Fabian on Nostr: Now time to get the BitAxe lottery miner connected, I can't connect it directly to my ...
Now time to get the BitAxe lottery miner connected, I can't connect it directly to my bitcoin node, it needs something that does stratum protocol in between. A few options I found: public-pool, ckpool, stratum SRI.
public-pool seems easy to use but needs nodejs
stratum SRI looks way too complex for solo lottery mining, I don't understand anything on the docs
so I'm trying out ckpool, it has instructions specifically for solo mining which I'm following: https://bitbucket.org/ckolivas/ckpool-solo/src/solobtc/README
I'm doing it the same as with electrs, building it in the virtual machine so I can keep the NUC clean.
Following the steps, I kept getting stuck on the ./configure command. For some reason this line in configure breaks it: PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG(). I'm not sure what it does but the only way I could continue was by removing it.
This resulted in 4 files, I think only 1 is needed for solo mining but I copied all 4 to the NUC just to be sure.
I pointed ckpool to bitcoind, and the bitaxe miner to ckpool and all looks good:
public-pool seems easy to use but needs nodejs
stratum SRI looks way too complex for solo lottery mining, I don't understand anything on the docs
so I'm trying out ckpool, it has instructions specifically for solo mining which I'm following: https://bitbucket.org/ckolivas/ckpool-solo/src/solobtc/README
I'm doing it the same as with electrs, building it in the virtual machine so I can keep the NUC clean.
Following the steps, I kept getting stuck on the ./configure command. For some reason this line in configure breaks it: PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG(). I'm not sure what it does but the only way I could continue was by removing it.
This resulted in 4 files, I think only 1 is needed for solo mining but I copied all 4 to the NUC just to be sure.
I pointed ckpool to bitcoind, and the bitaxe miner to ckpool and all looks good: