All the while, my cards both report steady hash rates of 500-520 each (two card rig used for the test). Didn't see anything in console, strangely (GUIminer, Win7, latest ATI beta drivers). No network traffic speed problems.
Sounds like everything is fine. There will always be some variation in how many proofs of work you find in an hour due to the lottery like nature of mining. Earlier it sounded like you had a hashrate drop on the client side due to not getting enough work from the server. That would be a concern. But steady hash rate on the client, low reject ratio, accepted work keeps ticking up, that means it's running fine. The real hashrate is the one shown on your client. The website is just trying to guess your hashrate based on how many proofs of work you send in. That is going to vary as your luck varies. |
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Hey, Guys! Just started mining with BitMinter the last few weeks. Have it running on a Windows 7 machine with an ATI 5850 and just today installed it on a Linux CentOS 6.4 machine with an ATI 5830 (though it took some trial-and-error to find the right combination of software needed on the box to get to the point of mining).
Welcome to BitMinter  Question about the Linux install: Is there a way to kickoff a lightweight version of the BitMinter client from the command prompt WITHOUT needing to start up X/Gnome/etc.? I'd rather just kick it off from a console-only environment.
Making a command line version is far down on my TODO list. I don't think we'll see it soon. You can run the GUI on a remote desktop though. Assuming you have DISPLAY set to open on a VNC desktop or similar, you could start the miner from command line like so: COMPUTE=:0 javaws http://bitminter.com/client/bitminter.jnlp
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I've just joined this pool. Hey everyone Hi and welcome Please, PLEASE improve CPU mining! I have a quad-core CPU with Intel integrated graphics (no GPU) and want to make a few bitcents It doesn't really make sense to spend time on that now. Most people stopped CPU mining a long time ago. Some miners have started selling their GPUs to switch to ASIC mining. I think there's a miner called cpuminer that you could try. |
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I have used bitminter and it is a very nice pool for BTC. I wish it supported LTC as well, perhaps even PPC, as both the currencies are more profitable at the moment.
Here are a few feature requests for bitminter.com:
1) Litecoin support
2) automatic NMC to BTC conversion at some automatic sell volume threshold (I would take the highest bid on BTC-E with no worries), eg sell every time the account reaches 5 or 10 NMC
3) better ddos protection
I also noticed a strange MH/s fluctuation during the time I was connected, it seemed like bitminter was not able to give me enough shares to saturate my gpus, so the rigs ran at lower than max speeds for several hours (10-20% variation from hour to hour). Would like to know what this is due to, if drHaribo has any idea? :-)
Thanks for the suggestions. The drop in hashrate sounds very odd. Which miner are you using? Do you get messages about running out of work and idling? |
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Is there a way to filter based on coin type? I don't really care for NMC, but it sure does clutter up the transactions page.
Also a nice feature would be different sound from when nmc or btc are found. Since i liked the sound in the background, allways so exciting to hear the "jackpot" sound. however its only the btc that is interesting=) Yeah, all of that is already on the TODO list. Doing my best to get things done! |
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Sorry for the 5 minute downtime just now. Server having some growing pains.
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I just installe the new driver yesterday.
Catalyst 13.1? Here is how to properly clean up the mess created by that version: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=359883Try installing 13.3 beta instead. And don't install AMD APP SDK, there's no need for it. |
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I have a problem with running BitMInter. I have downloaded and installed the newest client.
After starting it, the coin-icon shows, disappears and then nothing happens anymore.
I already updated/reinstalled java but it sstill doesnt work.
Any hs_err_pid files left on the desktop? That happens when the graphics drivers crash. |
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229770 is ok, not a stale block?
Edit: the status changed later.
The status updates very slowly. I'm hoping to fix this soon. |
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1) Where do i send namecoins?
You can get a wallet to run on your computer from http://dot-bit.org or you can send directly to an exchange, for example https://btc-e.com/ https://exchange.bitparking.com/main https://vircurex.com/3) Will the ASICs gigahashing the interwebs to hell and gone be offset by the current EU meltdown and the increase in the value of bitcoins in general?
Bitcoin has increased in value crazy fast lately. It's hard to predict what will happen tomorrow. Don't hold more coins than you can afford to lose. My take on it long term: increased bitcoin minting rates is temporary until difficulty catches up. I also don't think it will make a noticable change in the amount of daily traded bitcoins. The failure of greedy banksters and corrupt and/or incompetent politicians is permanent. It really comes down to this: would you rather trust that 1+1=2 or would you trust a shifty guy with a sleazy grin who promises not so steal/tax/devalue your money while you sleep? DrHaribo, have you noticed the upswing in namecoins yet? Over at BTC-E the selling for .008-.0088 BTC, around $1.17 each namecoin. That's pretty impressive, more importantly, profitable.
Yep, I wrote about that here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=166213.0The namecoin price already started to drop since then. But I think getting more than 1 USD per Namecoin is very good. |
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Sorry for slow response to support requests right now. There's a flood of new users. 1032 new users signed up yesterday. 1022 so far today with 2 hours to go (of the UTC day). There are a lot of newbie questions coming in. If some more experienced bitminters want to hang out in #bitminter on Freenode it would be appreciated. See http://bitminter.com/chatany chance to lock the var diff to 64 or even higher, like 128 / 192?
