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Hey guys,

There was a lot of problems with the last GUI miner version so I decided to build a new one.

Main point of it is this: I declined the concept of 4gb_memory_blockchain - all you have to do now is enter your BCN/MRO/QCN and FCN wallet address and connect to one of the nodes directly. It will solve the issue with the “eternal_BCN_sync”.

Download: http://solominer.org/
Source: https://github.com/amphibia/SoloMiner

Linux instructions:

Requirements:
OS: Ubuntu 14.04
Packages: libwxgtk3.0-0, libwxgtk3.0-dev, libwxbase3.0-dev, libwxbase3.0-0, libboost1.55-all-dev, cmake, wx3.0-headers, g++

How to build
The building process is pretty straightforward:


Run
./SoloMiner

BMR/MRO and QCN developers can contact me through PM to talk about direct nodes for miners.

That’s pretty much it for now - don't hesitate to reach out for me in case of any questions.

Cheers.

https://i.imgur.com/Kl2idOn.png

started BCN/FCN mining on the different (no bc) PC - working okay, no problems so far, will let you know if something goes wrong.

Thanks, will try it.

Just downloaded the Win64 version and am using it for Bytecoin and Fantomcoin. It took less than a minute to enter my information and to get it hashing. Thanks for making this so easy! And not having to download the blockchains for each is a BIG plus!!

very easy now to merge mine :) awesome!  glad it has the localhost settings too!

Thanks for this.
Any idea why I get so many "Failed to get donor block" messages?
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EDIT:...never mind. I see that once the daemon fully synced the messages went away

Aha, found 3 Fantomcoin blocks during the weekend. No luck with Bytecoin though, but at least no need to have the bytecoind running and eating up the memory.

P.S. I have 30 h/s.

Ty for your work.
I tested it, but for now I will stick with command line :)

Thank you for testing.  :) Will be glad to see you back on SoloMiner! ;D

i guess i was luckier ? 1 BCN and 1 FCN block throughout the weekend. what are you using for mining? i mean mining equipment

No working version for older OS?

I have a server with Windows Server 2003 x64 and cant use this miner :(

Unfortunately, no, I'm using functions that were introduced only in WinVista and older. Probably you could setup the Virtual Machine and use miner there. (VirtualBox or smth)

Contact me in case of any questions.

Cheers.

Im doing this actually, but only problem is in number of cores.

I have 2 processors each with 12 cores, total 24 cores, but with VirtualBox we can use only 4 cores each VM

Thx for fast reply :D

No problem.

Also, as far as I know VirtualBox can use more than 4 cores. At least I managed to create a 6-core ubuntu14 with no problems whatsoever. I assume you're using 64bit version, right?

Yes im using a 64bit version

VB use max number of processors x 2, so i can use max 4 :(

Hm. I doubt it, since I was able to start 6-core VB using only 1 processor. Maybe I'm confusing something tho.

Repost from the main thread.

I think this is the optimal setup for MM mining, or pretty much every mining. Don't put all eggs in 1 basket! Golden Bitcoin wallet rule applies here too. :)

Is it possible to use this on pool? And if anyone can tell me how to limit simpleminer to certain number of threads? Thanks.

1 simpleminer = 1 core. Launch as much instances as you want cores to be used.

If you meant "SoloMiner", then there is a Thread count dropdown menu. :)

Regarding the pool question - for now, the answer is no. I'll probably work on that.

Cheers.

@ amphibian

Hi there.
I want to try to solo mine FCN with BCN/QCN.

FCN+BCN I managed to start hashing, but hash is rather low for old Intel E5200 (2 cores, no HT) 2,6 H/s... I didn't run a daemon at background. After it, I tried to star FCN+QCN and got the message "no donor block..." again no any daemon in background. Returne to the first case which I managed to start hashing but this time, the same message...

After it I tried QCN and none with quazarcoind running in background and hashing started. Then I tried FCN+QCN and both corresponding daemons running in the background and it started.
Didn't want to start FCN+BCN cause as we all know BCN is memory killer...

So, what's the proper way?
Could you tell me do I need to place SoloMiner in specific diretctory like in donor's or acceptor's?
Do I need to run daemons of any in the background?

From what I've read here, I guess the answers are no on both questions, right?

Hey!

For QCN (and MRO) you pretty much have to start a deamon, since it doesn't have a remote node that you can connect to.

You can safely start FCN+BCN hashing with a remote node tho. There is no need for BCN daemon that eats up all the memory.

Also, you don't have to put SoloMiner in any specific place.

Let me know if you have any more questions. :)

Cheers.

let's hope MRO and QCN developers will provide you a remote node - that would solve a "memory" problem. (currently it's present only in bcn but who know what future holds)

You should add instructions for the linux version from the site to the main post. It's not that trivial. Like, at all.

Valid point. Fixed it - thank you.

Cheers.  :)

THANKS!!!

7x increase on Win7-64  :D

 :o What CPU are you using?

i3-550, 3.2GHz, LGA1156 --> now getting 18-22h per thread

Nice! Getting the same (+/- 5h/s) hashrate on my i7. I suppose there is not much difference between i3-7

Hi, sorry for the noob question but... how can one use this miner to mine monero? there is no ip's one can connect to...

Hey!

All you have to do is
start monero daemon -> wait until it's synced -> create a wallet -> open solominer -> enter your MRO & FCN addresses and hit start!

Now when I wrote all this it doesn't look "all_you_have_to_do"ish ;D

Cheers.

I'm getting only 4-5 h/s merge mining QCN/FCN with solominer, whereas I get around 44 using minerc. Any ideas why? I'm using win 8.1 x64 on an A10-5700 CPU. Thanks!

