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Hi all!
I have such an outdated ASIC for bitcoin mining.
But I can't run it at the current time  :-\

All videos and guides are so old that it is impossible to find anything.
Can someone help me find a miner for it and a pool where its work would be displayed?
Or maybe you can choose another coin with the SHA256 algorithm?

For the project I need to show that it works correctly.

Any version of cgminer compiled with Icarus (autogen.sh --enable-icarus) should be able to run this. But yeah the Block Erupter is ten years old, and about three orders of magnitude slower than current USB miners, which are over two orders of magnitude slower than standard industrial miners, so pools aren't really set up to register work volumes that small anymore. Cgminer stats would show you what's going on, but poolside? Kano's solo pool might be granular enough to handle 333MH/s on stats, maybe?

Another SHA coin with a much lower difficulty, you'd be a larger percentage of the network/pool and more likely to see stats. What's the project?

Thank you. Can you tell me how to correctly compile the miner from source?
Never did it.
A project for a university to show how mining works and what blockchain is.

I tried to run a TDC coin in this pool: https://luckydogpool.com/
But the miner does not see the device.

bat file: cgminer -o stratum+tcp://luckydogpool.com:9002 -u TWZoiSLGQFjeqV6gRtsERaKbuVLit2TPKf.001 -p c=TDC
https://i.ibb.co/XyBRvt0/Screenshot-1.png (https://ibb.co/XyBRvt0)

Driver installed
https://i.ibb.co/2vbgshf/Screenshot-2.png (https://ibb.co/2vbgshf)

Did you look through the CGMiner thread and/or read the readme?

Yes, but I don't understand anything. And most of the links no longer work(
I launched the miner through the Viabts pool.
Once the accepted share flashed, but the worker is constantly offline on the site.
https://i.ibb.co/K2zjW2Y/Screenshot-1.png (https://ibb.co/dPJ0DPS)

It's working fine.  It will take a really  long time to find a share with a high  enough difficulty for the pool  to accept.

Just to do a demo you can probably find another crap SHA256 coin to mine at a pool.
Or
Follow this guide and do a solo testnet pool. Probably an even better demo since you are doing it all locally.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5415335.0

Note that this is not my work so I cannot verify how accurate the guide it, but it seemed at the time last September to be useful to people.

Another option is to spend a few dollars and get a used but more modern miner. I don't know where you are in the world but S9 units are cheap as are some others since they are so power hungry by modern standards.

-Dave

xec

stratum+tcp://mining.viabtc.io:3014

it is way smaller than btc

btc is 368eh
xec is 285ph

xec about 1200 times less hash than btc

make that 1280 times less hash than btc.

It seems to find blocks, but for some reason the worker is offline all the time. And is it possible to somehow run this ASIC on Raspberry or Orange, so as not to use Windows?


https://i.ibb.co/p2nyv7M/1.png (https://ibb.co/mJS8Cj2)
https://i.ibb.co/HNj9y6r/2.png (https://ibb.co/q0v28KR)

Your miner is working fine.  It is hashing at 335Mhash, which is correct for that miner.  That pool is showing it offline because your miner hasn't found a share meeting the pool's minimum difficulty, yet, and that is because your miner is only hashing at 335Mhash's, that is old GPU speed.

It isn't broke so don't fix it.  You have accomplished your mission.  Your old miner is mining.

It is not finding blocks, only reporting that blocks are being found.

Edit:  You can try mining on Kano.is, it has an 8k minimum difficulty and will adjust down to 442.  Your best share is 128k so that would have submitted a share.  However Kano doesn't allow GPU's so his pool may ban you for being GPU speed.  You can also try solo.ckpool.org it has similar minimum difficulty and adjustments.

Edit2: Looking at your screen shot again, with my glasses, I see that it has submitted a share and the pool is showing you an estimated hash rate based on that one share submission.  So the pool says it is working as well.  So don't get wrapped around the axle about the offline thing as that is only because of the slow share submission rate.

Your miner is working so just bask it the warm glow of your success.

Yes you can compile cgminer for the ARM CPU units and there might even be some pre-compiled ones out there, never actually checked.
BUT you will need a powered USB hub, those units do not put out even close to enough power though the USB to run a stick miner.
AND if you are doing this for a class keep in mind it's a lot easier to find a PC running windows then a RPi if you have to or want to recreate it.

-Dave

Dave,
He is using 1, original, Block Erupter.  It only consumes 2.5 watts of power.  So any USB hub can power this and an Artic Breeze Fan.
Sam

Yes, it only takes 1/2 an amp and the stock RPI port can put out way more then that.
But you really start to run out of overhead quickly since the stock power supply is only 15 watts.

And if you are using a clone, like the orange PI you have to configure the higher power output for the USB (it's just 1 line in the config)

You are correct it CAN work, but for a few bucks more why deal with the potential issues. I'm not talking one of the Gekkoscience 8 Port $100 units but any sub $20 one that has a power plug that will give a couple of amps to it.

-Dave

I'm definitely not suggesting running it off of the USP port of a RPI.

I just meant any USB Powered Hub should be sufficient for a USB Block Erupter.  I used to run 4 of them and an Artic Breeze fan per 5 Port Rosewill hub which has a 2.5 amp Power Supply, if I remember correctly.
Sam

i gave you some merits for moving miner to xec

Thank you guys so much for your help and replies!
It's really nice to see how a simple chipset opens the veil of mining  ;)