What is it?

This project will allow you to solo mine using any monero miner you like, be it CPU or GPU (literally any miner that works with a stratum pool)!

By running start.sh (if you have docker installed) you are automatically creating a Monero Stratum pool in your local machine.

You can then connect any miner you like to this pool by connecting to localhost:3333 (or remote_ip:3333 if your miner is on another computer).

Just remember to edit the configs.json with your wallet's address and upstream address.

The upstream address is where the pool gets the blockchain and its real-time updates (to read and submit new blocks).

In practice this means you need to have monerod (monero daemon) running somewhere (in the local machine where the pool is running for eg.).

Other alternative is to download monero-wallet-gui and start the daemon there.

If it is your first time you'll have to download the entire blockchain (it will take hours), or you can just download it from here and then import it to your wallet app using monero-blockchain-import --verify 0 --input-file ./blockchain.raw.

monero-blockchain-import should be within the folder of monero-wallet-gui or your monero installation (check the Dockerfile of this project to see how monero is installed).

The noob way

So, in sum if you are a beginner:

1. Install monero-wallet-gui.
2. Download the blockchain and use the monero-blockchain-import command as I stated above, or just leave the wallet synchronizing for about half a day.
3. Change the address in the config.json file to your wallet receive address (or leave mine there if you are feeling generous :) ).
4. Run sh start.sh and wait some minutes until you start seeing logs like 2017/08/29 23:56:51 Loading config: /monero-stratum/config.json.
5. Configure any miner of your choice (eg. xmr-stak-nvidia, ccminer, etc) and configure it to use this stratum, for eg. my miner was configured this way: ccminer -o stratum+tcp://192.168.0.108:3333 -u <your wallet address here>, where 192.168.0.108 is the IP of the machine running this docker container, which could be localhost.
6. You can also activate the solo mining option in the Advanced tab on your monero-wallet-gui to add some more horse power.
7. Take a look at http://localhost:8082/ in the machine where you're running the container.
8. Enjoy your solo mining!

Note: You can add more miners, if you are able to host this online you can create your own online private pool!