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1  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread on: August 30, 2016, 03:24:48 PM



Okay! That actually worked. However, I ran into a new problem. The driver being displayed is the Silabser (v6.7.0.0) because I'm also currently running MoonLander USB scrypt miners. When I go and install the Win USB driver it tells me that it want's to replace the silabser driver. So I ask it to 'Install WCID Driver' Instead of 'Replace Driver' I get an error saying 'Driver installation failed (Other error)'.

when the compac is selected, instead of the winusb driver can you select the zadig diver in the box? might have to scroll it.

For the zlib driver extract it from another version of cgminer and put it in the gekko modded version folder.



It won't let me select a zadig driver in the box. Scrolled through all the options.

As for extracting the zlib.dll file from another version of CG miner, I tried that also. Started up CG miner and got a device error. Is there a particular version of CG miner that I should try using?
2  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread on: August 26, 2016, 06:29:47 AM
Hello,
I just got my first GekkoScience USB miner. I'm trying to run it on a windows machine but I cannot figure out how to install the Zadig driver for cgminer. The only version that I was able to run on my PC is zadig_xp_v2.0.1.161.exe. Can someone please help and give me a few steps? Thanks in advance.

Find out what version of Windows you are running then use the correct one. There is plenty of info in this thread and most of it on the front page. Also Google and YouTube have a vast array of knowledge (that's where I learnt about zadig)  Wink

I'm running windows 10 and neither Zadig driver either recognizes a devices or runs on my system. Is there another version that works specifically with windows 10?

Did you go into options on the top and "list all devices" and see if compac is in there.. select in the install driver.. worked for me...

Okay! That actually worked. However, I ran into a new problem. The driver being displayed is the Silabser (v6.7.0.0) because I'm also currently running MoonLander USB scrypt miners. When I go and install the Win USB driver it tells me that it want's to replace the silabser driver. So I ask it to 'Install WCID Driver' Instead of 'Replace Driver' I get an error saying 'Driver installation failed (Other error)'.

1. Will windows allow me to run two separate drivers? If so how can I install the Zadig Driver specifically for the Gekko?
2. The other error I get when I try to run CGMiner is that I'm missing the zlib1.dll. I'm asking to confirm that this is tied to the Zadig driver yes? Could I run the Gekko from a mac OS? As I may not be able to run these two types of devices from the same PC.
3. I also tried extracting the files to a folder and running the installer_x64.exe file located in the root folder. Something seems to have happened but I still can't get CGminer to find the zlib1.dll file. What could I be missing here?

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3  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread on: August 25, 2016, 03:36:32 PM
Hello,
I just got my first GekkoScience USB miner. I'm trying to run it on a windows machine but I cannot figure out how to install the Zadig driver for cgminer. The only version that I was able to run on my PC is zadig_xp_v2.0.1.161.exe. Can someone please help and give me a few steps? Thanks in advance.

Find out what version of Windows you are running then use the correct one. There is plenty of info in this thread and most of it on the front page. Also Google and YouTube have a vast array of knowledge (that's where I learnt about zadig)  Wink

I'm running windows 10 and neither Zadig driver either recognizes a devices or runs on my system. Is there another version that works specifically with windows 10?
4  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread on: August 25, 2016, 05:14:32 AM
Hello,
I just got my first GekkoScience USB miner. I'm trying to run it on a windows machine but I cannot figure out how to install the Zadig driver for cgminer. The only version that I was able to run on my PC is zadig_xp_v2.0.1.161.exe. Can someone please help and give me a few steps? Thanks in advance.
5  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] FutureBit MoonLander: A Modern and Efficient Scrypt USB Stick Miner! on: August 10, 2016, 01:20:32 AM
What is the price and where to buy?

