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I will answer some of your questions. I like LTC but current difficulty is so high, with 6 MLDs I can mine 0,0011 LTC which is, dunno 7-8 cents value. So to mine other tokens, there are a number of ways. Take a look at p.83 of this thread, one way has been described. Basically, for example you can sign up on any multi-pool (hash-to-coins is what I am using now) and create a worker. Then follow instructions there, copy the server address and worker details and replace those in the start file instead of the LTC address/worker ID there. You can also do it in terminal, and change mining strategy under settings so that it rotates between different pools. All highly customizable. I will say tho' that these USB miners can not well handle coins with too high difficulty, so try something 'easy'. Others may chime in, as I am pretty much a beginner also. Thanks for reply. 7 MNL2 now mining away. I have 6 offsite using VNC to control. 1 at home, but will also transfer to offsite address once my 90degree USD extenders arrive. I have a proper USB hub, so I think good for 10 MNL. I am running at default clock. Set up is noisy and soon getting into L3+ territory! I find that hanging USB best way to keep noise / vibration down (alas I don't have a safe set up to do this). Mining ... 7 MNL getting roughly 24MH on litepool.org , am up to 0.0075 LTC ... this is slow and very unprofitable. Questions: 1.So using BFGMiner / Linux / Raspberry Pi : how do I point my miners towards other coins ? 2.Can you mine other coin with BFG Miner ? 3.Am I stuck with litecoinpool.org ? 4.Can I mine solo ? 5.I would like to mine NewYorkCoin , Vertcoin , Dogecoin , is this possible ? I have a wallet with Coinomi that seems to support loads of coin (vs coinbase that has my LTC wallet but only supports about 5 coin). Thanks I have 7 MNL2 (6 on their way) 1 up and testing : raspberry pi 3 running one MNL on litecoin pool. I can see clearly now that at 9million difficulty and earning 0.0001724303117568 LTC over 24 hours , that is 1p . With 7 MNL2 running I will be making 7p every 24hours. This is seriously loss making. I would have invested almost £470 invested for 7 miners + 2 USB (one serious USB) I paid roughly £64 each miner ... looks like I will make a serious loss. Should I have bought a Bitman Antminer L3+ for £250 ? This is all new to me. I am pleased that I am finally mining. I also think the raspberry pi is a great tool. Love the fact can control via VNC tool. The MLN2 has the advantage of being quiet and be mined from home. Surely we should find new pastures for the MNL2 away from LTC ? We have the advatange of such low wats to hash ... there must be somewhere we can use this to our advantage ? LTC must be mined at a loss for everyone if entering market now? Difficulty jumped so much, which is weird given price has dropped. Are there any ASIC resistant coin we can mine ? How would you set up the Raspberry pi ? I just managed to set up BFG miner , and that was not easy. One note on BFG, we are told to update to new version , however all the instructions / tutorials only explain how to install the 1st version on a raspberry pi. Could someone tell me how I can check which version of BFG I am running, and step by step how to upgrade ? i.e. sudo gets install method. I am also thinking, why can't we here set up a coin. For the Futurebit Moonlander community ? Optimised for our miners i.e. not pure hash power, however efficiency will play part. Coin , needs a community, well it starts here : we have the mining tool that is both affordable and cheap to run and not too difficult to set up (this will improve). Thanks for any replies But I want to try and mine another coin/token-maybe Digibyte or another Scrypt one in hash-to-coins.
Many Antminer L3+ were sold in the last few months, so I saw difficulty almost double. You can try multipool.us if you want to try a multi coin pool that will switch automatically for you. Even if you have 6 MLDs, I don't think you'll recoup your investment ever, especially with cost of electricity. Do it for fun and leave it at that. Quick couple of points - although it's tempting to work your 'earnings' back into fiat, do bear in mind that LTC is very low at the moment, so that'll make you feel worse. Always best to look at the coin earnings rather than the conversion rates. Secondly, LTC has seen a massive spike in difficulty, as others have noted, so best hunt around for other options - hashfaster has a few, and there are plenty of other scrypt coins out there - solo mining something esoteric might work too. |
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I also started rotate mining to try and get more than a fraction of a fraction of LTC. At the moment I am trying my luck on GLD.
Signed up on hash-to-coins and used instructions given by kind users here (page 83) to make it work.
