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Bitcoin / Mining / Latest cgminer causing overheating

on: May 30, 2022, 01:35:55 PM

My Gekkoscience Newpac USB miner is giving me an error like "GSH 0 failure". This has only happened since I updated to the latest cgminer source code from github. I was told by a pool owner Kano insisted that I need to upgrade to this new code if I want to continue mining using his pool. Keep in mind I'm not overclocking. In fact, because the room temperature is 80 F I'm actually underclocking. I was initially underclocking to 50 MHz, which caused frequent errors and "zombie" status. That's weird because the latest cgminer is promoted as fixing zombie status. Then I tried underclocking to 80 MHz, which is more stable. But I still get the occasional overheating without zombie status. Can someone let me know how to fix this?

Bitcoin / Pools / Re: Suddenly blocked by Kano.is pool

on: May 24, 2022, 02:25:01 PM

UPDATE It turns out that although cgminer 4.11 was working fine for 1.5 years, it suddenly stopped being able to talk to the Kano server, without warning or explanation. Per Kano's suggestion I upgraded to 4.12 and now it works again, although initially in verbose mode it was spewing "above target" errors. After disabling verbose mode, it mines just fine.

Bitcoin / Pools / Re: Suddenly blocked by Kano.is pool

on: May 24, 2022, 12:29:25 AM

Quote from: os2sam on May 23, 2022, 05:00:55 PM Oh, BTW, there is nothing sketchy about banning malicious sources of traffic. If you think botnets don't originate from the U.S. you are just wrong. Yes, I must admit, my personal website gets a ton of visits from hackers looking for wordpress vulns originating from Digital Ocean, AWS, etc. But the worst offenders are overseas in my experience.

Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 2% fee solo mining 266 blocks solved!

on: May 23, 2022, 03:54:28 PM

Quote from: os2sam on May 23, 2022, 03:22:00 PM Quote from: pfeffer on May 23, 2022, 02:59:44 PM When I go to the website solo.ckpool.org, and I try to look up my mining history by entering my BTC address to https://solo.ckpool.org/users I get a page not found error. Is ckpool.org really operational? Have you been actively mining? I believe the pool drops stat's from inactive miners after a period. Yes, I'm mining. OK it turns out that adding the .0 onto the end of the BTC address broke the web interface. Now it works, although the hash rate is a fraction of what cgminer reports. I'm also trying to learn why Kano.is suddenly stopped working for me. There's no contact info on that website.

Bitcoin / Pools / Re: Suddenly blocked by Kano.is pool

on: May 23, 2022, 03:46:38 PM

Quote from: os2sam on May 23, 2022, 03:02:08 PM Quote from: pfeffer on May 23, 2022, 02:47:50 PM Suddenly I found that cgminer could no longer log into Kano.is for pooled mining and complained of an "authorisation" error. First, Post in the Kano.is pool thread. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=789369.msg8895603#msg8895603 Second, get on Kano's Discord Channel. Third, Kano is very proactive on banning IP ranges that may be doing something malicious. This is a good thing! But of course legit users sometimes fall in that IP range. So contact Kano, correctly, and he can whitelist your IP, if that is the issue. The Kano thread says : "Warning: this topic has not been posted in for at least 120 days. Unless you're sure you want to reply, please consider starting a new topic. " The discord channel requires providing a phone number. That seems sketchy. I already get enough scam calls. Banning IP ranges from the USA is also sketchy. Maybe banning ranges from Nigeria, or Khazakstan, makes sense. But the USA??

Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 2% fee solo mining 266 blocks solved!

on: May 23, 2022, 02:59:44 PM

When I go to the website solo.ckpool.org, and I try to look up my mining history by entering my BTC address to https://solo.ckpool.org/users I get a page not found error. Is ckpool.org really operational?

Bitcoin / Pools / Suddenly blocked by Kano.is pool

on: May 23, 2022, 02:47:50 PM

I was directed to use Kano.is because it was allegedly reliable and run by the same person
who runs ckpool.
I've been mining with Kano.is for a couple years with a small ASIC miner. Other people
are using smaller miners.
Suddenly I found that cgminer could no longer log into Kano.is for pooled mining and
complained of an "authorisation" error.
This is very odd, because the documentation says the "password" can be anything, so I just use "x".
Meanwhile, oodles of other people are continuing to mine on Kano.is...
Despite this problem, ckpool still works for solo mining although now I'm not sure I trust it.
Has anyone else experienced any problems with Kano.is?
FWIW I have tried other ports besides the usual 3333, and other Kano servers, but no luck.

Errors:

Code:

[2022-05-23 09:51:30.673] Closing socket for stratum pool 0
 [2022-05-23 09:51:35.673] Testing pool stratum+tcp://stratum.kano.is:3333
 [2022-05-23 09:51:35.864] Pool 0 version_mask:1fffe000.
 [2022-05-23 09:51:35.932] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 8190
 [2022-05-23 09:51:35.993] Pool 0 message: Failed authorisation :(
 [2022-05-23 09:51:35.994] pool 0 JSON stratum auth failed: (null)
 [2022-05-23 09:51:35.994] Closing socket for stratum pool 0
 [2022-05-23 09:51:40.994] Testing pool stratum+tcp://stratum.kano.is:3333
 [2022-05-23 09:51:41.187] Pool 0 version_mask:1fffe000.
 [2022-05-23 09:51:41.249] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 8190
 [2022-05-23 09:51:41.316] Pool 0 message: Failed authorisation :(
 [2022-05-23 09:51:41.317] pool 0 JSON stratum auth failed: (null)
 [2022-05-23 09:51:41.317] Closing socket for stratum pool 0

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