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questions about mining without connecting to a mining pool

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Solo GPU mining

I've literally searched every source available to find an answer but the only thing I've came up with is that I have to set my own pool in order to do that. I am using Windows 7 and the only available guides for setting a pool is for Linux and OSx.…
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How decentralized is Monero mining?

How many Monero mining pools currently exist? Are there any P2P pools? What percentage of the hashrate does the largest pool control? Is there a pie chart available that shows the the share of all major pools? Is there a website that tracks real…
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Does mining use a lot of bandwidth?

If I setup a mining rig, will this use a lot of internet bandwidth? Do you know how many MB per day would be required? Is there a difference for mining pools and solo mining?
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How to solo-mine Aeon?

Suppose one has the Aeon software built and installed, how does one then initiate solo-mining Aeon using the CPU?
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Hash rate required to effectively mine an average of 1 block a day?

What is the hash rate required to solo mine an average of 1 Monero Block per day using the current network stats?
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What are the chances of discovering a block solo mining with my current hashrate?

Just for the fun of it I setup the Gingeropolus pool software on my VPS. I have 5 GTX 1050ti, 2 RX470,1 R9 390x, 1 R9 270, and 3 HD7950s. This is roughly bring me 4kh/s hashing power. What are my chances of discovering a block at this hashrate and…
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Hardware and Monero Mining

I was wondering if anyone has built a monster super rig or heard of anyone doing so? I've just been doing research by browsing the Internet and was looking for a motherboard that would hold as many CPU's and GPU's possible. I found…
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How do I know if I am mining in a pool?

So I started mining from monero-wallet-cli using "start_mining 2". When I enter "status", the output is as follows; "Refreshed 1254269/1254269, synced, daemon RPC v1.0". Am I actually in a pool? I have seen references to stale blocks if you are…
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Is it possible to solo-mine on a non-public node?

I am wondering whether it is possible to solo-mine, with a non-public node. I have no port-forwarding configured at this stage, so when I display the monerod status, it doesn't show any outgoing connections obviously: Height: 1173753/1173753…
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Question about mining to a remote online wallet

I am running a full node on my Mac and I want to start mining some XMR. What is the right way to mine directly to my MyMonero wallet? Is it start_mining my address ? Will it auto send the XMR to my wallet? Or do I manually have to send the XMR to my…
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Help to Setup a Monero mining farm $4000 Budget

After to try some pools and alt cryptocoins by some weeks, I'm now really serious about to make a Monero farm because I believe in this potential, Monero is Awesome! Today I mine in DwarfPool, just more couple of days to get my 0.1 XMR to try others…
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What is the best way to help the Monero network?

Apart from profitability, for the Monero network it doesn't make a big difference if you solo-mine or not. This answer to Is it better to mine Monero on solo mining or joining a mining pool? suggested to me a new question: which is the best way…
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How are Monero blocks found and confirmed? (solo mining)

In case of solo mining - how are Monero blocks found and confirmed? If using monerod - let's say solo mining is started with start_mining somewalletaddress threadcount. What is the principle of block finding and confirmation? It would be nice to see…
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Where is the line for solo mining?

In the reddit thread, they discussed if 15Kh/s is good hashrate. Someone argues that he wouldn't solomine below 50kh. But gingeropolous finds its enough to solo mine. And the post was 9 months ago. On pool list I see few pools with 2.85 KH/s and I…
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How to run a local daemon with GUI?

I downloaded 0.10.3.1 GUI, made a new wallet and just finished synchronizing. I went to start solo mining and am getting an error message saying that it, "Couldn't start mining. Mining is only available on local daemons. Run a local daemon to be…
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