Help with litecoin solo mining, biginners guide? maybe!

Mining
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sorry I am absolutely stupid. so if I say something stupid please forgive me.

now I know that solo mining is almost impossible now days but I want to try for testing purposes.
I happened to own a business selling pc hardware in Australia. and just got a delivery of 50 gtx 750 delivered.
this was a deal with some other stuff I bought, I am planning to use all of them at one time to do some mining.

now I found some very use full things online when it come to solo mining from 2012. but now that information is outdated and I cant get the bloody thing to work.

my plan is to use litecoin wallet as the server and use cgminer to do the mining over a local network.

now the hardware setup

pfsence firewalled router.
100/40mbps fiber network for internet.
1gbps network and switches.
I got 25 gigabyte h110mb with cheap Celeron cpus and 2gb ddr4s with 30gb sd cards running windows home trial.
main pc with a gtx 1080ti(personal gaming pc)

software plan.

installed litecoin wallet on main pc, (took forever to update)
set ip 10.1.1.50.
disable firewall.(no personal stuff on pcs. all wallets are 0 coins)
remove antivirus.(just because)

then go to %appdata%/litecoin

create a litecoin.config

put

rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=x
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcallowip=10.1.1.50
rpcallowip=10.1.1.51
rpcallowip=10.1.1.52
rpcallowip=10.1.1.53
rpcallowip=10.1.1.54
rpcallowip=10.1.1.55
rpcallowip=10.1.1.56
rpcallowip=10.1.1.57
rpcallowip=10.1.1.58
rpcallowip=10.1.1.59
rpcallowip=10.1.1.60
rpcallowip=10.1.1.61
rpcallowip=10.1.1.62
rpcallowip=10.1.1.63
rpcallowip=10.1.1.64
rpcallowip=10.1.1.65
rpcallowip=10.1.1.66
rpcallowip=10.1.1.67
rpcallowip=10.1.1.68
rpcallowip=10.1.1.69
rpcallowip=10.1.1.70
rpcallowip=10.1.1.71
rpcallowip=10.1.1.72
rpcallowip=10.1.1.73
rpcallowip=10.1.1.74
rpcallowip=10.1.1.75
rpcallowip=10.1.1.76
rpcport=9332
daemon=1
server=1
gen=0

block_nTime=1317972665
block_nNonce=2084524493

run-> cmd -> cd C:users\uname\desktop\litecoin\ ->enter

litecoin -server -listen

on 25 client pcs

set ip 10.1.1.51/76
download cgminer
created a bat file on the same directory.

cgminer -o 10.1.1.50:9332 -u username -p x

no luck not connecting… so I decided to turn off all firewalls and allow all traffic. and installed cgminer in main pc

and do some loopback stuff.

open cgminer
url 127.0.0.1:9332
username username
password x

output

[2017-12-21 23:03:51.312] Failed to resolve (?wrong URL) 127.0.0.1:9332127.0.0.1
URL stratum+tcp://127.0.0.1:9332 failed alive testing, reinput details

grrrr! 3 days now I am at this. so pissed now.

I can do bitcoin mining in slushpool on all the pcs. just cant get solo mining to work.

any ideas…

any help welcome. can I just get one miner to work for now if so I should be able to get the rest myself.

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What host is this showing up on? Your miners or your stratum server (the machine with litecoin installed)?

Also, first confirm your workers can properly connect and work as part of a pool. Test the connection to litecoinpool.org. This will rule out issues with the miners.

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I’ve been putzing around trying to use my Litecoin wallet for mining as well for several days.

Set it up with CGMiner against Bitcoind without an issue. The little ASIC is chugging away.

I keep getting error messages like yours when trying to do the same with Litecoin.

I can get a local P2Pool instance working against it just fine. Just not CGMiner or BFGminer.

Is there a preferred method these days for doing solo mining (not pooled mining) for Litecoin that I’m not grokking?

Thanks!

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its the miners. so I did some digging and decided to do some different coin mining with different algorithms to see if it will work…
introduce Nevacoin.

step one install Nevacoin Core Wallet.
spend next 3 hours browsing porn till the bloody thing get to speed.
download ccminer-1.7.5-blake2s-64-bit
make a mine.bat file same directory

put

“cminer -a blake2s -o 127.0.0.1:8332 -u username -p x -t 4
pause
”

make a nevacoin.conf
in %appdata%\nevacoin

put “
rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=x
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcallowip=10.1.1.76
rpcport=8332
”

start cmd --> cd to nevacoin core folder.

“nevacoin -server -listen”

then run mine.bat from ccminer folder.

spend 10 mins watching porn.

check back in the wallet to find 5 glorious nevacoins,

Status: 93 confirmations
Date: 22/12/2017 08:39
Source: Generated
Credit: 5.00 NEVA
Net amount: +5.00 NEVA
Transaction ID: dada962e010b5e013ea19b0b449ba1f31ad8dcddb653d45a2b42f5c1e946d269-000

Generated coins must mature 25 blocks before they can be spent. When you generated this block, it was broadcast to the network to be added to the block chain. If it fails to get into the chain, its state will change to “not accepted” and it won’t be spendable. This may occasionally happen if another node generates a block within a few seconds of yours.

I can mine this stuff all day but not so much in litecoin…
I don’t know why

6

What’s showing up in your ~/.litecoin/debug.log file?

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bridgecorpbuilding.com.au/lite/debug.log

8

This seems to be your problem:

2017-12-21 07:16:20 Binding RPC on address :: port 9332 failed.

I suggest trying another port

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so I too am trying to get this set up in the last few days and have run into issues being able to solo mine litecoin…

it is possible in bitcoin to make a “lottery machine” out of a computer and a small usb miner… I don’t give a ■■■■ about bitcoin and wanted to do the same thing in litecoin. some ppl seem to suggest just buying the antrouter R1 but it is freaking awful and more of a gimmick in my opinion.
So I don’t trust having to mine on antpools “solo mining pool” because it is still not on the network it is on a pool, and I want to mine directly on the network for the newly created blocks directly to my wallet. I have found a lot of information from 4 years or more ago and this is what I think I have learned… in one of the guides I saw it mentioned that CGMINER HAS REMOVED GPU SUPPPORT AS OF 3.72 or something to that effect, maybe slightly different version, but anyway I went to the cgminer download page and looked for previous versions and there was none with a 3.xx all of them were 4.xx ones. so … the process of using cgminer that we have seen posted in other tutorials will work fine supposedly for ASIC machines tho. I saw the alternative software that they were saying to use was Guiminer, tho it was supposedly not recommended at the time. the GUIminer site was down when I tried to go to the link.

SO it would be great if someone with a lot of knowlage of the mining process for litecoin or like some pool operators would help us out. I think we just need another piece of software besides CGminer

https://www.coindesk.com/information/how-to-mine-litecoin/

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try what this guy did…

I haven’t tried this and im trying to mine with my GPU litecoin

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