Is it possible to mine on a Butterfly Labs single FPGA unit from a Mac? I've been unable to do this... it says "No COM ports found" when I try to scan for FPGA devices. Device works on Windows, have yet to test on Linux.
Yep, when you scan for devices and it doesn't find any it will give you some hints in the log.  Try grabbing Mac drivers from http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htmEdit: The stable version runs fine on Mac. But if it's not too much bother I'd love to hear how the beta runs (look a few posts back). Hopefully it still runs fine and with low CPU usage. Yeah, I went to that link, but it said if you want the mac drivers to contact them... should I do that? The beta version runs great from what I can see, aside from the FPGA issue it seems great and fast, low CPU... |
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Hmm... just got my Single today in the mail (excited!!). Easy miner, however, only lets me choose the radiobubble for "Administrative Options". All the others are greyed out. I can, however, mine with BitMinter, and firmware upload works great. How do I enable mining straight from EasyMiner? In addition... I ran diagnostics, and kinda surprised at the results. 34 throttles (my room is cold... 68F), and 5 errors on the 100 test :/. Did I do something wrong?  Check to see that the heatsink's fix pins haven't worked loose in shipping. If the heatsink is firmly in place, then run the auto-tune feature to get your unit at peak performance relative to the operating environment. Tightened the screws a bit, trying again I tried autotune but after about an hour it still wasn't done so I stopped the autotune process... how long is it supossed to take? And I keep getting this: 2012.07.05 [15:12] BitFORCE (COM4) ERROR: Extraneous data received: NO-NONCE 2012.07.05 [15:14] BitFORCE (COM4) ERROR: ZFX command timed out. Retries: 0 Hmm... just got my Single today in the mail (excited!!). Easy miner, however, only lets me choose the radiobubble for "Administrative Options". All the others are greyed out. I can, however, mine with BitMinter, and firmware upload works great. How do I enable mining straight from EasyMiner? In addition... I ran diagnostics, and kinda surprised at the results. 34 throttles (my room is cold... 68F), and 5 errors on the 100 test :/. Did I do something wrong? when did you order your single? I ordered my single ~30th of April, 2012. |
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Is it possible to mine on a Butterfly Labs single FPGA unit from a Mac? I've been unable to do this... it says "No COM ports found" when I try to scan for FPGA devices. Device works on Windows, have yet to test on Linux.
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Hmm... just got my Single today in the mail (excited!!). Easy miner, however, only lets me choose the radiobubble for "Administrative Options". All the others are greyed out. I can, however, mine with BitMinter, and firmware upload works great. How do I enable mining straight from EasyMiner? In addition... I ran diagnostics, and kinda surprised at the results. 34 throttles (my room is cold... 68F), and 5 errors on the 100 test :/. Did I do something wrong? |
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Well, if you are trying to brute-force 2-pass SHA256, SHA256 is the same no matter where you do it... so you could just hash the password again to get the SHA256*2 of the password... Like password = myPassword
String temp = SHA256(MYPASSWORD)
Now temp is equal to 76549b827ec46e705fd03831813fa52172338f0dfcbd711ed44b81a96dac51c6
If we have a machine that hashes twice, then we could just do this:
temp = SHA256(temp), and then with our two-time hasher look for the value that makes temp. It's half as efficient, but if you can't pull out the hash halfway through the ASIC process, this would still work. Not trying to promote password cracking, but that seems to make sense to me...
Edit: didn't see that previous post about this, sorry lol
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+1 Niann Sold steam game "Legendary (on sale)" for 0.3BTC, transaction was fast, smooth. Niann paid first. |
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PM sent |
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I'll buy it and gift it to you for 0.3 BTC.
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That simply divides the bitcoins up into smaller portions. Every bitcoin that is lost, is gone for good and simply reduces the amount of bitcoins there will ever be. If you make all other BTC worth more and they are divided up into smaller pieces, the net result is no change long-term. You're not hurting anything. You're only helping us out in the short-term. Ok. Have 10 people and 10 pies. We give everyone a pie. Now 8 pies get lost. Some get eaten, one pie was encrypted and the key got lost, another one's fridge was hacked and his pie deleted, a pie was dropped on the floor, etc etc. We divide every remaining pie into 10 pieces. One guy didn't lose his pie, he gets to keep all 10 pieces. The other 10 pieces are divided evenly over the other 9 people and piece gets destroyed by me, just cos I can. And pie makes me fat. We have 10 times as many "items of pie". We performed a digit shift on the pie basically... Yet now one guy has half of all items of pie available, while he only had 1/10 earlier. Still think shifting the digit will solve bitcoins getting lost?  That reminds me, someone should sell pie for bitcoins if they don't already... |
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If you wish OP, I would be happy to make a tutorial on Litecoin mining as well |
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Not technically a purchase I suppose, but something similar to hash king's bitcoin deposits/all the others, mining bonds, and services similar to pyramining.
