I still have over 400K CTM sitting unconfirmed at ctm.coinpool.de and they will not reply to e-mail. Who runs that pool and how do I get in contact with them?

What I have available in my offline wallets.

103.40694792 MZC

428313.08965266 CTM
77206.608238 CTM (pending confirmation at coinpool.de)

737787.7462633 POP

0.80081182 IFC

1000000.00 O2O (I found an exchange where in theory this could get me 0.01 BTC - except the trade volume was zero, nobody buying O2O.)

I'd like to find an exchange where I can trade it all for LTC or BTC, whichever will get the best rate.

I have 0.00917553 BTC at CoinEX. It's slowly coming back but right now the only mining with any recent action there is DEM. Everything else it's been several days to months without any blocks found.

Coinex pools have been out of action for the past 4 days or longer, no blocks found yet people are still mining there.

Mine DOGE? Not at Shibepool!

Looking for a hot place to mine CTM? ctm.coinpool.de was very good for me, for a day. Then nada the past couple of days and my withdrawal is going nowhere.

Cryptocurrency had better get some stability Real Soon Now or it's going to go down like the Dutch Tulip Market in 1637. Or perhaps the Golgafrinchans adopting the leaf as their currency, then burning down the forests to fight inflation.

I'm fed up with getting caught in the fires and having nothing to show for all the time I've put on my hardware mining.

I got into mining as a bit of a lark (after reading about how DOGE sent the Jamaican bobsled team to the Olympics), to see if I could accumulate One Bitcoin, likely could have had it by now if every #W%#@% pool I've mined at hadn't turned to a pool of quicksand.

So far I've mined and traded my way to 0.00910057 BTC, which is stuck at Coinex. I was mining CTM, trading to LTC then BTC. Their minimum for withdrawals is 0.01... almost there but currently no block finding, no trading and no withdrawals even if above the minimum. Looking like Coinex is going to be a longer drawn out exchange failure.

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I have an MPC TranSport T2500. 4 gig RAM, 2.5 Ghz Core 2 Duo, GeForce 8600M GS with 256 meg dedicated RAM. I put Win 7 x64 Ultimate on it. Verra nice-a with the 1680x1050 LCD. MPC made top line stuff before they went out of business.

Just for the frell of it, I want to see how it mines SHA256 and Scrypt.

Cudaminer runs out of memory and Bfgminer can't find the GPU. I've not found a definitive answer on whether or not this GPU does CUDA. The 8600M GT does, but the 8600M GS???

bfgminer.exe -S opencl:auto -o stratum+tcp://mzc.pools.triplehexxx.net:3333 -u login.worker -p YoDaPassWord! -I 8 (Of course not real Worker/pass)

cudaminer.exe -H 1 -i 0 -l auto -C 1 -o stratum+tcp://stratum.coinex.pw:9043 -u login -p pass

Changes to make or is it just not possible with this GPU?

I downloaded the SiLabs CP21xx customizer, which fails to run on XP because it can't find SLAB_USB_SPI.dll sitting right next to it in the same folder.

Any other way to set unique serial numbers on these with Windows?

XP is refusing to work with more than one DP210x device at a time because the manufacturers of these ASIC modules either gives them all the same serial (block erupter) or doesn't set any of the programmable data at all (antminer).

I have two Block Erupter Sapphire and one Antminer UT, using XP Pro SP3. I can plug in any combination of TWO of these ASICs but when I plug in the third one, it doesn't matter which one, Windows virtually unplugs the second one and puts a ! on the third one.

Properties on that 3rd device (doesn't matter which one) says it's a duplicate device. I have tried all the possible orders of plugging them in, into the same hub, some into the hub and some into ports directly on the PC.

Doesn't matter how they're plugged in, the third always knocks out the second and itself.

bfgminer.exe -disable-gpu -S erupter:all -o stratum+tcp://stratum.coinex.pw:9944 -u worker -p password -I 8 --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100

I launch with this and during startup it disables all BES then I have to go to device manager and re-enable them manually. Is there something I can use in the command above to make it not do that?

