Slush stopped posting here some time ago. Until the beginning of this year newbies couldn't make posts in normal threads and the members that were posting were just asking the same questions over and over. It had got really bad so slush quit posting in this thread because he was just repeating himself over and over because no one would read past posts for answers. He added the webchat, a ticket system and Facebook for announcements. It sucks but this forum had got out of control. Slush is a highly intelligent person and to explain the same simple things over and over again when there is a knowledge base link on the pool page and plenty of pages in the forum they could review over became too overwhelming. Also, at the same time having clueless miners accusing him of crazy things because they don't understand how a score based pool works wasn't very productive for anyone. He was trying to write new pool software for the pool and create a Stand alone bitcoin wallet to help bring bitcoin to wider audience so he stopped posting here to create those things. You can still post with him in the Development and Technical threads, so he is still available and answers questions, just not the ones that he has answered 1,000's of times since 2011. He left this thread unlocked so we could communicate and help each other out.
Finally. Another intelligent post. This one should be read by all newbs, but it probably won't I all ways look for this first and as a last resort ask newbie question and only then if I'm totally annoyed after hours of looking, even, then i hate to ask anything . |
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At 1380watts, I would problably run one on a 15amp circuit. But no higher watts than that. Be careful of other things plugged in or drawing power from that circuit/room. No tv's or appliances on that circuit with the miner. Mabey a ceiling fan and an occasional light only.
Think about it with Kids run in around etc who gonna watch that i can hear it now my house blow up because of my S4 lol only because they weren't careful . I gonna wait knowing me i would learn how to install one the above things they said for peace of mind . + my box has two or three unused circuits i saw just not sure i want to get into that deal atm . Just be careful with these right now till bitmain makes them a little more home friendly which i hope they do . last thought then I'm let it go I want a S4 but not like it is now . Two more S3 I'm set i will have reached my goal and that should let me make about 400 a month extra spending money at 7 S3. after power costs etc . may add one more for the hell of it but 7 is were I plan to stop if I go past 10 lets say i may need to add a room or take one of the empty rooms in the house insult it and rewire and add a portable air con for the summer. right now seven to 8 would do it for me without to much expanding and won't need anymore air in the summer them i have now . |
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^ good safety write-up. Even one of those is really pushing a 15amp circuit. Us elect code states 1440w/12amp for no more than 3 hours at a time. Breakers trip with heat, not the actual amps, and most breakers can take more amps than rated for. If your running 1440w/12amp or more watts for more than 3 hours at a time those wires can heat up enough to burn your house down. Newly built houses may be worse because "copper clad" wire(instead of solid copper) from China that some builders use these days get extremely hot at lower watts due to the wire being "cheap tin" coated with copper. Heads up, Look Sharp and Remember - Safety First.
I agree by all means Safety First don't burn you house down because of a S4,run a few s3 to match it and be safe.I'm not against the S4s. but What you may have to do your home to use it Safety or 2 or 3 at once is that worth it ? . I want one but as many say here it's more a Safety First thing ,it seems to be geared more for the business type farm might even be why so high a price. maybe the S 5 or higher S4 batch will be more home user friendly. I hope bitmain doesn't forget us home farmer/miners . with there cloud thing going. Home mining to me is not dead , it will never be like it was and will take more hardware geared for the home which over time i hope we see. The days of CPU and GPU mining to any extent are gone and i think that is why so many are against it now they lost a lot in a matter of weeks i can't blame them, but it had to happen. |
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I love Slush's Pool, but I hate change. I'm "OCD" and this is going to kill me not having that "Real-Time" block processing on the stats page. I guess I'm going to have to suck it up and accept it.
Someone said they posted info on Facebook? Could someone give me a summary? I don't Facebook, this is the only social media I participate in other than email and the Google Search box. Thanks.
Edit: Worker Password issue does suck.
just for you off face book .  Dear miners, as you may have noticed, the upgrade of our web server backends has brought the following changes: - the minimum payout threshold has been lowered to 0.001 BTC - worker passwords are no more editable, our stratum servers simply accept any password. so for the password leave it blank or type anything . some pools don't use one. but don't give out any account info accounts do . just my guess to make it easy i use X with every thing but account log in . So presumably there's a much bigger following for Slush's Pool on Facebook, else why would he put the info there and not here???  don't know I don't even like FB I didn't know there was a FB Page till some one here said something . but the looks of it not many followers. |
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I know i sent you all email to explain what 5 minute rejected speed GH/s means while I'm selling hash. I'm guessing it means : In essence this means that provider is 100% paid for all valid work that his rigs produces (just as using any ordinary pool or multupool) and buyers pays 100% only for valid work that has been submitted to buyers pools (just as would be using it's own rigs). which means in layman terms : its making sure I stay at 100 % sense i can't find anything place on what that exact terms means. it does not stay that way long ( rejects ) so it has to be some kind of clean up or adjustment or balance to make sure its all fair. but i also notice i could not mine any other place while i was there with load balance or balance then i see lots and lots of red. if i turn failsafe back on in my S3 the red stops but so does the other Pool which its suppose to. ... which is cool by me the way this pool pays i don't need to atm . one other thing I noticed not sure on this one if I hit a block sense i know it won't be a bitcoin block or more then likely won't be sense I am framing SHA256 coins and its doing any SHA256 coin i get more rewards for any block I find it looked like. . |
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man hope this pool picks up soon like it was the last few days i being all my miner back here till it dies again those payout were really nice even for me with my 800 GH it's higher now and should be around 2 th in the next few days i hope till then I'll keep my U2 pointed here . . As long as I have hardware here we will all die a slow death, I'm willing to move it for a price though, I'm that kinda guy!  really LMAO . |
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I love Slush's Pool, but I hate change. I'm "OCD" and this is going to kill me not having that "Real-Time" block processing on the stats page. I guess I'm going to have to suck it up and accept it.
Someone said they posted info on Facebook? Could someone give me a summary? I don't Facebook, this is the only social media I participate in other than email and the Google Search box. Thanks.
Edit: Worker Password issue does suck.
just for you off face book . Dear miners, as you may have noticed, the upgrade of our web server backends has brought the following changes: - the minimum payout threshold has been lowered to 0.001 BTC - worker passwords are no more editable, our stratum servers simply accept any password. so for the password leave it blank or type anything . some pools don't use one. but don't give out any account info accounts do . just my guess to make it easy i use X with every thing but account log in . |
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man hope this pool picks up soon like it was the last few days i being all my miner back here till it dies again those payout were really nice even for me with my 800 GH it's higher now and should be around 2 th in the next few days i hope till then I'll keep my U2 pointed here . . |
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Ive been wondering for a month or so. why does the site looks so out dated . Talking of which, it still mentions using an online wallet at MtGox... does it even exist any more I remember tiring to use it back in April when I started mining it was suggested to, then I discovered a online wallet might not be to wise . i have tired one or two online wallets but I like having more control and fell safer with a off line wallet. |
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thanks for the tip about face book the new site coming it gonna be nice from what the screen shots show and over due
Ive been wondering for a month or so. why does the site looks so out dated .
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It appears a few changes have been made to web interface such as new block found there is no processing appearing to show that blocks potential reward in statistics? ? While the new block has begun this is a little disconcerting as it doesn't show up it makes it appear we lost the work for the previous 10 hour block I'm sure it will show up but the 5-20 minutes of processing without it showing will be a visual ugg.....and as this is the first block completed since web changes we wont know what will show until 15 minutes or so have passed I hope they did not make changes to the way the statistics page works i noticed that to . has anyone tried to cash out below 0.01 my TH is set higher mines set to 0.1 building it up . |
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Did y'all NOTICE this on Slush:
Coins will be sent once the reward crosses over the threshold. An additional fee of 0.0001 BTC applies for payouts lower than 0.01 BTC.
HAVE I BEEN BLIND?
I thought I could only get my BTC out once it reaches 1.0 BTC.
its been at 0.01 for a while were does it say An additional fee of 0.0001 BTC applies for payouts lower than 0.01 BTC. maybe things are changing wow that is new unless some one hacked it to say that well see but I've all ways seen it as 0.01 sense April this year when i joined the pool . |
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Hey you all it actually picking up some or seems to be on the pool . . Ive had 7 GH worth of USB u2 sticks on it all nite just now it looked like its picking up some . err spoke to soon ISP dropped right after i typed ^ |
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Hi everyone - It is really nice to see the support everyone gets on slush - Why ive always pointed my miners at slush - Got a good family/community feel. I did however wanted to ask if anyone could help me, I basically wanted to point all 60 GH/s of my antminer u1 dongles to mining solo. I have managed to get the bitcoin qt wallet into server mode. Now the dongles that are directly connected to the pc running bitcoin qt mine solo no problem by pointing them to the ip of the same pc, But when i try and point any of my machines on my network (S3 and a rasberry pi with dongles) They at first said my pool was alive but didnt show any hashing at all, and now they just say my pool is dead. I just wanted to check i won't need to setup my own stratum server. as i may run out of computers trying to set this up. Any help anyone can give would be greatly appreiciated - I also know that pointing my miners at bitsolo would solve the issue, but i just don't trust that sort of setup, prefer to make my own and do it the hard way  Haven't tried it but see if this helps: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=512042.0Edit: this was the other link I was looking for, probably the easiest way. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=763510.0WOW!!! THANKS VERY MUCH!!! MAKES THINGS LOTS EASIER FOR US NOVICES WITHOUT THE RESEARCH. I BELIEVE THEIR .5% FEE OF THE BLOCK FOUND IS WELL WORTH IT!!! THANKS AGAIN!!! No problem, that last link is CK's pool I do and would completely trust him. don't forget CK is one of the Dev of CGMiner . |
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Hello,
every morning I seem to have the same problem with my antminer S3+ which is that the miner is beeping and doesn't seem able to connect to the pools. Several times per day it has the same problem, but when I'm awake I hear the beeping sound and a simple reboot of the miner seems to solve the problem. I still can access the miner through my network, so I don't think it's a connection problem with the miner.
When I'm asleep I don't hear the beeping sound off course and when I look at my statistics I think it has been offline for 4 hours.
Is there something I missed in the setting why it doesn't seem to reconnect to the pools, or is there something in the settings I can activate so it does a reboot automatically when beeping ?
Thanks in advance for your support.
Kr,
Dany
is it OC is your ISP dropping and you don't see it This might help. https://bitmaintech.com/files/download/Antminer%20S3%20Manual_EN_2014.7.16.pdf |
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My mining pool experience was:
Slush -> Ghash.io -> Back to Slush and i'll stay here for the rest of my life.
Of course i did test some other pools but i didnt trust them, was gonna try Eligius but was much research time..meh
I switched over to BTC Guild with all of my 10 S3's going on it to figure out something. What I figured out is the following: .0186723 for 3 blocks in an 11 hour period. I make .01746733 on average for each block we find on here. That total for BTC Guild was for 3 BLOCKS. SLUSH RULES... PERIOD!!! I have to find 3 blocks on BTC for every 1 block we find on here! It's a no brainer... SLUSH RULES... PERIOD!!! The only way it would benefit me is if we did not find a block at all on here during that entire 11 hour period. But how are we supposed to know that? It's a gamble I'm not willing to take!!! Translation: Somebody who doesn't understand PPLNS compares per block rewards from one pool to another instead of actual earnings. Also thinks 11 hours is sufficient to compare *any* pool to another. With a proper test, you'd have found that BTC Guild will pay you *per block* about half of what Slush does once you have shares in every shift, and find them about twice as often. The fees are identical, and BTC Guild pays NMC. Statistically, it will provide better income over enough time as a result. It is also unhoppable, while Slush's score system has been hoppable since 2011. shhhhh, don't tell people about it being hoppable =) just curious, did GAW have to ask permission to use your "BTCGuild" name as one of their own pools ? i see they recently changed it to Genesis Guild or something like that. Not sure what "GAW" is? I can store 3 pools in each Antminer S3 in "Miner Configurations." I have Slush on #2 and BTC on #3. I simply copy and paste from #2 or #3 into the #1 address pool to tell the S3 which pool I want to mine. It takes no more than 1 minute to log into one of my S3's and change the pool address to the pool I wish to mine. Even when I'm on the road training telephone technicians because I have a "static IP" assigned to my house. This means I can connect to my network at the house while I'm away and have access to my S3's to monitor them, change clock speed, change pools, etc... I have different "worker" names in each pool. I don't have the same names on each pool. I simply copy and past from one of the two pools I have already stored in #2 and #3 pool into the #1 pool choice. I also have each S3 book marked and labeled as antMiner_1, antMiner_2, etc.. This way, once I log in to my network at the house, I simply click on the bookmark for whatever antMiner I wish to configure, monitor, etc... Charter Communications did charge me another $20.00 each month for a static IP. Which sucks, but it's worth having for monitoring video cameras and other things at the house. as well as having access to my antMiners while I'm away. to me that's not pool hoping you can do the same thing with the S1 if you know what file to edit with shh and set it the same way in a S1 load balance , balance etc but with the S 3 i only saw three pool setting in the UI . S1 has none you have edit it in but can use any that Cgminer will let you in the S1 not sure if even editing in the S3 will let you now. I'll find out later today . btw i like BGFMINER more but no ant yet has it but some are working on it I've found BFG to be more stable for me then CG is but i can't use that in ants unless you know were i can. POOL hopping is using a program that searches the webb for you and switch you the best one at that moment i can see were that would piss off a few that i won't do . Okay, now I know what "pool hopping" is. As you know, I'm not using cgminer of bgfminer. I'm just using Bitmain Antminers with no program. The only thing I've seen here lately, which refers to solo mining on BitSolo, may give you a tip [or not] for setting up ASIC hardware in cg or bfg-miner. I copied and pasted the following from http://bitsolo.net/how-to/Bitcoin ASIC HardwareFollow this section if you have purchased bitcoin ASIC hardware. Download and install cgminer from cgminer homepage Create a file named