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Setting up a dogecoin node for heavy transactions and mining. Part 2

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Join the livestream here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sQEm-ySDmU Let's finally begin our solo mining now that we've downloaded the entire dogecoin blockchain to our computer. If you haven't completed part 1 of this guide please return there and setup your dogecoin node first. First we're going to need to configure our dogecoin core to listen for miners. We can start by using the example dogecoin.conf found on github here .  copy all lines of that configuration file and paste them into a text editor. Now we're going to remove comments on certain settings we need to run a node/server to mine from. These are the lines we want to remove the '#' comment symbol from. listen=1 server=1 rpcuser=makeusernamehere rpcpassword=makepwhere rpcport=22555 I like those settings because it tells Dogecoin Core to listen for rpc connections and that is IS a node server. The rpcuser and pass should be something unique so that nobody can control your wallet. The rpc port hel...