Is it possible to run a testnet pool? I have the bitcoin app with testnet 100% sync.
Network hashrate and block height seems correct:
I tried to connect a nerdminer and a bitaxe without success. Anyone already tried, any hint?
I have tried… what I did was download Knots just the (testnet3) 75gb, when I was just downloading the testnet, Datum would show “whatever” block I was on with the download. and it gave testnet info. to dial in dont use the datum-beta1.ocean… use >
, stratum+tcp://192.“nodes ip” :23334
testnet3 address tb1232334354545465lfg
I did use x as a password???
watch this vid and you will be able to change the config to enter your address etc. it was hashing but something wasn’t right… this is as close as I got… Datum testnet uses 9332 as the rpc port… about halfway thru this vid it will show you how to get to the config.
I think that Datum create the template for the block, then it has to be sent to a pool.
Datum at the moment only works with Ocean and I don’t think that they have a testnet pool.
Do they have a testnet pool?
I dont yet… in the works" testnet needs to be easily accessible for everyone. you’d get more education “BY FAR” using a bit axe on testnet IT WILL HIT eventually maybe every few days?
and watch how shit is SUPPOSED to work.
Using a Bitaxe on a testnet pool is exactly what I’m trying to do.
As I havn’t found one yet I wanted to create one by my own using public pool but apparently it doesn’t work. Any hint aboout that?
Btw, are you the same drdetroit who already found 23 blocks on testnet4 ? 
YES… what does the stratum say when you have it reading this? nice work I haven’t seen that yet.
that was T3 yesterday in hours!! its nuuts
I am finally able to use Public Pool mining testnet 3 or 4:
All I had to do was to edit /home/umbrel/umbrel/app-data/public-pool/docker-compose.yml
and replace NETWORK=mainnet with NETWORK=testnet
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NICE FN WORK!!! its the little things sometimes…LOL does it show your stats like it was on main net ? but is running on testnet? if so you might be the first to have done it that way. so you have mainnet, testnet3 and 4 on one node LOL! and can access them and solo mine thru your node? sounds like it…
I have a raspberry pi 4 only for testnet: knots with testnet 3 and core with testnet 4
From “Settings” in Public Pool icon I can switch from knots to core and it works with both.
The stats are the same than with mainnet:
Amazing! Are you using ckpool from umbrel or from a different device? I’d like to try it, did you find a guide to do that?
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NO GUIDE! just a “glitch of some kind?” literally… its way easier to hit T3 blocks RN with that attacker"" on T4. it glitched out I pulled the ethernet, I saw on mempool a bunch of block in a row… SO. I did what anyone else would do to NICEHASH,TERRA POOL,SPIDER POOL, MARA (friend runs that pool and I asked wtf?) but what happened was I mined 39, 200 or some shit after I figured out its actually showing up mempool as MY BLOCKS… I set it and went to bed… WOKE up twitter acct rugged…?? THEY HAVE NO REASON… I DO NOTHING WRONG ON TWITTER… so I knocked em out until I had over 50 % and it will still be DAYS before anyone comes even close… LOL!!! FOUNDRY JUST STARTED!I he he he he …
If you already had over 50% of the hashrate, did you at least consider renaming the network after yourself?
Either you’ve discovered a new market for some kind of hashrate booster, or the Testnet just decided to gift you a few blocks out of sheer sympathy. 
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I didn’t even have close…to 50% it was a “bug or ?” nobody can tell me… its weird I had my twitter account suspended “during that run” for platform manipulation and spam? I dont know?? during the hours that was happening, 3 BIG ass mining companies couldn’t get their spam into ANY TESTNET BLOCKS… one of the times I connected it. I kinda “brought everyone with me”" so they were getting blocks "faster than usual but empty compared to what they normally get in TESTnet fees. SO I CAN SEE how that kinda pissed them off and they thought "I guess"that I wasn’t going to stop? that was close to a years worth of blocks I. ALONE mined their numbers were WAY UP also… "MARA could sneak ALOT of transactions in, AND also some unknown pools… but nice hash,spider pool and terra pool. couldn’t DO SH#% "the guy who runs mara pool is “or I call him” my bitcoin mentor. he didn’t see it happen, and he is the on who runs ALL the pools at MARA. I was bitching about my acct… “thinking he knew about it” so I told him in 10 words basically… he looked at it and DID NOT FROWN UPON.“just say” . he broke testnet 4 when it was pretty new still WITH MY MACHINES LOL! he just told me where to point them… LOL!!! what are the odds of the same machines “about a year apart” OWNING testnet until we stopped them… WTF!!
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A Testnet v4 pool that pays per share would be extremely helpful to the small miners looking to just get a little dust each block found.
Congrats on your interesting find MD. I’ve seen you on the block explorer for weeks. (I mine a few Testnet coins and I own the testnet exchange/faucet on AltQuick.)
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Three days ago I noticed a huge drop in the hashrate for testnet3, at a certain point it was less than 0.5 TH so I started to mine with my bitaxe ultra through my self hosted public-pool and I managed to get something like 700 blocks in one night. I suppose you have more powerful machines to get all those block! Is your ckpool on umbrel or on a different device?