Are you using latest versions of QCN daemon and SoloMiner?

Also, are you using a local FCN daemon or connecting to the remote node?

Thanks for your quick reply! I just re-downloaded the QCN deamon and SoloMiner to be sure, I'm still getting the same results. I tried both local FCN deamon and the 2 remote options.

I know it's a silly question but still... maybe you're mining on 1 thread ? :)

Hah worth a shot! But no, I checked that. One thread gives me about 1.5 h/s :(

Okay, I'm officially an idiot, I forgot to update the site with new download links, please download miner from here:


Please let me know if you're using this version and problem is still present.

Yeah that did it! Almost 10x faster now. Cheers buddy!

Great!

Don't hesitate to contact me - I'll try to answer your questions as soon as possible.

Cheers. :)

LoL. Thanks for the reply. Should I keep MRO daemon & wallet opened during the mining process?

Ye, you should leave monero daemon working but not the wallet.

Let me know if you have any more questions.

Cheers!

Umm how do i mine? I need donor address please help me configure

First of all you have to choose what CryptoNote currency you want to mine - MRO, BCN or QCN.

Then you have to download it's binaries, wait until the daemon is synced and create a wallet. This will give you the "donor address" - simply copypaste it into the donor address field.

Note: if you chose to mine MRO or QCN you should leave it's daemon working, if you chose BCN you can connect to the remote node. (selected in IP addresses dropdown menu)

I remember back in the day college students were more determined to the minor problem solving. :D

@amphibian

When can we expect the arrival of solominer faster hash?

It's either today or early tomorrow. Can't say for sure yet.

Cheers.   

Okay, cool. Thanks.

Crashes on my win 64 system, is this for AMD CPUs only?

Nope, working on Intel processors just fine. Does it display you some kind of error?

Working now, thanks!

Well, eh... Good for you! :D

Updated version of SoloMiner (latest fastest hash function)

Download:

Windows64 (https://mega.co.nz/#!RNM1VCJA!0PNd-qxiHjbcSvwb1V1kvQcz3s8dCPedOM-WlZPGth4)
Windows32 (https://mega.co.nz/#!pMU3yL4B!2G5D0tAb1vlAJemDvMt78lM_O-dNqvK06ZJazb6kSbs)
OSX (https://mega.co.nz/#!FJMRWIoA!TtjpqVyDZFYxPJ8wcvRDdJJLuzuf9pRuBtrnULRQXcI)
Source (https://github.com/amphibia/SoloMiner)

Site is also updated! ;D

Cheers!

I get a little less hash on my old Core i7 920 with the new one. Redownloaded the one from 21. 05.

But thank you for your continued work on it! :)

Hi,

I love your SoloMiner software and appreciate your hard work developing it. I'm currently mining Quazarcoin and Fantomcoin.

Would it be possible for you to compile a version that supports AVX or SSE instructions? I'm getting ~80 H/s on my i7-3770 with SoloMiner but found with the latest Monero Simpleminer it was getting closer to 150 H/s - I think the difference may be the support of the advanced instruction sets.

Thanks

I sent solominer
it‘s sad wrong.

Most of my PCs run fine with the hash rate, except a server with Win7 64bit and 2 x Xeon 3.0GHz which runs at a combined 9Hz/s. Is this normal or what could be the issue?

Hey,

Thank you guys for all the reports - I will definitely look more into odd behavior on Intel processors since this trouble just don't stop to come up. :)

Cheers and have a good weekend.

That's weird - got the same CPU and received a ~30% improvement. Maybe you've started wrong SoloMiner?

this is awesome, thanks! gonna give it a run right now

I'd keep messing around with cgminer till you can get it to work, as its more customizable, what did cgminer due when u tried to run it?

I'm really interested in this...congrats!

So, in a nutshell, to get things started I need the fcn wallet and monero or qcn.
Then open both daemons, and it'll solo mine or can I pool mine qcn while mining fcn solo?

Hi -  are there any TARD instructions for getting this working on OSX Mavericks please?

I understand that both daemons for your chosen merged pair need to be running
(really struggling with this... Annoying, as my Win7 setup runs like a dream)
I guess Solominer is the GUI that minerc performs on my win7 Machine

Here's what I've tried
so I try with admin privileges

The above also is the same for simplewallet

What DIR should I put the files into and how do i tweak the permissions so they work please?

I have homebrew and Xcode dev tools installed


*EDIT

Apologies but I sorted this a while ago

Re-downloaded files NOT WITH SAFARI and unzipped using unarchiver seemed to have done the trick

i am trying this out. Does anyone have an estimate of blocks for given hashrate?  Are solo blocks still possible?

hi guys, i'm newbie here..
is it good to have ~60 H/s for i7-3630QM running with 4 cores ?

Nope, super low...try this miner instead: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=632724.0

Play with core count, 3 threads might be better.

solominer.org appears to be down? Is everything OK?

Also: is there anything we can do to increase the likelihood of a solominer server for Monero?

Thanks for all your hard work.

Amphibian told that it's fixed now. :)

About the XMR server - you should try to contact it's developers, we already tried once, with no luck unfortunately.

The site appears to be up, but the servers are apparently down. I keep getting "Failed to get donor block". Tried from two different machines/ips, with the same problem.

How easy is it to set-up one of these servers yourself? Is it just a matter of passing some command line to the daemon to accept external connections?

I'll talk to amphibian as soon as he comes online. :)

About the node establishing, as far as I know it's not that difficult, you just have to comment a few lines in code and start deamon differently (can't remember how lol). If you want I can ask that too. :)

Thanks a lot. The servers do seem to be back up now. A temporary glitch I guess.

Hmm, they seem to be down again. Is it a load issue?

where are they ?? why not any news?