No shares after an entire night

Hi everyone! I’m new to mining Grin, and I’m mining Grin-C29 on my laptop. I’ve installed grin, grin-wallet, and grin-miner, according to grin-miner, and my NVIDIA 4070 Ti is giving ~2.24 Kgps. But after an entire night of mining, I have 0 accepted, rejected, or stale shares. Additionally, grin-miner reports that the target share difficulty is always 1. What am I doing wrong?

Here’s my grin-server.toml:


# Generated Server Configuration File for Grin
#
# When running the grin executable without specifying any command line
# arguments, it will look for this file in two places, in the following
# order:
#
# -The working directory
# -[user home]/.grin
#

config_file_version = 2

#########################################
### SERVER CONFIGURATION              ###
#########################################

#Server connection details
[server]

#the directory, relative to current, in which the grin blockchain
#is stored
db_root = "/home/user/.grin/main/chain_data"

#path of TLS certificate file, self-signed certificates are not supported
#tls_certificate_file = ""
#private key for the TLS certificate
#tls_certificate_key = ""

#the address on which services will listen, e.g. Transaction Pool
api_http_addr = "127.0.0.1:3413"

#path of the secret token used by the Rest API and v2 Owner API to authenticate the calls
#comment the it to disable basic auth
api_secret_path = "/home/user/.grin/main/.api_secret"

#path of the secret token used by the Foreign API to authenticate the calls
#comment the it to disable basic auth
foreign_api_secret_path = "/home/user/.grin/main/.foreign_api_secret"

#The chain type, which defines the genesis block and the set of cuckoo
#parameters used for mining as well as wallet output coinbase maturity. Can be:
#AutomatedTesting - For CI builds and instant blockchain creation
#UserTesting - For regular user testing (cuckoo 16)
#Testnet - For the long term test network
#Mainnet - For mainnet
chain_type = "Mainnet"

#The Future Time Limit (FTL) is a limit on how far into the future,
#relative to a node's local time, the timestamp on a new block can be,
#in order for the block to be accepted.
#At Hard Fork 4, this was reduced from 12 minutes down to 5 minutes,
#so as to limit possible timestamp manipulation on the new
#wtema difficulty adjustment algorithm
future_time_limit = 300

#the chain validation mode, defines how often (if at all) we
#want to run a full chain validation. Can be:
#"EveryBlock" - run full chain validation when processing each block (except during sync)
#"Disabled" - disable full chain validation (just run regular block validation)
chain_validation_mode = "Disabled"

#run the node in "full archive" mode (default is fast-sync, pruned node)
archive_mode = false

#skip waiting for sync on startup, (optional param, mostly for testing)
skip_sync_wait = false

#whether to run the ncurses TUI (Ncurses must be installed)
run_tui = true

#Whether to run a test miner. This is only for developer testing (chaintype
#usertesting) at cuckoo 16, and will only mine into the default wallet port.
#real mining should use the standalone grin-miner
run_test_miner = false

#test miner wallet URL (burns if this doesn't exist)
#test_miner_wallet_url = "http://127.0.0.1:3415"

#########################################
### SERVER P2P CONFIGURATION          ###
#########################################
#The P2P server details (i.e. the server that communicates with other
[server.p2p_config]

#The interface on which to listen.
#0.0.0.0 will listen on all interfaces, allowing others to interact
#127.0.0.1 will listen on the local machine only
host = "0.0.0.0"

#The port on which to listen.
port = 3414

#All seeds/peers can be either IP address or DNS names. Port number must always be specified
#how to seed this server, can be None, List or DNSSeed
seeding_type = "DNSSeed"

#If the seeding type is List, the list of peers to connect to can
#be specified as follows:
#seeds = ["192.168.0.1:3414","192.168.0.2:3414"]

#hardcoded peer lists for allow/deny
#will *only* connect to peers in allow list
#peers_allow = ["192.168.0.1:3414", "192.168.0.2:3414"]
#will *never* connect to peers in deny list
#peers_deny = ["192.168.0.3:3414", "192.168.0.4:3414"]
#a list of preferred peers to connect to
#peers_preferred = ["192.168.0.1:3414","192.168.0.2:3414"]

