<p>While solo-mining the miner falls back to attempting to create real-difficulty shares, a.k.a. blocks. Hence you won't see a share until you actually find a block. The only reason that pools use lower difficulty shares is in order to determine which miners are actively attempting to mine a block. Since you are the only miner there is no need to keep tabs on the miner, it's already clear who's going to get the reward.</p>

<p>tl;dr: this is perfectly fine, as long as the miner is showing a hashrate you'll find a block eventually, although with your current hashrate it'll take <a href="http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator/json?hashrate=1000000000" rel="nofollow">193 years in expectation</a> for you to find a block.</p>

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2014-01-12T13:09:29.270Z
thanks :) 193 years expected. but the change that i find an block the first minute is there. super tiny, but it's there! :) i'm glad to hear that my mining time didn't go to waste.
Dylan Westra
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2014-01-12T14:10:27.877Z
There's always luck involved in this, so it might just work out for you :-)
cdecker
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2014-01-12T12:35:11.070Z
cdecker
<p>i'm solo mining but it just doesnt feel right that i don't get any accepts while solo mining.</p>

<p>is this right? (see picture below; the top pool with the blacked out adress)</p>

<p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/vZUYh.png" alt="minepeon screenshot"></p>

<p>settings:</p>

<p>bfgminer options: -S all<br> -c /opt/minepeon/etc/miner.conf<br> --no-longpoll<br> --coinbase-addr 1NCWZT4hbfPw5LMpPsPauXYdVB9LYKrZM7<br> --icarus-options 115200:1:1<br> --icarus-timing 3.0=100</p>

<solo-mining><bfgminer>
can i solo mine with minepeon?
Dylan Westra
# can i solo mine with minepeon?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-01-12)

i'm solo mining but it just doesnt feel right that i don't get any accepts while solo mining.

is this right? (see picture below; the top pool with the blacked out adress)

![minepeon screenshot](https://i.sstatic.net/vZUYh.png)

settings:

bfgminer options: -S all  
 -c /opt/minepeon/etc/miner.conf  
 --no-longpoll  
 --coinbase-addr 1NCWZT4hbfPw5LMpPsPauXYdVB9LYKrZM7  
 --icarus-options 115200:1:1  
 --icarus-timing 3.0=100

**Tags:** solo-mining, bfgminer


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2014-01-12. Score: 0 | Accepted answer

While solo-mining the miner falls back to attempting to create real-difficulty shares, a.k.a. blocks. Hence you won't see a share until you actually find a block. The only reason that pools use lower difficulty shares is in order to determine which miners are actively attempting to mine a block. Since you are the only miner there is no need to keep tabs on the miner, it's already clear who's going to get the reward.

tl;dr: this is perfectly fine, as long as the miner is showing a hashrate you'll find a block eventually, although with your current hashrate it'll take [193 years in expectation](http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator/json?hashrate=1000000000) for you to find a block.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: thanks :) 193 years expected. but the change that i find an block the first minute is there. super tiny, but it's there! :) i'm glad to hear that my mining time didn't go to waste.  
> **username_1**: There's always luck involved in this, so it might just work out for you :-)  

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