It does work, only I notice that the miners HW percentage goes much higher whenever I point the miners to the multipool.
Anyone know why this may be the case?
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Will tell you what I did, as it may help you:
I ordered replacement fans online. First I got wrong ones (12V) - the right ones are 5V (25mm*10mm). So I also got some of the 5V ones, since they're cheap. But after all, I actually replaced the 5V with 12 V. These 12V are obviously underpowered and therefore run at low speed/limited cooling capacity. But that also means they are completely silent. In my case the noise is an important factor, as if its too noisy my wife will complain...
What I also did to ensure enough cooling, because we're having close to 30 degrees Celcius at the moment: I ordered a very quiet and very effective Volador USB fan fan off of amazon. <-- this fan has two speed options. Most of the time, lower speed is totally enough to keep the miners below 60 degrees. As a result I have 6 quite stable running miners that make as much noise as a desktop computer.
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Thank you very much Donkenstien!
This is awesome help, quite involved instructions. Will be my Saturday or Sunday mission to work through your instructions.
Thank you for explaining to this level of detail.
Good karma back at you!
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But I want to try and mine another coin/token-maybe Digibyte or another Scrypt one in hash-to-coins.
Many Antminer L3+ were sold in the last few months, so I saw difficulty almost double. You can try multipool.us if you want to try a multi coin pool that will switch automatically for you. Even if you have 6 MLDs, I don't think you'll recoup your investment ever, especially with cost of electricity. Do it for fun and leave it at that. I think you're probably right. I could have bought more LTC than I will earn with the MLDs over the next decade for the same price. But really that isn't the entire point. I am interested in understanding mining, so its just like another hobby. But at the same time, trying to mine a much cheaper coin (like DGB) may turn out favourable if it increases in value. Thus my second question: How do I split, say 3 miners to mine LTC in litecoinpool and then another 3 miners to mine Digibyte in multipool or hash-to-coins? I am not a big expert. Basically this exercise was the first time I have started using sudo commands ever. So if you know how to divide the miners up, pls ELI5. Using raspi3, Linux access through a mac. |
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Can anyone give me some detailed instructions please on the following:
I have 6 MLDs. They're all currently mining LTC in litecoinpool. But I want to try and mine another coin/token-maybe Digibyte or another Scrypt one in hash-to-coins.
I am running my miners through a raspi 3 on linux. But I'm not advanced user. Can anyone share some tips and instructions as to how I need to go about setting this up.
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I will report back my experiences as follows:
I have 3 MLDs, running on a Pi - Linux from a mac. I had a 7-port USDB 3.0 Plugable and it never worked smoothly.
I got very curious as to identify why that was the case and eliminated gradually different causes for the instability of the miners - including reinstalling bfg on the raspi SD card, switching the power inlet to the USB hub, adding fans etc. Finally I caved in and got an new USB hub, this time a 10-port Sipolar (as recommended here several times). I also got a secondary desktop fan and disconnected the noisier small fans on the stick.
I can say that now my miners have been running completely stable, clocked at 800Hz and with the external fan quietly blowing on them generating around 4.5 Mh/s each with a temp in the mid 50C. So, in my case the instability was caused by a combination of not enough power from the hub combined with lack of cooling.
Thus, even others seem to have had no problems with the Plugable USB hub, I would not recommend it, but would recommend forking out the slightly higher prices of the Sipolar hubs. You can get them from either eyeboot or aliexpress (if you're willing to risk it).
Cheers!
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I have 3 MLDs but have never been able to run them continuously powered by a USB hub. There are always problems causing me to have to restart the USB hub, replug the miners into different ports, ports losing power etc etc. I conclude that it is not reliable enough but surely a fun way to get familiarised with how mining works (and doesn't work).
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Thank you for the tips.
I am communicating with the MLDs through Linux, based on the raspi so will find the right place to enter the "–set MLD:clock=" command.
Also ordered some external fans to support the cooling of the sticks; we're getting hot weather here now that might be the reason for the high failur rate of one of my MLDs.
