Hm, I need your help.
I received my Jalapeno from BFL today. But I am not able to find the device with Bitminter. I have the correct drivers and the latest version of Bitminter, but it still says "No external devices detected" also if I scan all port, or the connected port. nothing is detected.
I tried to mine with easyminer. There the device was found, but I wasn't able to enter my Bintminter-pool-adress.
Strange. If the driver is installed then Bitminter client should be able to detect it. You can use easyminer however. In custom mining setting, where it has an example bfgminer command, try something like this: bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333 -u user_worker -p X Where user is your username and worker the workername. |
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I will get this resolved ASAP. Please use a different browser in the meantime if you have something other than Firefox installed.
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There's a website certificate issue with Firefox (works in other browsers). I'm in contact with Cloudflare.com (our content delivery network who this cert is from) to get this resolved.
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I ask because, using the 100gh x 4, if we set one worker to 286, thats what each unit would try to run which seems to high where as using a diff of 71. That would seem more appropriat for a machine doing 100gh.
The mining server looks at the hashrate per worker. So if you run a lot of hardware as the same worker but set a minimum difficulty based on the hashrate of just one of those devices, then the mining server will probably set a higher difficulty for you. Anyway, the mining server will mostly take care of this for you. Setting a minimum diff is most useful for the first few minutes of mining so the mining server doesn't have to ramp you up from diff 4 to diff 512 in a hurry, it can start on a difficulty that makes more sense for your worker. |
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So if you have 4 machines running 100gh, then wheater your multiplying or dividing it's done per 100 / machine and not the combined total off 400 ?
If fthat's the ase, then one would need a worker for each of the 4 machines.
General advice, set your minimum difficulty to your hashrate in GH/s divided by 1.4. Some info on difficulty and work submits per minute: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=27062.msg3142713#msg3142713Someone else might advice you to multiply by 1.4 or divide by 1.8 or whatever. There is no magic difficulty that you have to use. And contrary to popular belief there is no "sweet spot" difficulty that makes your mining most profitable. Worker difficulty is a trade-off between variance and bandwidth usage (and server load for Bitminter). Follow the link above and read that, especially Organofcorti's analysis, and you'll learn how it works. Doc, have you considered adding pps?
No time right now. Just trying to keep things running smooth at the moment. |
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Yahoo appears to have fixed their OpenID service. If you use Yahoo, try logging in again now.
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Is the website down? I cant get in to do another id doc. Im one of the yahoo rejects.
Website is up. Yahoo's OpenID service is malfunctioning. That's why you can't log in to add another login. That's the reason I was talking about identifying users and let them regain control of their account in another way if Yahoo doesn't hurry up. |
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I have tried the above but changing them to match mine.
[Q] Im I right to think that we want the blade to (get work/blades protocol) via port 8332 on the blades web GUI and then set BFG to 3333? so
Blade/BFG 8332 IN
BFG/BitMinter 3333 OUT
Blade setup info: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=27062.msg3046129#msg3046129That's with slush's stratum proxy rather than bfgminer, but the principle is the same. The proxy connects to Stratum on mint.bitminter.com port 3333. The blades connect to the proxy (on your PC) on port 8332 or whatever port you choose. |
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Hi, I can still log in but I cannot get the Minter app to start, I noticed it had stopped when I came in, I went out abt 9 am UK time and came back about 12 noon UK time, I still cannot get the App/Minter/Engine to start, I have tried re-intalling Java, a re-boot, cleared cache, and the usual other try its!!
Are you unable to launch the app? Or does it fail to mine when you click engine start within the Bitminter client? can you please help me: I use Bitminter 1.1.2 because of my firewall. For mining I use a AMD 7770 but I have the problem that I get many miscalculations (for example 100accepted and 92 miscalculated). What can I do or is this normal?
That's one of the bugs in 1.1.2. It reports hardware errors that don't exist. It wasn't really prepared for var diff, but it works just with this cosmetic side effect. Depending on your OS there are some programs that can force another program to communicate through a proxy. You might be able to use the latest version that way. |
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If Yahoo doesn't fix their OpenID service in a reasonable time frame then I have to create some automated way to securely identify who is who and add a new OpenID identity to their account. I can't do that manually with many thousands of users. I have some ideas for an automated system but let's see what Yahoo does first.
Mining works fine and all coins are secure in your account. This is only preventing Yahoo users from logging in for the time being.
One you are back in your Bitminter account you can add other logins under "my account" -> "logins" in the website menu so that you can have more than one way to log in.
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What the fudge happened during this shift?
No. Completed Duration Difficulty Total Thps Your Ghps Your score Your work
20264 2013-12-10 23:38 1h 13m 908,350,862 355.8
I came in to find my rig crapping itself in the corner with about 1/4 of the cores shut down and it running at 2/3rds speed. Restarting the miner cleared the issue up. But, it looks like it wasn't just me...
We had some problems with botnets today. You probably got disconnected in the middle of that and some mining clients don't like being disconnected.  I'm sorry about that. I'm trying to handle this with a minimum of disruption to normal miners. |
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There is currently a problem logging in using Yahoo OpenID identities. I am looking into it.
Apparently Yahoo changed something about their login mechanism today.
No need to send a support request about this. I am already on it.
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We had a bit of a bumpy ride earlier today as botnets and buggy clients were causing very high server load. I had to ban 11500 IP addresses. If you have problems connecting to the pool now, contact me at operator@bitminter.com and include your IP address. You can get the IP using http://www.whatismyip.com/ or similar services. A botnet hammering the server with getwork requests from many thousand IP addresses: banned. If you are legally mining with many computers, please connect them through a Stratum proxy to reduce the load on the server. bfgminer can do that job or Slush's Stratum proxy. Some clients using getwork or getblocktemplate making several hundred connections to the server: banned for now. I will try to contact the users individually to get this fixed as it is not that many users. I have seen this happen with some bfgminer users (and not others). I don't know if other clients are affected or what exactly causes this issue. The easy fix is to switch to stratum. Use -o stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333 to connect using Stratum. I have enabled Stratum on port 443 so you can use that in case you have firewall issues. Three users opening over 1000 Stratum connections: banned. I'll look into this in more detail later. A few users with cgminer older than version 2.7, with a bug causing it to spam the server with getwork requests. Seriously? Please upgrade your mining client. These dinosaur versions may be automatically banned in the future - this is the final notice. |
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My miners are staying connected and submitting shares but the stats on the webpage keeps intermittently reporting my hashrate as zero. I can't tell yet if it is affecting my shifts adversely or not.
The live hashrates on the websites are having intermittent issues. Sorry about that. It doesn't affect anything except the website display. |
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Apologies for the short downtime. Had to ban a couple users who were hammering the server.
Mining is back to normal.
If you can't connect anymore, let me know and include your IP address.
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Any work planned work on hex16's specifically hex16b's  Any documentation for those? |
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Doc, have you made any progress on finding a solution to the excessive stale Namecoin blocks?
Namecoin has some nasty bugs and it may be a bumpy ride until they get fixed. I don't have time to work on namecoin. Bitminter is a lot of work by itself. But namecoin has some new developers now - hopefully they can fix it. |
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Litecoin... we'll see. This has suggested quite a few times before.
Let's keep the ads for other pools in other threads.
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It is the jalepeno that is connected to USB (COM16). Changing the USB plugin that the jalepeno is plugged into causes the new COM port to be in use as well and Bitminter is unable to detect the device there either. Yet under my Devices and Printers Windows page the jalepeno shows up as BitFORCE SHA256 SC.
The COM port is always in use? Did you try a reboot? |
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