And so it begins. New York regulators are now proposing things which would make it essentially illegal for anybody to use Bitcoin in that state without being registered. It is so over-reaching that it would even catch things like the Bitcoin tipbot on reddit, which would be an illegally operating entity if it allows you to tip a New York resident. http://www.dfs.ny.gov/about/press2014/pr1407171-vc.pdfWhere are you / the pool based ? I'm in PA. Nevada currently, but this regulation would affect the pool if it has users in New York. And I doubt a "I agree I'm not a resident of New York" checkbox would be enough. Luckily this has 45 days of commenting, then review, and then there are 45 days after it's put into effect before it is enforced. Quite frankly, if something even remotely close to what is currently open for comment goes into effect, the pool will probably be forced to close. Living in the US makes trying to sidestep/ignore this a non-option. I doubt they'd chase international pool owners, but depending on what country they're in, I wouldn't exactly assume they're safe (US doesn't have a history of respecting international borders when it comes to internet businesses). I mean, I'd argue that under Section 200.3(c)(2) you're exempt as there's a strong case that you're merely a merchant purchasing hashpower in exchange for "virtual currency". But still. I read this thing over and it sucks. I mean, it has some valid points but it's section 200.1(n)(1) that defines "Virtual Currency Business Activity" as "receiving Virtual Currency for transmission or transmitting the same" that's god damn ridiculous. I happen to currently reside in New York and you bet your ass I'm submitting comment when it opens up on the 23rd. I have some weighty contacts in the NYC bitcoin community, and I'll be encouraging them strongly to submit comment and have others submit comments. I want 200.1(n)(1) dropped entirely or made far more specific, and I want an additional exemption for mining pools. |
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coolermaster jetflo are superb
I was going to get the ones with the rubber mounts (might be one in the same) because I'm definitely getting harmonic vibration from the four fans. Living in an NYC apartment these things are behind my tv in the living room so low noise is a priority. |
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Does anyone know the CFM of the fans? I'd like to swap them with quieter ones if I can find quieter ones with the same airflow
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Excellent thanks.
Two additional questions, I apologize if this has been covered:
(1) How can I run multiple instances of minera from the console? Each should have its own IP address? How would one access the web interface for the multiple instances?
(2) What is the root password when I SSH into my RPi? I can login using minera/minera, however I cannot run sudo commands.
Did you download the image from here or did you install raspbian and then git pull? If you installed raspbian yourself, it would be whatever the password for that distro is. Try pi/raspberry. |
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Why not temporarily increase fees at the pool until the pool has a more reasonable hashrate?
Slowly increase the fee until the pool hashrate falls enough to only be 30% of the network, or something like that.
I support this idea. Also, deny new connections or even disconnect existing ones. My miners all have failovers, drop my connection for instance, and I'll simply be mining on a different pool. Maybe, start issuing warnings at 39%, denying new connections at 40%, dropping connections at 41% Dropping connections wouldn't be fair, simply denying new connections yes. Or what they could do is disconnect everyone, and once everyone starts to reconnect, deny new connections once it reaches 39.99% Why wouldn't it be fair? Announce to everyone that this is happening and advise that failover pools are required, then when push comes to shove drop the newest connections. Seems fair to me. |
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Someone needs to find out what was done with all those bitfury miners they bought. It totally seems like a misappropriation of the funds from customers. Something beyond ineptitude took place here.
They sold the bit fury miners. |
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Why not temporarily increase fees at the pool until the pool has a more reasonable hashrate?
Slowly increase the fee until the pool hashrate falls enough to only be 30% of the network, or something like that.
I support this idea. Also, deny new connections or even disconnect existing ones. My miners all have failovers, drop my connection for instance, and I'll simply be mining on a different pool. Maybe, start issuing warnings at 39%, denying new connections at 40%, dropping connections at 41% |
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Does it launch? As shown above I couldn't even get my version to launch the miner :-( I'll try this maybe tonight maybe this weekend.
You can't get working your binary-not-compiled-but-copied version right? Try that I posted it should work. Correct - I haven't tried the version you posted but a version I had compiled on an Arch Linux RPi. I will try the version you posted next, but I have to be home to change the SD card on the pi running my SHA miners. |
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Tried CGMiner and bfgminer that are included by default, it looks like BFGMiner has more luck currently than the default CGMiner but I was unable to get either running for longer than 30 seconds to a minute before the blades stopped flashing, although minera still detected them via the UI.
I would definitely be willing to check out a RK-BOX minera binary though, this would be awesome!
May be nwools can give us some hints on this? In the meantime I'm compiling the cgminer fork for RBOX but I really like much more that the official BFGminer works like it should do. Here is the Cgminer fork for Rockminer, just drop it into the minera-bin/ directory and use CGminer official as preferred miner: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/968241/cgminer-rockminer/cgminerPlease let me know. Does it launch? As shown above I couldn't even get my version to launch the miner :-( I'll try this maybe tonight maybe this weekend. |
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Is this signature still allow new member ?
