With respect to all the previous ZOMBIE reports, my unit would zombie with the usb cable it came with, but with one of my higher quality ones I haven't had any problems.

This would be an implement of said rape then, yes?

Puts a consumer model in perspective, too.

Why such an old version of cgminer?  I am using 4.9.0 with a cryptorig HH and an antminer U3.  To OC the hitchhiker you need a powered usb strip (would one of the new usb ports with a lightning bolt work too, maybe?) and a fan cuz that sucker is gonna get hot.  I have a small fan on mine even at stock settings. --nfu-bits 50 should be the right option for current version cgminer, and change the 50 as mentioned, use that in your batch file.  Your batch file should look like:


or enter that at the command line in the cgminer directory.  I haven't tried overclocking yet because I don't have a powered USB strip, but from what I can tell from the readme's that should be the right command, at least it's what I plan to do when I get the power strip this weekend.  It runs about 1.9-2.0gh for me stock 50 bits.

Unfollowed for the time being since it seems I missed this one; looking forward to the next Twitter promotion!

The jist of the article is that is much, much more complicated than anyone is anticipating.  It'll happen some day, but first I think we'll go back to the moon, and then to a near Earth asteroid.  Or there are plans to gravity capture an asteroid and put it into orbit around the moon, then go practice there for Mars.  I think expecting us to go from here, today, straight to Mars is a bit grandiose; there are a lot of intermediate steps that need to happen first.

I like Bitcoin Wallet, very easy to use, and it uses nodes like a desktop, no central service is needed for Bitcoin-related operations. 

Happy to report that I plugged in my nanofury usb stick, zadig'd it, and cgminer picked it right up on the fly.  Fear my massive hash!   Well, at least I'm hashing more than the entire BTC network in early 2011. 



Thanks again for all the help!

Good luck.  If it is all working except the fan be careful running it, you don't want it to over heat!  Although it shouldn't generate serious heat until it's hashing I would think.  I have myself an S1 sitting on my desk I'm getting ready to fire up, too.  Happy mining. 

No one "made" gold here, they refined it from an ore.  The only difference being they used bacteria to refine it rather than an industrial process.  The only way to make gold is with a supernova.

That's why asteroid-based mining + 3-D printing is the way to go.
http://gizmodo.com/how-asteroid-mining-could-pay-for-our-first-space-colon-1685429089

That's an explosives suit, not a bullet proof vest.

You did not present any "facts", just hype.  You're more likely to be killed in a car crash if you drive a car, you're more likely to drown if you swim a lot.  You're more likely to be taken seriously if you present an argument and back it up with actual facts and sources.

The average person is an idiot unfortunately, most can't even use a computer at all.  Talk fiat finance with technical terms and the average person will understand just as much as BTC, maybe even less because once you get into fiat finance you realize how BS and made up it all is.  The "average person" will learn and adapt, and as BTC becomes more and more accepted folks will develop ways to make it easier and easier to use.  The behind-the-scenes stuff will continue to be complicated by its very nature.

As long as you know it's a ponzi, then gambling is gambling.  You could make that same statement for gambling at large: it's stupid.  Some people search out high risk endeavors, knowing full well that they could get reamed in the end.  If you know it's a ponzi and you know what you're doing, you can have fun and make a little coin.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/danvergano/mars-aint-never-gonna-happen

Curious what this community thinks on this topic?  I am of the opinion that we have progressed beyond "get a man there first" like in the 1960s for the moon missions; our robots can do most of the exploring and field work at a fraction of the cost it would take to get humans there, and they do it much safer.  As the tech improves our robots will only get better at it.  I can't see any real benefit, especially when cost is factored in, to sending humans other than a cool factor or to say, "I did it first!".

I can get behind asteroid mining much sooner than I can a manned Mars mission.

Having a low opening bid and a reserve price is self-defeating.  People bid low if there's a chance of winning the item low.  You're better off setting the opening price with the minimum you'd accept.  Good luck with your sale.

As a small guy who's into this now for the kicks of it, I fully support your endeavors!  Good luck.

I went away to lunch and left the stick mining and came back to an adjusted difficulty and shares being accepted successfully.

I understand they have no intrinsic value here, I just wanted to be sure I was setting things up correctly and since I was not getting the same feedback I got with the U3 I figured something was amiss.  I am using cgminer at home and will use it for this stick as well when I get back.

Thank you both for your assistance, I really appreciate it.

Great information, thank you so much for laying it out for me.

I will attempt to get my solo mining going from home, the contribution to the network is important to me and I understand what you are saying.  I have a full node at home, so there I would be providing benefit if I solo mined.

I went away to lunch and left the stick mining and it adjusted its difficulty on its own and I am now having shares accepted successfully.

Thanks again for your assistance, I really appreciate it.

Now that I got the U3 up and running I'm trying my luck with the CrytoRig HitchHiker I mentioned previously.  I am using BFGMiner with this stick and appear to have successfully joined the pool, but it is not reporting any successful shares like cgminer did with my U3.  Is this normal to not get shares due to the slow speed of a single USB stick, maybe BFGminer doesn't report them like cgminer does, or is it indicative of a configuration error on my end?



Thanks in advance for the help again, and thanks for putting up with this noob's questions!

I am "solo" mining in ckpool because it keeps me from having to run a full node at work (which I can't do, but I do at home), and I like that this pool is lightweight and connected to high speed low latency bitcoin nodes for rapid block change notification and propagation.  What I am hoping to achieve is to contribute, albeit negligibly, to the Bitcoin network while giving myself a lottery ticket that plays every 10 minutes.

Seems I had a firewall issue not related to BFGMiner, got another miner working on my home machine, but did not have time to re-try the HitchHiker at home.  Brought it to work and seem to have it running here, I will test it again from home tonight to verify.

I don't seem to be finding any shares, however, which seems odd to me.  Command line display shows it chugging along at ~2.1gh, but not finding shares.  Not sure if that is a BFGminer issue or not.  Been running 10 minutes now and no shares .  Could this be a difficulty setting issue?  I don't see that BFGminer supports --suggest-diff or anything of that sort. [edit, found option --request-diff, which I think is the same thing, tried using it with value 6 and it would not connect to pool, so maybe not what I was looking for]  Any advice here welcomed (would a debug log of this activity help?).  Pict below:



Thank you.

I imagine there has to be a point where farm mining will become cost-prohibitive (maybe after the next reward halving?) and gradually everything will scale down, hopefully back to where the average consumer has a "reasonable" chance to hit a block.  The cost of equipment and electricity for large farms will be hard to justify as the reward decreases.  Although the scenario I'm imagining might just make pools the top dogs in the mining arena.  Part of what makes all of this fun to me is the speculation and wondering what will come next.