hi guys, just a question, can i point my rockminer here?
thank you.
Sure, works best with cgminer+ckpool combo. |
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Dear user ant.1 please change your username to be a valid bitcoin address as you cannot mine on this pool with that sort of username.
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So what happened to the good old days of trying to have a real p2ppool??? Is the p2ppool Bitmain dream dead and we are back to the typical centralized and fee-based stuff as usual??
With so much money and great team and opportunity to do justice to Bitcoin why give up??
I already answered this on the previous page: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=855548.msg10382901#msg10382901 |
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Im using cgminer with my KNC JUPITIER
is there anyway to temporarily disable mining within the software?
Going to Devices in the settings only lets you disable a core but there are 500 cores each.
No there isn't. |
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So every time a new official version of Bitcoin Core is released I try to connect to it to check if solo mining is working with a GPU like in the old days. For that I use the latest version of CGMiner which supported GPU's (v3.7.2) and GUIMiner. This worked fine with all versions up to 0.9.3 with the bitcoin.conf below:
The getwork protocol was removed from bitcoin core since it was a pointless way to mine and didn't scale to modern hardware. You need modern mining software to be able to solo mine to it now. Try with the current cgminer pointed at bitcoind (even if you don't have any mining hardware), but you have to specify a mine-to address with --btc-address as extra to solo mine. |
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And what kind of modification or add-on must be done to achieve the solo.ckpool functionality? We want to setup one here in Russia to get better pings.
Custom code which is not part of the ckpool code. Like I said solo.ckpool.org is special and I'm not really interested in helping others set up a competing pool with the same unique feature. |
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Everything is UP and working on testnet - thanks once again for great software.
But when the block was found - all the reward (except the 0.5% fee) was sent to btcaddress of the ckpool.conf, not the worker/miner address. Even there is no data in logs about what worker found a block. What should I do (config or some extra software) to make it send the reward to miner address as solo.ckpool.org does?
You can only mine to the ckpool.conf address. Solo.ckpool.org is special. |
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configure:12878: checking linux/un.h usability
ac_cv_build=i686-pc-linux-gnu Looks like something is missing, but what? But it compiles and runs without any errors thrown. Please, it's 2015. This is 64 bit code only, but if it's working ignore the error as it's just something to do with your distribution. |
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how to know when found a block without cheking wallet all the time ?  All block finds are announced here. |
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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!
Starting diff is 1k you will get shares only very infrequently to start with at that low a hashrate. Eventually the pool will set you to a lower diff or if you were running cgminer instead of the hostile fork based off it you could also use the --suggest-diff command. It doesn't matter since shares have no intrinsic value with solo mining anyway. They're just mining feedback here. |
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First of all - thanks for all your work! Now trying to setup a test pool on testnet - and get: [2015-02-24 00:07:45] HTTP response not ok: HTTP/1.0 401 Authorization Required
[2015-02-24 00:07:45] Reopening socket to localhost:18332
[2015-02-24 00:07:45] Failed to get valid json response to getblocktemplate
[2015-02-24 00:07:45] CRITICAL: No bitcoinds active!
Do I need extra command or config lines? You need to set up the rpc username and password on your bitcoind and set the same auth and password in your ckpool.conf file. |
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Please allow me to expand my question, do I need to open any specific ports for cgminer to talk to ckpool.org? Thanks for helping a noob.
No you do not. You are having some other kind of trouble, and it is not really clear what that trouble is. I opened TCP port 3333 to outgoing traffic on my firewall and PRESTO, I'm mining!  Thank you so much to everyone who answered my questions. You restrict outgoing traffic? Ok... that's unusual but perhaps windows needs all the security help it can get so I guess it does that by default and I didn't predict it. |
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Please allow me to expand my question, do I need to open any specific ports for cgminer to talk to ckpool.org? Thanks for helping a noob.
No you do not. You are having some other kind of trouble, and it is not really clear what that trouble is. |
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I'm really not understanding the concept of a solo pooled mining. Seems an oxymoron. Can someone explain? How is this different than mining a block on my own?
The opening post explains what the advantages are over solo mining yourself. |
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The U3s are notoriously unreliable even out of the factory I'm afraid. Try a different cable than the one they gave you and make sure they're only connected to a USB2 slot or a separate hub with usb2 slots if you are trying in usb3 slots. Those commands are missing an extra hyphen: --au3-volt
Tried a different cable and no dice. The little red light inside the U3 comes on when I plug in either cable, and my comp sees when I plug it in, so I think the cable is not an issue. My computer is old, it doesn't have usb3, so no issue there. Anything else I could try, besides contacting the seller for a replacement? When I add the extra hyphen to --au3-volt --au3-freq --suggest-diff those options get accepted at the command line, thank you. How would I set the baud rate and timeout for the U3, I do not see that option. I see "--bitmain-options Set bitmain options baud:miners:asic:timeout:freq", but not sure if that is the correct option, or what value I would use for miners, asic, or freq (since freq appears to be set by --au3-freq). Additionally, when it says "press q to quit", pressing q doesn't do anything. Thank you. Your U3 is probably stuffed if it doesn't show up but numerous goes at restarting the computer, unplugging and plugging it in again and doing the zadig dance or praying to certain gods might help. Baud rate is for hardware from the 1970s and is not used by cgminer though other software does because someone somewhere once used it on one of the first pieces of mining hardware and everyone just copied that command when they made their driver. Just ignore that. The q only really works once it's up and running properly but you have so far gotten nothing running. |
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New user here, just wanting to try mining for the "lottery" effect, as well as contribute to the bitcoin network.
My first piece of mining gear arrirved yesterday, an antminer U3. I Installed and configured it correctly w/driver and zadig. Downloaded latest cgminer (4.9.1), ran cgminer with the following: cgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333 -u MYADDRESS.0 -p xx3
And I receive:
No Devices Detected!
Any suggestions? Thank you.
And a separate issue with command line options (may be related to No Devices Attached?), I tried inserting a few of the U3 specific options at the command line, -au3-volt -au3-freq, but each returns the error:
cgminer.exe: -au3-volt: unrecognized option
If I try to insert any command line option that starts with '-s', -suggest-diff for example, I get this error:
cgminer.exe: -s: 'uggest-diff' is not a number
Please help this noob if you can, I'm anxious to get this going! Thanks again in advance.
-mikestang
The U3s are notoriously unreliable even out of the factory I'm afraid. Try a different cable than the one they gave you and make sure they're only connected to a USB2 slot or a separate hub with usb2 slots if you are trying in usb3 slots. Those commands are missing an extra hyphen: --au3-volt |
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Isn't it true that if you mine on a node with other people (in your local area, to keep latency down), you can reduce difficulty to get a share that way (as the entire node finds a share, and distributes it to the participants via a lower difficulty pps method)? I see that to be a viable workaround to flaw #2 above. Sure, it might boost centralization a bit as miners conglomerate into local nodes, but as long as there are geographic distances between miners super-nodes (51% of hashrate) shouldn't exist due to latency. If this has already been answered in the thread, sorry! Yes it's been discussed (and done) many times before. You'll see the irony in this solution when you realise that the solution to the problem with distributed mining is... pooled mining. It requires a level of communication and trust and coordination which totally undoes the whole concept of everyone running their own p2pool node which need not have any trust component to it. |
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Congratulations to 174yX8zgevuCtcGjKnhEVEHXVEYPDJEC3C with ~500TH! [2015-02-21 03:52:34] Possible block solve diff 66760137006.007607 !
[2015-02-21 03:52:36] BLOCK ACCEPTED!
[2015-02-21 03:52:36] Solved and confirmed block 344466
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