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PS : What made you choose "here the video is" and not "the video is here"  I honestly have no idea, I was in a rush to get that posted cause I had to go lol. I'm gonna start a little series on getting started with Litecoin, so I'll probably re-make that video... |
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Did you extract the .zip file to it's own location? I can make a video tutorial if you want . I'd give you 250 LTC for a Video Tutorial posted on Youtube to show newbies how to get reaper started and mine with GPU's. It would be fantastic for the community. No need for the Litecoins, if there's demand for the video I'd be happy to make it . Will record right now... |
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Step-mother against crypto currencies? lol At any rate, your flow might look something like this: 1.) Download and install bitcoin client 2.) Make Mt.Gox ( www.mtgox.com) account 3.) Choose to deposit cash via BitInstant 4.) Make BitInstant account 5.) Choose deposit method 6.) Deposit Cash at WalMart/whatever location you want 7.) Buy BTC with deposited money 8.) Send BTC to your brother 9.) Have your brother buy a prepaid credit card or something similar online with his BTC you sent him. He would be better of just sending him the money with paypal... After all that he would have lost at least 12% of his money. I thought that it would be 3.99% or what Bitinstant charges you? Alternatively, just get hold of one of those bitcoin sellers like TangibleCryptography who allows you to buy bitcoins with a simple cash deposit. Check the Currency Exchange subforum for more information. And MtGox fees? And what about the guy who would sell the prepaid credit card to his brother? lol It adds up Oh it certainly does add up, however it's quite anonymous which was what he wanted, it will certainly cost a premium for using cash deposits and the like though :\ |
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Step-mother against crypto currencies? lol At any rate, your flow might look something like this: 1.) Download and install bitcoin client 2.) Make Mt.Gox ( www.mtgox.com) account 3.) Choose to deposit cash via BitInstant 4.) Make BitInstant account 5.) Choose deposit method 6.) Deposit Cash at WalMart/whatever location you want 7.) Buy BTC with deposited money 8.) Send BTC to your brother 9.) Have your brother buy a prepaid credit card or something similar online with his BTC you sent him. |
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Did you extract the .zip file to it's own location? I can make a video tutorial if you want . |
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Coinsauce is pretty good, but relatively high stale rate many have found. If you can, GPUMax is gonna give you the most bang for your hash, because it sells your hashing power to people willing to pay much more than the currently ~0.000026-0.000030 rate, for whatever reason (whether pool hopping, think they'll have good luck with solo mining, willing to pay a premium for freshly-minted coins (go figure) or whatever else, perhaps just the fun factor ). |
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Well Mt.Gox ( www.mtgox.com) is the most well-known one. They have many methods of both depositing and withdrawing USD, anything from cash (deposited at a bank, WalMart, etc.) to linking up a bank account through something like Dwolla. Btc.e ( www.btc-e.com) is going to have less methods of deposits, but is still a viable option. Transferring money to someone in another state in the form of bitcoin is no problem, they could be across the world. Download Bitcoin and install (if you haven't done so already), and have your brother do so as well. Have him send you his address (no need to keep those things secret, the time to brute force the private key (what your wallet.dat file has in it essentially) from the address would take more than the age of the universe squared, so releasing your public address (starts with a 1, unless you used vanitygen looks like a bunch of random letters and numbers) is no problem. Send bitcoins from your wallet (however you are getting them) to his receiving (public) address. So you could deposit cash at WalMart through BitInstant linked to Mt.GOX, send him bitcoins, then he can use any number of withdrawals. Mt.GOX makes it a bit hard to withdraw USD, people don't generally recommend this method. You can have him buy products he would buy with fiat directly with bitcoins (from web hosting to candy). As well, he could use one of the various methods that convert bitcoins to fiat, such as https://www.okpay.com/en/services/debit-card/index.html (bitcoins to prepaid credit card). Edit: take a look at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=87171.0;topic seen as well |
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