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1  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: The official MacMiner thread [BTC/LTC-CPU/GPU/FPGA/ASIC] on: April 08, 2019, 06:08:48 AM
I keep getting " file is damaged " when I open the last version of macminer

any clue?

Where are you downloading it from?
The downloads were stored in different places for a while because google kept marking it as malware (like it does with bfgminer etc.) so now I just leave them on GitHub:
https://github.com/fabulouspanda/MacMiner/releases

latest version at time of post:
https://github.com/fabulouspanda/MacMiner/releases/download/1.5.70/MacMiner.app-1.5.70.zip
2  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: The official MacMiner thread [BTC/LTC-CPU/GPU/FPGA/ASIC] on: August 09, 2017, 09:27:19 PM
If you are interested I shared my experience on egpu.io: https://egpu.io/forums/mac-setup/my-experience-with-cryptomining-on-macos/

Right now I got Keccak working pretty nice but I haven't tested out all of them. I'm planning on testing out other algorithm later this week and keep sharing my experiences on egpu.io

Super happy it works on High Sierra Beta with native eGPU detection! Smiley
Nice, thanks for sharing that with us!
3  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: The official MacMiner thread [BTC/LTC-CPU/GPU/FPGA/ASIC] on: August 08, 2017, 08:01:02 AM
Hey

I just got an eGPU with a RX580 + MBPro 13" over tb3 and was interested to see how the performance would hold up in a mining environment.

I've got it working with nicehash but I suspect that both GPUs are trying to be used for mining. Or atleast thats what I gather from the console. Device 0 being the internal Chip and 1 being the RX580. If this is the case I would like to just use the eGPU for mining and exclude the internal if possible. Is there a command or setting to chose exactly which GPU is used? I can provide more details and console messages if needed.

Cheers

I would love to know how an eGPU manages! Check out the API Output window of MacMiner - it's fed cleaner output than the GPU Miner window and you can see which devices are in use. You can choose which devices to mine with like so:

--device|-d <arg>   Select device to use, one value, range and/or comma separated (e.g. 0-2,4) default: all

so in GPU Miner window 'Manual flags' add --device 1 if that's the eGPU. Alternatively, you can add "device":"1" to the .config file for whatever currency you're mining in ~/Library/Application Support/MacMiner i.e.:

{
"pools":[
    {
        "url":"stratum+tcp://pool.ip:8334",
        "user":"user",
        "pass":"x"
    }
],
"device":"1"
}

You can also list devices like so in Terminal:
/Applications/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/sgminer/bin/sgminer --ndevs

Please let me know how you get on and with which algorithm!
4  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: The official MacMiner thread [BTC/LTC-CPU/GPU/FPGA/ASIC] on: August 05, 2017, 06:48:32 AM
Hi, is there a possibility of the macminer supporting the new coin Signatum? All other options I've tried via wine with no success unfortunately.
I compiled the miner that supports it but I'm getting 100% HW rejects on Signatum. You could give it a shot though:
http://macminer.fabulouspanda.com/commandline/sgminer/
(it's the tpruvot sgminer)
If you get it working let us know your setup and config.
5  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Denarius [DNR] - NEW "Tribus" PoW Algo >> PoW/PoS Hybrid >> Satoshi Core on: August 05, 2017, 06:44:14 AM
Denarius v1.0.4.0 for macOS is available, updated the release links and added the .dmg to the Github.
And serendipitously, I managed to compile the tpruvot seminar recently for macOS 10.11+ and so far Denarius is the only currency that seems to be working properly with it.
http://macminer.fabulouspanda.com/commandline/sgminer/
6  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: The official MacMiner thread [BTC/LTC-CPU/GPU/FPGA/ASIC] on: August 03, 2017, 04:43:54 PM
Updated for the first time in over a year to add nicehash sgminer support to the GPU miner window. Lots of new algorithms to play with! Please let me know how you get on.
7  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / sgminer compiled for macOS on: August 02, 2017, 06:02:18 PM
Hi all, developer of MacMiner here and planning to update to add GPU mining for a bunch more alt currencies. I've compiled the nicehash sgminer from here https://github.com/nicehash/sgminer for macOS 10.11+ and it's available for download here: http://macminer.fabulouspanda.com/commandline/sgminer/

But I'd really appreciate help checking all the algorithms work. -k X11, -k blake and -k Lyra2REv2 are all I've tested so far. Please post any results you get to help me add function in the next MacMiner upate!

