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I have been trying for days to set up any kind of bitcoin miner on my mac. I tried rpc miner, followed all the instructions, entered bitcoin.mining.cz for url. 8332 for port account.worker for user and my workers password and only get an error mssg.

I've tried setting up other clients, but I'm not good at dealing with terminal stuff and cant get anything to work. This is more for my education and future mining. Im not concerned with speed or hash rate, I just want to get a client running. Can someone give me a macmining for dummies walk through on how to get a client running. I'm looking for a cpu miner for now. I know it's slow and not very profitable, but that's what I want to do.

On top of everything else, I downloaded Bt-q wallet. It took over a day to catch up, then I got a database error, it took another day to fix it and then got another database error. And on top of everything else I had bitcoins on input.io and lost some of that. TF sent me 1.3 of the 2 btc balance I had. Anyway my bitcoin experience has not been a happy one and I'd appreciate any help. Thanks

ditch the mac... anyhow the settings for slushes pool your using are wrong to start with
stratum.bitcoin.cz
port: 3333

Try MacMiner.  I helped a friend get it going on his Mac and it's been working out great for him.

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Have you tried Bitminter? They have a lovely Java GUI app that is easy to setup.

This is what I get after starting up Macminer:


         
5s: 1.04 avg: 0.82 u: 0.00 Mh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:949.7 avg:818.0 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:894.5 avg:818.0 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:968.7 avg:818.8 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:879.6 avg:818.6 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:852.0 avg:818.6 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:814.7 avg:818.4 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:818.4 avg:818.4 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:813.5 avg:818.4 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:818.1 avg:818.4 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:790.1 avg:818.2 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
 [2013-11-15 20:01:34] Stratum from pool 0 requested work update
 [2013-11-15 20:01:34] Stratum from pool 0 requested work update                   
5s:722.4 avg:817.5 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:709.5 avg:817.1 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:662.0 avg:816.4 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:632.6 avg:815.7 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:613.7 avg:814.9 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:605.2 avg:814.2 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:602.6 avg:813.6 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:599.9 avg:812.9 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:586.8 avg:812.2 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
 [2013-11-15 20:02:21] Stratum from pool 0 requested work update
 [2013-11-15 20:02:21] Stratum from pool 0 requested work update                   
5s: 1.29 avg: 0.82 u: 0.00 Mh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s: 1.02 avg: 0.82 u: 0.00 Mh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:876.8 avg:815.9 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:762.6 avg:815.2 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:706.1 avg:814.6 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:669.8 avg:814.1 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:641.7 avg:813.4 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:635.3 avg:812.9 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:620.3 avg:812.3 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:623.8 avg:811.7 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:632.6 avg:811.3 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
 [2013-11-15 20:03:20] Stratum from pool 0 requested work update
 [2013-11-15 20:03:20] Stratum from pool 0 requested work update                   
5s: 1.43 avg: 0.82 u: 0.00 Mh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s: 1.30 avg: 0.82 u: 0.00 Mh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s: 1.10 avg: 0.82 u: 0.00 Mh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
 [2013-11-15 20:03:37] Stratum from pool 0 requested work update
 [2013-11-15 20:03:37] Stratum from pool 0 requested work update                   
5s:962.2 avg:817.6 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:830.9 avg:817.1 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:918.9 avg:817.8 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:879.1 avg:817.8 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:873.0 avg:817.9 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:834.2 avg:817.8 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:846.2 avg:817.9 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
 [2013-11-15 20:04:13] Stratum from pool 0 requested work update
 [2013-11-15 20:04:13] Stratum from pool 0 requested work update                   
5s:784.8 avg:817.6 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:716.8 avg:817.0 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:670.4 avg:816.4 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:642.8 avg:815.8 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:631.9 avg:815.2 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:592.5 avg:814.5 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
5s:608.2 avg:813.9 u:  0.0 kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
 [2013-11-15 20:04:48] Stratum from pool 0 requested work update                   
5s: 1.06 avg: 0.82 u: 0.00 Mh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none         
 [2013-11-15 20:04:55] Stratum from pool 0 requested work update

If it needs a URL, it might be confused because you only entered the server address without the protocol part.?

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