As Colin says that is correct. I do want to add that you do need to set a password as well but that can be anything you want.
If you have multiple machines then you can set workernames by adding something to the username for each miner like this:
38HRDQeecdfQnCyrnLEtKJGnEsrLG3XUCt.worker1
38HRDQeecdfQnCyrnLEtKJGnEsrLG3XUCt.worker2
etc
So a point after the btx address and then a specific name (you can choose which) per miner
You don't need to do this but it is handy if you want to monitor different machines and how well they are mining because with these extended usernames you get stats per worker on the ckpool site.
One question, what data can you extract to check if the Asics are doing well? Thanks in advance Only the hashrate. Basically it is a quick way to see if any of your machines are underperforming (use 1D or 7D average) instead of logging into each one separately*. If one is then you can log into that machine and troubleshoot. |
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I'm not a miner yet. But can I do it with my laptop? Or is that a bad idea? Because I don't know what the earnings are in a month qua BTC? Maybe stupid questions!🤣
Very very bad idea  . cpu's are nowhere powerfull enough these days. In the early days of bitcoin it was mined by cpus but then mining with graphics cards came along and after that asics. To give you an example according to http://solochance.com/cpu = very very low megahash range. For instance 1 Mhash gives you a chance of 1 in 3,641,973,524 years which is in the range of the remaining lifetime of our sun gpu = high megahash range. For instance 300 Mhash gives you a chance of 1 in 12,139,912 years asic = Terahash range (tera is 1 million times faster then mega). For instance current antminer s19j pro 104 Th device gives you a chance of 1 in 35 years Your better off buying a lottery ticket then mining bitcoin with a cpu or gpu. edit: -ck explains it even better in a stickied post in the mining forum: Mining BITCOIN is done exclusively with dedicated BITCOIN mining hardware based on ASICs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-specific_integrated_circuit . You CAN NOT meaningfully mine bitcoin today with CPU, GPU or even FPGAs. Bitcoin difficulty adapts to match the amount of mining done on the network and has reached levels trillions of times too high to mine meaningfully with PCs, laptops, tablets, phones, webpages, javascript, GPUs, and even generalised SHA hardware. You will not find software in this section to help you mine bitcoin in this absurdly inefficient manner in this subforum. It would cost you thousands of dollars in electricity per year to earn only a few cents in bitcoin. Even if you combined all the computers in the world, including all known supercomputer, you would not even approach 0.1% of the bitcoin hashrate today. Any discussion outside of ASIC related mining, except in the interests of academia, will be moved to the altcoin mining section. There isn't any point attempting to mine bitcoin with CPU or GPU even in the interests of learning as it shares almost nothing with how bitcoin is mined with ASICs and will not teach you anything.[/] |
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As Colin says that is correct. I do want to add that you do need to set a password as well but that can be anything you want.
If you have multiple machines then you can set workernames by adding something to the username for each miner like this:
38HRDQeecdfQnCyrnLEtKJGnEsrLG3XUCt.worker1
38HRDQeecdfQnCyrnLEtKJGnEsrLG3XUCt.worker2
etc
So a point after the btx address and then a specific name (you can choose which) per miner
You don't need to do this but it is handy if you want to monitor different machines and how well they are mining because with these extended usernames you get stats per worker on the ckpool site.
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Hello.
I am new in this chat and I have a doubt, I am trying to mine in CKPOOL but I don't understand one thing:
In Antminer I must enter in:
[mineAddr] stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333
[minerName] ??
[miningPwd] ??
Where should I enter my BTC Address?
Please help me....
Your btc address is your minerName and for the password you can enter anything you want like an x or 123 or something. see also the topic start: Set your username to your btcaddress with any or even no worker extension, and any password.
where username=minerName in this case |
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I've had an ultra low power lottery miner running for several days now on ck pool. However, I get page not found when trying to get worker info on it. Does that mean the miner is not actually doing any work? Its receiving work from the pool, and submitting shares, but I just can't get any pool side stats to confirm.
Is your best share below 10k which is the start diff for this pool? If so, then you haven't really submitted an 'eligible' share yet and the pool can't calculate your stats. Two ways you can fix this: 1) just let it run until it submits a share >10k. After a while the pool will see that you're a low hashrate miner and will automatically adjust the diff down for submitting shares. Just takes time. 2) use the suggest-diff argument like in this example for a gekko 2pac (25 GHz): ./cgminer -c cgminer.conf --gekko-2pac-freq 100 --suggest-diff 7 It lowers the starting diff and you should see your stats almost immediately because you tell the pool to lower the starting diff for submitting shares. All the above is from memory so could be wrong but that was the problem for low hashrate miners in the past afaik. |
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@vmanupelli check the CGMiner.conf file in the cgminer directory. I suspect there are multiple pools defined there. Failover is the default afaik so that is not weird, what is weird is that you have multiple pools if you didn't define them yourself. But, as I said, check the conf file and go from there.
edit: by the way, you are mining to the solo pool and at full speed too because afaik 45 GH/s is about the normal max for those babies.
