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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Technical Support => Topic started by: 5891 on June 02, 2011, 08:25:47 PM



Title: cooperative mining? mining pool?
Post by: 5891 on June 02, 2011, 08:25:47 PM
can someone give me a walkthrough on how to get into a mining pool. i made an account and set up a miner but couldnt figure out how to get it to start mining in a pool. i really want to get into the use of bitcoins any help would be MUCH appreciated.


Title: Re: cooperative mining? mining pool?
Post by: grue on June 02, 2011, 08:27:56 PM
for btcguild (its the same for all pools)
1. DOWNLOAD A MINER!
2. make a .bat file where the miner is installed
3. put this into the .bat file:
phoenix.exe -u http://worker_name:worker_password@btcguild.com:8332/ -k poclbm DEVICE=1


Title: Re: cooperative mining? mining pool?
Post by: 5891 on June 02, 2011, 08:32:31 PM
thanks dude im gonna try to set it up now.


Title: Re: cooperative mining? mining pool?
Post by: Xenland on June 02, 2011, 09:04:47 PM
You can find a collection of mining pools with all there pros and cons over at http://mining.bitcoin.cz (http://mining.bitcoin.cz)(Big, 2% Fee), http://simplecoin.us (http://simplecoin.us)(Small but big payout), http://deepbit.net (http://deepbit.net), http://mp2.fleshvirus.com (http://mp2.fleshvirus.com)(Currently Beta, 0% Fees), http://btcguild.com/ (http://btcguild.com/)(0% Fees).