I keep seeming to get round about answers about this. I need to begin mining to my local general use machine which acts as a node as it hosts the blockchain(aka.BTC-core). I HAVE an ASIC S9 I need a bit of a walkthrough generating the blocks and having my machine take cracks at them locally without a pool. Inspired by some of the low hashes of found blocks recently, I think my s9 has a chance with a gigabit+ connection.