There were some listed on Ebay, but I'm not sure that there are any left. Try sending the owner a PM. They are pretty amazing in comparison to many other similar Stick or USB miners. You won't get rich from them but it's pretty fun playing with the settings.
6  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] FutureBit MoonLander: A Modern and Efficient Scrypt USB Stick Miner! on: August 06, 2016, 02:38:52 AM
Q: Is there a way to manually set the difficulty in BFGMiner? I keep trying to manually set the diff in ghash.IO but when I refresh the page it never sticks. Im going to send them a support ticket.

not sure, but you will earn more litecoin mining on litecoinpool.org

on that pool you can set the diff with a d= in the password.. i recommend d=64

Could you please elaborate on why litecoinpool.org would earn more than ghash.io?

litecoinpool pays 103% pps, and has over 150 GHS.
with zero fee to withdraw your coins.

ghash pays pplns and has only 25 ghs.

it goes hours between blocks.. so you lose shares.. also they charge a fee to withdraw your coins through cex.


Okay. Understood. Those numbers sound better. Just to catch everyone up who's a noob like me. PPLNS = Pay Per Last 'n' Shares, and PPS = Pay Per Share.

So I got 3 moonlanders working consistently using ghash. Now I need to figure out how to use litcoinpool.org. I may need some help. Questions to come. Please stand by.

UPDATE:
Got it working. No Questions yet.
7  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] FutureBit MoonLander: A Modern and Efficient Scrypt USB Stick Miner! on: August 05, 2016, 09:14:16 AM
Q: Is there a way to manually set the difficulty in BFGMiner? I keep trying to manually set the diff in ghash.IO but when I refresh the page it never sticks. Im going to send them a support ticket.

not sure, but you will earn more litecoin mining on litecoinpool.org

on that pool you can set the diff with a d= in the password.. i recommend d=64

Could you please elaborate on why litecoinpool.org would earn more than ghash.io?
8  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] FutureBit MoonLander: A Modern and Efficient Scrypt USB Stick Miner! on: August 04, 2016, 01:29:21 AM
UPDATE 1:
1. I tried two Moonlanders in my PC as it has 2 free USB 3.0 slots. They started mining right away. Then eventually petered out around 30 mins later. They peaked at 700kh/s together.

2. I figured that it was too much to have both so then I tried just one. Same thing about 30 mins later big red LED light was on.

Where do I check the voltage? or do I need a voltmeter? I am using the stock settings other than the modified pool and user script on the "Start_Moonlander.bat" file.

Q: What are my troubleshooting steps?

Q: Or is this a case where the USB ports on my PC can't handle the sustained power draw even though they are USB3.0?


UPDATE 2:
So I tested one of the ML's on a Motherboard USB which is a USB2.0 port. I'm mining from the ghash.io pool. So far so good. It's been running at approximately 400ish kh/s for about an hour now. It slowed to a crawl once but never went 'sick' (red LED constant) I'm going to leave it overnight and see how it performs.

PS. Ghash.io says their minimum diff is 16 and it's autocontrolled. I can't find where to manually edit this anywhere on their site. Does anyone have experience with this pool?
9  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] FutureBit MoonLander: A Modern and Efficient Scrypt USB Stick Miner! on: August 03, 2016, 11:22:13 PM
Hello,
New to cryptocurrency mining. I just purchased my first Moonlander script miners (3 of them) and a Gekkoscience Bitcoin miner.

I'm looking forward to playing around and learning what this is all about. I tried my moonlanders straight off the macbook pro but it looks like I need a powered USB hub to run even one of them. I wasn't able to source a Superbpag USB hub but I managed to get an Orico 10 port powered USB hub. I hope it works.

Question about Scrypt mining, Can the moonlander mine currencies other than Litecoin? I found this site here, http://www.cryptocoinsinfo.com/ and was interested in testing a few out once my USB hub arrives.