start.bat in the same directory you installed cgminerEdit the file and put in the following cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitsolo.net:3334 -u 1KbfPjjpwu5undFfGULwYpVyvo8gpdpCGH -p x Change 1KbfPjjpwu5undFfGULwYpVyvo8gpdpCGH to be your Bitcoin address.This is the address payments will be sent. Run start.bat by double clicking on it. You should now have a window with cgminer running and mining for you. Graphics Card Following this section if you are planning to mine with your graphics card. Download and install BFGMiner version 3.6.0 from BFGMiner Download. Additional instructions can be found from BFGMiner Homepage. Create a file named start.bat in the same directory you installed bfgminer. Edit the file and put in the following bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitsolo.net:3334 -u 1KbfPjjpwu5undFfGULwYpVyvo8gpdpCGH -p x Change 1KbfPjjpwu5undFfGULwYpVyvo8gpdpCGH to be your Bitcoin address.This is the address payments will be sent. Run start.bat by double clicking on it. You should now have a window with bfgminer running and mining for you. Watch and Wait You need to keep your miner running at all times to mine. To find out if you have found a block look at the Best Share column on cgminer or BS on bfgminer. This will tell you your Best Share found so far. If this is higher than the network difficulty then you have found a block. Additionally, when you have found a block it will show up in My Account tab and then be sent to your Bitcoin address :-) This is the tough part so be prepared to watch and wait. To be honest, not many people have the mental attitude or patience to solo mine so you are a member of a select group if you make it past a week / month of solo mining. cgminer runs the antminer atm so there is no way that i know of using any thing but CGminer that whats inside the the antminer. i want BFG inside my antminer as my miner not CGMiner if you how to tell me plz . I want to solo mine but atm don;t have at least one mach with at least 1.5 th to do just that while i do other stuff i like mining in pools see nest idea they come up with also want to solo mine but i need at least one stands a lone for that the way i want to with some power I'll get bored fast solo mining . Look at pictures or videos on youtube and you will see 100's of Bitmain's hashing out in China or other places. I doubt very seriously they are doing it through a pool. They have to be doing it solo. I don't know what is required to do solo and what software/application is needed to mine solo. That's why I've been looking into it and ran across what I previously posted from BitSolo. I don't know if it helped you because I'm not familiar with cg or bfg miners at all. like this with putty CGMiner Update to 4.2.0 Part 1 cd /usr/bin/ wget http://kano-kun.net/AntS1/cgminer-ants1-4.2.0-00567a4 chmod +x cgminer-ants1-4.2.0-00567a4 If you haven't done an update like this before (or undid the change): mv cgminer cgminer.original ln -s cgminer-ants1-4.2.0-00567a4 cgminer Next you need to restart cgminer on your AntS1 Clicking the "Save & Apply" button on the "Status/Miner Configuration" tab in the web interface will do that ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fix LSTime Part 2 vi /usr/lib/lua/luci/controller/cgminer.lua Around line 287, look for: --lst_date = os.date("%c", lst) lst_date = lst and change it back to: lst_date = os.date("%c", lst) --lst_date = lst reboot from CMD all antminer atm come with cgminer including the S4 . The fight between CG and BFG Dev is kind of top dog thing atm with gonna out do who . well any way GL get those blocks I'm off to pick up my S3 fedex just called it's at the pick up location happy mining . THANKS VERY MUCH!!! I have copied this. I hope cgminer in Windows OS will not be very hard to learn and use. Does it require a lot of babysitting? I hope not... I really would like solo mine with some of my S3's without a whole lot of learning curve time. I plan on down loading cgminer onto Windows OS via Parallel's on my Mac. hey man go here it may help you more ^ the above thing was a example of how to upgrade the S1 to Cgminer 4.2.0 from 3.1.2 or what ever version is in your ants atm i don't want any one messing up there stuff because of my lack knowledge at how to i know what im doing for me but not enough yet to give advice on firm ware updates my S1's are at 4.3.2 a some thing that link i posted should help you way more then i can the DEv of CGMiiner is willing to walk you thu any thing better then i can right now . |
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My mining pool experience was:
Slush -> Ghash.io -> Back to Slush and i'll stay here for the rest of my life.
