I am also trying to get one of the last 25 BTC blocks before the halving with 3 of my s7
Best of luck to everyone who's trying this
http://solo.ckpool.org/users/35JcVKhQiWgbTaBUHNnnod5o6do9r75Jg3

I must be one of those lucky morons, because p/hash I made more @ AntPool (albeit that I only stayed on kano.is for like 2 days because I'm not big on the "manual payments" thing in 2016)


As far as "unrelated", I call "balderdash"!
There are those of us (or I may just be the only one, who knows) that use "solo pools" because of reliability issues vs. a full solo setup. When you take that into account and look at how not serious folks here seem to take it, other solo pools become a more viable option. When the "fans" of a pool treat that pool like a wanton whore, you can't really get all butthurt because newcomers feel the same way!

... as I said ...
Saying "2 days" proves that.

It's written in the first post and obvious why you'd use this solo pool and why it is better than any other for solo.

Um you don't understand what a solo pool is?
2 people mining on the same solo pool have no effect at all on each other.

... and anyone mining here is taking it seriously.
This pool has the fastest block change on the planet.
It also has the highest average block size of ALL pools and thus the highest average transaction fees per block found.
http://data.bitcoinity.org/bitcoin/blocksize/6m?t=l
Scroll down to "Blocks size by mining pool" and click on "Average size" twice.

Again, as I said, people mining on Antpoo have no idea what they are doing.

Pick any block history that contains solo.ckpool you like.
It's above antpoo for all of them, and antpoo has a minimum size of ... 204 bytes ... with REGULAR empty blocks around that size ... go count them, though there's a lot and you may not be able to count that high ...

I like that you didn't bother to check any other range that gives the same result of solo.ckpool far above antpoo

I'm not sure how my "Good luck to cryptobuddha" post got linked to Antpool.  I'm mining at Kano -- as I have been since the first of the year. Prior to that, I was at Bitminter.

I just understand giving solo mining a shot for the last week or so before the halving.  I had never done it before -- and tried it, chickened out, and went back to kano.

 

I moved some of my SP20s from Kano.is to here for the last couple days before halving.  After 19 profitable months with them (far more than I ever expected), the SP20s will be powered down at halving.  The odds of actually hitting a solo block with them are near zero, but I may as well have a couple days of fun with them before their end!

Geez, I wish I had a best share that high! Granted I'm only mining with one of @sidehack's Compac stick miners so not a ton of hashing power, but lottery mining it is for me.

I mined at kano.is and elegius for a while, but was only getting ~1200 Satoshi/block, so it was going to take a looooooong time to reach the payout threshold, which is what led me to lottery mining at solo.ckpool.org.

Cheers,

- zed

Best share from a few days solo mining my SP20s was 801,248,735.  It was fun trying.  They are now profit switching between NiceHash and Kano.is until the rental rates calm down, then they go into retirement (likely sometime later today).

So before the halving I switched my 830gh Tube miner over to CK's solo pool: Here what the site reports though;

{"hashrate1m": "745M", "hashrate5m": "4.75G", "hashrate1hr": "7.33G", "hashrate1d": "5.71G", "hashrate7d": "1.79G", "lastupdate": 1468106473, "workers": 1, "shares": 296000, "bestshare": 1547912.9142415167, "bestever": 1547912, "worker": [{"hashrate1m": "745M", "hashrate5m": "4.75G", "hashrate1hr": "7.33G", "hashrate1d": "5.71G", "hashrate7d": "1.79G", "lastupdate": 1468106473, "shares": 296000, "bestshare": 1547912.9142415167, "bestever": 1547912, "workername": "19XRsYRXZsiDEfgD6Xe9d8nso8hKwoFEbZ"}]}




Sometimes it shoots up to like 40-50g/h but nothing like what the tube is reporting on my side. Any suggestions ?

I was just copying and pasting those instructions to state that I HAD indeed followed those instructions but nothing happens (either on my end or on pool)