I’ll keep you in the loop @PissMeOff. Definitely going to post here when I find my first block. Hopefully, that happens in the next 30 days…
So far things seem to be working out. The risk/reward is interesting to think about, expected value and what not. Looks like at my hashrate I have a 20% probability of finding a block in a month (according to Mining Calculator | litecoinpool.org). Though when mining at litecoinpool.org, I found 2 blocks in 3 months hashing at 1/3 the rate I’m hashing at now.
Those stats above are over the course of 3 months. (First 15 days my hash rate was in the 10s of MHs though.)
I’ve been running my Litecoin node and statum server for a few hours now and it all looks good from the logs, obviously haven’t found a block (yet) so best I can do is check the logs which I have setup to go to StackDriver in Google Cloud Platform. (I’m really just using Litecoin mining as an excuse to nerd out with technology, “a hobby that pays.”)
So the logs look good to me, maybe someone else can weigh in on this “share data”:
{
"job":"fe",
"ip":"REDACTED",
"port":REDACTED,
"worker":"REDACTED",
"height":1324033,
"blockReward":2509586617,
"difficulty":8192,
"shareDiff":"142277.86677726",
"blockDiff":98489231438.12776,
"blockDiffActual":1502826.407442135,
"coinbaseBuffer":[1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,255,255,255,255,76,3,1,52,20,4,180,77,35,90,8,250,190,109,109,0,0,0,0,3,30,211,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,80,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,64,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,16,0,0,0,83,1,0,0,13,47,110,111,100,101,83,116,114,97,116,117,109,47,0,0,0,0,1,185,64,149,149,0,0,0,0,25,118,169,20,144,156,133,148,149,123,97,69,130,17,203,234,178,183,137,211,135,201,241,57,136,172,0,0,0,0],
"txHash":"96ad202cd1f865b4424830fe4a483233be5aa0dea86ce23706abfcbca4bd889f",
"headerHash":[9,18,16,5,244,27,32,248,160,21,23,96,51,227,67,167,183,5,82,172,167,180,60,14,169,183,234,117,0,0,0,0],
"blockBigNum":{},
"blockHashInvalid":"decd2f2e3f38816e7507dc50dbb85286b575e560cd483a74b00862a010822cce"
}
My plan is to let it run for two months, if I don’t find a block by then, back to pool mining. Fingers crossed.
I’m just stuck on how I can confirm its working, I don’t think I’ll really trust it until I find my first block… right now it feels very unrewarding. I kind of miss seeing the “Unpaid Rewards” number tick upwards on litecoinpool.org.