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I posted below questions a few days ago. I have combed through several pages in this thread and wasn't able find a clear response/hint. Nobody seems to answer or try to help. I will repeat my questions and hope somebody can respond instead of ignoring my request: 1. How do I find MLD stick current mem voltage? Is there a command (I am using terminal in apple to communicate with bfg through raspi) 2. How do I adjust clock rate? <-- Yes I know I found a command (--set MLD:clock=xxx) but I do not know where in terminal to put this command. As you may see my MLD 1 has some issues and I want to check if voltage is causing this:  I thought this was a support thread.  Hi guys,
I am pretty noob on the MLD, I've got two sticks mining LTC in litecoinpool using Plugable 60W 7 port USB 3 hub.
It is working.
But my issue is low average hashspeed. My 24H average 5880 KH/s. Especially one of the miners seems to be dropping to 2.3 Mh/s.
If I restart the BFG it goes up and then drops again. It often also stops hashing and then restarts automatically.
I think I mistakenly adjusted the memory voltage pot too much/too little. I am not sure what its current memory voltage is.
So I need to know where I can find its current memory voltage. Core voltage is running around .725 so that should not be the issue.
Also I do not know how to adjust clock rate. Can anyone share a command.
By the way I am running this on a raspi 0 through IOS.
Anyone can help?
Cheers and thanks a lot!
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Hi guys,
I am pretty noob on the MLD, I've got two sticks mining LTC in litecoinpool using Plugable 60W 7 port USB 3 hub.
It is working.
But my issue is low average hashspeed. My 24H average 5880 KH/s. Especially one of the miners seems to be dropping to 2.3 Mh/s.
If I restart the BFG it goes up and then drops again. It often also stops hashing and then restarts automatically.
I think I mistakenly adjusted the memory voltage pot too much/too little. I am not sure what its current memory voltage is.
So I need to know where I can find its current memory voltage. Core voltage is running around .725 so that should not be the issue.
Also I do not know how to adjust clock rate. Can anyone share a command.
By the way I am running this on a raspi 0 through IOS.
Anyone can help?
Cheers and thanks a lot!
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Hi guys,
Mining noob here. It would be great if someone could teach me a bit on the following:
I bought a Moonlander 2 just for fun, to mine some LTC or other alts. I have a Raspberry Pie Zero W. I've heard on youtube that you need to use a Raspberry Pie 3 for it to work. Is that true or can I make it work with the Zero?
I do not really understand the requirements for a USB hub. Can you explain please? I do not want to directly plug the Moonlander into my Macbook's USB (I don't have it on 24/7). What kind of USB hub do I need for the Moonlander? Is a normal USB hub enough - as in one which I can use to charge my phone with - or do I need a USB hub that is somehow connected to the internet?
If the second case is the issue. Well, I also have one of Bitmain's Antrouters running. It has a USB connection. Can I use that to power my Moonlander?
Thanks in advance for helping a noob out here.
Cheers!
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I'll give you a good recommendation. Check Powerledger (POWR) - currently trades on Binance and a couple others. Price is still low, although already doubled since ICO. Did not dip in the days before the announced hardfork. The company focuses on integrating peer-to-peer trading of renewable energy and already has demo projects in Australia and India. Chair is current acting Vice Major of Perth, Dr. Jemma Green. I know this sounds like shilling, but to me integrating energy with the blockchain is the next BIG thing, potential to disrupt a lot of old-fashioned power generation and distribution networks around the globe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeyyCMnZS4E |
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Don't get me wrong, I hold PPT and I like the original business idea and have read the WP and watched interviews on youtube, but...
Are you not at all worried that the website has been in 'off mode' for a long time and there hasn't been any news, no Telegram chat, etc?
What is going on there, anybody know and care to share some updates?
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I only recently heard about Quantstamp, but the team looks pretty solid and their idea to audit smart contracts would be an important function for all kinds of transactions on the blockchain. With their Proof of Caring they are hitting a home run, marketing wise - it makes all of us show how we care and incentivises us to really read the white paper. Let's only hope this retains space for criticism and doesn't become an eco chamber of sorts.
When is the ICO?
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Nice walk through, did you make it? I guess once the reviewer starts to review several other coins the scoring will become more realistic/balanced and he may revisit SLR to adjust this initial scoring. I like the interest that SLR is getting now. Let's hope for some good news. |
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Hi forum! I am new here but have been lurking for some time.
I own some SLR and woke up this morning finally seeing it in the green after many days.
Is this a pump and dump and should I sell this, or prospects for better longer term holding?
What do you guys advise?
Cheers!
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