Of course i did test some other pools but i didnt trust them, was gonna try Eligius but was much research time..meh
I switched over to BTC Guild with all of my 10 S3's going on it to figure out something. What I figured out is the following: .0186723 for 3 blocks in an 11 hour period. I make .01746733 on average for each block we find on here. That total for BTC Guild was for 3 BLOCKS. SLUSH RULES... PERIOD!!! I have to find 3 blocks on BTC for every 1 block we find on here! It's a no brainer... SLUSH RULES... PERIOD!!! The only way it would benefit me is if we did not find a block at all on here during that entire 11 hour period. But how are we supposed to know that? It's a gamble I'm not willing to take!!! Translation: Somebody who doesn't understand PPLNS compares per block rewards from one pool to another instead of actual earnings. Also thinks 11 hours is sufficient to compare *any* pool to another. With a proper test, you'd have found that BTC Guild will pay you *per block* about half of what Slush does once you have shares in every shift, and find them about twice as often. The fees are identical, and BTC Guild pays NMC. Statistically, it will provide better income over enough time as a result. It is also unhoppable, while Slush's score system has been hoppable since 2011. shhhhh, don't tell people about it being hoppable =) just curious, did GAW have to ask permission to use your "BTCGuild" name as one of their own pools ? i see they recently changed it to Genesis Guild or something like that. Not sure what "GAW" is? I can store 3 pools in each Antminer S3 in "Miner Configurations." I have Slush on #2 and BTC on #3. I simply copy and paste from #2 or #3 into the #1 address pool to tell the S3 which pool I want to mine. It takes no more than 1 minute to log into one of my S3's and change the pool address to the pool I wish to mine. Even when I'm on the road training telephone technicians because I have a "static IP" assigned to my house. This means I can connect to my network at the house while I'm away and have access to my S3's to monitor them, change clock speed, change pools, etc... I have different "worker" names in each pool. I don't have the same names on each pool. I simply copy and past from one of the two pools I have already stored in #2 and #3 pool into the #1 pool choice. I also have each S3 book marked and labeled as antMiner_1, antMiner_2, etc.. This way, once I log in to my network at the house, I simply click on the bookmark for whatever antMiner I wish to configure, monitor, etc... Charter Communications did charge me another $20.00 each month for a static IP. Which sucks, but it's worth having for monitoring video cameras and other things at the house. as well as having access to my antMiners while I'm away. to me that's not pool hoping you can do the same thing with the S1 if you know what file to edit with shh and set it the same way in a S1 load balance , balance etc but with the S 3 i only saw three pool setting in the UI . S1 has none you have edit it in but can use any that Cgminer will let you in the S1 not sure if even editing in the S3 will let you now. I'll find out later today . btw i like BGFMINER more but no ant yet has it but some are working on it I've found BFG to be more stable for me then CG is but i can't use that in ants unless you know were i can. POOL hopping is using a program that searches the webb for you and switch you the best one at that moment i can see were that would piss off a few that i won't do . Okay, now I know what "pool hopping" is. As you know, I'm not using cgminer of bgfminer. I'm just using Bitmain Antminers with no program. The only thing I've seen here lately, which refers to solo mining on BitSolo, may give you a tip [or not] for setting up ASIC hardware in cg or bfg-miner. I copied and pasted the following from http://bitsolo.net/how-to/Bitcoin ASIC HardwareFollow this section if you have purchased bitcoin ASIC hardware. Download and install cgminer from cgminer homepage Create a file named start.bat in the same directory you installed cgminerEdit the file and put in the following cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitsolo.net:3334 -u 1KbfPjjpwu5undFfGULwYpVyvo8gpdpCGH -p x Change 1KbfPjjpwu5undFfGULwYpVyvo8gpdpCGH to be your Bitcoin address.This is the address payments will be sent. Run start.bat by double clicking on it. You should now have a window with cgminer running and mining for you. Graphics Card Following this section if you are planning to mine with your graphics card. Download and install BFGMiner version 3.6.0 from BFGMiner Download. Additional instructions can be found from BFGMiner Homepage. Create a file named start.bat in the same directory you installed bfgminer. Edit the file and put in the following bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitsolo.net:3334 -u 1KbfPjjpwu5undFfGULwYpVyvo8gpdpCGH -p x Change 1KbfPjjpwu5undFfGULwYpVyvo8gpdpCGH to be your Bitcoin address.This is the address payments will be sent. Run start.bat by double clicking on it. You should now have a window with bfgminer running and mining for you. Watch and Wait You need to keep your miner running at all times to mine. To find out if you have found a block look at the Best Share column on cgminer or BS on bfgminer. This will tell you your Best Share found so far. If this is higher than the network difficulty then you have found a block. Additionally, when you have found a block it will show up in My Account tab and then be sent to your Bitcoin address :-) This is the tough part so be prepared to watch and wait. To be honest, not many people have the mental attitude or patience to solo mine so you are a member of a select group if you make it past a week / month of solo mining. cgminer runs the antminer atm so there is no way that i know of using any thing but CGminer that whats inside the the antminer. i want BFG inside my antminer as my miner not CGMiner if you how to tell me plz . I want to solo mine but atm don;t have at least one mach with at least 1.5 th to do just that while i do other stuff i like mining in pools see nest idea they come up with also want to solo mine but i need at least one stands a lone for that the way i want to with some power I'll get bored fast solo mining . Look at pictures or videos on youtube and you will see 100's of Bitmain's hashing out in China or other places. I doubt very seriously they are doing it through a pool. They have to be doing it solo. I don't know what is required to do solo and what software/application is needed to mine solo. That's why I've been looking into it and ran across what I previously posted from BitSolo. I don't know if it helped you because I'm not familiar with cg or bfg miners at all. like this with putty CGMiner Update to 4.2.0 Part 1 cd /usr/bin/ wget http://kano-kun.net/AntS1/cgminer-ants1-4.2.0-00567a4 chmod +x cgminer-ants1-4.2.0-00567a4 If you haven't done an update like this before (or undid the change): mv cgminer cgminer.original ln -s cgminer-ants1-4.2.0-00567a4 cgminer Next you need to restart cgminer on your AntS1 Clicking the "Save & Apply" button on the "Status/Miner Configuration" tab in the web interface will do that ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fix LSTime Part 2 vi /usr/lib/lua/luci/controller/cgminer.lua Around line 287, look for: --lst_date = os.date("%c", lst) lst_date = lst and change it back to: lst_date = os.date("%c", lst) --lst_date = lst reboot from CMD all antminer atm come with cgminer including the S4 . The fight between CG and BFG Dev is kind of top dog thing atm with gonna out do who . well any way GL get those blocks I'm off to pick up my S3 fedex just called it's at the pick up location happy mining . |
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My mining pool experience was:
Slush -> Ghash.io -> Back to Slush and i'll stay here for the rest of my life.
