Verify public pool is using my bitcoin address

Bitcoin and Lightning
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Hi,
I’ve ordered a nerdminer and I’m planning to point at my umbrel node, with public pool.
This will be my first foray into mining, so this may be a naive question.

I know the odds are astronomical, but if it ever did it would be a shame if it was configured incorrectly, or if public pool had tampered with the address.
How do I verify it’s mining with my correct information?

Thanks

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So this is up and running now. When I flashed the nerdminer I could see it was submitting shares. I guess I need to find a way to inspect a share. Anyone know how or another way to confirm?

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Hi,
You can just open public-pool, type your BTC address as login, and check if your miners are seen by public-pool and active;

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Thanks for your reply.
I can see that public pool says my miner is associated with my bitcoin address.
Maybe I’m paranoid :slight_smile:
But I want to independently verify that is what’s actually used

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Well you would need to ssh into you umbrel node, and inspect the Public-Pool logs and search for strings like :
“payout address”: “bc1qd…”
“coinbase transaction”: “bc1qd…”
“block template” : “bc1qd…”
with your BTC adress

I’m sorry I can’t help further, as I never connected to my umbrel node through ssh and don’t know the locations of the files we are looking for …

I think there are tutorials about this on these pages …

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Thanks, that’s very helpful.
I’ll try and locate the logs and report back

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You’re welcome,

I also want to mention, I had a question more or less similar to yours, and got an interesting answer from denny, you may want to check this thread:

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Thanks - it looks like I shouldn’t worry about it :slight_smile: