MultiMiner simplifies switching individual devices (GPUs, ASICs, FPGAs) between crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin and Litecoin. MultiMiner is a graphical application for crypto-coin mining on Windows, OS X and Linux. Warning: some compiling is necessary.View the Project on GitHub nwoolls/MultiMiner
SMS is another option that I will explore in future blog posts. Starlink is probably overkill cost-wise due to the likelihood of actually solo mining a block, and blocks themselves being relatively small in size. Options do exist like Starlink or Iridium that can be used for broadcasting a newly-found block. This way, my mining hardware can know what block is the latest block to build on and no effort is wasted.Īn area of research is block egress, however. How this can be bolstered is by using Blockstream Satellite to supplement the set of peers my node uses while my ISP is functioning, and as a failover in the event my ISP gets flaky and drops my connection. This leaves the improvements to connectivity. This fits the bill for my purist solo mining configuration.
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So, with this new BFGMiner knowledge, we can eliminate any difficult-to-set-up pool software, or any trusted pool, and only rely on BFGMiner and a Bitcoin Core full node. Note: CGMiner also has this functionality.
I had no idea this functionality existed since BFGMiner was typically used for interfacing with GPUs or ASIC hardware while mining.
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There is some incompatibility with the latest Bitcoin Core version and the most recent CK Pool code as well, based upon my attempt at using it for this mining setup.Īfter scouring DuckDuckGo and GitHub issues, I stumbled upon BFGMiner’s ability to communicate with a local bitcoind for the purposes of solo mining(!). The Solo CK Pool is great, but ultimately using the pool introduces some trust that shouldn’t exist in a pure solo mining setup. Contrast this with typical pooled mining where all hash rate contributors get a piece of the block reward.
Knowing this, let’s just say I wasn’t getting my hopes up that mining solo was any easier today.ĬK Pool has its own “solo” counterpart (which, I honestly love that this exists), and it’s a sort of pseudo-solo mining pool where individual miners get 98% of the block reward (paying a 2% pool fee) when they generate a block and the other pool participants get 0%.
#Bfgminer linux software#
I remember trying to set one up either using the Eligius code or one of the other not-as-well-known pool projects on GitHub and it was difficult to get all of the individual software components working. Years ago, solo mining required setting up a full, industrial-grade pool that was designed for thousands of remote individual miners pooling their hash rates together. Note: I am assuming the reader knows that solo mining is incredibly difficult and you are more than likely to never actually generate a block. I want to directly contribute unadulterated hash rate security to the Bitcoin network. I’m not interested in pay-per-share pooled mining, since that drains any of the fun of solo mining, and introduces some trust. So, I initially began digging into how exactly one solo mines in today’s exceedingly industrialized mining world. A couple of the aspects that I thought could use some work are related to connectivity and in making my setup the most “pure” in the sense of decentralization and trustlessness. In light of some recent awesome events in the Bitcoin mining sphere, I was inspired to set up my own small, four million hashes per second (MH/s) solo mining operation and see how I could improve it.
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