This thread is very interesting... I'm only small time, started out with faucets and then ended up picking up an S9SE when I moved to a place where my power cost is included in my rent. The S9SE hasn't missed a beat in over 4 months of solid running.

I didn't realise they had such a bad reputation. Is this common across the whole Bitmain suite or just the S9's specifically?

Regards,

Ballhair

This is a harsh reality of speculative investing... Realistically, that's what bitcoin is at the moment. The groundswell has started, but it's a slow burn. Bitcoin (and lightning) have the potential to be the new global currency. I hope to be in on the ground floor! Have started accumulating through faucets though I'm not quite at 0.1BTC, I get closer everyday. Best of luck to those of you chasing the gains.

Regards,

Ballhair

This thread is very interesting... I'm only small time, started out with faucets and then ended up picking up an S9SE when I moved to a place where my power cost is included in my rent. The S9SE hasn't missed a beat in over 4 months of solid running.

I didn't realise they had such a bad reputation. Is this common across the whole Bitmain suite or just the S9's specifically?

Regards,

Ballhair

I jumped across to PhoenixMiner when Claymores stopped working on my Rx570's. Dev fee of 0.65% and only took a hit of 2MH/s total... Regretting not switching sooner.

I did have trouble though initially getting it to work. Had a 1060 6GB mining away diligently with Claymore's and using nbminer to pinch some RVN with the 570's. Phoenix has everything back on ETH again.

Claymores was amazing though, still the only Dual miner worth talking about.

Hi Snowy,

I have similar hasrates to you. Are you using the standard difficulty port (3333) or using the higher difficulty port? I seem to be smashing in a heap of shares at around 13.4k difficulty. Not that it's a huge problem, just looking at the impact on bandwidth.

I have literally the exact same URL sitting in my browser now and coming up as 404 Not found. Click on the link in your post and it works fine. -ck checked and saw no shares from my device either. Must have taken a while to filter through or something?

In any case, thanks for proving that I was indeed doing productive work!

Ok. Here's the screenshot of the miner status page:

https://i.ibb.co/1MXVv0H/For-BTCTalk.png

Here's the screenshot of the solo.ckpool URL I entered to check my connection that gave me the 404 Not Found result.
https://i.ibb.co/5nKh8fR/For-BTCTalk2.png

If there's nothing helpful here, I'll point the miner back to solo.ckpool tonight and see if I have a result. If not, I'll grab the kernel log and upload it.

Hope these help.

It was interesting following it through. Fair enough giving it a miss, it seems to be working pretty well at the moment. I was just curious to see what it could do.

Like others in the thread, I don't have to pay for electricity as it's covered in my rent. Pretty lucky.

Hi,

I copied and pasted it straight from the site, the miner added the stratum+tcp:// prefix itself. If this wasn't there, I believe there would have been no connection to the pool and hence no shares accepted.

I didn't give the miner a name as it wasn't necessary. I only have one so didn't need to track individual stats/serviceability. I have a name for it on nicehash as I have other miners there and want that definition in the data.

Yep, that's the address I used. Still have the tab open on the laptop (as well as a miner status page for those interested) so can screenshot if you'd like. Don't have a kernel log though and won't until I can get access to the miner later this evening.

Thanks for the suggestions though!

Just read through this thread from start to finish. Great work Taserz in developing the firmware and helping others out as you went with that T9 debacle.

I've recently picked up an S9 SE. I'm guessing the firmware you developed won't work on it based on the above?

Ease up turbo, I'm new to this and haven't had to ask for help on here before. Apologies for the lack of information.

I did have a random space in the URL itself which reported the pool Dead on the mining status page. Once I found it, the pool reported alive and the hashing started. After that, I checked for spaces in the address field and found none. The pool site says no password is required. If any of these were wrong, surely the pool would have rejected me straight away.

I understand what you're saying about the kernel log but having verified the pool address and a valid connection on the mining status page, I don't understand why the pool wasn't seeing the miner. I'll try tonight and get those pieces of information if I still have no luck.

FWIW, I entered the nicehash configurations in exactly the same way and haven't had any issues.

I verified the address creation and validity with a block explorer. It's definitely there and all good. I'm just not sure why it wasn't reporting on the stats page. I tried for 5 hours and got nowhere, hence reverting back to nicehash.

The status page showed everything looked good for solo.ckpool and so did the configuration page so I don't believe it was hacked.

That's entirely possible. I'll have to look in to checking those permissions.

It had only been online for 48 hours (in total - to any pool) so someone must have been pretty quick off the mark to hack it. When pointed to Nicehash, it reports just fine and is earning what I'd expect it to. This is where it's pointed now to verify what I configured was accurate.

I'll try to have another go tonight and see if I can't get it working on the solo.ckpool site.

Hi JimJam,

I'm just using the URL and port off the website: solo.ckpool.org:3333

Punched my BTC address in to the little search box and got a 404 Not Found result. copied and pasted it straight from the miners status page.

Antminer S9 SE is the miner I'm using. It was reporting huge numbers of shares accepted so I'm guessing I had a good conneciton, but I was hoping to see it on the solo.ckpool site for confirmation.


Thanks for checking in there -ck. Any ideas why that might be the case?

I had to give up on the solo pool. Not being able to find my miner meant I couldn't be confident the work I was doing was actually productive.

Reverted back to pool mining. Will tinker again with the solo pool once I have some time.

If anyone has any suggestions as to why I couldn't find my username to verify successful connection, it'd be greatly appreciated.

Best of luck to those hunting a block!

Exactly the plan!

Yeah, I checked those. Can't work out where it's going wrong.

If you google the antminers status page, you'll get a pretty good idea of what it shows in real time. I haven't set it up to access it remotely yet hence my question about the pool side stats. Allows the remote monitoring of sorts..

Thanks again for the quick replies.

Haha, that's ok. I'm tinkering at this stage so I'm not too bothered, but it'd be nice to see it communicating properly.

I'm just using the URL and port off the website: solo.ckpool.org:3333

Hi os2sam

It's an antminers S9 SE 17T

Miner is reporting a hash rate average of about 16.8T at the moment

Antminers software is showing heaps of accepted shares, a few rejected and difficulty at around 13.9k (ideally up higher). I'm new to this solo mining thing, usually mine to pools and have all the info I need coming back from them.

Bitcoin address is 13SmFktu83HwAvgWMeuhuVv6PdJRqADXNv

Thanks for the quick reply too.

Regards,

Ball