No, the 50 participants have been filled. bobsag3, please update the opening post and mention it is closed for now. Every page there are a few potential new entrants. Got it. Sorry about the delays guys, I am away from the cold wallets this week (till sunday), so I am not sure if payments will get sent till then, working on an alternate way to cover it till then. Ah, I was waiting until tomorrow to send an email  glad to hear it's just a temporary delay. Don't let me speak for everyone else, I don't know everyone's situation, but I don't really mind waiting until Sunday for payout - as long as my re-enrollment for this month is effective from when I posted (7/15) at least. Thanks for the check-in. |
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The r-box cgminer is a different version and so far we get this error. minera@minera ~ $ /var/www/minera/minera-bin/cgminer
/var/www/minera/minera-bin/cgminer: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Also, it might be a problem because I compiled the damn thing on Arch not Raspbian. Michelem - do you have a version compiled on Raspbian? Does that make a difference? |
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Got one of two today (damn you, ups!) but I'm pretty happy with it! Granted I had already set up the Pi and the power supply but I had the thing up and running in 15 minutes! Easiest setup of a miner ever.
Literally plugged everything in, powered on - and was running strong.
I'm using a power supply with 4 6-pins on 2 branches so I don't think I'll have a wiring issue.
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Does MinerA now support Rockminer devices for the mining of BitCoin? Specifically interested in the RK-BOX as MinerA is by far in my opinion the best controller software out there. Thanks in advance!
BFGminer should support it so you can give a try. Please let me know I'm really interested on what hardware you can run with Minera. BFGminer does not work as well as the rockminer version of cgminer...would LOVE to see it added... https://github.com/rockminerinc/cgminer-for-Rocket-boxCan I give you the binary compiled to test with Minera? You have only to overwrite it on minera-bin/ directory and use cgminer (official) when you select your preferred miner. If it runs well I will add it on next release. Here's my compiled CGminer for R-Box. (R-BOX, not RK box, not R3 box. The ~30GH units) https://mega.co.nz/#!GI5knaTI!eA8cA6gzHMBp9S6Vln0gtlS0qX03UPcY4BxDHIYr4pQI've been using it with minepeon with much success but I love the interface of minera quite much - If I have time at home tonight I'll try to add this to Minera and see how well it runs. |
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Pretty quiet in here, I hope this means you just plug these in and they work great..
That's been my experience. Zero downtime in ~2 weeks. Stable hashrate at ~305 gh/s avg (pool reported). Awesome news. Have two on the way (one is a substitute for a black arrow order) Pending ups ballyhoo- they should be here tomorrow. Can't wait. |
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man, am i glad i jumped ship. got my new psu`s set up and s3`s should be on their way in about 1.5 weeks good luck to those of you who are still hanging in there... How did you jump ship? I guess you ordered from a reseller and they agreed to refund you? I don't know how he did it, but the reseller I bought from agreed to ship me comparably priced hardware. More than doubled the hashrate i'd be getting with the X1 |
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So basically, they took forever to ship, and when they did ship (a couple of X-1's), the product does not work as intended, has a ton of hw errors, and is a total fail. Basically they spent all this time to deliver a "superior" product, but ended up producing a lemon. Does that about sum it up?
Yep, that's right. But the lemon won't explode!  No, but warms up and does not work. I changed the speed to 1000Mhz and HW error is now 28%. It is worse. I think taht we need update the software, but I don't know how it's done. Regrads. Antuam sounds like a bad minion chip I don't think this is an isolated incident, I have read many times where the thing will not run for more than a few hours, what happened to all the testing BA was supposed to do to ensure that they run? Guess the 5 days of free hosting was another lie. Oh man I am so happy that I jumped off this ship. |
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Ready to claim payout #2 and re-enlist for another month.
This is post #260 for me and I'd like to keep the same payout address.
Thank you kindly.
Also, quick question: can we use our minersource affiliate program links in the paid signature to get the 1% commission or should we not "double up" so to speak? Just wondering. Thanks again.
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Have two of these on the way from minersource. Looking forward to setting them up.
Is it a custom build of CGminer you guys are using? What are the command line parameters?
I have your RPI image running already (like I said, I'm looking forward to setting these up :-P ) but I really like the Minepeon distro for management. I've customized it before with the R-Box miner and I'd love to customize it for this miner.
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This is one of the ways BTC Guild *could* be forced to shut down as well. Just like dooglus, I would not keep the site running in the face of new legislation that was too vague as to who it is aimed at. The problem with JustDice and mining pools is that there is no reason for a user to comply with any type of KYC rules. There are plenty of other sites they can go to hosted in other countries which wouldn't require it, so the moment a US law comes in that threatens the need for KYC it would immediately kill any US-based pool. There's simply nobody that would volunteer that information when there is absolutely nothing preventing them from moving to ghash.io/slush/bitminter, which are all run by people not in the United States.
I feel like most of the US KYC laws are only going to be targeted at BTC/USD conversions and possibly vice versa. Regardless - it's a fair warning to make even though it seems based on an incredible abundance of caution rather than an indication of a forthcoming policy shift. |
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