Of course i did test some other pools but i didnt trust them, was gonna try Eligius but was much research time..meh
I switched over to BTC Guild with all of my 10 S3's going on it to figure out something. What I figured out is the following: .0186723 for 3 blocks in an 11 hour period. I make .01746733 on average for each block we find on here. That total for BTC Guild was for 3 BLOCKS. SLUSH RULES... PERIOD!!! I have to find 3 blocks on BTC for every 1 block we find on here! It's a no brainer... SLUSH RULES... PERIOD!!! The only way it would benefit me is if we did not find a block at all on here during that entire 11 hour period. But how are we supposed to know that? It's a gamble I'm not willing to take!!! Translation: Somebody who doesn't understand PPLNS compares per block rewards from one pool to another instead of actual earnings. Also thinks 11 hours is sufficient to compare *any* pool to another. With a proper test, you'd have found that BTC Guild will pay you *per block* about half of what Slush does once you have shares in every shift, and find them about twice as often. The fees are identical, and BTC Guild pays NMC. Statistically, it will provide better income over enough time as a result. It is also unhoppable, while Slush's score system has been hoppable since 2011. shhhhh, don't tell people about it being hoppable =) just curious, did GAW have to ask permission to use your "BTCGuild" name as one of their own pools ? i see they recently changed it to Genesis Guild or something like that. Not sure what "GAW" is? I can store 3 pools in each Antminer S3 in "Miner Configurations." I have Slush on #2 and BTC on #3. I simply copy and paste from #2 or #3 into the #1 address pool to tell the S3 which pool I want to mine. It takes no more than 1 minute to log into one of my S3's and change the pool address to the pool I wish to mine. Even when I'm on the road training telephone technicians because I have a "static IP" assigned to my house. This means I can connect to my network at the house while I'm away and have access to my S3's to monitor them, change clock speed, change pools, etc... I have different "worker" names in each pool. I don't have the same names on each pool. I simply copy and past from one of the two pools I have already stored in #2 and #3 pool into the #1 pool choice. I also have each S3 book marked and labeled as antMiner_1, antMiner_2, etc.. This way, once I log in to my network at the house, I simply click on the bookmark for whatever antMiner I wish to configure, monitor, etc... Charter Communications did charge me another $20.00 each month for a static IP. Which sucks, but it's worth having for monitoring video cameras and other things at the house. as well as having access to my antMiners while I'm away. to me that's not pool hoping you can do the same thing with the S1 if you know what file to edit with shh and set it the same way in a S1 load balance , balance etc but with the S 3 i only saw three pool setting in the UI . S1 has none you have edit it in but can use any that Cgminer will let you in the S1 not sure if even editing in the S3 will let you now. I'll find out later today . btw i like BGFMINER more but no ant yet has it but some are working on it I've found BFG to be more stable for me then CG is but i can't use that in ants unless you know were i can. POOL hopping is using a program that searches the webb for you and switch you the best one at that moment i can see were that would piss off a few that i won't do . Okay, now I know what "pool hopping" is. As you know, I'm not using cgminer of bgfminer. I'm just using Bitmain Antminers with no program. The only thing I've seen here lately, which refers to solo mining on BitSolo, may give you a tip [or not] for setting up ASIC hardware in cg or bfg-miner. I copied and pasted the following from http://bitsolo.net/how-to/Bitcoin ASIC HardwareFollow this section if you have purchased bitcoin ASIC hardware. Download and install cgminer from cgminer homepage Create a file named start.bat in the same directory you installed cgminerEdit the file and put in the following cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitsolo.net:3334 -u 1KbfPjjpwu5undFfGULwYpVyvo8gpdpCGH -p x Change 1KbfPjjpwu5undFfGULwYpVyvo8gpdpCGH to be your Bitcoin address.This is the address payments will be sent. Run start.bat by double clicking on it. You should now have a window with cgminer running and mining for you. Graphics Card Following this section if you are planning to mine with your graphics card. Download and install BFGMiner version 3.6.0 from BFGMiner Download. Additional instructions can be found from BFGMiner Homepage. Create a file named start.bat in the same directory you installed bfgminer. Edit the file and put in the following bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitsolo.net:3334 -u 1KbfPjjpwu5undFfGULwYpVyvo8gpdpCGH -p x Change 1KbfPjjpwu5undFfGULwYpVyvo8gpdpCGH to be your Bitcoin address.This is the address payments will be sent. Run start.bat by double clicking on it. You should now have a window with bfgminer running and mining for you. Watch and Wait You need to keep your miner running at all times to mine. To find out if you have found a block look at the Best Share column on cgminer or BS on bfgminer. This will tell you your Best Share found so far. If this is higher than the network difficulty then you have found a block. Additionally, when you have found a block it will show up in My Account tab and then be sent to your Bitcoin address :-) This is the tough part so be prepared to watch and wait. To be honest, not many people have the mental attitude or patience to solo mine so you are a member of a select group if you make it past a week / month of solo mining. cgminer run the antminer . On BitSolo's website http://bitsolo.net/how-to/, THEY lead me to believe you can use "ASIC HARDWARE," such as a Bitmain Antminer to mine with cgminer. I could be misunderstanding. I'm just now researching it today after finding their website last night. I don't know a thing about WINDOWS OS. I've had Mac's since year 2000. I'm wanting to put 2 Bitmain Antminer S3's on BitSolo's pool IF I CAN. It appears you can using cgminer but I'm not sure because I know NOTHING about the program. It would be something else I have to learn about mining. Ive been to that site did they give you a upload of some kind to replace the antminer software I'll have to go there again and read more. cool that how i found out about solo mining i love that link when i found a month back . |
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My mining pool experience was:
Slush -> Ghash.io -> Back to Slush and i'll stay here for the rest of my life.
