(Unofficial) Guide to Zcash Solo Mining

Mining
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i have same errors: Test Failed · Issue #1412 · zcash/zcash · GitHub

What to do?

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this is very helpful. thank you so much.

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after running this

./qa/zcash/full-test-suite.sh

FAILED: /home/ts/zcash/qa/zcash/check-security-hardening.sh

any idea why this is happening and how to rectify it ?

I try to start the zcash server but got the error below

./src/zcashh -daemon
bash: ./src/zcashh: No such file or directory

Anyone can help? Please. TQ

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Should be ./src/zcashd -daemon

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Hi Shawn,

i did put “./src/zcashd -daemon” but some error too

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~/zcash/./src/zcashd -daemon

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Thanks for the guide, I really appreciate it. In the guide, you state the following:
Enter the following in the file:

testnet=1
addnode=betatestnet.z.cash
rpcuser=rpcusername
rpcpassword=rpcpassword
gen=1
Are we supposed to change the rpcusername to a unique username, and the rpcpassword to something unique as well?

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Changing the rpcpassword to something random is recommended for security reasons.

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I have all the things running. zcashd showing stats. getinfo also shows no error message, getpeerinfo also show connected, I got solutions and my system solved above 4000 solutions, it received 165K data and returned somehow 100K data back, All ok, BUT, when I stopped here just to check the balance, after some 12hours of straight running, There is no balance shown, still 0.0000000000, after 5 days still it is 0.000000000, why??? can anybody guide me?
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks

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You will mine a block in 500 years, better to join a pool.

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Great guide, thanks, it made it very easy for a linux nub. What would be awsome is an addition that gives step by step directions on updating to the newer versions as they come out like 1.0.2.

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I think Zogminer can be used to Solo mine with GPU’s , not sure seem to recall something about that

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Thanks for the guide, however, its better to join a pool as someone said above