I’ve got a bitcoin node in process that should make my solo mining easier to connect. I started with the DMG download and gui, but quickly transitioned to the brew install that gives me both a daemon running in the background and a command line interface for testing and process stats. Additionally, I’m able to run an error listing showing each block as it’s added to the overall node. I think Comcast Xfinity is still throttling my traffic on port 8333. But, the Damon seems to make better progress than the app.  more updates when it’s finished downloading, which could take up to a week given the size of the total block chain. I’m helping the network by becoming a node and it looks like there’s many others who have done the same thing.