Of course i did test some other pools but i didnt trust them, was gonna try Eligius but was much research time..meh
I switched over to BTC Guild with all of my 10 S3's going on it to figure out something. What I figured out is the following: .0186723 for 3 blocks in an 11 hour period. I make .01746733 on average for each block we find on here. That total for BTC Guild was for 3 BLOCKS. SLUSH RULES... PERIOD!!! I have to find 3 blocks on BTC for every 1 block we find on here! It's a no brainer... SLUSH RULES... PERIOD!!! The only way it would benefit me is if we did not find a block at all on here during that entire 11 hour period. But how are we supposed to know that? It's a gamble I'm not willing to take!!! Translation: Somebody who doesn't understand PPLNS compares per block rewards from one pool to another instead of actual earnings. Also thinks 11 hours is sufficient to compare *any* pool to another. With a proper test, you'd have found that BTC Guild will pay you *per block* about half of what Slush does once you have shares in every shift, and find them about twice as often. The fees are identical, and BTC Guild pays NMC. Statistically, it will provide better income over enough time as a result. It is also unhoppable, while Slush's score system has been hoppable since 2011. shhhhh, don't tell people about it being hoppable =) just curious, did GAW have to ask permission to use your "BTCGuild" name as one of their own pools ? i see they recently changed it to Genesis Guild or something like that. Not sure what "GAW" is? I can store 3 pools in each Antminer S3 in "Miner Configurations." I have Slush on #2 and BTC on #3. I simply copy and paste from #2 or #3 into the #1 address pool to tell the S3 which pool I want to mine. It takes no more than 1 minute to log into one of my S3's and change the pool address to the pool I wish to mine. Even when I'm on the road training telephone technicians because I have a "static IP" assigned to my house. This means I can connect to my network at the house while I'm away and have access to my S3's to monitor them, change clock speed, change pools, etc... I have different "worker" names in each pool. I don't have the same names on each pool. I simply copy and past from one of the two pools I have already stored in #2 and #3 pool into the #1 pool choice. I also have each S3 book marked and labeled as antMiner_1, antMiner_2, etc.. This way, once I log in to my network at the house, I simply click on the bookmark for whatever antMiner I wish to configure, monitor, etc... Charter Communications did charge me another $20.00 each month for a static IP. Which sucks, but it's worth having for monitoring video cameras and other things at the house. as well as having access to my antMiners while I'm away. to me that's not pool hoping you can do the same thing with the S1 if you know what file to edit with shh and set it the same way in a S1 load balance , balance etc but with the S 3 i only saw three pool setting in the UI . S1 has none you have edit it in but can use any that Cgminer will let you in the S1 not sure if even editing in the S3 will let you now. I'll find out later today . btw i like BGFMINER more but no ant yet has it but some are working on it I've found BFG to be more stable for me then CG is but i can't use that in ants unless you know were i can. POOL hopping is using a program that searches the webb for you and switch you the best one at that moment i can see were that would piss off a few that i won't do . Okay, now I know what "pool hopping" is. As you know, I'm not using cgminer of bgfminer. I'm just using Bitmain Antminers with no program. The only thing I've seen here lately, which refers to solo mining on BitSolo, may give you a tip [or not] for setting up ASIC hardware in cg or bfg-miner. I copied and pasted the following from http://bitsolo.net/how-to/Bitcoin ASIC HardwareFollow this section if you have purchased bitcoin ASIC hardware. Download and install cgminer from cgminer homepage Create a file named start.bat in the same directory you installed cgminerEdit the file and put in the following cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitsolo.net:3334 -u 1KbfPjjpwu5undFfGULwYpVyvo8gpdpCGH -p x Change 1KbfPjjpwu5undFfGULwYpVyvo8gpdpCGH to be your Bitcoin address.This is the address payments will be sent. Run start.bat by double clicking on it. You should now have a window with cgminer running and mining for you. Graphics Card Following this section if you are planning to mine with your graphics card. Download and install BFGMiner version 3.6.0 from BFGMiner Download. Additional instructions can be found from BFGMiner Homepage. Create a file named start.bat in the same directory you installed bfgminer. Edit the file and put in the following bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitsolo.net:3334 -u 1KbfPjjpwu5undFfGULwYpVyvo8gpdpCGH -p x Change 1KbfPjjpwu5undFfGULwYpVyvo8gpdpCGH to be your Bitcoin address.This is the address payments will be sent. Run start.bat by double clicking on it. You should now