#how long a banned peer should stay banned
#ban_window = 10800

#maximum number of inbound peer connections
#peer_max_inbound_count = 128

#maximum number of outbound peer connections
#peer_max_outbound_count = 8

#preferred minimum number of outbound peers (we'll actively keep trying to add peers
#until we get to at least this number)
#peer_min_preferred_outbound_count = 8

#amount of incoming connections temporarily allowed to exceed peer_max_inbound_count
#peer_listener_buffer_count = 8

# A preferred dandelion_peer, mainly used for testing dandelion
# dandelion_peer = "10.0.0.1:13144"

#########################################
### MEMPOOL CONFIGURATION             ###
#########################################
[server.pool_config]

#base fee that's accepted into the pool
accept_fee_base = 500000

#reorg cache retention period in minute.
#the reorg cache repopulates local mempool in a reorg scenario.
reorg_cache_period = 30

#maximum number of transactions allowed in the pool
max_pool_size = 50000

#maximum number of transactions allowed in the stempool
max_stempool_size = 50000

#maximum total weight of transactions that can get selected to build a block
mineable_max_weight = 40000


#########################################
### DANDELION CONFIGURATION           ###
#########################################
[server.dandelion_config]

#dandelion epoch duration
epoch_secs = 600

#fluff and broadcast after embargo expires if tx not seen on network
embargo_secs = 180

#dandelion aggregation period in secs
aggregation_secs = 30

#dandelion stem probability (stem 90% of the time, fluff 10% of the time)
stem_probability = 90

#always stem our (pushed via api) txs regardless of stem/fluff epoch (as per Dandelion++ paper)
always_stem_our_txs = true


################################################
### STRATUM MINING SERVER CONFIGURATION      ###
################################################
[server.stratum_mining_config]

#whether stratum server is enabled
enable_stratum_server = true

#what port and address for the stratum server to listen on
stratum_server_addr = "127.0.0.1:3416"

#the amount of time, in seconds, to attempt to mine on a particular
#header before stopping and re-collecting transactions from the pool
attempt_time_per_block = 15

#the minimum acceptable share difficulty to request from miners
minimum_share_difficulty = 1

#the wallet receiver to which coinbase rewards will be sent
wallet_listener_url = "http://127.0.0.1:3415"

#whether to ignore the reward (mostly for testing)
burn_reward = false


#########################################
### WEBHOOK CONFIGURATION             ###
#########################################
[server.webhook_config]

#The url where a POST request will be sent when a new block is accepted by our node.
#block_accepted_url = "http://127.0.0.1:8080/acceptedblock"

#The url where a POST request will be sent when a new transaction is received by a peer.
#tx_received_url = "http://127.0.0.1:8080/tx"

#The url where a POST request will be sent when a new header is received by a peer.
#header_received_url = "http://127.0.0.1:8080/header"

#The url where a POST request will be sent when a new block is received by a peer.
#block_received_url = "http://127.0.0.1:8080/block"

#The number of worker threads that will be assigned to making the http requests.
nthreads = 4

#The timeout of the http request in seconds.
timeout = 10


#########################################
### LOGGING CONFIGURATION             ###
#########################################
[logging]

#whether to log to stdout
log_to_stdout = true

#log level for stdout: Error, Warning, Info, Debug, Trace
stdout_log_level = "Warning"

#whether to log to a file
log_to_file = true

#log level for file: Error, Warning, Info, Debug, Trace
file_log_level = "Info"

#log file path
log_file_path = "/home/user/.grin/main/grin-server.log"

#whether to append to the log file (true), or replace it on every run (false)
log_file_append = true

#maximum log file size in bytes before performing log rotation
#comment it to disable log rotation
log_max_size = 16777216

#maximum count of the log files to rotate over
log_max_files = 32

Grin uses C32+ for now.

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Oh, ok. Since my GPU only has 8 GB of memory and because the current NVIDIA drivers don’t allow using host memory, I won’t be able to mine GRIN at all?

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No problem, NV3070 with 8Gb can mine Grin (example: Mining Rig Rentals | Mining Rig: IronHead 3070_x6_BIOSTAR under MindMiner )

try https://lolminer.me/

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don’t waste time and energy for GPU mining, buy ipollo G1 mini, it’s cheap, around $400 or less (with used miners) with tiny power consumption.