This is coming soon. It is basically ready for the mining backend, but I need to create an interface to let you choose the target "proofs of work per minute" at the website. |
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Welcome all new guys! We were about 2900 people mining this morning, and now it's 3200 people mining at BitMinter at the moment.  10% more active users in less than a day. I have about 0.1% rejeted on bitminter getwork. It's The best work of any pool I tried.
Thanks on good job DrHaribo!
Thank you Wow 0.1% rejects with getwork is very good! does merged mining work with Stratum?
Sure, why wouldn't it. BitMinter does merged mining whether you use Stratum, GBT or getwork. |
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I think vircurex is the only place they're traded on. Looks like they're around the same price they were back when I was using p2pool. It wouldn't be enough to offset a 4% fee. Maybe an extra 1 or 2%.
Yeah, looking at vircurex the income from devcoin and ixcoin is far from 4.5%. As you say it is more like 1% or 2%. I'm still surprised that they give you something. It's also surprising that Ixcoin is worth more than Devcoin. I may not agree with how devcoin works, but at least it has a purpose. If you don't like a pools fees, payout method, or presentation, mine somewhere else or even solo.
Absolutely. That's why I think it is necessary for people to know what the real fees are. And of course what the features are, etc. When Mt.Red say they are zero fee they are actually honest. But many pools talk about 100% PPS, or 98% PPS and they pretend like income from transaction fees doesn't exist. That's not honest and transparent. How can miners then make an informed decision on which pool to mine on? When transaction fees go as high as 10% of the income, will they still talk about 98% PPS and pretend like you are paying a 2% fee when actually you are paying 12% ? |
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That's interesting.
I never liked the centralized part of Devcoin, one guy deciding which developers get how much. Or did I misunderstand that? And I thought Ixcoin was just a premine scam.
But if people are paying that much for them, they're worth selling.
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Got to admit: BitMinter has a better look and feel, but I don't care about looks, I care about performance and profitability.
Bitparking has a 2.5% fee, plus not paying transaction fees. That's a total fee of 3.5% to 4.5%. Seems a bit steep. How high stales did you get on BitMinter? There are some getwork users with unstable net connections that pull up the poolwide average to 0.4% or even sometimes 0.5%, but if you use Stratum and have a stable internet connection I'd expect you would have very few stales. This is a highly optimized and tuned mining backend that used to be the favorite for GPUmax to run leases on. Even a 1.5 TH/s lease ran completely smoothly with getwork without var diff or rollntime (this was in the olden days). |
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stratum on port 5050 not working? my cgminer (2.10.5) show it activated but dead?
Looks to be working, as far as I can see. |
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Namecoin difficulty is 1/6th of Bitcoin difficulty. Namecoins are currently 50 coins per block versus 25 for Bitcoin. So in a merged mining pool you should on average make 12 namecoins for every bitcoin you mine. Namecoins are selling for 0.011 BTC now, see for example the btc-e exchange 12 x 0.011 = 0.132 Yes, you earn 13% extra on a merged mining pool.  Try BitMinter today!  No fees, donations optional. Income from transaction fees are also paid out for an additional 1% to 2% extra. If you are losing 14-15% at your current pool PLUS paying fees on top of that, you may want to reconsider. Total fees 15-20% ? Just say no. |
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I'll look at Litecoin when the most important Bitcoin stuff is done. One thing at a time.  Thanks for the support, philipma1957, it is much appreciated! That's nice to see, but I fear it's too late. Soon ASICs take over Bitcoin mining and it won't make sense to mine on nVidia. I don't suppose nVidia will make use of those new Kepler instructions in their OpenCL implementation. |
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EDIT: I've found that repeated reboots/relunches of bitminter can get the gpu to be detected  But it seams to be a 1 in 5 shoot.... well can't complain works for now. Intermittent breakage, my favorite problem.  I hope it works better when this OS and driver are out of beta. Hats off to Dr_Haribo!! I had a 5770 in my Mac 2,1 going steady at 150Mh/s (I know about 2 yrs too late) I just recently added another 5770 w an external PSU (not really needed but have a 5970 on the way) I'm using 10.7.4 and w x2 5770 only getting 160-170 Mh/s. I've been changing things up a bit to see if its my hardware configuration-- 5770 w stock PSU in slot 1 and 2nd 5770 in slot 4 ext. PSU for some breathing room. I'm going to try beta version again, last week it wasn't too stable, but I was hoping in theory to get like 250-300 Mh/s so I'm kinda bummed. I guess w osX there isn't much in the way of GPU manipulation w catalyst (tried AMD's site for downloads) my next step is to boot camp Linux or Win7 but really don't want to, and to switch to pci slots 1 and 3. Now the MacPro 2,1 is pci-e 1.0 :-/ but everything I had read w Mac n 5770 had it at 150 Mh/s. any suggestions w this would be appreciated. I really do enjoy using BitMinter and will probably stick w it if/when my BFL ASIC arrives (maybe by June/July). Cheers and thanks!!
Thanks, nice to hear you like the pool. When you get 160-170 Mhps from both 5770s, are they both running at the same hashrate? Or is one running much faster than the other? |
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