I found a winning share  , it got rejected 

This is my setup

rpcuser=ltc
rpcpassword=1
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=9332
daemon=1
server=1
gen=0

block_nTime=1317972665
block_nNonce=2084524493

[svennand]

Is there a litecoin testnet network with a lot less hashing power so I can see if my setup is working?

I got this today.



So while I found a winning share  , it got rejected 

This is my setup

rpcuser=ltc
rpcpassword=1
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=9332
daemon=1
server=1
gen=0

block_nTime=1317972665
block_nNonce=2084524493

It seems fine, getting rejected is quite common=)
Ive been running 3000Khash now for two days, havent found a single block but ive gotten a lot of rejected (around 5-6 on each card).
Are you using a radeon 7970? my two gets 470Mhash each. 570 it looks like u have been aggressive on the settings. in that case i would connect my client to a pool to check stale shares,rejected shares and so on. you should keep theese feedbacks under 1% if your using litecoinpool.org, you will quickly know if the aggressive settings do not work properly since you will se double numbers of errors=)

[svennand]

Btw.
Not the best time for "beginners" to set up litecoin mining, at least with longpoll options and such.
Seems that most of the pool sites are under massive Ddos attacks. Litecoinpool are completly down, notroll.in suffers from breakage and share lost (got 1/3 of shares completed...), been testing ltc.kattara.com which seems fine at the moment.
But i guess its just a matter of time. However kattara doesnt support stratum and stale shares count are higher.

Maybe someone are trying to get the difficulty down? (22hours to next change).
Recommend everyone to have a failover-only in theire cgminer setup... either to another pool or to solo cgmining=)

EDIT:
ltc.kattara.com is also down.

Anyone have an idea if Long Polling is a bad idea to use when the site longpolling from is going down all the time?
Will this damage the rates? should i just get new block from local bitcoin client?

[svennand]

Phu finally found a block. about freaking time! 3,5 days dry with 3500khash constant load.

[Tw1ser]

This is how it goes for me for 12 hours run...

https://i.imgur.com/Zciy5fT.png

Could someone verify that I'm actually solo mining ?

my litecoin.conf in blabla/bla/AppData/Roaming/Litecoin is this:

rpcuser=Tw1ser
rpcpassword=2222
rpcallowip=localhost
rpcport=9332
daemon=1
server=1
gen=0

block_nTime=1317972665
block_nNonce=2084524493

my cgminer .bat file has this:

color 06
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
cgminer --scrypt --intensity 20 -o localhost:9332 -u Tw1ser -p 2222 --worksize 256


I tried having failover as well but if I ran bat with it would always only say that stratum found a block or A new block found on network and no rejects at all which seemed wierd.

Also if I stop and then run solo miner again in like 5 mintures does it reduce my chance of finding a block ? Or in other words the longer I run it non stopm, the more Ques [the Q:value] I have have, the higher chance of solving a block I have, correct thinking ?

P.S. still viable to solo mine with 650kh/s ?

[svennand]

small tips for backing up wallet

open notepad and input this

@echo off

set DD=%DATE:~0,2%
set MM=%DATE:~3,2%
set YY=%DATE:~8,2%
set YYYY=%DATE:~6,4%
set HH=%TIME:~0,2%
set MN=%TIME:~3,2%

set filename=wallet_date_%DD%_%MM%_%YY%_time_%HH%-%MN%
echo %filename%
copy C:\Directory you have your bitcoin app\wallet.dat c:\where you want the backup to go\%filename%.dat


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Now save this file as something.bat

When you run this file it will backup the wallet.dat (where all money is) to a second location, also to avoid having overwrite the original (history backup) the file will be named wallet_date_time created.dat
Put this file in windows scheduler and let it run a couple of times a day, voila you have a backup of the wallet.
If you want to backup to several location just duplicate the bottom line and change destination.
set "pause" at end if you want to have the console open so you can check that it copied correctly.

I for example have two lines, one that backups to an usb dongle, and one that backups to my dropbox.
Also be sure to encrypt wallet when you are spreading it around like this=)

[svennand]

This is how it goes for me for 12 hours run...



Could someone verify that I'm actually solo mining ?

my litecoin.conf in blabla/bla/AppData/Roaming/Litecoin is this:

rpcuser=Tw1ser
rpcpassword=2222
rpcallowip=localhost
rpcport=9332
daemon=1
server=1
gen=0

block_nTime=1317972665
block_nNonce=2084524493

my cgminer .bat file has this:

color 06
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
cgminer --scrypt --intensity 20 -o localhost:9332 -u Tw1ser -p 2222 --worksize 256


I tried having failover as well but if I ran bat with it would always only say that stratum found a block or A new block found on network and no rejects at all which seemed wierd.

Also if I stop and then run solo miner again in like 5 mintures does it reduce my chance of finding a block ? Or in other words the longer I run it non stopm, the more Ques [the Q:value] I have have, the higher chance of solving a block I have, correct thinking ?

P.S. still viable to solo mine with 650kh/s ?

