Hello luke, good job as always, however, this time, unfortunately i've encountered a issue you seem to have sorted for someone in the past. Today i downloaded your current release windows 64b binary 5.4.2 and am trying to solo mine but i'm getting this response
I'm using a this command
bfgminer --debuglog --log-file debug.log --stratum-port 8840
[2017-10-30 09:56:55] Pool 0 is hiding block contents from us
[2017-10-30 09:56:55] Successfully retrieved and deciphered work from pool 0 http://127.0.0.1:49172/#getcbaddr#allblocks
[2017-10-30 09:56:55] Pushing pooltest work to base pool
[2017-10-30 09:56:55] Pushing work 0 from pool 0 to hash queue
[2017-10-30 09:56:55] Pool 0 http://127.0.0.1:49172/#getcbaddr#allblocks alive
[2017-10-30 09:56:55] No suitable long-poll found for http://127.0.0.1:49172/#getcbaddr#allblocks
[2017-10-30 09:56:55] Added local bitcoin RPC server on 127.0.0.1:49172 as pool 0
[2017-10-30 09:56:55] Probing for an alive pool
[2017-10-30 09:56:55] Pool 0 http://127.0.0.1:49172/#getcbaddr#allblocks alive
[2017-10-30 09:56:56] Selecting pool 0 for work
[2017-10-30 09:56:56] Recruited curl for pool 0
[2017-10-30 09:56:56] DBG: sending http://127.0.0.1:49172/#getcbaddr#allblocks get RPC call: {"method": "getwork", "params": [], "id":0}
[2017-10-30 09:56:56] Creating extra submit work thread
[2017-10-30 09:56:56] API not running - API will not be available
[2017-10-30 09:56:56] SSM: No usable 2D work upstream!
[2017-10-30 09:56:56] Generated getwork work
[2017-10-30 09:56:56] Pushing work 0 from pool 0 to hash queue
[2017-10-30 09:57:16] 20s: 0.0 avg: 0.0 u: 0.0 h/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
[2017-10-30 09:57:34] SSM: RECV: {"id": 0, "method": "mining.subscribe", "params": ["cgminer/4.9.0"]}
[2017-10-30 09:57:34] SSM: No usable 2D work upstream!
[2017-10-30 09:57:34] EOF from bufferevent
[2017-10-30 09:57:34] SSM: RECV: {"id": 1, "method": "mining.subscribe", "params": []}
[2017-10-30 09:57:34] SSM: No usable 2D work upstream!
[2017-10-30 09:57:34] EOF from bufferevent
[2017-10-30 09:57:36] 20s: 0.0 avg: 0.0 u: 0.0 h/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
[2017-10-30 09:57:39] SSM: RECV: {"id": 31, "method": "mining.subscribe", "params": ["cgminer/4.9.0"]}
[2017-10-30 09:57:39] SSM: No usable 2D work upstream!
[2017-10-30 09:57:39] EOF from bufferevent
[2017-10-30 09:57:39] SSM: RECV: {"id": 32, "method": "mining.subscribe", "params": []}
[2017-10-30 09:57:39] SSM: No usable 2D work upstream!
[2017-10-30 09:57:39] EOF from bufferevent
[2017-10-30 09:57:44] SSM: RECV: {"id": 84, "method": "mining.subscribe", "params": ["cgminer/4.9.0"]}
[2017-10-30 09:57:44] SSM: No usable 2D work upstream!
[2017-10-30 09:57:44] EOF from bufferevent
[2017-10-30 09:57:44] SSM: RECV: {"id": 85, "method": "mining.subscribe", "params": []}
[2017-10-30 09:57:44] SSM: No usable 2D work upstream!
[2017-10-30 09:57:44] EOF from bufferevent