Would it be worth spending the $200 or so for a Single Blue Fury?
The Block Eruptor Fury is cheaper, yet shows a MHash rate of 5 times that of the Blue Fury. I am not sure if there is an issue with the pricing on Amazon or maybe they have reduced in pricing.
You'll just have to run some bitcoin mining calculators (google those) and try to predict whether it is profitable. Noone knows for sure how the difficulty will be in the future. The bitminter shows additional tools and such... Is there anything else I can be doing to mine on top of running your software?
It's mostly about hardware. Add more hardware and run whatever mining client supports it. |
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Website updated today. Transaction history got a new details/summary filter and also export to CSV file.
Let me know if you are happy or unhappy with how it works.
I may add more file formats in the future, but there is a lot of software that can eat CSV files.
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Hi!
When i try to start bitminter i get the yellow coin for a while and then i get the java confirm thingy and the the downloading application. It then just exits. I have only had it working once and that was the first time when my computer shut down when it was running.
I have tried ti delete Catalyst and installing the beta 13.11.
I have a 7970 Sapphire and an fx-8350 amd processor.
This is usually due to AMD drivers crashing. Often it leaves a hs_err_pid crash log file on the desktop, but it can sometimes end up elsewhere. It usually contains some text saying the problematic frame is amdocl.dll (AMD OpenCL driver). Usually this is fixed by installing another Catalyst version. Sadly many of the 2013 versions are unstable. |
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No devices to start! Please connect mining hardware to USB port(s) and use devices menu to probe for them.
CPU mining was obsoleted in 2011 and is completely useless now. It has been disabled in the latest version of Bitminter client. GPU mining was obsoleted in 2013, and the electricity costs outweigh the income. Even though it is not profitable you could try it to learn how mining works. This is still supported in Bitminter client. But it appears the graphics card you have does not support OpenCL so it won't work on that computer. Either that or you don't have proper drivers installed. Try it on a computer with an AMD graphics card. Real mining now is done with ASIC hardware: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison#ASIC |
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There has only been 3 bitcoin blocks in the last 2 hours, so transactions are piling up. Unfortunately ghash.io got two of those three blocks, and they are still creating small blocks, not including a lot of transactions. Should clear up soon. Would certainly help if ghash.io would create larger blocks. |
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is there any way to get this to work with the new bi fury 5gh/s usb sticks as I have been trying to get it to work but it doesn't work for me
Those are not supported. Try bfgminer instead, link from front page of bitminter.com. Maybe Bitminter client will get support for those in the future. Edit: It looks like I need to download Java Webstart.
Just install Java from java.com. Java Webstart is included in the Java distributions for Windows and Mac OS X. |
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I asked support about a manual cashout around the beginning of December and they said "soon." Any idea when that will be?
It's been delayed with all the ddos attacks, but I'm working on it right now. |
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Yes, that would be the plan, I like the bitminter site to much to let it go, nice web interface, and the client itself is very nice.
Hub (see below) has a new port every 3 sockets so I should be able to keep em separate to software scans.
You can use cgminer on the Bitminter pool. cgminer -o stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333 -u user_worker -p X
You can see here which clients people are using: https://bitminter.com/minersStratum noname is probably mostly Stratum proxy. Some versions of it had a bug where they would not tell the server which client they are. |
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Does BitMinter Support the TwinFury USB Miner ?
No, sorry, at least not yet. |
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Reminder: myopenid.com shuts down february 1. Switch to a new OpenID provider if you use them with Bitminter. You can add a new OpenID identity under "my account" -> "logins" in the website menu.
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Would my php info file help et you that info ? Or you can jus tell me the commands I should run in PuTTy to get the info.
Sorry, I don't know PHP. Did you try Phraust's Bitminter API for PHP? https://github.com/Phraust/BitMinter_API |
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Hey Doc, gotta favor to ask... I know next to nohing about JSON etc.
Anyway... I have the API perk activated. I was wondering if you might help me with the code I would need to successffully pull and display my hash rate from your site on my site.
Username on your site is the same as here, MoreBloodWine
Ty.
That depends on which language and web framework, etc. you are using. |
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Hi
It is known when having bitminter client support for bi-fury usb miner 5GH/s?
thanks
No immediate plans for this, sorry. Will have a look at it if I have time when things are less hectic. |
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When mining you spend most of your time on unlucky (long) rounds. That's because they take longer. That can be hard psychologically as it feels like you are having bad luck almost all the time. When you find some good luck it's usually over in a couple hours, because lucky rounds are finished quickly.
The last few weeks were pretty much right on the average, until a few days ago we had some bad luck. Good luck the last couple days nearly made up for it, but then we hit one of these worst 1% of blocks. Hoping for some quick rounds after this.
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Didn't they already do a double-spend or attempt one against a casino? Splitting into multiple pools doesn't change anything. The same with allowing miners to redirect cloud mining. They still control the hash rate.
This is important to understand. Too much hashpower controllable from one point is the danger. It doesn't matter where the machines are hashing right now, or whether the people usually in control are super nice. |
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Really strange the pool not finding a block for nearly 24 hours, when running at 360-440 TH/sec - at current difficulty the pool should be minting 5 blocks per day. Yes I know its not a given to get a particular amount per day and things do get unlucky now and then, this just seems wayyyy at the far end of 'very very very bad luck', which seems to happen to this pool now and then.
Probability theory would indicate that this will happen with 1% of our blocks. Why do you find it strange? Over time all pools hit 99% CDF blocks 1% of the time on average. This is also the same pool that brings you minted blocks with 0 shares submitted  Sometimes when a block is found after only a few seconds there is not time to register any work before the block is found. Of course a little work has been done before it is found, it's not actually found with zero work. |
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I've only mined on BitMinter due to ease of use on my Mac.
So my question is, do all pools go through blocks this long? I know everything averages out, but can some pools vary between 40 and 60, and some pools between 1 and 99 CDF? How are some pools luckier than others?
Luck comes and goes, for all pools. There's no magic to ensure always being lucky. |
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We should be good up to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 proofs of work aka "shares". I hope that's not the block we are working on right now. |
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