I have -disable-gpu so I can use the computer while the BESes are mining, then run another miner for scrypt on the GPU.

Or higher numbers on the product name don't always equal higher performance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units

I have $100-ish to spend on a GPU for mining scrypt coins, and also plan to do SHA256 along with a couple of block erupter sapphires (I got them really cheap) and will likely buy an Antminer U2 or two since they're faster and cheaper than the U1.

But right now I need a GPU that's not stupid expensive and won't be a gigantic waste of money due to it having a model name that makes it seem like it should be fast when it's likely one from the previous generation that was higher up the performance ladder will outperform it.

My electricity cost is 6 cents a kilowatt hour.

I bought a Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 with 1GB DDR5 in an auction lot, supposedly new but it damaged two motherboards. One was my olde Socket 939 board, the other was a $40 OEM Asrock 770 Extreme3. I figured that perhaps it killed the PCIe bus on the 939 from pulling too much power for a 1.0 spot, even though I had both 6 pin plugs connected to the board. I first tested the Asrock with an 8800GT, booted fine. Then I plugged in the 6870 and @#%@#%#%^%@#@%@!!!!!! Deader than the 939 board, which stops POST at 6b (if I had an old PCI video card it might still work). The Asrock just goes straight to FF. (I'm getting a replacement board, same model.)

If the card could be repaired cheaply... but Sapphire won't touch it, not even for $. If your Sapphire dies out of warranty, you're screwed.

The best GPU I have now is a nVidia 9800 GT 1GB. It averages 20-ish Khash on scrypt and can peak at several Mhash (I forget just how high, IIRC I saw around 100 with the latest BFGminer) on SHA256 but it won't maintain that top speed for some reason, varies up and down a lot.

I've been working with computers for over 30 years and have always been a bit of a cheapskate when it comes to buying hardware. I wait for prices to drop to what I consider non-insane instead of being an early adopter throwing money at the latest shiny object. I remember when hard drives first dropped to $1 a megabyte. 500 megs for $500! Then I was able to buy somewhat smaller drives for peanuts, and laugh at those who bought the 500's when the 750~800's came out for less than $1/meg.

Here's my configuration.

bfgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://stratum.coinex.pw:9944 -u workername -p password --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 --scan-serial erupter://./COM5

I can manually make it find the ASICminer Bluck Erupter USB on COM5 but that's annoying to have to do it every time I run the batch file. I saved a config file from within bfgminer but it still will not automatically find the ASIC. I just tried adding the --scan-serial erupter://./COM5 and it still will not hook up automatically.

I'm using it on a Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop, upgraded with a Core 2 Duo T5600 CPU (1.83 Ghz) and 4 gig RAM (limited to 3.25 thanks to stupid hobbled chipset), running Win 7 Ultimate.

Just got the miner today, set it up on the CoinEx SHA256 switch pool. Was going well for a few hours, got a little CTM and a little UNO, until the pool 1 server went to never responding so when the pool 0 server loses connection it sits there for several minutes waiting on pool 1 to never respond. The inactivity light is on more than it's off. Worst of it is since the servers started acting up I've been getting zero payout.

How do I set bfgminer to give up a lot faster on non-responsive pool servers?

At least I only paid $12.49 for this gizmo, used on Amazon.

My 9800 GT does around 20 khash. Pitiful I know, but have around 800 D with it so far. I'd like to kick it up a bit without getting ridiculous on price for a better video card.

What's atop the list for $100 or less? Brand doesn't matter.

Wishing I'd been in on Dogecoin from the start, or Bitcoin. A 9800 GT with 1 gig might have had some decent results for a bit. Got nearly 800 D now with these settings.

cudaminer.exe -H 1 -i 0 -l auto -C 1 -o

System specs: PCIe x16 nVidia GeForce 9800 GT with 1 gig RAM on Win XP with 3.25 gig DDR2 RAM. CPU AMD Phenom II 550 AM3 on an AM2+ board.

Results.


Is it possible to squeeze a bit more out of this GPU? Would switching XP's theme to Classic help any?