Solo Mine Backup

Magic8Ball

Longpolling is not really needed for block times like this; but there is something you can do. Set up workers on a pool and

1> In cgminer keep the command as
cgminer --scrypt -o 127.0.0.1 (or IP address of client):rpcport -u yourname -p yourpass -o (pool address):port -u workername -p workerpass …

What this will do is take the longpoll information from pool 1.

2> You can try the other way round; set up mining on pool and automatically move to solo if the pool fails
cgminer --scrypt -o (any pool address):port -u workername -p workerpass-o 127.0.0.1 (or IP address of client):rpcport -u yourname -p yourpass

FoBoT

for windows peoples, you may have to open firewall, allow feathercoind through windows firewall
i have two rigs doing solo to a single feathercoind on my LAN

thanks dudes

*edit*

one maybe little or maybe big problem

if i were to get a block, where will the FTC go? there is a wallet.dat in my appdata directory

BUT

i only installed feathercoind, not the wallet (feathercoin-qt) on this computer as i was planning to setup p2pool (didn’t get to it yet)

will my block of FTC go into that wallet? then i could move that wallet.dat file to a computer with feathercoin-qt to access it?
thanks

I have been mining successfully since the fork last night at wemine but have been considering mining solo since I have about 4,000 khash available at the moment. Will the stock client work? I updated about two hours ago just incase.

Mogumodz

Yep, follow the info in the first post on how to setup your feathercoin.conf file in your %appdir%/feathercoin directory.

Is there any difference between solo mining with a single gpu @ 380/390khash/s and say, not mining at all? :)

The idea of 8-9 days for a possible block, seems … redundant. So I am guessing not really then. I know my cgminer went offline this morning, the silence woke me up. But it reconnected to give-me-ftc after a while, so hopefully it remains that way.

Or does just running it pointlessly mining still help the network?

:( I did try to get a second card, got jumped all over by bigger fish who for some reason wanted a 5870 despite having more than plenty already which seems silly when [i]doubling[/i] my hash rate compared to adding less than a drop in the ocean for them, would have seemingly helped the network, but alas, no go. I suppose then can also mine ltc and ftc and rake it in… maybe one day I’ll get there. but it feels like Im drowning trying to build a boat.

And it’s a shame the new FTC market has things there but no international shipping… Unless I want a toilet roll.

Ahh well, heres hoping that the pools keep beating the wanker attacking. you can smell the fear coming from their weasley little spine.

Mogumodz

[quote name=“klenker” post=“12233” timestamp=“1370849620”]
Is there any difference between solo mining with a single gpu @ 380/390khash/s and say, not mining at all? :)

The idea of 8-9 days for a possible block, seems … redundant. So I am guessing not really then. I know my cgminer went offline this morning, the silence woke me up. But it reconnected to give-me-ftc after a while, so hopefully it remains that way.

Or does just running it pointlessly mining still help the network?

:( I did try to get a second card, got jumped all over by bigger fish who for some reason wanted a 5870 despite having more than plenty already which seems silly when [i]doubling[/i] my hash rate compared to adding less than a drop in the ocean for them, would have seemingly helped the network, but alas, no go. I suppose then can also mine ltc and ftc and rake it in… maybe one day I’ll get there. but it feels like Im drowning trying to build a boat.

And it’s a shame the new FTC market has things there but no international shipping… Unless I want a toilet roll.

Ahh well, heres hoping that the pools keep beating the wanker attacking. you can smell the fear coming from their weasley little spine.
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I hurt myself trying to read that the first time

[quote]“Is there any difference between solo mining with a single gpu @ 380/390khash/s and say, not mining at all?”[/quote]

Owwwwww and again…

Ok here goes anyway…
If you are solo mining with 390Kh I would suggest joining a Pool like P2pool or another one where you can see if you got more than mining solo, or in a pool, but I kind of see you…are O.o?
Explaining solo mining, imagine you have a hat with millions of numbers and you are trying to pick out the winning number.
Can take hours, can take days. 9 days for a block isn’t bad considering the same hashrate for BTC would be over a year I think now, LTC couple of months?

As long as you’re running the client you effectively are helping store the blockchain, that counts for the decentralisation thus helping the network survive an apocalyptic event that suddenly wipes out America.

pyxis

Glad people are setting up p2p or solo backups, my thanks to Mogumodz and others here for helping people get setup, I’m damn proud of this comunity. ;D

Kevlar

[quote name=“Mogumodz” post=“12242” timestamp=“1370850509”]
…thus helping the network survive an apocalyptic event that suddenly wipes out America.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCEeAn6_QJo

justabitoftime

[quote name=“Kevlar” post=“15826” timestamp=“1371433575”]
[quote author=Mogumodz link=topic=1453.msg12242#msg12242 date=1370850509]
…thus helping the network survive an apocalyptic event that suddenly wipes out America.
[/quote]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCEeAn6_QJo
[/quote]

+1

goldbit89

[quote name=“Kevlar” post=“15826” timestamp=“1371433575”]
[quote author=Mogumodz link=topic=1453.msg12242#msg12242 date=1370850509]
…thus helping the network survive an apocalyptic event that suddenly wipes out America.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCEeAn6_QJo
[/quote]

that was one wild video
+1

Nutnut

[quote name=“wesphily” post=“15820” timestamp=“1371433066”]
I’ve tried setting this up and it keeps saying that it can’t find a suitable long poll. If the client is closed then it says server down obviously. Also, it keeps saying my date and time is wrong but it not. I have triple checked. Any ideas?
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Not sure about the date and time issue but the long poll issue was answered a couple of posts ago. :P
[quote author=Nutnut link=topic=1453.msg11906#msg11906 date=1370816999]
[quote author=FoBoT link=topic=1453.msg11902#msg11902 date=1370816774]
what if my miner says “no suitable long poll found” , is that bad or ok? it shows hash# despite the message
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That’s normal for solo mining.
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Magic8ball has a fix though, set a secondary pool in your startup script that has stratum and cgminer will pull stratum from there whilst still soloing.