ok first sorry for not getting back to you sooner ...
...and if this helped you out feel free to tip me a beer if not no worries
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No problem on the timing. The information was worth the wait.
Interestingly, before asking my questions a few days back, I hadn't found anything on solo mining. I think primarily because I was only looking at posts, articles, videos, etc. from the past couple of years. My rationale was that anything crypto-related before a few years ago was going to be too ancient, but when I did expand my searches back, I did find information similar to what you provided but I really couldn't trust it completely because of its age.
I appreciate the more up-to-date information that you provided as I piece it all together; the moment that I have something to tip with, I certainly will!
In the meantime, I have 2 questions:
1. If you solve a block, how do the coin gods know where to send the block reward? i.e., where does the wallet come into play in all of this?
and
2. A conceptual question. In pool mining, I understand that the pool tells the miner what to mine i.e., the nonce. In solo mining does the miner decide the sequence to mine? Or is it random within the program? Like if 2 miners start mining with the same setup, will they be trying to solve the exact same thing? Or can I mine whatever set of numbers I want? I'm sure I have a conceptual misunderstanding here. Can you clear this one up for me. Thanks.
if your using ccminer thats what the server=1 in the conf file does is make your qt wallet client automatically be were the rewards get sent thats why it has to be running both together and in nsg miner you add your address in the bat --coinbase-addr Po8YFga1Jbjz******CCTWXesU18Z thats were rewards get sent
as for the second question im not entirly sure but i believe in solo mining everybody is just racing to solve the block the fastest untill it tells the client that that block has been found then everybody just goes at the next block but i could be wrong there is no shares in solo because all shares are for in pool mining is a way to judge how much work u put in to solving the current block to determin how much you get rewarded in proportion to all other miners but that could be wrong too im not 100% possitive to say thats how it works for sure and the little yay it says everytime you find a share pool mining with ccminer it does that when u find a block solo mining and nsgminer says found block for pool 0 when u find one not the new block detected that means someone else found one but not you personally and dont worry about tipping me i just put that there because there really isnt much solo mining info out there and i figured someone might stumble apon this and get themself going and throw a few bucks my way you never know i probably would have because it took me some time to get running and im sure u understand also looking for info on it