Title: Litecoin Pool setup for newbies Post by: ripper234 on October 13, 2011, 06:53:44 PM I never mined before, let alone participated in a pool.
Can anyone explain how to configure my miner to connect to a Litecoin pool? (I think there's one pool already (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47417.msg573009#msg573009)) This pool is of course at risk of being DDOSes, so I ask also for instructions on how to setup the miner to solo if the pool is DDOSed/compromised. Title: Re: Litecoin Pool setup for newbies Post by: Ashkelon on October 15, 2011, 07:24:01 AM to mine, whether the pool or solo, first things you need are a client and miner.
1. Grab the source: https://github.com/coblee/litecoin Windows client binary: https://github.com/downloads/coblee/litecoin/litecoin-windows-client-40104.zip 2. You can mine the coin by using the default miner in the client. Just put "gen=1" in your litecoin.conf file. Or you can use a CPU miner. Currently, you must use one of these miners that uses Scrypt: https://github.com/Lolcust/Tenebrix-miner https://github.com/ArtForz/cpuminer - Fastest but experimental Here's a compiled binary for Windows: https://github.com/downloads/coblee/litecoin/litecoin-windows-miner-10-10-2011.zip 3. litecoin.conf You need to create a litecoin.conf file with this content Code: testnet=0 and save it to Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Litecoin Win7: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Litecoin Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Litecoin Unix: ~/.litecoin 4. Mining Solo in your windows binary miner, edit the 2threads.bat file to adjust to the number of threads you want to mine with (Don't put more threads than you have core, think of it as dividing by zero, you house will vanish in a black hole) then run it. 5. pool mining. Once you have your client, head on over to the http://184.107.145.244/ (http://184.107.145.244/) pool. signup with your LTC address edit your mining batch file (2threads.bat from earlier) with the username and info given to you by the pool. mine ... profit (slowly) EDIT edited for typos and general morningness Title: Re: Litecoin Pool setup for newbies Post by: MaGNeT on October 15, 2011, 02:29:02 PM Pool is now at http://litecoinpool.dyndns.org so you can replace the http://184.107.145.244 with the new one :)
Title: Re: Litecoin Pool setup for newbies Post by: Graet on October 16, 2011, 05:37:44 AM lc.ozco.in is up and running too :D
Title: Re: Litecoin Pool setup for newbies Post by: worldinacoin on October 16, 2011, 06:17:22 AM We seem to have a good choice of mining pools for Litecoin now :) . A testimony of its popularity?
Title: Re: Litecoin Pool setup for newbies Post by: acostanza on October 17, 2011, 07:42:28 PM I'm having trouble getting it to run on a Mac (hey, it's got cores). No problem on my PC.
I Downloaded the Mac Deamon DL from GetHub. Made the Litecoin.conf file as stated above, put it in the right path in the Libraries folder, run minerd and in terminal I get: Quote Warning: To use litecoind, you must set rpcpassword=<password> in the configuration file: /Users/EveryThink/Library/Application Support/Litecoin/litecoin.conf Also, running the app Litecoin-Qt crashes with this error: Quote Dyld Error Message: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/db48/libdb_cxx-4.8.dylib Referenced from: /Users/EveryThink/Downloads/litecoin-mac-client-daemon-50000 2/Litecoin-Qt.app/Contents/MacOS/Litecoin-Qt Reason: image not found Any thoughts? Title: Re: Litecoin Pool setup for newbies Post by: sd on November 08, 2011, 09:06:39 PM Code: block_nTime=1317972665 What does that actually do? Title: Re: Litecoin Pool setup for newbies Post by: bulanula on November 08, 2011, 09:15:44 PM Code: block_nTime=1317972665 What does that actually do? Guess it makes sure you are on real and longest blockchain and not on fork or testnet :) Title: Re: Litecoin Pool setup for newbies Post by: pooler on November 08, 2011, 09:46:15 PM Can anyone explain how to configure my miner to connect to a Litecoin pool? (I think there's one pool already (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47417.msg573009#msg573009)) I think there are (at least) seven pools at the moment: (Proportional) http://litecoinpool.dyndns.org/ (Proportional) https://lc.ozco.in/ (Proportional) http://coinotron.com/ (PPLNS) http://66.166.64.126:8080/ Elitist Jerks (PPLNS) http://pool-x.eu/ (PPLNS) http://liteco.in/threads/130-kh-s-distributed-litecoin-pool-using-p2pool.29/ (PPS) http://www.litecoinpool.org/ (Hope I didn't forget anyone!) Title: Re: Litecoin Pool setup for newbies Post by: michaelmclees on November 08, 2011, 10:20:19 PM Code: block_nTime=1317972665 What does that actually do? I'm not sure you actually need that anymore, but the release of LiteCoin was scheduled so that everyone could verify the creators were trustworthy and that the chain was not premined by us. So Coblee held a poll and released those parameters at a predetermined time so everyone could download the client, verify its functionality, and begin use as soon as it was release. Those two parameters are part of what started up the client on the real chain and not Testnet. I think they're in the new releases of the client now without further action by you. Title: Re: Litecoin Pool setup for newbies Post by: bulanula on November 08, 2011, 11:46:33 PM Can anyone explain how to configure my miner to connect to a Litecoin pool? (I think there's one pool already (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47417.msg573009#msg573009)) I think there are (at least) seven pools at the moment: (Proportional) http://litecoinpool.dyndns.org/ (Proportional) https://lc.ozco.in/ (Proportional) http://coinotron.com/ (PPLNS) http://66.166.64.126:8080/ Elitist Jerks (PPLNS) http://pool-x.eu/ (PPLNS) http://liteco.in/threads/130-kh-s-distributed-litecoin-pool-using-p2pool.29/ (PPS) http://www.litecoinpool.org/ (Hope I didn't forget anyone!) WOW great list mate ! Really good effort right here. Well done. I think you should make a thread with all the LTC pools so newbies can find them easily etc. ! Title: Re: Litecoin Pool setup for newbies Post by: pooler on November 09, 2011, 11:54:43 AM WOW great list mate ! Really good effort right here. Well done. I think you should make a thread with all the LTC pools so newbies can find them easily etc. ! Thank you, but I think a page about this should be created on the Litecoin Wiki instead. There was list of pools in the old wiki, but apparently it disappeared when the wiki was migrated to GitHub. EDIT: Done! I also added some additional info: https://github.com/coblee/litecoin/wiki/Comparison-of-mining-pools Title: Re: Litecoin Pool setup for newbies Post by: rigamateur on November 04, 2012, 11:15:16 AM What is actual numer of this:
block_nTime=1317972665 block_nNonce=2084524493 ?? Title: Re: Litecoin Pool setup for newbies Post by: Greedi on November 04, 2012, 11:33:57 AM What is actual numer of this: block_nTime=1317972665 block_nNonce=2084524493 ?? you don't need that ^ Title: Re: Litecoin Pool setup for newbies Post by: Greedi on November 04, 2012, 11:37:34 AM WOW great list mate ! Really good effort right here. Well done. I think you should make a thread with all the LTC pools so newbies can find them easily etc. ! Thank you, but I think a page about this should be created on the Litecoin Wiki instead. There was list of pools in the old wiki, but apparently it disappeared when the wiki was migrated to GitHub. EDIT: Done! I also added some additional info: https://github.com/coblee/litecoin/wiki/Comparison-of-mining-pools New wiki: http://wiki.litecoin.net/index.php/Comparison_of_mining_pools Title: Re: Litecoin Pool setup for newbies Post by: Roddy5690 on December 30, 2012, 07:42:19 PM How come there is a trojan in this download?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Do not follow there is a trojan Title: Re: Litecoin Pool setup for newbies Post by: Graet on December 30, 2012, 10:56:56 PM How come there is a trojan in this download? who or what is saying it is a trojan? - false positives are common in av software with mining programs^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Do not follow there is a trojan this is due to mining programs being added to trojan droppers for botnets Title: Re: Litecoin Pool setup for newbies Post by: Roddy5690 on December 31, 2012, 04:48:49 PM Kaspersky AntiVirus 2013, found it. It's not found anything in any of the opther miners i have (CGMiner (from different link), ufasoft, guiminer(and by extension i suppose poclbm)).
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