Title: Feathercoin guide needed for newbie miners Post by: afrustrum on April 26, 2013, 10:23:14 PM I saw the Windows Feathercoin gui announced on https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=188134.0 and so far the GUI works as far as synchronising and encrypting the wallet, but I cannot get mining to work. ???
Where is good guidance for setting up mining, either solo or through a pool? I already mine with the BitMinter client, which worked first time. The thread at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178286.0 tells me to setup the .conf like this: server=1 daemon=1 rpcuser=miner rpcpassword=SetSomeRandomPassword rpcport=8100 port=8101 Should "miner" be set to something specific? Is there a link to a detailed overview of what this client does? I cannot tell if it includes a mining client like BitMinter's client does. The client's Start Mining does not give any feedback and I see no load on my CPU or GPUs, I suspect a separate miner program is needed? I registered with http://fhc.ub3rl3[Suspicious link removed]m/ and set up the client to pool mine on that server, but the client reports: "minerd --algo scrypt --scantime 99 --url http://fhc.ub3rl3[Suspicious link removed]m:9344 --userpass myusername.1:mypassword --threads 99 --retries -1 -P [23:31:47] - Miner failed to start. Make sure you have the minerd executable and libraries in the same directory as Feathercoin-Qt. " The pool's getting started page suggests I should use cgminer. Is that required? Thanks for any pointers. Title: Re: Feathercoin guide needed for newbie miners Post by: DeathProxy on April 26, 2013, 10:30:14 PM I want to know this as well. I tried also to mined but failed.
Title: Re: Feathercoin guide needed for newbie miners Post by: Konkwest on April 26, 2013, 10:37:59 PM i want to know if you can exchange the coins for real feathers. :o
Title: Re: Feathercoin guide needed for newbie miners Post by: bobbyb on April 26, 2013, 10:40:47 PM Three days ago I mined Feathercoins solo with 396khash/s (6950) for about 6h but I got only 2 stales/invalids, so i went back to LTC pool mining.
Title: Re: Feathercoin guide needed for newbie miners Post by: afrustrum on April 26, 2013, 10:55:10 PM Three days ago I mined Feathercoins solo with 396khash/s (6950) for about 6h but I got only 2 stales/invalids, so i went back to LTC pool mining. Could you post how you mined them? Which programs and which command lines? Title: Re: Feathercoin guide needed for newbie miners Post by: hilfigjp on April 26, 2013, 11:02:31 PM Use cgminer. Same .conf as litecoin, just swap out hostname and login info for FC pool. Simple
Title: Re: Feathercoin guide needed for newbie miners Post by: afrustrum on April 27, 2013, 12:41:42 AM Use cgminer. Same .conf as litecoin, just swap out hostname and login info for FC pool. Simple Ok, thanks for the help. cgminer reports "Pool 0 slow/down or URL or credentials invalid". How exactly should I setup Feather and/or cgminer? What exactly should be placed in feathercoin.conf? I downloaded cgminer 3.0.1 and ran this command in a Windows command prompt: Code: cgminer.exe --scrypt -o http://fhc.poolname.com:9344 -u your_user_name.1 -p passwordforpool cgminer reported: Code: [2013-04-27 02:19:57] Started cgminer 3.0.1 The URL is copied from http://fhc.ub3rl3[Suspicious link removed]m/news.php, and I found no mention of how to setup workers in cgminer's help. (EDIT: this forum removes part of the URL, which is http://fhc dot ub3r l 3 3 t dot com/news.php - some .s replaced by "dot"s and some spaces inserted) Title: Re: Feathercoin guide needed for newbie miners Post by: MarKusRomanus on April 27, 2013, 01:22:53 AM This should be correct:
