Questions tagged [solo-mining]
refers to mining by yourself, not organized in a mining-pool
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digging into bitcoin mining and I am looking for some information on mining pools
I am looking for recommendations on the best mining pools for mybitaxe or Nerdaxe set-up here in the US? I am new to this and want to make sure I’m maximizing my returns. Any advice on factors to ...
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Is it a rule that we must guess the nonce when mining? [duplicate]
What are the rules for mining? Like, if it hypothetically became possible to mine a block by getting the nonce with other means than to guess it, like choosing what you want the final hash to be and ...
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How do I connect my S19s with my full node for solo mining?
I am running a full node server and attempting to attach a dozen S19 miners. The Bitcoin Core machine seems to be up and running, fully synced and I can ping it. I also can see it is listening on the ...
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What is the point of solo mining pools?
I recently stumbled upon a solo mining pool. It's a pool for solo miners, but the rewards aren't shared, you only get the full reward if you mine a block. So... What's the difference between just ...
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How can I validate if my miner works?
I recently challenged myself to build a BTC Miner that operates on solo.ckpool.org, yeah i know chances are close to zero to find a nonce (especially that not only nonce is in the process) but i ...
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Keep getting high-hash error from bitcoind
I'm sending this json to bitcoind server running in regtest mode: {"jsonrpc": 2.0, "id": "cumainer", "method": "submitblock", "params": [&...
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Connecting an Antminer to Bitcoin core
I have this in my bitcoin.conf: rpcallowip=my_ip rcpport=<port> rpcuser=<username> rpcpassword=<password> The problem I am having is my Antminer with Braiins OS says “pool protocol ...
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How to solo mine to my bitcore node
Currently running a full bitcore node (v23.0.0) on Ubuntu. Chain has fully downloaded and is taking to peers. How do I point my asic (on the same network) to solo mine to my node? I've found a how to ...
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Is solo mining solve block as same as pool mining?
Guys i want to ask tht if solo mining has the same strategy as same as pool mining I mean the way they guess the block hash is it the same or not?
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How to solo mine bitcoin if the blockchain is on an external hard drive?
I am trying to solo mine bitcoin but the blockchain has been downloaded to an external hard drive.
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How to know which block I am mining solo in bitcoin core wallet?
How to know which block I am mining solo in bitcoin core wallet? How do I know which block I'm in? And how to know how many blocks are left for me to mine 1 whole block by myself?
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How to run Bitcoin client in Server mode
How can I run a Bitcoin Client in a server mode. Can someone provide step-by-step directions on how to do that? Thank you
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How do I set up my S9 and full node for solo mining?
I keep seeming to get round about answers about this. I want to begin mining to my local general-use machine which acts as a node as it hosts the blockchain (aka.BTC-core). I HAVE an ASIC S9. I need a ...
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Simple Python code miner which automatically mines and stops
I'm new at BTC mining and I'm still learning. I'm almost medium level in Python. I'm looking for a Python miner that automatically mines using the last block and stops when a new block is found and if ...
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what is the difference in bitcoin core between ? getblocktemplate or generatetoaddress?
What is the difference between bitcoin-cli getblocktemplate '{"rules": ["segwit"]}' and bitcoin-cli generatetoaddress 11 "myaddress" as I understand both are for mining?...
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