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Your personal opinion, what is the best mining pool to use? I'm trying to use my BitMinter java client that I've downloaded to my PC, but for some reason the Java client doesn't recognise my miner: This is the following information that I have completed under Miner Configuration: Pool 1: tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333 Pool 1 worker: my bitminter username Pool1 password: my bitminter password What else would I need to do in order to have my BitMinter Java client recognise my Ant Miner? I've followed the above instructions, and I can now access the internet while also accessing the IP of my miner. Do I need to check for anything else? Forget the Bitminter Java client on your PC, an Antminer connects directly to the pool, your PC could be on or off as far as an Antminer is concerned. PS: You would only use something like Bitminter Java client if you had a miner physically plugged into your PC such a certain USB miners. |
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How many packets received do you get?
--- openwrt.org ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss Is this good?  Fab Your ant's network seems to be setup correctly so to check you should be able to get to the Internet from your PC, get to the Ant on http://192.168.0.131 and ping openwrt.org from the miner with 5 packets received without changing any network settings. If that is the case then you just need to fill in your Pool details to start mining on the Status -> Miner Configuration page for example, Pool1 stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 Pool1 worker 12pYWpT7wfmKgoiK7HaAfy8DCeuYofJRHt_ineedit1 (that's my account put your own username) Pool1 password x (put your own password here and if you do not need a password then just put x as an Antminer likes a password) Hit Save and Apply and then wait a few minutes for the cgminer process to re-start and stats to appear on the Miner Status page. |
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So i can still buy like 2 cards to mine on the same board, with risers right?
No, you have only 1 PCI Express slot. |
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Signing up with UPS only gives you advanced notice if you live in the US.
Bitmain ships before they change the shipped status and often it is delivered before you get a tracking number.
Funny Great shipping speed though - I requested DHL though and they will probably give me a notice in advance as they usually do when something is on the way to my business. And WOW does DHL always handle customs at 110%!  I'm so excited Did Bitmain agree to your DHL request? |
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Clicking on porn sites ... And you know this from experience kano  Well - the other possibility is pirating software by visiting download/hack sites. I thought I'd be nice with my guess of which it was. Yes it is blatantly common for home users to screw up their computers visiting porn web sites. One of the reasons why I ignore people asking me to fix their computers - is that about 50% of the time the problem is exactly: porn related. pirating software = illegal porn = most likely legal - depending on where you live Yep you're being nice by inferring that they are unlikely doing anything illegal I agree with you about fixing other peoples computers, I have given up doing that even for friends toting bottles of whiskey .... most are Trojan/virus/adware related problems PS: I don't mind helping noobs on the forums but that is about my limit these days. |
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I wanted to build a mining rig with a Sapphire R9 270X GPU. I already have a motherboard, which has 3 free PCI slots, 2 2.0 slots and 1 PCI Express slot.
I would like to ask, are they compatible? Or do I have to buy a new motherboard? If yes, then which is the cheapest with like 3 PCI slots that are compatible?
The Sapphire R9 270X GPU is PCI Express (BCI-e) compliant and your motherboard can run 1 GPU only. So I can't build a rig out of those? But is it still compatible with a 2.0 slot without affecting performance? You can build a one GPU rig only. The R9 270X GPU will downgrade itself to PCI-e 2.0 and run, it will not affect mining performance as that uses very little bandwidth but it would affect high graphics functions such a playing games. |
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I cannot get to my miner's webpage by using http://192.168.1.99 with the current IPV4 settings on "Obtain an IP Address Automatically". I have to change my IPV4 settings to the below Use the following IP address: 192.168.2.254 Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 Default gateway: 192.168.2.1 Would you like me to change my IPV4 settings so that I can access my Network -> Diagnostics page to find out how many packets I have received? Okay..this is getting a little bit confusing as you are not stating which IPV4 setting are for what. If you PC's IPV4 address is 192.168.0.2 Subnet 255.255.255.0 then your miner has have an address between 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.254 to make it work. To set the miners address do the following Change your PC's IP address to whatever you need to get to your miner's web page On the Network -> Interfaces -> WAN page set the following Protocol "Static address" IPv4 address 192.168.0.131 IPv4 netmask 255.255.255.0 IPv4 gateway 192.168.0.1 IPv4 broadcast 192.168.0.255 Use custom DNS servers 8.8.8.8 Then hit the "Save & Apply" button. The miner will save those changes and will seem to hang or timeout whilst it is making those changes, this what is meant to happen because it has changed the connection parameters and you can no longer connect to it. Now change you PC IP address back to its previous setting so you can get to the internet correctly. Power off your Antminer wait 10 seconds then power it back on again and see if you can contact it at http://192.168.0.131 |
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I wanted to build a mining rig with a Sapphire R9 270X GPU. I already have a motherboard, which has 3 free PCI slots, 2 2.0 slots and 1 PCI Express slot.
I would like to ask, are they compatible? Or do I have to buy a new motherboard? If yes, then which is the cheapest with like 3 PCI slots that are compatible?
The Sapphire R9 270X GPU is PCI Express (BCI-e) compliant and your motherboard can run 1 GPU only. |
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My IP address is 192.168.0.2
Subnet 255.255.255.0
I have plugged one cable from my Ant to my router, and another cable from my router to my PC.
Are you suggesting that i need to change the Miner configuration settings to match my computer IP address? I'm not sure what my Router IP address is, how can I check this?