have a window with bfgminer running and mining for you. Watch and Wait You need to keep your miner running at all times to mine. To find out if you have found a block look at the Best Share column on cgminer or BS on bfgminer. This will tell you your Best Share found so far. If this is higher than the network difficulty then you have found a block. Additionally, when you have found a block it will show up in My Account tab and then be sent to your Bitcoin address :-) This is the tough part so be prepared to watch and wait. To be honest, not many people have the mental attitude or patience to solo mine so you are a member of a select group if you make it past a week / month of solo mining. cgminer runs the antminer atm so there is no way that i know of using any thing but CGminer that whats inside the the antminer. i want BFG inside my antminer as my miner not CGMiner if you khow how to tell me plz . I want to solo mine but atm don't have at least one stand alone with at least 1.5 th to do just that while i do other stuff, i like mining in pools to see all neat ideas they come up with also I want to solo mine but i need at least one stand a lone for with some power. I get bored fast solo mining . |
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My mining pool experience was:
Slush -> Ghash.io -> Back to Slush and i'll stay here for the rest of my life.
Of course i did test some other pools but i didnt trust them, was gonna try Eligius but was much research time..meh
I switched over to BTC Guild with all of my 10 S3's going on it to figure out something. What I figured out is the following: .0186723 for 3 blocks in an 11 hour period. I make .01746733 on average for each block we find on here. That total for BTC Guild was for 3 BLOCKS. SLUSH RULES... PERIOD!!! I have to find 3 blocks on BTC for every 1 block we find on here! It's a no brainer... SLUSH RULES... PERIOD!!! The only way it would benefit me is if we did not find a block at all on here during that entire 11 hour period. But how are we supposed to know that? It's a gamble I'm not willing to take!!! Translation: Somebody who doesn't understand PPLNS compares per block rewards from one pool to another instead of actual earnings. Also thinks 11 hours is sufficient to compare *any* pool to another. With a proper test, you'd have found that BTC Guild will pay you *per block* about half of what Slush does once you have shares in every shift, and find them about twice as often. The fees are identical, and BTC Guild pays NMC. Statistically, it will provide better income over enough time as a result. It is also unhoppable, while Slush's score system has been hoppable since 2011. shhhhh, don't tell people about it being hoppable =) just curious, did GAW have to ask permission to use your "BTCGuild" name as one of their own pools ? i see they recently changed it to Genesis Guild or something like that. Not sure what "GAW" is? I can store 3 pools in each Antminer S3 in "Miner Configurations." I have Slush on #2 and BTC on #3. I simply copy and paste from #2 or #3 into the #1 address pool to tell the S3 which pool I want to mine. It takes no more than 1 minute to log into one of my S3's and change the pool address to the pool I wish to mine. Even when I'm on the road training telephone technicians because I have a "static IP" assigned to my house. This means I can connect to my network at the house while I'm away and have access to my S3's to monitor them, change clock speed, change pools, etc... I have different "worker" names in each pool. I don't have the same names on each pool. I simply copy and past from one of the two pools I have already stored in #2 and #3 pool into the #1 pool choice. I also have each S3 book marked and labeled as antMiner_1, antMiner_2, etc.. This way, once I log in to my network at the house, I simply click on the bookmark for whatever antMiner I wish to configure, monitor, etc... Charter Communications did charge me another $20.00 each month for a static IP. Which sucks, but it's worth having for monitoring video cameras and other things at the house. as well as having access to my antMiners while I'm away. to me that's not pool hoping you can do the same thing with the S1 if you know what file to edit with shh and set it the same way in a S1 load balance , balance etc but with the S 3 i only saw three pool setting in the UI . S1 has none you have edit it in but you can use any setting Cgminer supports not sure if editing the S3 will let you now. I'll find out later today . btw i like BGFMINER more but no ant yet has it but some are working on it I've found BFG to be more stable for me then CG is but i can't use that in ants unless you know were or how i can or link i can read about how I've been looking. POOL hopping is using a program that searches the webb for you and switch you the best one at that moment i can see were that would piss off a few,that i won't do . ^ or for short a BOT . how i see it . term from playing many long hours in games. lol |
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