Code: cgminer.exe --scrypt -o http://fhc.ub3rl33t.com:9344 -u your_user_name.1 -p x Title: Re: Feathercoin guide needed for newbie miners Post by: afrustrum on April 27, 2013, 09:42:41 AM This should be correct: Code: cgminer.exe --scrypt -o http://fhc.ub3rl3[Suspicious link removed]m:9344 -u your_user_name.1 -p x Okay, thanks, I was using that command but with a password for the fhc account. When I use exactly "-p x" cgminer does start, and does show a hash rate, but is shown as inactive on the fhc stats webpage. (EDIT: the fhc page has started showing I'm active now!But I still suspect it's using the Intel and not the nVidia) Code: cgminer version 3.0.1 - Started: [2013-04-27 10:36:29] The config file saved from cgminer looks incomplete to me, after the pools section - : Code: "intensity" : "d", I suspect my cgminer is still not configured correctly or otherwise cannot use the nVidia's GPU (the display looks like my Intel GPU performance ). Title: Re: Feathercoin guide needed for newbie miners Post by: BitcoinBoard on April 27, 2013, 10:41:21 AM Its not advicable to mine on your GPU with an Nvidia video cart as it is not supported. GPU mining is best done with AMD video carts
Title: Re: Feathercoin guide needed for newbie miners Post by: markosaurus on May 01, 2013, 11:13:13 AM I can't see what I'm doing wtrong here - I've successfully mined both BTC and LTC in the past using cgminer, my config is as below.
From my .bat file; cgminer --scrypt -o http://fhc.ub3rl3[Suspicious link removed]m:9344 -u worker.worker -p xxxxxxxx What am I doing wrong here? Thanks, Mark Title: Re: Feathercoin guide needed for newbie miners Post by: TheSpiral on May 01, 2013, 11:20:52 AM I can't see what I'm doing wtrong here - I've successfully mined both BTC and LTC in the past using cgminer, my config is as below. Looks alright, should try the Stratum server just in case that's the issue. stratum+tcp://fhc.ub3rl33t .com:3334From my .bat file; cgminer --scrypt -o http://fhc.ub3rl3[Suspicious link removed]m:9344 -u worker.worker -p xxxxxxxx What am I doing wrong here? Thanks, Mark If it's not that, would have to be a problem with the worker name/pass Title: Re: Feathercoin guide needed for newbie miners Post by: markosaurus on May 01, 2013, 12:31:03 PM A already tried the stratum URL and got the same thing. I'm obviously missing something here.
I also tried a different pool, registered, set up a worker, changed my conf file, no cigar. Am I right in thinking I can use a standard cgminer instance and a conf file to mine feathercoins? Is cgminer fundamentally different for feathercoins? Title: Re: Feathercoin guide needed for newbie miners Post by: markosaurus on May 02, 2013, 10:45:29 AM In case anyone stumbles across this - I wasn't doing anything wrong. This is running on a different port, which was blocked at the firewall.
Once I opened the port, it was fine. Title: Re: Feathercoin guide needed for newbie miners Post by: Morning on May 02, 2013, 12:36:23 PM Also, here is my suggestion, with a GUI (GUIminer-scrypt alpha).
THe pool I mention on the tutorial may not be the best as there seem to be doubts about payments and reliability, but its enough to see how it works. I will try to update it later if doubts about the pool are real and/or if someone suggests me a better pool. So there it goes: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=193223.0 Edit: Maybe this one instead: http://feathercoin.is-a-geek.com/? Title: Re: Feathercoin guide needed for newbie miners Post by: danel70 on May 02, 2013, 12:42:27 PM Feathercoin must be up like 1000% in the past couple of weeks...truly amazing.
Title: Re: Feathercoin guide needed for newbie miners Post by: ihatemyjob on May 04, 2013, 07:58:09 PM I mined at http://fhc.ub3rl33t.com for two hours and on the webpage it shows zero and zero shares submitted.
Yet on my client it shows that i have nearly submitted 500 shares. I would not minethere again. Those people cheated me out so I becareful. Title: Re: Feathercoin guide needed for newbie miners Post by: SilentFlute on May 04, 2013, 08:50:32 PM I had a similar experience of being cheated by Eclipse Mining (EMC) when mining Btc.
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