Solo mining litecoin on OSX

I would like to do some solo mining of litecoin on OSX. I realize the probability is low that i will hit it. but i like the idea of the lottery. I have a miner setup (cgminer) and i have successfully connected to a pool. I have found lots of guides that explain how to do this on Windows like: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=3rq912e407g04cjq8ehdhnk457&topic=83371.0

But what all these guides tell you to do is edit litecoin.conf and then restart litecoin-qt. But does this still apply to OSX? I don't see a litecoin.conf anywhere. I have looked in Library/Application Support/Litecoin Is it still litecoin.conf in OSX? or is it a different file?

deweydb

Posted 2013-05-06T10:18:27.277

Reputation: 247

Answers

~/Library/Application Support/Litecoin is exactly where your litecoin.conf has to go. Just go ahead and create it.

Good Luck with the Lottery!

RotHorseKid

Posted 2013-05-06T10:18:27.277

Reputation: 311

So, i have added that file, and restarted litecoin-qt. But when i launch bfgminer with the settings: bfgminer --scrypt -o http://127.0.0.1:9332 -u username -p password -w 64 -I 13 it just hangs and displays an empty terminal. – deweydb – 2013-05-06T12:23:26.903

Oh, I'm dumb, i had a # in my password. So it works now. One more small question. How does litecoin-qt know which public key to credit when winning the lottery (say i have a couple public keys). – deweydb – 2013-05-06T12:25:55.930

Also, when it starts i see [2013-05-06 14:31:39] Probing for an alive pool [2013-05-06 14:31:39] Network difficulty changed to 396 (2.839Gh/s) [2013-05-06 14:31:39] No suitable long-poll found for http://127.0.0.1:9332 Does this mean i have not set it up correctly? – deweydb – 2013-05-06T12:35:41.023

No suitable long-poll found means that your bfgminer could not find a server that will inform it of a new block appearing on the network. This is correct, since you are solo mining, and litecoin-qt doesn't supply this.

Don't worry, your setup is correct.

Not having LP only means that your miner will get informed a little bit slower by litecoin-qt about a new block a little later, and potentially doing work on a block that has just been solved for a few seconds at most.

Ben

Posted 2013-05-06T10:18:27.277

Reputation: 79

Thank you! I just ran bfgminer for a couple hours but it is still displaying 0Kh/s. When i have used bfgminer in pools in the past it would always display a non-zero rate for kH/s. Is this an indication that something is wrong? or is there no kH/s reporting when solo mining? – deweydb – 2013-05-06T20:22:17.853