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pardon the n00b question but, does cpuminer have any facility to detect when the current block's been solved (so that it can drop what it's doing and begin new getwork() or is that what the scan time discussion is addressing?
i'm wondering if cpuminer is (or can be made) intelligent enough to not continue to working on the old block, submitting stale shares somehow.. (i'm thinking of setting up pushpoold if that'd help).
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Where would I find pyopencl.py? I looked in /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/pyopencl Didn't see it.
sorry, it might also be called __init__.py if it's within in the pyopencl directory too.. check in there what opencl related modules it imports, chances are one of them is binary, run ldd on that file.. also you probably want to start look where libOpenCL.so* is your filesystem
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what i don't get is why you don't consider people wanting to buy bitcoins to actually use them as a currency and spend them ?
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Traceback (most recent call last): File "poclbm.py", line 3, in <module> import pyopencl as cl File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/pyopencl/__init__.py", line 3, in <module> import pyopencl._cl as _cl ImportError: libOpenCL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I'm on Ubuntu 10.10 x86_64 using a NVidia 8400GS I followed this giude: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=2636.0I would post my question in that forum but being new I have to post here instead. Everything installed fine, but when I try to run the Miner I get the above error. Not sure why I'm getting that error. Can anyone give me a clue? for starters, look at the pyopencl.py file, see what the binary it imports is, and ldd that (you should be able to see what libraries it's dynamicaly linked against, and you'll likely see 'not found' for the opencl one.. then to work-around that, set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable containing the directory that libOpenCL.so.1 directory.. if you want to fix it more permanently, you'll need to re-compile pyopencl and this time specify a rpath (which hardcodes a path to the library) containing the dir libOpenCL.so is in
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i still don't get why people buy purpose-built gpu's just for mining.. i mean if you're in the market for a new gpu to game or whatever (i think i outgrew gaming) then ok i see.. but to buy gpu's just to mine? seems like a waste of time, you could easily just exchange your $$ for bitcoins with a lot less trouble a far more immediately, unless you have some grandiose plan to get rich off mining (i have a bridge i'll sell you too i heard it'll go up in value also).
but seriously, realisticly how high will bit coins go though? they hit just under $32 per bitcoin, yes i know there'll be a finite supply one day but that's still decades away..
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i heard somewhere it's not just 5 posts you need, i have more than 5.. but you need to be 'logged in' for at least 4 hours.. if you look at the top on the left, under your username, should tell you the total time logged in.. i'm up to 2 and a half hours only
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Well, depending on how fast the difficulty ramps up, it may take you awhile to break even. At least 2 months or more.
is there any online source of historical difficulty levels (so we may see how they've changed over time).
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Or you get those who just post crap to get past "newbie" status which is just as bad as spam.
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if only we could start an uprising!!!
ahh wait, this is the internet.. and arguing on the internet is like competing in the special olympics..
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cool link.. thanks for that
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@cynikal: thank you http_proxy is what I was looking for. I did "export http_proxy=socks5://127.0.0.1:11334" and it doesn't work because according to this( http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html#CURLOPTPROXY) my curl version(7.21.3) doesn't support protocol prefix(socks5://) on the URL. so I did some research but I couldn't find how to specify socks5 with env. variables? do you know how? thank you sorry, i use a http proxy myself (i run one on a server remotely and then i ssh tunnel to that proxy directly, rather than use ssh tunnel as a socks proxy). upgrade your curl version? or staticly compile a local version of newer libcurl and link/include that static lib into your miner ?
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bump..
good thoughts here and well written, worth a bump, wouldn't you say?
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would help if i post the link to the calculator i was talking of: http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp(yeah i know i could edit my previous post but, i really need the post count so i can get out of this newbie-dom-hell so i protest conserving post-creation)
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also saw this on another thread, a caulcator to figure how much power your system is going to use..
look at your electricity bill and figure out how much they charge you..
then look at mining pool stats and estimate how much those 700mh/s earn and extrapolate it over a months worth (or whatever time frame you want).
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What the forum could do is display a donate address on the front page. If people thought that the site was too slow they could throw a few dBTC at the address to sponsor a new server(s), hosted at a site that accepts BTC's as payment.
yes well i was thinking a donate button or a tax or something that the forum admin could exchange for USD for better hosting. plus if there was a donate-so-i-dont-have-to-be-relegated-to-newbiedom link that'd be cool too
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I wonder if SR is vulnerable to hacking attacks... No matter what happens now, pandora's box has been opened. There will always be a new TOR anonymous marketplace, no matter what, so all the SR haters should be grateful, as these types of sites are exactly the reason the BTC is going to become mainstream and increase in value. Don't judge others as you will be judged yourself. If it's not hurting anyone then why would you care? It's not your life. Personally, I think it's awesome someone finally figured out a way to use the internet in this way and thumb your finger at the man, so to speak... wow you SIR, have hit the nail on the head.. rarely do i see posts that this correct (and no i'm not being sarcastic though with such correctness i could see how one might think that). SR (and sites ilke it) are the best thing that could have happened for the adoption/popularity boost of bitcoins. a lot of people are upset about the associations being created, but i guess those people would prefer bitcoins remain as obscure and unadopted as they were before the article on SR that raised public awareness of BTC's..
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cpu mining is totally cr*p....i tell u
if you run it on a single system, yes.. but if you have more than one, maybe not.. all i know is i've generated almost 80btc in less than the 3 weeks so far i've been into bitcoins, so.. *shrug*
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i'm a professional lurker and i've been lurking for many years, please unlock me.. waah waah waah..
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I would LOVE to know wot kind of rig this guy is using.. anyone have any info? or know how to find out ?? p.s.. yes the 250ish computers are at work :p no they don't know i'm doing this lol i am going to ramp up to ~700 on the weekends if my prox can take it heh
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