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By the way, just ordered a used USB ASIC miner, has anybody successfully used GUIminer with one of those? I see it has a selection for "New other miner ...", but from reading the thread, it's not clear whether that works out properly. Any input?
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Been running my GPU for about 2.5 days now and it's pretty clear it'll be awhile before anything gets transmitted to my wallet. Decided to dump Electrum and go "My Wallet", no transaction fee (can't afford a fee). This whole thing is truly an education. Ordered a used ASIC device and will see if I can get it running under GUIminer, that'll shut down my GPU -- too expensive to run, had enough experience with that from SETI and briefly BOINC early 2000's, 'course, those were CPU, not GPU intensive! Am very impressed with GPU parallel computation Vs CPU generic computation -- had no idea! If only my video rendering apps supported GPU as well as CPU computation  ! Maybe later (passage of time)? |
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What's your GPU temp? 80C! Sometimes hits 81C, but mostly 80C! |
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Thanks, I chose the first in the list. I guess the options item you refer to was dropped awhile back, the current revision doesn't list it. If I used a different user name on every forum I access, I'd never be able to remember them. I really don't care if someone figures out who I am in the BTC world  . Also, in Electrum, in the right-bottom corner, there is a preferences thing. Click it, and uncheck change addresses. OK, so I clearly don't understand what the function actually is of that change address check-box. Is the idea that whenever a message is received by the wallet via the currently selected address, it's discarded and set to a new one? If so, I presume the new one is automatically communicated to my pool account replacing the one I initialized with (presuming I didn't lock it that is)? I observe that GUIMiner really does maintain a running share tally, but it also displays an adjacent field in parentheses that represents the last hour's shares. That number is similar (not the same) to the account "current shares" and so I'm guessing both represent an hour period, though starting at different times.
I'm also thinking that an account "score" reset may relate to the time at which a block was solved, either by my account pool or another. If my account pool, then I get some credit ("pending award from unconfirmed blocks"), otherwise, it's back to ground zero. This suggests several blocks are solved in a 24 hour period.
Are my inferences correct or is there a better explanation? The score is a complex calculation, it should be written somewhere on the site or in the forums. Try looking at the news and reading when it was implemented, I think it says it there. Thanks, I'll look for that! How about my other observations/conclusions -- are they valid? |
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Thanks, but there are five listed. Do you just choose one at random or is there a protocol? Choose the address you want, it doesn't matter. I also suggest you go to options and you deactivate change addresses, if you don't care about anonimity. Thanks, I chose the first in the list. I guess the options item you refer to was dropped awhile back, the current revision doesn't list it. If I used a different user name on every forum I access, I'd never be able to remember them. I really don't care if someone figures out who I am in the BTC world . 1. How does mining.bitcoin.cz account "current shares" relate to GUIMiner "accepted" shares?
2. How does mining.bitcoin.cz account "score" relate to GUIMiner "accepted" shares?
As far as I understand, GUIMiner thinks it finds shares and submits them, but they are usually at difficulty 1, while pools now have a minimum of difficulty 2. This makes The shares that GUIMiner report useless. Interesting! I observe that GUIMiner really does maintain a running share tally, but it also displays an adjacent field in parentheses that represents the last hour's shares. That number is similar (not the same) to the account "current shares" and so I'm guessing both represent an hour period, though starting at different times. I'm also thinking that an account "score" reset may relate to the time at which a block ("round") was completed, either by my pool or another. If my pool, then I get some credit ("pending award from unconfirmed blocks"), otherwise, it's back to ground zero. This suggests several blocks are solved in a 24 hour period. Are my inferences correct or is there a better explanation? |
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Hi! Installed GUIMiner yesterday and am fooling with BTC mining on my video crunching PC. I've an AMD FX 8320 w/ 8GB and a Radeon HD 7850 w/ 1GB. Last night I was getting a reported hash speed of around 360MH/s, whereas I'm today seeing around 260MH/s (GPU/MEM clocks unchanged). I was wondering if maybe calculation errors could be slowing it down, but there's no indication of discarded or declined shares. Any idea what could explain the drop in hash speed?
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Your addresses are under the "Receive" tab. Thanks, but there are five listed. Do you just choose one at random or is there a protocol? Having watched GUIminer awhile and trying to verify the mining.bitcoin.cz status, I find them inconsistent. What is the relationship between the miner's report of what appears to be running accepted shares and mining.bitcoin.cz "current shares" and apparently running "score"? (I was a little concerned abut the hash mining rate difference, but it gradually converged.)
Can anyone help me out with this? Thanks!
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I take it back -- the mining.bitcoin.cz "apparently running" "score" isn't running at all. It builds some and then it collapses (just not as quickly as the "current shares")! So how is my tally represented and how confirmed? I see no consistency in reporting!
The reason for the above is that you are using GUIMiner with your GPU. You need to understand that Bitcoin Mining these days are done by powerful ASICs, and not your home computer. I'm quite aware that two or more generations of dedicated hardware have been developed and deployed for the purpose of bitcoin mining, but that doesn't in and of itself mean that PC resources (both CPU and GPU) no longer function correctly. In other words, I don't see how your "explanation" actually explains anything! Let me try asking it differently. 1. How does mining.bitcoin.cz account "current shares" relate to GUIMiner "accepted" shares? 2. How does mining.bitcoin.cz account "score" relate to GUIMiner "accepted" shares? |
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I fired off GUIminer before setting up anything else so I presume that early ~300 "shares" are lost. Got an account with mining.bitcoin.cz and it has a bitcoin address field ("for receiving rewards") that I don't know how to complete. Electrum provides a public key, but it's far longer than the bitcoin address field.
Having watched GUIminer awhile and trying to verify the mining.bitcoin.cz status, I find them inconsistent. What is the relationship between the miner's report of what appears to be running accepted shares and mining.bitcoin.cz "current shares" and apparently running "score"? (I was a little concerned abut the hash mining rate difference, but it gradually converged.)
Can anyone help me out with this? Thanks!
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I take it back -- the mining.bitcoin.cz "apparently running" "score" isn't running at all. It builds some and then it collapses (just not as quickly as the "current shares")! So how is my tally represented and how confirmed? I see no consistency in reporting!
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