TUTORIAL - HOW TO SETUP & RUN CKPOOL

For PRIVATE or PUBLIC use.

This guide focuses on Debian / Ubuntu, but you can install on any Linux Distro.

Check here for more information: https://bitbucket.org/ckolivas/ckpool-solo/src/solobtc/

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BUILDING:

Building ckpool standalone without ckdb has no dependencies outside of the basic build tools on any linux installation.

sudo apt-get install build-essential yasm autoconf automake libtool libzmq3-dev pkgconf git nano -y

Clone official repo:

git clone https://bitbucket.org/ckolivas/ckpool-solo.git

Build:

cd ckpool-solo
./autogen.sh
./configure --without-ckdb
make

Edit ckpool.conf

nano ckpool.conf

Remove everything & add:

{
  "btcd": [
    {
      "url": "yourbitcoinnodeipaddress:8332",
      "auth": "rpc_admin",
      "pass": "yourRPCpassword",
      "notify": true
    }
  ],
  "donation": 0.1,
  "btcsig": "/YOURPOOL or SIG/",
  "blockpoll": 100,
  "nonce1length": 4,
  "nonce2length": 8,
  "update_interval": 30,
  "serverurl": [
    "yourpoolipaddress:3333"
  ],
  "mindiff": 0,
  "startdiff": 1,
  "maxdiff": 0,
  "logdir": "logs",
  "loglevel": "7"
}

0.1 donation will go to CKPOOL developer, you can remove that in src/ckpool.c file and build again.

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RUNNING:

Start the pool in solo mode:

./src/ckpool -B

or start as daemon:

./src/ckpool -B -D

Point your miner now to yourpoolipaddress:3333

ckpool supports the following options:

-A | --standalone
-c CONFIG | --config CONFIG
-d CKDB-NAME | --ckdb-name CKDB-NAME
-g GROUP | --group GROUP
-H | --handover
-h | --help
-k | --killold
-L | --log-shares
-l LOGLEVEL | --loglevel LOGLEVEL
-N | --node
-n NAME | --name NAME
-P | --passthrough
-p | --proxy
-R | --redirector
-S CKDB-SOCKDIR | --ckdb-sockdir CKDB-SOCKDIR
-s SOCKDIR | --sockdir SOCKDIR
-u | --userproxy

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Congratulations, your ckpool is now ready to use.