What graphics card are you running? 7970? intensity 20??? that seems high.
Would connect to pool to check if you have large share fail rate.

Everything else seems fine, would however use --auto-gpu and --auto-fan if you are running graphic card stock setting.

As to you not getting so many rejects when using failover, that might be because cgminer is more updated and the graphics card do not work on block that no longer are "valid"

[Tw1ser]

What graphics card are you running? 7970? intensity 20??? that seems high.
Would connect to pool to check if you have large share fail rate.

Everything else seems fine, would however use --auto-gpu and --auto-fan if you are running graphic card stock setting.

As to you not getting so many rejects when using failover, that might be because cgminer is more updated and the graphics card do not work on block that no longer are "valid"

Thanks for response, I'm using 7950 overclocked to 1100 core and 1600 memory which is perfect and doesn't crash. Intensity I use is 20 when I dont use computer at all, I checked on pool works fine, intensity 18 drops my kh/s to 610 and intensity 13 gives 300kh/s. On pool I dont get any HW, some stales tho (~2%) but I blame it on recent lags from pools.

So what you say is that when I have failover it's actually better because cg miner gets updates from pool instead of litecoin qt server ? (ill post a screenshot soon)

[svennand]

What graphics card are you running? 7970? intensity 20??? that seems high.
Would connect to pool to check if you have large share fail rate.

Everything else seems fine, would however use --auto-gpu and --auto-fan if you are running graphic card stock setting.

As to you not getting so many rejects when using failover, that might be because cgminer is more updated and the graphics card do not work on block that no longer are "valid"

Thanks for response, I'm using 7950 overclocked to 1100 core and 1600 memory which is perfect and doesn't crash. Intensity I use is 20 when I dont use computer at all, I checked on pool works fine, intensity 18 drops my kh/s to 610 and intensity 13 gives 300kh/s. On pool I dont get any HW, some stales tho (~2%) but I blame it on recent lags from pools.

So what you say is that when I have failover it's actually better because cg miner gets updates from pool instead of litecoin qt server ? (ill post a screenshot soon)

okay then theres no problem regarding speed.

And yes, thats what im saying, if you have failover it will get info from the pool which is faster than your local application.
Also its okay that if your local maschine crashes all the eventual other maschins in your solo mining cluster will default over to the failover pool

[Tw1ser]

Here is a screenshot with coinotron as a failover

https://i.imgur.com/cZTzhRf.png


Which pool would be better to use for failover as an updater for solo mining ?

[svennand]

Here is a screenshot with coinotron as a failover




Which pool would be better to use for failover as an updater for solo mining ?

ive used litecoinpool.org / notroll.in and ltc.kattare all of them work excellent when they work.
HOWEVER it seems that all of those pools get DDos attacked frequently...
litecoinpool.org is my personal favorit, however that is also the one with most downtime (popular Ddos victim?)

[Tw1ser]

ive used litecoinpool.org / notroll.in and ltc.kattare all of them work excellent when they work.
HOWEVER it seems that all of those pools get DDos attacked frequently...
litecoinpool.org is my personal favorit, however that is also the one with most downtime (popular Ddos victim?)

I have no chance of trying litecoinpool.org, it says that the registration for them is closed... I have used both notroll.in and kattare, I wanna test out give-me-ltc.com now. Thanks!

EDIT: Is it fine that it says "No suitable long-pool found ..." ?

https://i.imgur.com/2qCYKae.png

[svennand]

Yes its fine.
Cgminer found that your local client didnt support long polling.
So it switched the long polling bit to you pool server. You still mine solo. But get block update from pool.
If a pool gets ddos attacket it will say: could not blabla and then switch to: new block found blabla
That means cgminer is not able to get from pool and gets from local client instead:)

[god_43]

why not just create a shortcut and put -server at the end? or will that not work?

[thisway]

@god_43 It will work.

I have another question.

When I start cgminer I see the following messages:

https://i.imgur.com/UK5tGQk.png

What do "ADL found less devices than opencl!" and the other messages mean?

Then it says "No suitable long-poll found for ..." What does that mean and how can I change this?

Is there a way how I can enable stratum for solo mining?


Thanks in advance for any help!

[god_43]

@god_43 It will work.

thanks.



edit: i am getting alot of stales, is that normal? also i am using guiminer-scrypt...it should work just the same right?


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=150331.0

[god_43]

ive used litecoinpool.org / notroll.in and ltc.kattare all of them work excellent when they work.
HOWEVER it seems that all of those pools get DDos attacked frequently...
litecoinpool.org is my personal favorit, however that is also the one with most downtime (popular Ddos victim?)

I have no chance of trying litecoinpool.org, it says that the registration for them is closed... I have used both notroll.in and kattare, I wanna test out give-me-ltc.com now. Thanks!

EDIT: Is it fine that it says "No suitable long-pool found ..." ?

https://i.imgur.com/2qCYKae.png

how are you getting cgminer to output formatted text? it does not do that for me.

[thisway]

Make a .bat file and add "color 06" without " on the beginning.

Like

Code:

color 06
C:\cgminer\cgminer.exe --scrypt ...