TaDa...at least we know your problem is your network configuration and fixing it should be relatively easy. Do the above from the previous post 1st and tell me the response. |
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Clicking on porn sites ... And you know this from experience kano |
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...  Thank you so much for suggesting the above, and I have applied the above settings. But for some reason I am still running into problems. Here is the current setup: My Miner Configuration on website 192.168.1.99 has the following details: Pool 1 192.168.2.99 Pool1 worker fredtheduck (this is my username for BitMinter) My IPV4 settings are currently set at "Obtain an IP Address Automatically". If I set Use the following IP address: 192.168.2.254 Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 Default gateway: 192.168.2.1 Then I lose my connection to the Internet (which is via cable). The setup currently is I have Ethernet cable running from Antminer to Router, and a cable running from Router to Ethernet port in Computer. Am I missing something here? Is it because My IPV4 settings are currently set at "Obtain an IP Address Automatically" ? But if I change this, I lose my connection to the internet? I will be up all night wanting to fix this, and any help is much appreciated If you can get to your miner's webpage by using http://192.168.1.99 then leave the IPV4 settings on "Obtain an IP Address Automatically" as the network is working. Go to the Network -> Diagnostics page and click on the Ping button below the box with openwrt.org in it. It should come back with the important line towards the bottom --- openwrt.org ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss How many packets received do you get? |
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The number of possible nonces is certainly not infinite. The nonce field in the header is 4 bytes, the extraNonce field in the coinbase can be up to 100 bytes. This makes for a very large, but finite number of possible nonces and therefore a finite number of solutions. Even if you added additional fields that could hold arbitrary value, the maximum block size of 1 MB still restricts the number of possibilities to something finite. Yeah my mistake- I was just thinking more generally about the phrase "data which can be hashed". But yeah, obviously if there is a size limit there's a finite amount. Even those 104 bytes give you 832 bits of entropy. And even if we theoretically hit the difficulty which would require hitting the exact hash of 0 (which would basically break BTC anyway and require a computer the size of the Solar System), it still means that we need to put 2^832 values into 2^256 buckets, and one of the buckets needs to be empty. The probability of this is, if my math is correct, ((2^256-1)/(2^256))^(2^832) which is, let's just say, a very small number. There is, of course, a chance that SHA256 is internally broken and doesn't follow uniform distribution of hash values, but again, finding this out breaks BTC anyway. I do not think it is mathematically possible to get a SHA256 hash result of all zero's because of the way the SHA256 constants are introduced into the algorithm. It raises the question of what the smallest possible result would be? And of course what the largest possible result would be? |
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No news on my purchase made on 01-29-2013
They said on previous page that they started shipping today, so we should expect a status update for our orders soon You might not get an update before the miner arrives, unless you sign up with UPS. Bitmain seems to concentrate more on shipping units out on time, than informing people they are shipped. If they aren't there in 2 days I'd inquire, before then just relax and read up on the setup threads :-) Will they ship it without updating the order status from unshipped to shipped? Signing up with UPS only gives you advanced notice if you live in the US. Bitmain ships before they change the shipped status and often it is delivered before you get a tracking number. |
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Hi, Thank for the feedback. With load balance and a number of miners (more than 10), 24 hrs of mining on ghash.io gave 50% duplicates. The equipment keeps jumping from one pool to another. It did not work for me... More precisely, the way i used --load-balance was by downloading Multiminer's source code from github and making some tweaks. That said, it relies on how the parameter was implemented in the software, I have not tested it myself directly in command line, just relied on feedback from the experience. I might give it a try but atm it feels better to have 100% all in one lump on one load. It's really a matter of personal decision, consider the two positions: One: i have a couple of USB miners not using anymore, I'm running them solo mining bitcoin, who knows, I might get lucky, I know the odds are probably I will find it in 800 days, and that is assuming the difficulty does not increase in 800 days, but it is better than having them making cents on cex.io. Two: if the odds are too low to win, then it is better to have them making cents on cex.io (no ad intended) rather than making nothing in solo. So the idea is, even if --load-balance was to work properly, some might not think it is an option to trickle on it, full 100% hopping might be to their liking, not that one way or the other is guaranteed to make more money Steer clear of ghash.io it is not your friend Research the difference between luck and variance Happy mining |
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Hi,
This is a method to do mine hopping the way you want on Windows (tested on Windows 7 and above).
The question is: i want to mine on pool x for so much time, solo for this much, on pool y for some other time and then cycle again.
... Why, Just use --load-balance and feed both pools simultaneously, you can even change the balance between the pools so one receives more shares than the other. |
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Hi,
may i check with you all, Antminer support which mining pool ?
Nearly all, definitely the majors. |
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Well I had a crap night
Please be on the look out for someone selling
6 Antminers S1
6 Hex16 24Ghs
10 V2 Blade'2 + PSU
4 Super Flower (in white) 1000w PSU's
Dell LTO4 Tape library
Dell SX23 4 blade Server
2 CISCO 24 port Routers
All stolen last night from my garage.
Not happy at all
That's not good, I feel for you there but where from, what country? |
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If that doesn't work then dump out the contents of your /etc/config/network file in a PM to me and I will have a look.
check pm. What is in your /etc/config/network file? do you have teamviewer? Nothing wrong with your miner or I think your setup now, you are just too far away from your wireless router to use an Ant without an antenna, you need to get a 5dbi sma antenna, that should give you a better connection. |
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If that doesn't work then dump out the contents of your /etc/config/network file in a PM to me and I will have a look.
check pm. What is in your /etc/config/network file? |
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