\[RESOLVED\]Trying to get Solo Mining To Work

justabitoftime

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=209508.0

Decided to try a low difficulty Scrypt coin to practice solo mining. Please see the screenshot, I’m showing a difficulty of 245k?

1. I downloaded the DGC client and used the -server switch

2. I created the following conf file and placed it in the users/admin/appdata/roaming/digitalcoin/digitalcoin.conf

rpcuser=user
rpcpassword=password
server=1
addnode=24.138.46.123
addnode=76.79.201.54
addnode=198.245.60.126
addnode=93.186.200.124
addnode=107.20.222.119

3. My cgminer config:

cgminer --scrypt -o http://127.0.0.1:7998 -u user -p password --intensity 10

(( set it to low intensity just to test it ))

Any help would be appreciated. Once I get this figured it, I can go for a gamble on a solo Feathercoin @ 4.2Mh/s. Alright, back to NutNut’s pool.

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Nutnut

That’s fine. Congrats… You are solo mining! :)

The difficulty in cgMiner is based on bitcoin difficulties. Divide the hashrate by 65536 and you’ll have the right number. ;)

I personally wouldn’t bother with soloing though ATM. I gave it up and went for the pools as variance was waaaay to high.

I’ll try to get that image up for the p2pool node today (now my 2 day hangover is gone) - you may be a good Guinea pig. ;)

justabitoftime

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Forgot to set the port in the config file as well as rpc allow to whitelist you

rpcport=7998
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1

or

rpcallowip=192.168.*.*
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I went ahead and added the rpcport and rpcallowip as suggest.

At current difficulty, is there an estimate how many blocks I should solve per day?
Looking at the screenshot below, is there anyway for me to tell it’s working? :)

Sorry for the noob questions.

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Nutnut

At current difficulty 1day 18hrs. (click the calc link under tools on the main nav bar ;) )

It looks like it’s working. You have no HW errors and you are registering the difficulty so i’d say your all good. You’ll know in a couple of days when you find a block. Just don’t be surprised if you have to wait 3-4 days. You may also get one in the next 5 minutes - fingers crossed.

justabitoftime

[quote name=“Nutnut” post=“16272” timestamp=“1371587702”]
At current difficulty 1day 18hrs. (click the calc link under tools on the main nav bar ;) )

It looks like it’s working. You have no HW errors and you are registering the difficulty so i’d say your all good. You’ll know in a couple of days when you find a block. Just don’t be surprised if you have to wait 3-4 days. You may also get one in the next 5 minutes - fingers crossed.
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Ah ok, I wanted to make sure difficulty didn’t play our differently between solo and pool… that makes sense. I appreciate the reply. I just want to see it work so I can scratch it off the list. I’m a miner noob and proud of it. :)