I've tried to wade through this thread, but I guess it's just easier to ask. 

I've just got an S3 (used), so what's the story with firmware?  Does ck's latest cgminer work better than the standard firmware on the S3?  I've not had time to try the miner at all, so I just want to get going ASAP with minimal fuss.

I'm probably mining on p2pool (my own node).

See the power switch on the PSU?  Yep, that's the one.  Flip it.  Device now shut down.

Must be a few BFL Jalapenos out there for less than $50.  They're pretty slow, but they do seem pretty reliable.  I have one, and it just mines, never gives me any issues, ever.

That'll make 0.000000001BTC per month if you're lucky.  At current difficulty. 

Basically all you're doing is burning out the fan in your laptop.

So, back to the waste of time and effort thing...

You can't mine with a HD4400, the OpenCL drivers don't work.  You're on a road to nowhere, and you've already run out of asphalt.

Mining BTC with a fast ATI GPU is pretty much pointless.  Using a GT430 which is probably even slower than a modern CPU at mining bitcoins is literally just making heat and wasting power.

If you get 20kH/s out of the GT430 I'd be surprised.  That'll make 0.000000001BTC per month by my quick calculations. 

BFGminer or cgminer are the only two miners you need or should be using.

There's literally thousands of thread on this forum alone telling you how to set up both.



You're not trying to mine with a graphics card are you? 

Isn't NMC broken?    As in, the whole NMC keychain has forked or some huge cockup like that?

Giving this a spin for a giggle. 

Currently just a lowly 40G from a Bitburner Fury, got an Antminer S3 due in the next few days (super-cheap off eBay special...).  It'll never ROI, but hey.

I know this has probably been covered a million times, but is there any way of changing a locked BTC payout address?  I know, it's locked for a reason.  But, I haven't mined for a good while, and when I logged in to BTCGuild I noticed a small number of coins sitting there under an old BTC address I no longer have.

White Label enterprise drives off eBay working out well, then? :p

I'm hopefully going to have a p2pool node up and running again in the next week or so, it'll be on a VPS with a static IP, rather than hanging off my home ADSL line as before.  Details to follow.

So, I can use one bitcoind to both run as a full Bitcoin node, AND also run a p2pool node? 

It's been a while since I played with p2pool. 

Can I have a full bitcoin node running, and use that same bitcoind to run p2pool?  I'm thinking not, due to the rpcpassword stuff, or is that separate?

There's your problem.  I'm guessing you patched/botched cgminer to the point where it's producing junk. 

You could have asked kano/ck or Luke-Jr to write drivers for cgminer or bfgminer respectively for your hardware, and therefore not wasting hashes pointlessly for months.  But, hey, that's just me.

Yeah, the HEX16A2 runs off cgminer, so you can't run bfgminer at the same time on minepeon without some commandline work and changes in config files.

Thanks for dragging up a pointless thread from 2.5 years ago.   

Eligius has automatic variable difficulty.  You can't set it manually.  Other than that, I've no clue, other than maybe DDoS?

I wonder why dumbasses are even mining on a pointless, abandoned pool. 

You'd have to pull the firmware off the unit, decode it somehow, change your files, re-encode, then blow the firmware back on.  It's not a load of files on a drive like a normal web server, the pages will be generated by whatever web server is internal to the firmware.

Unless you have access to ASICMiner's own firmware tools, you're out of luck.  It can't really be done.