Although I have an office near the explosion place, I'm fine!
Natural gas explosions can be very powerful. Had a large gas main rupture under the street about 30 meters from me when I was a kid. A motorcyclist was riding down the street at the time. He laid the bike down and I watched it disappear into the hole -- a heartbeat later the fireball bloomed and took out 5 houses around the rupture and knocked me back a couple of meters. Don't know where the motorcycle ended up, but I think the rider was ok because he was flat on the ground when the gas ignited. Slush, do you know much damage was done to the building & surrounding area? |
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Is it still possible to mine on a windows 2000 machine?
Thanks
Yeah, especially if you upgrade it with a new mobo, power supply, SSD, and 7500-series or better GPUs  On the serious side, you could do a little pool mining on the lighter crypto-currencies (LTC/FC), but your accepted shares per watt-hour would be vanishingly small. For Bitcoin mining, probably any share you submitted would be stale. |
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Hey guys, quick question
Can somebody tell me by when, difficulty must be adjusted, for the next difficulty change to be >10,000,000?
Or what formula i'd need to use?
No formulas exist -- it's best guess only (there are estimators around, e.g. http://bitclockers.com/miningcalculator). Difficulty is adjusted every 2016 blocks based on an moving average target of 6 blocks per hour. If blocks are generating faster, the difficulty increases; if slower, difficulty decreases. Of course, with all the ASICs coming online, difficulty will probably never go down. The next 2016th block will be Block # 233,855 coming up in a couple of days. |
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Hello all,
I am attempting to mine on wemineltc with cgminer. I believe I have set up my bat file correctly, but when I start cgminer I get: Probing for alive pool then
Stratum from pool 0 found new block. It says I'm doing something, but my dashboard brings up that I have a 0 hash rate, any ideas?
here is my .bat
Thanks!
color 07
cgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://eu.wemineltc.com:3333 -u worker.1 -p password --shaders 1792 --intensity 20 --worksize 256 -g 1 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-memclock 1500 --temp-target 75
Oh, yeah -- and check the obvious that where the bat says "worker.1" and "password" you have the name of the worker and the worker's password instead. |
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Hello all,
I am attempting to mine on wemineltc with cgminer. I believe I have set up my bat file correctly, but when I start cgminer I get: Probing for alive pool then
Stratum from pool 0 found new block. It says I'm doing something, but my dashboard brings up that I have a 0 hash rate, any ideas?
here is my .bat
Thanks!
color 07
cgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://eu.wemineltc.com:3333 -u worker.1 -p password --shaders 1792 --intensity 20 --worksize 256 -g 1 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-memclock 1500 --temp-target 75
What's your GPU? |
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Bah, this should still have received around 0.0001, unless you did those 135 shares towards the beginning and then stopped mining. As such, your score decay would've zeroed it out.
Seems like it should get at least a nano-coin, unless those shares aged, like you said. For anyone newbier than me: share aging is designed to discourage pool jumping. See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1976.msg50002#msg50002 for how it works. Sometimes an honest miner loses connectivity, has a reboot that takes longer than expected, inadvertently terminates the mining app, etc., and ends up with zeroes -- just part of the adventure  |
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sorry to be a bit off topic, but which pool is better to join, btc guild or slush's? and is it worth mining if i can only get like 86 Mhash/s?
My vote is for slush's pool. Fee is only 2% (lower than BTC Guild and 50BCT) plus you get a share of the transaction fees -- even more important, you get great support. |
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Hey guys, so sorry that my first post on the forums is due to a problem I'm having but I'm pretty stumped :/
So I have the 2012-11-18 version of guiminer and I'd like to mine on my gtx480 in the BTC Guild (using the US-Stratum server). All my video card drivers are up to date. When I attempt to mine with the default setting (CPU Affinity left all blank except for the first core) and the correct username, etc. I get "NameError: name 'OpenCLMiner' is not defined" in the lower left corner and am continually stuck at "Starting..." on the right corner.
When I make a new CUDA miner (I downloaded CUDA from Nvidia this morning as well), I keep all the setting the same, but when I click "Start mining!" nothing happens at all. The button is depressed, but the status at the bottom right still reads "Stopped" and I see no change in the window.
