I canceled my pre-order for my single. My pre-order was real late and by the time I would have gotten the hardware to start mining I probably even wouldn't be able to get my money back. The guys who can drop $30-$50k on mining hardware are the only ones going to make any money. It is the same thing with US dollars. It takes money to make money and the rich just get richer. This also applies to the BTC world.
Yeah, that's the spirit. So which came first? the chicken or the egg? |
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Anyone trust Butterfly Lab and pre-ordered?
Nope, no one. |
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Nobody seemed inclined to comment on my previous posts, but it's kind of bugging me.
Why does stratum require all lower case worker names in the command line? I'm using poclbm w/native stratum support for testing.
Thanks,
Sam
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You may get more CGMiner support if you post in the CGMiner support thread.
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Did you try posting in the CGMiner thread? That's a good place to receive CGMiner help.
Sam
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Im on the latest drivers atm mate and its sat at 184 right now but the gpu is at 80 deg. Is that normal?
On my 5770 I'm getting around 215 Mhs @ 69ish degrees celcius. 80 may be normal for some but its high for my comfort zone. I overclock the engine to 935Mhz and underclock the memory to 250Mhz and run -k phatk -v 2 -w 256 in CGMiner 2.7.5. Sam |
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d:\bitcoin\phoenix>phoenix.exe -u http://********:*******:1111/ -k phatk2 DEVICE=0 VECTORS BFI_INI AGGRESSION=4
What do I do....
I'm going slowly insane.
What do you do? First post your problem in the thread for the miner your trying to use. Second try a supported mining program. Ufasoft is always a good and easy miner for beginners. After you get that working then try CGMiner. Good Luck, Sam |
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Nice to see that poclbm and cgminer have native support.
What? cgminer supports stratum now? I haven't seen a new release since 2.7.5. Or are you commenting on the fact that ckolivas said that he would consider supporting it? Sam |
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U=3.1 for 860Mh/s at BTC Stratum and 11 on a few pools when using Stratum. Rebooted all systems and they settled into 3's overnight. Ran elsewhere and get U of 10-11 in a minute and that is where its been for near 1/2 a day already.
Had been running great until difficulty changed then it took a crap all over and I don't see if the Diff is 1 or higher but I am looking
Where would that info be.. I am still looking for my dynamic difficulty
What does your WU: say? Sam |
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^^^^^^^ Was never a math major  Very true  . But I figure if allot of, what will be low end miners, start solo mining that would go a way's into decentralizing the network. And random chance will pay off once in a while. Anyway that's what I'm going to do IF the difficulty skyrockets. I'm too stubborn to just quit. Sam You could just put a space heater out on your porch, it'll use about the same amount of electricity, it'll be cheaper to buy, and it'll generate just a many bitcoins. Well my GPU's will be space heaters in the living room this winter and be available for games too. Maybe solo mining won't pay off but maybe it will. My meager 500Mhs has found 3 blocks via pools which has garnered me 100BTC. Maybe I would have earned more solo, maybe not. That's the great thing about Bitcoin, higher hash rate only increases your chances of finding a block. Lower hash rate does NOT eliminate you from the chance of finding a block. It is all just random chance in the end. If the jalapeno's do come to fruition I will can certainly afford at least a couple of those which will decrease my power consumption. But 3.5Ghs in a 400+Ths network is still miniscule, but I still won't just quit. My .02BTC worth Sam |
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Ok, well this post is more of a question about mining pools than litecoin itself so I believe it to be appropriately placed. In the future, maybe worry more about your own affairs and less about mine...? The most important part of running a pool, it seems to me, is getting along with your neighbors. Sam |
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^^^^^^^ Was never a math major Very true . But I figure if allot of, what will be low end miners, start solo mining that would go a way's into decentralizing the network. And random chance will pay off once in a while. Anyway that's what I'm going to do IF the difficulty skyrockets. I'm too stubborn to just quit. Sam |
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Are you going to switch to LTC, PPCoin, etc... or just cash out your hardware by selling on ebay or similar?