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@HarrySquater The difficulty set by the pool is basically just an accounting method which allows a bit of feedback from the pool to you. If the pool only accepted 21.7T shares then none would see their hashrate because the pool wouldn't know how to calculate it. By also accepting shares lower than the network difficulty however the pool can calculate your hashrate and give you an indication that you're actually mining and you can see how well your mining rig is performing. So no, you don't need to adjust the difficulty set by the pool.
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Thx for quick response. GUIMiner says 536 shares were accepted so I would assume my stats would be visible?
hmm, forgot about the vardiff this pool uses so you could have accepted shares but then it'll be up to -ck to check what's going on and why your hashrate is not showng up. Laptop is not so stressed according to task manager and it's just warm so I probably could optimise it a bit. Anyway, I treat it as a lottery that costs next to nothing so the chance of winning is next to nothing.
If you view it like that than ok, just wanted to warn you. |
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Hi, I'm trying my luck on my laptop which runs anyway when I work from home. I'm running the below: poclbm.exe 3KB75QPHs58ZHxqc16ZCfHxfeoWxBLUzTx.0:@solo.ckpool.org:4334 via GUIMiner It looks like it's hashing alright with incredible 100 Mhash/s (I know it's next to nothing) For some reason the pool stats are not available for me: https://solo.ckpool.org/users/3KB75QPHs58ZHxqc16ZCfHxfeoWxBLUzTxWould anyone know the reason why? Your hash is so very very very very very (etc ) low you haven't submitted a share yet that meets the minimum required and probably won't for a long time so there are no stats to show. You should ask yourself if it's worth it to stress your laptop in that way for an almost non existent chance of hitting a block. If you go to solochance.com and input 100 Mh/s than you're expected to find a block in 29,235,169 years  and that's only the average, it could be ten times longer and it doesn''t account for increasing difficulty. |
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So out of curiosity, I was just checking the orders because I usually see folks rent on Sha256 when Sha256Asicboost is cheaper, and the two orders of yours are nowhere to be found neither on the EU nor the US hashrate market of both Asicboost and the normal Sha256, looks like nicehash closed them or something went wrong? I noticed that too when I was making my own fixed order. Weird since the address is being mined too and I don't think NH ever not shows orders. |
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@philipma1957 sounds like a good idea.
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The bestshare stat shows exactly that. It resets everytime a block is found on the pool. The bestever stat is the bestshare you ever found and isn't reset. |
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Noticed something. I am mining to two addresses, one a bech32 and one a legacy 1xxx address. The number of shares submitted reported by the site for the bech32 address is constantly showing 6 zeros on the end, e.g. 39402000000, while for the legacy address it doesn't, e.g. 16763553698. Is this a reporting difference between the two type of addresses?
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offtopic @-ck: in your sig you still advertise the normal ckpool. Might want to remove or edit it to reflect the closure.
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Nice! will use the coin to make a real solo attempt then  |
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New pool is currently in testing. There are quite a few code and bitcoind updates If someone has some spare bandwidth and would like to see what it feels like to solve blocks, please do some testnet mining. This is not guaranteed to stay up so please keep an eye on this thread. Please mine to newsolo.ckpool.org:3334 Use a testnet bitcoin address as your username; if you don't have one, please use tb1q7zc4hw8g7j3gnap5yca5gfchmp386v7amx9fpe Current testnet diff is only 1 million, so it won't take much to solve a block. You can monitor solved blocks here: https://tbtc.bitaps.com/Blocks solved will show testsolo/ckpool in their coinbase. Tried it with nicehash but they want a minimum diff of 500k and the test pool starts with 10k. Thanks, but try port 4334 in that case which is a high diff port on the test pool. Ah, just like the 'old' pool then. should have tried that  Nicehash isn't crediting my deposited coin (normally after 3 confirmations and it has 7 now) so no mining from me yet but I saw that a block was found by someone else. |
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New pool is currently in testing. There are quite a few code and bitcoind updates If someone has some spare bandwidth and would like to see what it feels like to solve blocks, please do some testnet mining. This is not guaranteed to stay up so please keep an eye on this thread. Please mine to newsolo.ckpool.org:3334 Use a testnet bitcoin address as your username; if you don't have one, please use tb1q7zc4hw8g7j3gnap5yca5gfchmp386v7amx9fpe Current testnet diff is only 1 million, so it won't take much to solve a block. You can monitor solved blocks here: https://tbtc.bitaps.com/Blocks solved will show testsolo/ckpool in their coinbase. Tried it with nicehash but they want a minimum diff of 500k and the test pool starts with 10k. edit: waiting for some coin to reach nh so in the above I meant their pool verificator, will test with a real order when the coin is credited. |
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Ridiculous prices being paid on NH right now, even up to 0.1949 btc/PH/Day on a fixed order just now. What idiots are paying that much (12 times normal)? Or is it bots gone wrong?
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