Hopefully supports the all following algorithms: Credits, Scrypt, NScrypt, Pascal, X11, X13, X14, X15, Keccak, Quarkcoin, Twecoin, Fugue256, NIST, Fresh, Whirlcoin, Neoscrypt, WhirlpoolX, Lyra2RE, Lyra2REV2, Pluck, Yescrypt, Yescrypt-multi, Blakecoin, Blake, Sia, Decred, Vanilla, Lbry and Sibcoin
8  Bitcoin / Mining software (miners) / Re: OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.10.0 on: July 31, 2017, 04:58:19 PM
Hey, it's been a while but I'm going to finally update the compiled version of cgminer for mac I distribute and update MacMiner with it (the link you provide for Mac versions only goes up to 4.3.3 btw, I distribute mine at http://macminer.fabulouspanda.com/commandline/cgminer/ )

Since it's been so long, could you please let me know which devices I can --enable for maximum support without causing any conflicts?
Sorry to be an idiot, found the readme suggesting
--enable-avalon
--enable-avalon2
--enable-avalon4
--enable-bflsc
--enable-bitfury
--enable-cointerra
--enable-drillbit
--enable-hashfast
--enable-hashratio
--enable-icarus
--enable-klondike
9  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: The official MacMiner thread [BTC/LTC-CPU/GPU/FPGA/ASIC] on: July 26, 2016, 10:58:07 PM
Updated to add a cryptonight CPU miner on request
10  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Wolf's XMR/BCN/DSH CPUMiner - 2x speed compared to LucasJones' - NEW 06/20/2014 on: July 26, 2016, 10:55:46 PM
Good day guys, i need info how i can connect my mac machine to the Monero mining pool, which software i need. Maybe anyone have ready OSX miner build.
Thanks

I see you didn't get any replies.  So though I am a total newb at this, I'll share my experience thus far with Macs and maybe you can share back what you've learned since you posted 2 months ago.

I fist tried minergate.com's mac client and got the following results CPU mining XMR:

Harpertown 2.8Ghz 8 Core Mac Pro (4GB RAM) - 175H/s
Nehelem 2.8Ghz 4 Core Mac Pro (8GB RAM) - 85H/s
Core i7 2.6Ghz MacBook Pro (16GB RAM) - 75H/s 90H/s

In other words, totally not worth it.

I'm just now installing Ubuntu on the Harpertown Mac Pro and will try both Minergate and Wolf's if the Minergate hashrate under Linusx is lower than what reports for Wolf's have been here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MI-ic0Os25hgGUImW54sUIjZY_pUNQNa_W8Se5pRGBs/edit?pli=1#gid=0

Edit: Unbuntu Minergate on Harpertown Mac Pro - 190H/s

Compiled this for macOS and included it in MacMiner and I get 190H/s on a 12 core mid-2012 Mac Pro
11  Bitcoin / Mining software (miners) / Re: BFGMiner 5.4.1: GBT+Stratum, RPC, Mac/Linux/Win64, Antminer S1-S5, Block v4 solo on: January 12, 2016, 09:17:10 PM
I've updated the Mac binary of bfgminer on my site to 5.4.1

http://macminer.fabulouspanda.com/commandline/bfgminer/
12  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: The official MacMiner thread [BTC/LTC-CPU/GPU/FPGA/ASIC] on: September 29, 2015, 09:33:09 PM
Hi, Did anyone ever figure out how to make the Antminer U3 work at 63GH with MacMiner? I'm only able to get 35gh out of it and I've tried everything!


The programmers of cgminer and bfgminer had a lot of trouble with the U3, seems to be a very unreliable device. I'd try both bfgminer and cgminer backends and see which gives you the best results.

