Hi Monoquark,

I see your point, guess I simply don't understand the protocol then. I was sure that you get a "cryptographic target key" and then you try all options starting from 0 to the maximum bit field size (which is?).

Also you mention something about solo mining, I'm currently using Bitcoin client and I see it do 4208 khash/s. I don't know if it uses my GPU, I have AMD Radeon HD 6800 how can I verify I'm using the GPU?

Hello,

I've started to mine a coin on a Linux server, using bitcoind. After having it running for several days I would like to shutdown this server, but obviously I do not wish to lose the work I have put into generating this coin so far. What should I copy to continue the generation on another Linux server? On my Windows machine at home?

Also, can I "merge" work from several machines? I would assume that each of them started matching for a different cryptographic key, meaning mining a "different" coin?

New and a bit confused to the bitcoin concepts...

Thanks,
Maxim.