How to Setup viaBTC.com Mining Pool for solo Mining

Introduction for solo mining

The highest reward in mining can be made if you are doing solo mining. With the fact that a block reward for BCH is currently worth about 900 USD, and the block reward for Bitcoin more than 180000 USD, a lot of miners are willing to forget that the likelihood of finding a block rather small, epecially if mining Bitcoin. If you want to accept that risk, you can set up your mining pool account at viabtc.com (please sign up with our referral code by clicking here) as follows.

Setting up viabtc.com account for solo mining

After signing up, please click in the menu on "Pool" in the upper left corner to make sure you can make adjustments to the mining pool settings:

Screenshot Mining Pool Settings

Afterwards, please click on the small arrow on the right to the crypto-currency symbol that is displayed below the word "Pool". 

Screenshot Mining Coin Setting2

A menu will appear. Click first the symbo for the Coin you want to set. Click on "smart mining" if you want to make settings for the smart mining settings (Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash with the option to change).

If you select Bitcoin Cash for example, you will see the following:

Screenshot Mining Payment Settings3

Click on the "PPLNS" (there may also be written "PPS"). 

On the graphics that appear now, click on "Change"

Screenshot Change Mining Payment Settin4gs

You will now be presented a box to change the mining payment method with three options: PPS, PPLNS or Solo.

Click on "SOLO" to switch to solo mining. Click on one of the others to change mining (payment) mode. Attention, you can only change once within 24 hours !

Screenshot Switching to solo mining5

Afterwards, make sure you selected the chosen payment method (SOLO in our case), its colour will change to bluegreen. Then the click on "Confirm". 

Hot to set up other coins for solomining

When this is done for, do the same procedure for any other coin where you want to change to solo mining. For some coins, solo mining is not available at viabtc.com. 

In case of you any questions, please contact us. The provider of this service is listed in the imprint.