Monero SOLO mining - How to setup your local pool to mine on Winsows 10

Monero (XMR) is one of multiple new cryptocurrencies with its own blockchain network. You can participate in this network by setting up a node which synchronizes with the global distributed blockchain and let it run to strengthen the network.

 To mine SOLO you will need to setup your local daemon (node). After compiling and starting up it connects to some other nodes and synchronizes its database. This took many hours!! Solo mining it will be hard to get yourself a block, if you not have a really big hash power it’s a gamble.


Connect here and download the node for your platform 

https://github.com/monero-project/monero/releases

Extract to a given folder and start monerod. This is the daemon which will now start syncing and the operation can take many days!

The monerod daemon uses a database to store the blockchain, so normally it doesn't need anything special to save, as it should always be in a good state. However, an OS crash (or OS/filesystem bug) could cause some disk writes to be lost, causing corruption so we must use special command to save the work. Run the daemon using one of these command line options:

monerod  --db-sync-mode safe --block-sync-size 20

or

monerod  --block-sync-size 20


Remember: "--db-sync-mode safe " option it's a lot slower but more secure. To check your blockheight type status into monerod, the blockheight should be equal to the blockheight reported on MoneroBlocks https://moneroblocks.info/ in order to be fully synced.

Use the command exit to stop it gracefully. You must write: exit and press return button in the console. If you do not do this, maybe you have to resync from scratch everything!

If you do not use "db-sync-mode safe" and your PC crash, you wil have blockchain database (LMDB) corruption. The easiest way to fix it is to rename your corrupt lmdb folder to something else, for example: rename C:\ProgramData\bitmonero\lmdb to C:\ProgramData\bitmonero\lmdb-old and run monerod again. It should start without errors and it will again create a fresh copy of C:\ProgramData\bitmonero\lmdb and sync from scratch. It will take some time to catch up with the network again, though.

If everything is slow and after many days you are stuck, you can try this other solution. Importing the blockchain file directly:

Download https://downloads.getmonero.org/blockchain.raw

copy the file in your monero directory and import the file
monero-blockchain-import.exe --verify 0 --input-file ./blockchain.raw

after the import, you can delete the raw blockchain download as it is no longer needed. Read here for further instructions

https://github.com/monero-project/monero/blob/master/src/blockchain_utilities/README.md

Because we want to mine solo with CPU and GPU, you must use an external miner that connects to our pool (to not have to share the machine between the node and the miner). We chose to set up the monero-stratum solo mining pool on the machine that already hosts the node.

Download and install Redis Database for Windows

https://github.com/MicrosoftArchive/redis/releases

Download and install Python 2.7

https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/

Download and install OpenSSL

https://s3.amazonaws.com/brave-deps/OpenSSL/Win64OpenSSL-1_0_2j.zip

Download and install NodeJs for Windows

https://nodejs.org/en/download/

After the install, first you can execute scripts on your system by running the following command from an elevated PowerShell. To run PowerShell as Administrator, click Start, search for PowerShell, right-click PowerShell and select Run as Administrator.

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope CurrentUser -Force

Then, to install and use this upgrader tool, run the following command (also from an elevated PowerShell or cmd.exe).

npm install --global --production npm-windows-upgrade
npm-windows-upgrade --npm-version latest

npm install -g node-gyp
npm config set msvs_version 2017 --global
npm config set python python2.7
npm install redis

npm install dateformat
npm install cli-color
npm install async
npm install bignum
* If you have an error like the following, delete or rename "youtuername.node-gyp" to somethingelse

C:\Users\.youtuername.node-gyp\0.12.7\Release\node.lib : fatal error LNK1106: invalid file or disk full: cannot seek to 0x....

npm install base58-native
npm install multi-hashing
* error ..\multihashing.cc(93): error C2039: 'New': non è un membro di 'v8::String' [C:\node_modules\multi-hashing\build\multih
ashing.vcxproj]
If you have the previuos error, install https://github.com/clintar/node-multi-hashing and move it to node_modules folder.

npm install nan@latest

stuck here "multihashing.cc(38): error C3861: 'NanScope':"

Download

https://github.com/zone117x/node-cryptonote-pool/archive/master.zip

unzip in C:\node-cryptonote-pool-master

open command line and go inside the directory

cd C:\node-cryptonote-pool-master

You need to copy the config_example.json to active configuration so your pool start working,  copy  config_example.json to config.json edit this file to configure the pool, more info here:


after configuration use this command to start the pool

node init.js