I am trying to solo mine bitcoin but the blockchain has been downloaded to an external hard drive.
Asked
Active
Viewed 131 times
1 Answers
1
You don't need to store the full blockchain in order to solo mine. A pruned node works just fine and requires only a few gigabytes of storage.
If you join what's called a "solo mining pool", you don't need to run a node at all, provided that you're okay with a small level of trust towards the mining pool and with a small percentage fee taken from your reward in the highly unlikely event that you actually manage to find a block.
Vojtěch Strnad
- 5,623
- 1
- 8
- 31
-
Is there a solo mining pool with Getwork protocol? My ASICs can't connect with stratum.. – 1n4ho12 Sep 18 '22 at 21:13
-
1According to [this answer](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/68641/121614), no mining pools have supported getwork since 2011. – Vojtěch Strnad Sep 19 '22 at 11:45