Well the guy who started the "solo mining with an S3" topic hit a solo block within like a week or two, so maybe that's the secret to getting the block gods to smile down on you.  Good luck!  My S3+ is back up in solo lottery mode, we could all use an extra 25 coins in our wallets. 

The only reason I can tell for adding worker names is that, in the event you hit a block, you can track down which of your machines solved it.  Of course you could also look at the miner status directly and figure it out, but if you have several machines the worker name makes it much easier.

Are there other reasons for worker names besides this?

"They" don't look for high power usage, "they" look for cyclic power use that is commensurate with growing cycles (i.e. 12 hours on/12 hours off).  So as long as you don't turn your miners off at night you should not draw "their" attention.

I don't think that fine tuning is required.  If you see HW errors just turn the knob up until the errors stop.  Could it be that you are asking too much of that usb hub?

Do you host your miners in a barber shop?  Do you groom pets in your mining area?  I mean, how much hair are you losing that it clogs your fans?

I lol'd

Except you also posted to this thread which is public, therefore it became everyone's business.

Please keep your imaginary friends out of technical discussion topics, thank you.

Actually use this, There was an extra space in the other one.





Use as many sticks as you want!  Keep them at the .XXXstick address, I think.  If you use any other miners use a .XXXdonation address.  Welcome to the club.

How come, with over 7Th and 40 days running (impressive!), your best share is only 592k?  My little 2GH nanofury sticks out perform that in a day!

You don't need a web server running on the pi, you need a web server running on any machine that is at the same ip address as your node (your pi).  Do you have another computer you can use?

An aside, because I never saw it mentioned anywhere, but 21.co took over the incentive program a little while ago.  I didn't notice until I was making the API call and it couldn't find the address any more.  Be sure to update your urls!

There's no "continue off the current share", there is no "current share".  Your miner works on the current block until it gets notification from the pool to switch to a new block.  You must be online to work on solving a block, if you go offline you will stop mining, but once reconnected your machine will start mining again.


You can, but will you?  Probably not, the odds are way against you.

You shouldn't need to bootstrap since they went to headers first, https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide#headers-first, although my old, slow-ass computer still takes almost 4 days to re-sync the blockchain.

The standards for almost every sig campaign are laxed, that's why you get a bunch of garbage posters.  Banning campaigns is not a viable solution, because since when has prohibition solved any problem?  Answer: it hasn't.

I am proud to be a member of the sig campaign I am in because it's members are vetted for quality posting and the campaign manager does his job well.  If all the campaigns paid this much attention to who was in and what they were posting this website would clean up dramatically.

Editorial comment: I post a couple times a day, same as before I was in a campaign, so why not get some coin for something I do anyway.  My campaign doesn't honor posts in meta, so this post is "free".

It's back over $400 again and rising.  I really think (hope) that 400 is the new floor.  We should see some significant network growth if that is the case, but not just attributed to price - cooler north hemisphere temps are certainly contributing to the increase in network hash.

I've always used all 4 plugs, I figured they are there for a reason.

You can't just connect to one side, then the other board is not getting any power.

When chips X out you can typically power off and then back on and they come back, but if you're losing a whole chain it's something else.  Do you have a psu with 4 pci-e cables you can use, or a second psu with 2 more cables?  What is the power rating of your psu?

That makes a lot of sense.  I sent one of my U3s to a forum member several months ago, he was a college student and into hardware and was studying different inexpensive miners.  I wished that I had saved what he wrote me (any way to recover deleted PMs?), but in his diagnostics he found a flaw/shortcut with something to do with the power stuff (excuse my lack of hardware techno-speak) and was pretty sure that was why these things have so many issues.

40 btc is a drop in the bucket, less than 2 block solves, to think such a small amount could "tank" the price is absurd.  The price is dropping because tons of people are selling right now, not just one guy with 40 coins.

Thanks, Phil, but now I will feel bad if I win. 

Well maybe not too bad, seeing as you split that block solve 3-ways and have a bit of pocket change right now, lol.


Price certainly took a big dive this afternoon/evening as people cash in on the >$460 price.  I see $394 right now, hopefully ~$400 will be the new norm and we can build from there.  There's going to be a lot of disappointed people if we fall all the way back to the mid-200s.

Even if this was a legitimate offer and all the relavant data was provided by a trusted used, you would be better off buying $2 worth of bitcoin.  10GH would never earn anything except dust.

Or you could spend $25 and buy a gekko stick that can mine faster than 10GH/s and mine yourself.

One thing I found that made a big difference to my U3 (and I specify "my" because they all do different things) was when I switched it from an instance of cgminer shared with a few other usb sticks to its own cgminer instance.  That change alone made 50% of my zombies go away, and it only very, very rarely changes from AU3 0 to AU3 1 (only happened 3 times in last month).

As soon as I get paid I'm ordering an R1 from crazy guy.  Discounting the wireless and other functions of the R1, I look at that device like a 5GH stability upgrade to the U3.