Setting difficulty solo mining

[leeb18509]

Was wondering if someone could shed some light on setting the difficulty when solo mining lower difficulty coins. The Help guide says you'll have lower profitability if you let the pool set your difficulty on a low diff coin.

So is the magic something like setting it close to the coin difficulty as a factor of 2? For instance, coin diff is ~25,000. Do you set your miner to 16,384? Or a little over at 32,768? Or just let it run with no password argument? Thanks for the help...

[GregoryGHarding]

worker diff and network diff are not connected.

your worker diff is the size of the share your worker will try to solve, if its too high your miner wont solve shares fast enough for you to remain in a profitable state.

network diff is how difficult it is for the pooled network hash to solve a block of whatever coin your mining. its a method of self governance against hashpower gaining and making it easier to solve.

[leeb18509]

If I solo mine a coin, do I have to expressly get paid out in that coin? Does "get paid in any coin" only apply to the PPS miners?

[GregoryGHarding]

If I solo mine a coin, do I have to expressly get paid out in that coin? Does "get paid in any coin" only apply to the PPS miners?

when you solo a coin, you have to be paid in that coin because you chose to go outside PPS and mine a specific coin. if you PPS Pool mine, you can choose your payout coin

[leeb18509]

Awesome, thanks.

So what can I look at it to tweak my 2 L3+ miners? I'm shooting for Gulden https://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency/coins/gulden It looks like the network diff is around 36,000.

As far as i can tell the "d=xxxxx" is a worker difficulty setting, so what should I shoot for? Submitting the most shares as in the "2hr share estimate". Where do I find the size of the share I'm trying to solve?

Already found one block in about an hour worth $16 so not bad.

thanks again, Lee

[GregoryGHarding]

Awesome, thanks.

So what can I look at it to tweak my 2 L3+ miners? I'm shooting for Gulden https://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency/coins/gulden It looks like the network diff is around 36,000.

As far as i can tell the "d=xxxxx" is a worker difficulty setting, so what should I shoot for? Submitting the most shares as in the "2hr share estimate". Where do I find the size of the share I'm trying to solve?

Already found one block in about an hour worth $16 so not bad.

thanks again, Lee

you only need to worry about what your miners can handle in terms of worker diff. my L3's work well with 65536 - 131072, it may differ with yours