MacMiner has been updated with bfgminer 5.3
13  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: The official MacMiner thread [BTC/LTC-CPU/GPU/FPGA/ASIC] on: August 10, 2015, 05:50:37 PM
Didn't realise I hadn't updated this thread re the move to macminer.fabulouspanda.com - the .co.uk urls still work but redirect there now. Anyhow

Due to a request on twitter I've compiled cgminer 4.9.2 for Mac
http://macminer.fabulouspanda.com/commandline/cgminer/

And recompiled MacMiner to include it with no other changes (not even docs changing re the move from fabulouspanda.co.uk to fabulouspanda.com - both work but I'm using .com now)
http://macminer.fabulouspanda.com/macminer/downloads/

ran in to an issue with bfgminer so that's not updated, sorry guys, hope someone picks up my slack here
14  Bitcoin / Mining software (miners) / Re: OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.9.2 on: August 10, 2015, 05:48:45 PM
Due to a request on twitter I've compiled 4.9.2 for Mac
http://macminer.fabulouspanda.com/commandline/cgminer/

And recompiled MacMiner to include it with no other changes (not even docs changing re the move from fabulouspanda.co.uk to fabulouspanda.com - both work but I'm using .com now)
http://macminer.fabulouspanda.com/macminer/downloads/
15  Economy / Services / Re: [DARKWEB] Teaching Service. on: June 26, 2015, 10:54:43 AM
If you read the darkweb information via tor, you will understand that darkweb is not as anonymous as before, I will advise that you do everything with caution when using their service.
Nothing but speculation, tor is as safe as it was two years ago
Hey OP, how whould you do phising? wont people be directed to a .onion page?

I think it assumes people being phished for are on tor anyway, but they don't need to be:
https://tor2web.org

There's also been suggestion that the NSA has software tracking every IP that's used as a tor relay. Then by process of elimination they can figure out which data passing through it is yours. I'd definitely suggest doing your own personal research if anonymity is that important to you.
16  Economy / Services / Re: Master-P's FREE Escrow Service | IPO/ICO/Multi-Party 1% Fee on: June 26, 2015, 10:44:24 AM
Nice service! Do you use three way multisig or just hold the BTC as a middle man?
17  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Core/XT Explanation in simple terms on: June 01, 2015, 07:08:33 AM
There are already so much confusion from people about Bitcoin... If you now tell them, that they are making it even more complex, by splitting it into 2 versions... you will be doing more harm than good.

I had a uphill battle trying to explain Bitcoin to NEW people... I can just imagine what they will be thinking now...

We have to make some hard choices NOW.... and this would not have been neccesarry, IF these developers had put their self interest and agenda's aside, and made the success of Bitcoin their main goal.

This will either make or break Bitcoin... We will soon see. 
Agreed. I'm attempting to at least make the facts of those hard choices clearer in discussing the situation with luke-jr over at the reddit thread someone posted.
18  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Core/XT Explanation in simple terms on: June 01, 2015, 05:13:03 AM
luke-jr has responded briefly to this on reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/380nlv/the_bitcoin_core_vs_xt_debate_and_necessary/

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FabulousPandaCo 2 points 4 hours ago

Thanks for the linkage - FYI I don't personally know any of the individuals on the dev teams, and wrote that article as a result of it not being too easy to at a glance figure out what was going on. I think perhaps Gavin has expressed support for XT as a means of convincing the core team to agree on some important issues they've failed to which have been apparent since at least 2011. I have had some limited contact with luke-jr on github and I used eligius.st but I am not declaring support for any team or individual in this. I do believe however that there are significant issues that need to be addressed, and that a raised max block size (even were it 2MB rather than 20) would be best for now, and the issues regarding maintaining decentralization and/or implementing sidechains should be explored fully, but not immediately forced upon us.


luke-jrLuke Dashjr - Bitcoin Expert 0 points an hour ago

   But the debate over the block size limit and how to manage it has caused some of the best known developers to set up another client for bitcoin, here:

Bitcoin XT actually predates the block size matter entirely, and was forked by Mike Hearn (not a Core developer) to merge some relatively ill-advised things appropriately rejected from Core (because they don't/can't work): particularly, double spend relaying/detection.

   essentially, if you have 1 Bitcoin, after the fork (if you have today's wallet backed up) you will have 1 Bitcoin, and 1 'BitcoinXT', each with independent values based on their popular adoption.

To complicate matters a bit: if you send 1 BTC, you also send 1 BTCXT, and vice versa. Unless the bitcoins being redeemed (essentially chosen at random) happen to only exist on one or the other blockchain.


FabulousPandaCo 1 point 6 minutes ago

Thanks for the response luke, I will update to address and clarify on that, however from what I've read (and I'm not as in the loop as I have been) it doesn't seem that clear cut. Mike Hearn certainly set up the other github some time ago, although it attributes the double spend relaying to Gavin Andresen and Tom Harding. It freely admits not to completely solve the double spend issue, but aims to improve it, could you please expand on the advantages/disadvantages of the implementation proposed in XT?

