Please excuse my newbie question - I've been using pools for a while but I am new to solo mining... I searched but I couldn't find an answer anywhere:
If I mine on solo.ckpool.org, how do I find out if I found a block? Is there any way to find out/get notified if you found a block other than the payment (eventually) arriving in your wallet? That seems weird given that the information (I suppose) should be available to the operator of the pool, it is also shown (as statistics) on blocktrail.com, but it seems like it is not being shown anywhere to the users mining on ckpool. All I can see is the (very basic) stats of the ongoing hash, but not the result (if any).
Am I missing something?
Nope you're not missing much, except one fairly major point - when a block is found, it appears instantaneously (not eventually) in the user's wallet as it's generated directly at their address thus bypassing any pool wallets or waiting for payouts or incurring any extra fees. Since it appears instantly, I can't possibly notify the block finder any faster than that. As for more information, the pool is intentionally no frills and extremely high performance. A list on a page is not going to bring you the block any easier, it just incurs overhead and ultimately is of zero utility. This forum is where all the public notifications occur and we cheer each other on instead of it being impersonal.
I understand and it makes complete sense. I didn't know that the payment was nearly instant, so understanding that makes any other display of result superfluous indeed.