Now time to get the BitAxe lottery miner connected, I can't connect it directly to my bitcoin node, it needs something that does stratum protocol in between. A few options I found: public-pool, ckpool, stratum SRI.

public-pool seems easy to use but needs nodejs
stratum SRI looks way too complex for solo lottery mining, I don't understand anything on the docs
so I'm trying out ckpool, it has instructions specifically for solo mining which I'm following: https://bitbucket.org/ckolivas/ckpool-solo/src/solobtc/README

I'm doing it the same as with electrs, building it in the virtual machine so I can keep the NUC clean.

Following the steps, I kept getting stuck on the ./configure command. For some reason this line in configure breaks it: PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG(). I'm not sure what it does but the only way I could continue was by removing it.

This resulted in 4 files, I think only 1 is needed for solo mining but I copied all 4 to the NUC just to be sure.

I pointed ckpool to bitcoind, and the bitaxe miner to ckpool and all looks good:


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