Thanks nixpins

Setting up your own mining pool is a reasonably complex process.

The mining pool software is open source, but it still requires quite a bit of time to get it all working - once that is done you need to make sure you have good enough hardware to run it all one, and then you have a pool with no front end. There are some open source pool front ends linked here on the forums, but I don't know how mature any of them are. I installed a few of them before deciding to code my own.

We already have a thread over here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=17310.0 but a few people have messaged me saying they cannot reply to the topic, so I've posted here so Newbies can get involved, and ask questions!

Mineco.in 0% Tax Mining Pool

• For a complete beginners guide please see here: https://mineco.in/beginners_guide_to_pooled_bitcoin_mining
• To chat to other pool users please join #mineco on freenetnode IRC

Pool Features (with explanations for newbies)

• Latest versions of all software (Less stale information sent to your miner)
• Long Polling enabled (this improves your connection to the pool)
• 0% Tax on the pool (all the rewards for the found block go to the users)
• SSL Certificate on the web interface (so your information won't get stolen)
• Automated Payouts (money will get sent to your bitcoin wallet automatically)
• Pretty graphs for your miners

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Please feel free to ask any questions here, or join us in IRC for a chat!

In GUI Miner do you only se one card available from the dropdown ?

If you look at this guide, you can see the Device section inside GUI miner :

https://mineco.in/beginners_guide_to_pooled_bitcoin_mining

It should show all of your cards there.

If it's not, then the reason is probably because you need to plug a monitor into the second card and it should appear.

Slowly getting more power signed up.

Many people have asked what kind of system we are running, is it a VPS etc?

It's not a VPS, it's running on dedicated server running just the pool.

Also people have asked about instant payouts - this feature is currently being added.

Come chat to use in #mineco on freenetnode !

How long has it been running ? CPU mining is slow, and it might take some time even to get 1 share.

I'm going to stick to suggesting people get their own wallet primarily though - I think it's for the best.

I'm using 3 x 5850's and here are the stats for them. They are in this order in my case ( so 2 runs the hottest )

There doesn't seem to be much performance difference between them

You should have a backup pool ready to use if you can't connect to one.

Did you say you can connect to all other pools or not ? "not so much" doesn't really explain ?

Are you behind a firewall? Are ports closed ?

I've found exactly the same problem as you thinkweis.

I just wrote a simple guide here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=17805.0

Feel free to link to it

For newbies who want to mine, but don't know how to get started, I've written this guide to help you :

https://mineco.in/beginners_guide_to_pooled_bitcoin_mining

It's probably just a dodgy card.

I'd RMA it, and maybe get some more airflow going over the replacement

I've currently got 3 x 5850s in one case, and the middle one runs at around 85 degrees at 900mhz core / 300mhz memory with the help of a desk fan!

Hi Hamburger,

Good Idea, I've added that as an alternative method for getting a bitcoin wallet.

I've recently been getting a lot of questions on how to start pooled mining, and I've written a simple guide.

It currently only covers Windows, but I'll update it for MacOSX and Linux shortly.

https://mineco.in/beginners_guide_to_pooled_bitcoin_mining

You can use an SSH tunnel to forward ports:


then if you connect to locahost on the localport your traffic will get moved though the firewall!

You've gotta start somewhere right ?

I've now added a JSON API, and forum signature for each user, available in the user account area.

It could possibly look a little bit nicer no ?

No Problems over at https://mineco.in

Saying that we are rather small right now!

Just to warn you that the 0.5 build in the .tar.gz file doesn't work correctly.

Ius has a fix, I think it's been pushed to github but I'm not 100% sure.

Mineco.in

Mineco is currently closed.

I'm trying to post details on a new mining pool, I've already started discussing coding in some other posts, but have now lost access

Great Job Daveout,

I started working on my own Rails front end yesterday for pushpool.

I've had a brief look and I like your implementation, you have loads more knowledge than me about Bitcoin and reading over your code is helping a lot.

I'm hoping to get a test pool for my implementation up next week, I am interested to see how well rails copes with it.