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Alternate cryptocurrencies => Mining (Altcoins) => Topic started by: eretron on May 07, 2013, 11:58:07 PM



Title: cgminer showing wrong diff soloing?
Post by: eretron on May 07, 2013, 11:58:07 PM
Currently I'm experimenting solo alt coin mining, but I have 1 question.

For example cgminer is showing diff of 283K for BBQchain, but in block explorer difficulty is around 4k? Same thing is if I mine ChinaCoin?

Is this just cgminer display glitch or it is mining at wrong difficulty?

Thanks in advance


Title: Re: cgminer showing wrong diff soloing?
Post by: juhakall on May 08, 2013, 12:02:33 AM
Scrypt difficulty is converted in cgminer. Actual difficulty is the shown value divided by 2**16 (65536).


Title: Re: cgminer showing wrong diff soloing?
Post by: eretron on May 08, 2013, 12:08:59 AM
Thanks a lot, that clarifies everything.


Title: Re: cgminer showing wrong diff soloing?
Post by: crunchy on January 29, 2014, 04:29:02 PM
why is scrypt difficulty not converted when poolmining in cgminer then ??

ahhahahhahahahahhhaa

cgminer will not submit anything below that *65536 number. means you need to do *65536 more work then needed when solomining before it even will consider submitting the hashes.

it only means one thing really, write your own miner.