Non of the above. I'll solo mine full time as soon as it isn't profitable to pool mine anymore. Sam |
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Heh, the more things change, the more they stay the same  Nuff said. Anyway unfortunately for some (one?), I'm not dead and was not going to abandon cgminer, but family comes first. Things are still bad there but I'm finding my feet again. I'll look at the stratum protocol at some stage soon. Thanks for checking in. Look forward to your return, when you are ready and not before. Hopefully the pissing contest will have died down by then. Take Care, Sam |
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When connecting with poclbm, make sure you type the address as: stratum://[worker_name]:123@stratum.btcguild.com:9332
If you use http:// instead of stratum://, it won't work.
That's what I did. I copied, pasted and edited that line from your earlier post. After it failed I did try the http://[worker_name]:123@btcguild.com:8332 to verify that poclbm would work with the normal protocol and it it did. Sam Are you positive you have the most recent poclbm? I just tested the EXE version again, and it connected right away with: poclbm.exe -d0 stratum://eleuthria_fpga:123@stratum.btcguild.com:9332 I tried it with yesterday's build and then with today's build. Got the same error's on both. I would say something is wrong with my setup but, it works fine with http to btcguild.com. Dunno. Thanks, Sam Edit: I just tried it with your account and it worked. So I looked at my command line again and changed the upper case characters in my worker name to lower case and now it is working. Thanks, Sam |
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As always, some small fixes were needed. Please update with the latest version.
Hmm, I just downloaded today's build and am getting the same results as yesterdays. Sam Edit: I looked at my command line again and changed the upper case characters in my worker name to lower case and now it is working. Thanks, Sam |
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Any ideas if I'm doing something wrong, if something is wrong with the new poclbm or something with the stratum pool?
I was able to connect to BTC Guild with the standard protocol and port and it does work. So the problem seems to lie somewhere in the stratum implementation.
Thanks,
Sam
Make sure when connecting to BTC Guild's stratum server, you use stratum:// as the prefix, not http:// Yep, did that. Some guy on the BTC Guild thread made the same suggestion. Thanks, Sam |
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stratum.btcguild.com:9332 18/09/2012 20:39:42, IO errors - 2, tolerance 2
stratum.btcguild.com:9332 18/09/2012 20:39:42, [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
stratum.btcguild.com:9332 18/09/2012 20:39:45, IO errors - 3, tolerance 2
stratum.btcguild.com:9332 18/09/2012 20:39:45, No more backup pools left. Using
primary and starting over.
stratum.btcguild.com:9332 18/09/2012 20:39:45, Setting server (os2sam_CGMiner @
stratum.btcguild.com:9332)
stratum.btcguild.com:9332 [262.457 MH/s (~0 MH/s)] [Rej: 0/0 (0.00%)] stratum.btcguild.com:9332 [262.457 MH/s (~0 MH/s)] [Rej: 0/0 (0.00%)]
what's that? (can proxy estimate hashrate ?) why I don't have it? That's not the proxy. That's trying to use poclbm directly since it now supports stratum. Sam |
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When connecting with poclbm, make sure you type the address as: stratum://[worker_name]:123@stratum.btcguild.com:9332
If you use http:// instead of stratum://, it won't work.
That's what I did. I copied, pasted and edited that line from your earlier post. After it failed I did try the http://[worker_name]:123@btcguild.com:8332 to verify that poclbm would work with the normal protocol and it it did. Sam |
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sorry for being noob but what is the best pool to go with in terms of reward ?
There's not really one "best pool". Solving blocks is a random event after all. One pool may be having terrible luck while another is having great luck. So if you have allot of hash power you may want to split it between several pools. Kind of like diversifying your investment portfolio. Sam Thank you for your explanation, is that like pool hopping ? No. If you have multiple Rigs/FPGA/GPU's you could point each one at a different pool and mine full time on each pool. Or you could use Balancing or Load Balancing with CG Miner. That way your more likely to have better luck overall. Pool hopping is a very complex operation, I wouldn't recommend it for a noob. And it is very unpopular with some folks. Sam |
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