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@acidd

Thanks for the welcome!
I have to say: Linux grows on me. In the last week I was SO Close to Format and slam Win10 on it. At least 5 times I said to myself: “Alright. That’s it. F*** all this, I am ging back to Win tomorrow” But in the Office I was thinking about the current Problem. Using my breaks to Google different Ideas. Eventually forged a “masterplan” for the Situation. Got home and tried (and tried and tried…)
Now it works. For an Linux Expert this might be like “Pfft… would have done this better and in 1h” but for me it is “my precious”.
Now I only have to manage to OC the 1070s… Damn you xorg! Damn you Nvidia! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!! :smile:
I ordered fake HDMI Plugs from Amazon this morning. Maybe this will help. Try and try again

If anyone wants to know: SoloMining works for me. I solved a block after 5 days, which is above average. But this is a numbersgame. In the long run, it should level out to the to expect average value. So I hope :sweat_smile:

Hi guys!

I’ve set up a small rig (2x1070) and configured it for solo ming. Yes I know “with this Hashrate you better go for pool mining”, “you’ll never solve a block”…
This Project will be scaled up sooner or later and I just want to gather some experience.
I was connected to the pool and it worked fine.
I have a synced wallet and configured the feathercoind to accept localhost.
I did Point the ccminer to the local Service and gave it a go.
I am Aware the it might take quite a while to eventually solve a block. But is there a way to see if it is working other than “just wait and see”?

As I was in the pool, I adjusted the Intesity of the miner to create most valid Shares. More Intesity might result in higher Hashrate, but it won’t help if more stale Shares are generated. Obviously this all different in Solo, as I don’t get a Feedback in Terms of “Shares”. For the Network every Hash is useless if it’s not a solution to the current block…

I am a noob and this might be obvious to you guys. But I didn’t find anything online that answered this profoundly.

@addamnorth
Nice idea!
I am more a technical guy and no artist, but I think we’d loose some of the recognition value with this change. Furthermore the “F” is quite bold. My first thought was “heavy”. Which is quite the oppsite of a “feather”.
Could you come up with a “minimalist feather”?

@wrapper
Thank you! :grin:

@jimmy24651

Sounds like a good solution you came up with! I can give you tips/my 10 Cents of Ubuntu, if you ever want to Switch. Some guides online are quite old, and you need to adjust things. Maybe it will help to Transfer the knowledge from Noob to Noob :smile:
Most Linux experts just throw things at you like “you Need to ssh back into you box with -X”
Well, it makes sense to me now, but it took 1 hour for me to decipher the Task…

@gonnaforget
At least for now, ASIC is out of the Picture. But Multipools can still cause a simillar effect

@tmuir12
Great Project! I don’t wear wrist watches anymore. They bother me and feel wrong on my wrist. Which is sad, I have some nice watches I’d like to wear…

I am a mechanical engineer and love this. I have a skeletton pocket watch which you have to wind up by hand. I love this thing!
Let me know if you have an engeneering question which you can’t answere yourself. I will be more than happy to help

@addamnorth
You might just got lucky in that pool. If the pool happen to solve above average amounts of blocks you get more. By the laws of statistics it should level out at a “normal” rate (considering your and the pool’s hashrate) by not hitting so many blocks for a while.
If this speed holds, let me know. I will come to that pool then :wink:

@chekaz

Thanks for the reply! That’s what I expected :smiley:

Well then… Let’s wait

@wrapper
Useful? - Nope. Nothing less than Excellent!
I have seen the guide before in my endavour to Setup the whole System in Ubuntu Server. Now it will help me again!

@wrapper
Damn, this is amazing! I did not see this yet. Thanks! I will have a look at this ASAP! (Can wait to get off work… Get home… Do ALL the chores… Kiss the wife and Kids good night… and start. ETA 10:30 pm :disappointed: )

Hi wrapper!

Thanks so much for the reply! So at least it was not an obvious thing for me to miss, but in fact not easy to find out.
Please allow me to ask: What is the difference of running you own node with one miner (in my understanding this would be a pool with one client?) to actual solo mining?

@winter-miner

This is the right way to go. U can choose Board with a very low power chipset (like the H-Version for the 1151 Socket) and a small Celron CPU. The CPU is “slow” but you wont use it for mining as much (i hope :smile: )
in the end you should aim to reduce the power which is used in idle. This is the amount the system will (at least) put on to of you GPU consumption.

Keep in mind, that there are very efficient PSUs. It is worth etimating the required consumption and have a look at the specs of the PSU. It will have a peak efficiency in a certain area.

This way you can cut down the running costs and decrease the ROI

@winter-miner

What Kind of powersupply do you have? I had a simmilar issue with my gaming PC. It was operating fine for quite some time. Then I started to have power surges during intense sessions.

Your PSU might have suffered from your mining Operation, and if there was not enough headroom in Terms of Amps, it might now not be capable of Holding the voltages up.

you can try and use a Utility (like MSI Afterburner. Doesn’t matter your Card is not an MSI) to lower your power target for the GPU. Usually this makes it more Power-Efficient as well (If you devide the Hashrate/Wattage). Sure the Hasrate will go down, but you Need less Power to create each Hash. Best Thing is to lower the Powerlimit in 10% steps and leave the miner running you some Minute. Do the Hash/Watt calc and repeat until you find the max.

The most reliable scource for you wattage is a meter to plug in between your PC and the outlet. Depending on you Board, you might get some good info from the Tool “HWInfo”

Hope this helps!

@monkeysign
Bad News for you then Buddy. NeoScrypt is ASIC resistent at the moment. Don’t think this will change anytime soon…

@wellenreiter
Thanks for the reply! And thanks for all the good work you put in FTC!

Hi @engetsu,

I had the same issue on Ubuntu and Win. I went here http://cryptochainer.com/dir/?page_id=881
and downloaded the .zip
Close your wallet, copy the files into the Data Folder (maybe backup the old ones, just in case…). Start your Wallet and you should only be come days behind. Wallet quickly syncs and you are good…

Hope this helps!!

Hello Community!

I am a Windows Admin for a Company and never got in contact with Linux. I know that some of our Stuff in the Network is using a Linux in the Background, but I could not care less. :grinning:

Some friends and I got interested in mining. We started with NiceHash, using our Gaming PCs and aquired some Money. Now NiceHash is not an Option, thanks to the Hack and I dug deeper into the Topic.
I was watching FTC for a while, and always thought about getting some Coins. My friends and I made an Agreement. We split the cost for a small mining rig and see what happens.
I took care of all the technical things. I wanted to go with Linux, as it is lightweight and stable. Some even mentioned, that you might get a higher Hashrate. “OK” I thought. “How hard can it be?”
Turned out: hard. Very hard.
Withing a week a went from “What is ssh?!!” to having a working mining rig. With Solo mining on Ubuntu Server 16.04. What a ride… Need to sleep :tired_face:

I loved the info from this Forum. Keep up the good work dev Team! I hope I can contribute in any way.

Happy Hashing Everyone!

@wrapper

Damn! saw this link too late… I already registered. Is there anything I can do, so you still have something from it?