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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Technical Support => Topic started by: A13X on May 23, 2011, 10:55:48 AM



Title: Help I am an absolute n00b!
Post by: A13X on May 23, 2011, 10:55:48 AM
Hey guys, I just downloaded diablo miner to my mac and entered all the required information, however, now it's just stuck on a loop saying
ERROR: Can't connect to Bitcoin: Bitcoin returned unparsable JSON
[5/23/11 11:52:47 AM] ERROR: Can't connect to Bitcoin: Bitcoin returned error message: Server temporarily down for maintenance


and repeats this forever more - what do I do? thanks for any help  :)


Title: Re: Help I am an absolute n00b!
Post by: SomeoneWeird on May 23, 2011, 10:59:28 AM
I presume your trying to mine in a pool, so, what pool, and what arguments are you running it with?

SW-


Title: Re: Help I am an absolute n00b!
Post by: A13X on May 23, 2011, 03:32:55 PM
I presume your trying to mine in a pool, so, what pool, and what arguments are you running it with?

SW-

Yes I am trying to mine on the mining.bitcoin.cz pool and the terminal asks me for username, password, port (8332) and host website (mining.bitcoin.cz) and then it just loops the statements I posted - do you know what I'm doing wrong? :)


Title: Re: Help I am an absolute n00b!
Post by: Ian Maxwell on May 23, 2011, 09:24:40 PM
Have you created a miner in your mining.bitcoin.cz account? Your login for your miner is not the same as your login for the website.


Title: Re: Help I am an absolute n00b!
Post by: A13X on May 23, 2011, 09:38:35 PM
Have you created a miner in your mining.bitcoin.cz account? Your login for your miner is not the same as your login for the website.

Oh right, on the my account page does that mean I "Register a new worker"? Then do I just use the <your username>.<login suffix> as my DiabloMiner login? Thanks so much for helping apologies for my incompetence :)