I've searched a bit about the the NameError (though I obviously still couldn't solve the issue), but haven't really been able to find anything about the CUDA miner issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I'm using guiminer on a dual GTX480 system pushing around 120MHash/s to a stratum server. Guiminer is just a wrapper for poclbm (PyOpenCL bitcoin miner). All new Nvidia drivers include OpenCL support for their CUDA cards, so create a new OpenCL miner -- not a CUDA miner. If your GTX480 doesn't automatically show up in the Device box, then you need to download new GTX480 drivers. If you have multiple 480's, you should see them all with the Device box pulldown. |
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I show loyalty to the company, they show loyalty to me.
But this isn't a case of a company on the verge of bankruptcy and the workers volunteering to prop it up.
Somethings gone seriously wrong. You should pay slush's dedication back with your own! Coming back to your customer comparison, if a supplier has always gone out of their way to help you, when they have a problem you don't throw money at them.
Instead you take the inconvenience on the chin, work round their issues and stick with them.
My issue isn't with those that want to tip, feel free. I just took a little aback at the indirect suggestion it is owed!
Especially because the sorts of people that view loyalty as financial are generally really quite selfish. The sorts that had the pool been down for a few days would have jumped ship to another pool. Not saying that about anyone here directly, just as a rule of thumb you tend to find those traits.
Point taken |
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Hey, slush
Welcome back -- did you have sweet dreams?
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Don't get me wrong, The guy has been a rock! And deserves huge respect!
And it really wouldn't surprise me if his server costs are hundreds of dollars a day!
I was just trying to point out the guy is being compensated for it though!
But in his situation I don't think the money is really the issue any more. Its far more about being at the top! And the technical challenge!
You often find things are boring when they are going well! And the times when you spend 20 hours working solid are the most rewarding. To the average user here 15% of their earnings mean far more to them than I expect it would to him!
Yeah, running this pool is his business, right? He is being compensated. But how about you? In your job, have you ever put out way more than your customers (or your boss) expected? Did you get a little something extra in your pay, or a good tip, for the effort, or did you just get a "Thanks, great effort -- now get back to work" for your reward? Which situation would motivate you more? No one will force you to leave a tip on the table, but take a surf through the forums and compare slush with the peeps running 50BTC and BTC Guild. They are much better compensated at 3%-5% in fees, but my non-scientific assessment is that they give poorer service. |
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 Amazon helps a lot, too |
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I woke up yesterday to find there was a problem with slush's pool ... went to bed yesterday with that problem on its way to being solved, and I wake today to find that problem solved. Slush's response to this attack has been (at least in my personal experience) light years faster than the responses of major corporations with their web site problems. So, without further adieu, GLASSES UP FOR SLUSH (I will wait however until I get back from today's town run as it may affect my driving). Many thanks to Slush.
I just finished an 18-part video tutorial on Amazon AWS -- makes me appreciate what slush did to move everything from OVH to EC2 and get things running again in such a short time. He could do consulting! |
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 (what would this thread be without google?)
About 3000 images shorter, I'd say |
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Yup, 10% -- my bad -- was thinking of something else. |
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hello,
one question abaout mnc..
i "installed" the mnc-option at the "crash-day" and now there will come some in,-- but,..
the most of the income-stats says "none", but in the same times i earnd btc´s.. for example what i mean to say..
block17679..btc and mnc
blocks 17680-17684.. only btc
block17685..btc and nmc
blocks17686-17692.. only btc
block 17693 .. btc and mnc
and from 17694 till the actual one .. only btc..
is this normal that there are not even at every blocks are nmc to mine, or is there somthing wrong..??
thx very much for answers
joerg
seriously, a quick search would have gotten you the answer so much quicker. It's already in this thread like 50 times. NMC are only mined with the getwork protocol, which is only about 3% of the miners on the pool. The stratum protocol, which is 97%, doesn't support nmc mining. Which is why, where there are nmc rewards, they are small. In case you're unfamiliar with the forum, the search box is in upper right of the page -- enter "namecoin" (without the quotes), for example, and you'll find lots of good info on that topic. btw, you can choose getwork over stratum, but your fees will be doubled to 4% |
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Impressive work! Thanks, Slush |
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Yeah, from the tweets it looks like OVH bit them, too. |
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