Re: [2014 FLAGSHIP ALT] *EarthCoin* EAC +1 Community, +1 Exec Team, +1 Best Talent
Even though I have really gotten the solo mining topic into rolling, I have a basic question about solo mining:
Do you mine for hours on the same block or do you start every time you see "stratum detected new block" - difficulty set to 25, a new block? This is especially confusing, as you see on the 5th line of cgminer:
According to that your miner would be updated when a new block is found, and your miner starts working on the next block.
But on the other hand, if your miners are working for hours on one block, how does the changing difficulty affect you? And if this is the case, should you restart your cgminer after a certain amount of hours if your miner was not successful, so you try out on a different block?
I know it is kind of embarrassing to ask that question so "late in the game".
Do you mine for hours on the same block or do you start every time you see "stratum detected new block" - difficulty set to 25, a new block? This is especially confusing, as you see on the 5th line of cgminer:
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Block: 42c37c21.... Diff:25 Started: [19:07:28] Best share: ....
According to that your miner would be updated when a new block is found, and your miner starts working on the next block.
But on the other hand, if your miners are working for hours on one block, how does the changing difficulty affect you? And if this is the case, should you restart your cgminer after a certain amount of hours if your miner was not successful, so you try out on a different block?
I know it is kind of embarrassing to ask that question so "late in the game".
I think the only trustable way to do it is deleting the .bin files on cgminer folder.
Difficulty changes every block, so if you are working on a block, every time a block is found on the network you are affected by that difficulty change. "Block: 42c37c21...." is the last block found in the network.
OK, so if you have 4 workers set up solo mining - do they all work together on the same block or are they all pursuing different blocks?
They all work on the same block...
If you wanted to try a different block because you spent too much time on an unlucky one - do you restart all your miners or restart the EAC wallet?
I think the only way to do it is deleting the .bin files on cgminer folder.
why would it matter to try "change block" when you have the same chance of finding the solution at any point in time while ur mining? it's all about probability .. https://www.litecoinpool.org/calc?hashrate=3500&difficulty=28&power=1400&energycost=0.13¤cy=USD (change to your own settings and difficulty to see how many blocks you should get on average per day, obviously impossible to predict the average difficulty but you can put a number that's in the ball park atleast
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