As far as I can tell, supporters of the changes in XT are willing to allow for increased data usage in order to allow for increased usage of Bitcoin in the short term, whereas the opposition would prefer to allow necessary transaction fees to rise as we approach/hit the max block size ceiling for transactions to be successful on the basis that such data requirements would cause increased centralization. But as it stands we don't have an accepted viable alternative - only a brief whitepaper on sidechains which leaves a lot to the imagination, and would require a significant period of testing and some real world implementation before the community would trust it, and I'm sure you're aware of the fears that Blockstream may result in centralization - can you do anything to allay those?

Gavin also seems to be claiming that his support for the increase in max block size and to a lesser extent the other changes in XT are a call for action on the part of the Core team to adopt some change to max block size whether set specifically or adaptive as that change on it's own is not a deviation from the initial spec of Bitcoin. Surely if that minor change were implemented the risk of a hard fork to XT would be drastically reduced, and it's role limited to a a beta branch of Core?

Regarding the fork, as long as the Core protocol doesn't change significantly and XT doesn't reach 90% adoption it's not going to happen, right? Can we get some clarification on the future of the Core - for instance, is Gavin still going to have influence on it?

I would agree that just allowing the max block size to increase indefinitely is fraught with problems, but problems that are a way down the road and also not a deviation from the Bitcoin whitepaper. For that reason I wonder why Blockstream don't start their own cryptocurrency to start pegging sidestreams to?
19  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Core/XT Explanation in simple terms on: May 31, 2015, 09:50:14 PM
I am still a little confused. I have all of my BTC in paper wallets. so if the fork does happen, I can choose what network to import the keys into when I decide to spend them? also what if I want to switch networks? do I just make a new paper wallet and then import it into the other network? I also cant see how both wallets can exist in both networks, since they allow us to have double the coins. will their just be a blockchain.info that shows the balance for your paper wallet on bitcoin QT and a blockchainXT that shows the balance for the paper wallet on the XT network?

Thanks
If you backup your wallet now (paper or otherwise), and keep that backup, if a fork occurs you can use it with clients for each fork. If a fork occurs, it occurs at a certain point in the blockchain, so the balance associated is the same up to that point.

If after a fork there's not one clear loser (i.e. either Bitcoin Core or Bitcoin XT fall out of use) you're talking about two difference currencies which inherit the same initial Bitcoin blockchain, but any future transactions are totally separate.

So as blockchain.info is for Bitcoin, explorer.litecoin.net is for litecoin, if Bitcoin split and both forks survive blockchain.info would either have to pick a side or start recording two different chains.

N.B QT is a technology for creating a graphical user interface for code, it's more useful to refer to Bitcoin Core (everything up to now, bitcoind and Bitcoin-QT) and Bitcoin XT (current status like a beta version of bitcoind)

Thanks for this thread... we need some sanity in here sometimes Grin

As for both options on the table... Both are valid, but why sidechains instead of just increasing block size? Is the usage of sidechains documented enough for it to be a powerful solution comparing to increasing block size?

https://www.blockstream.com/sidechains.pdf
It sounds reasonable, but IMO forcing it on Bitcoin when just increasing the max block size until a solution (possibly sidechains) is widely tested/agreed upon is not appropriate. I feel as though it should be set up independently, I'm sure a lot of the alt currencies would love to opt in, or be created specifically for that purpose.
20  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Core/XT Explanation in simple terms on: May 31, 2015, 08:55:19 PM
As only block size is being increased, wont bitcoin core coins be compatible to bitcoin XT as their block size is lower than the proposed one for bitcoin XT ? Just wondering Roll Eyes
If you keep running 0.10.2 then yes, but if Gavin leaves the Core team and the Core changes to include side chains then those versions of Bitcoin Core will not be compatible with Bitcoin XT and a full fork will occur, which is why I say make a backup of your wallet NOW. It's also more important than ever to check what changes are being made to the client you're using so you know whether or not they cause a fork.

What about those who are not using QT/XT, i.e. using blockchain.info, electrum, armory etc. ? What would happen to the coins which are kept on paper wallet and p2sh addresses ?
If the Core team breaks compatibility the third party wallets will have to make their own choice on how to deal with it, I would assume/hope they would provide an upgrade which would split your wallet in two so you don't lose out and have one for each blockchain.
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