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Title: Mining Vertcoin (newb) - General Questions Post by: purplehayes2400 on January 20, 2014, 01:43:51 PM Vertcoin is the first coin I have ever tried to mine. I am just doing it from my laptop and don't expect crazy results. After two days of simply commanding the -qt client 'setgenerate' with no results I figured out how to use cpuminer and have joined a pool. I have some questions:
1.) I hate the idea of 98% cpu usage at all times. Is there a way to limit this? 2.) In my eternal hunt for information I noticed that cpuminer hooks up with the lite-coin qt quite well. Is this possible with any -qt client? Would it make more sense for me to mine lite-coins if the program integration is better? The idea of solo mining is very appealing but it just doesn't seem to make sense with what I have. I now have ~.35VTC in my pool account and zero in my wallet! I long for that first transaction. Thanks for any advice VcCrXoqtvh921N1f45SwXED5VxxZ5714o3 purlplehayes2400 Title: Re: Mining Vertcoin (newb) - General Questions Post by: purplehayes2400 on January 25, 2014, 07:57:33 PM 1.5VTC Magically appeared in my wallet! Thank you anonymous giver..... Also, I have learned a lot about how to do this whole mining thing. There is a virtual 'shit-ton' of information online. It took me awhile to sift through it. I realize I may be talking to myself but oh well! I am having sooooo much fun!
Title: Re: Mining Vertcoin (newb) - General Questions Post by: Wipeout2097 on January 25, 2014, 08:17:30 PM :)
there's a gpu miner available, even for Nvidia chips http://www.vertcoin.org/ What's the brand and model of your laptop? Title: Re: Mining Vertcoin (newb) - General Questions Post by: purplehayes2400 on January 26, 2014, 08:41:48 AM I have figured out how to cpu mine with both the CUDA and cgminer when I am at an internet cafe. However, my personal laptop doesn't agree with them. With cgminer it is a missing .dll file and CUDA just blips on and off. My laptop is a Samsung Sens RV511. If you have any advice as to how to proceed GPU mining with it it would be appreciated.
*edit: downloaded OpenCL.dll and placed it in cgminer directory - now it behaves just like CUDA - a fatal error in the initialization shuts it down immediately. Intel(r) hd card --- drivers up to date -- that is all the info I can find from windows. Title: Re: Mining Vertcoin (newb) - General Questions Post by: kyma on February 05, 2014, 11:16:44 PM I am in the same boat. MacBook Pro, tried to mine with just 2 cores using
Code: setgenerate true [cores] 2 does not work, nor does two. Code: setgenerate true [2.0] Anyway. Using just Code: setgenerate true Futhermore, the following prompt Code: getmininginfo Code: {looks like 3642 hashes per sec :) haha woohoo! Title: Re: Mining Vertcoin (newb) - General Questions Post by: kyma on February 05, 2014, 11:49:41 PM what is "currentblocktx" represent?
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