Anything else I should know other than what's in the instructions on the first page?



yes you can mine scrypt coins..

unfortunately there isnt very many scrypt coins that are worth anything.


i currently have my moonlanders pointed to ispace.co.uk
they have a lowest difficulty scrypt multipool.. it automatically changes to the lowest diff coin that they mine.. you can set it to auto convert them to btc when you have enough.. which takes a long time.


i think just mining on litecoinpool.org is the best. i have 8 moonlanders and they make about 2 litecoins per month.





I started playing around with awesome miner and ghash.io (pool) on an old PC I have laying around. How can I check the comparison between ispace.co.uk and litecoinpool.org.

On the bright side, I've ben reading a few articles that litecoin may actually make a comeback. Though, it seems that if litecoin is interested in being the "silver" to the bitcoin currency, it still won't amount to much in comparison.

there is no comparison between ispace and litecoinpool.

ispace mines low diff and newer coins in the hope that one day they might be worth something..
litecoinpool mines litecoins.. they have a calculator on the site that will tell you how many you make per month.

a bit of info that should probably go on the first page.. to get these to work on many pools you need to add

#skipcbcheck after the port..
so like

stratum+tcp://example.com:3333#skipcbcheck

Got it. I was under the impression that you could select which currency to mine with ispace. I'll start with litecoin before I get crazy. So I managed to get a temporary hub going.

Okay so my first question:
I managed to get two devices recognized (The USB hub I got only has room for two) and I reconfigured the mac bfgminer file with the following script on line 4:
Code:
./bfgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://uk1.ghash.io:3333 -u up103037409.worker3 -p xxx -S all --set MLD:clock=144

MLD0 and MLD1 both show no activity. Do I need to enable something? Did I configure it wrong?

I'm also getting these messages:

Code:
[2016-08-03 17:03:18] Stratum connection to pool 0 interrupted

Code:
[2016-08-03 17:13:51] Pool 0 is hiding block contents from us

Code:
[2016-08-03 17:27:19] Stratum connection to pool 0 interrupted

Now I'm just running a single Moonlander from the USB Hub. I'll keep running this to see if anything changes. I get an update approximately every 30 seconds or so.

One last thing... this BFG Miner URL doesn't work. https://www.dropbox.com/s/qn63pkae2pdlulm/BFgminer-FutureBit-5.4--win64.zip?dl=0

10  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] FutureBit MoonLander: A Modern and Efficient Scrypt USB Stick Miner! on: August 03, 2016, 02:44:41 PM
Hello,
New to cryptocurrency mining. I just purchased my first Moonlander script miners (3 of them) and a Gekkoscience Bitcoin miner.

I'm looking forward to playing around and learning what this is all about. I tried my moonlanders straight off the macbook pro but it looks like I need a powered USB hub to run even one of them. I wasn't able to source a Superbpag USB hub but I managed to get an Orico 10 port powered USB hub. I hope it works.

Question about Scrypt mining, Can the moonlander mine currencies other than Litecoin? I found this site here, http://www.cryptocoinsinfo.com/ and was interested in testing a few out once my USB hub arrives.

Anything else I should know other than what's in the instructions on the first page?



yes you can mine scrypt coins..

unfortunately there isnt very many scrypt coins that are worth anything.


i currently have my moonlanders pointed to ispace.co.uk
they have a lowest difficulty scrypt multipool.. it automatically changes to the lowest diff coin that they mine.. you can set it to auto convert them to btc when you have enough.. which takes a long time.


i think just mining on litecoinpool.org is the best. i have 8 moonlanders and they make about 2 litecoins per month.





I started playing around with awesome miner and ghash.io (pool) on an old PC I have laying around. How can I check the comparison between ispace.co.uk and litecoinpool.org.

On the bright side, I've ben reading a few articles that litecoin may actually make a comeback. Though, it seems that if litecoin is interested in being the "silver" to the bitcoin currency, it still won't amount to much in comparison.
11  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] FutureBit MoonLander: A Modern and Efficient Scrypt USB Stick Miner! on: August 03, 2016, 04:54:42 AM
Hello,
New to cryptocurrency mining. I just purchased my first Moonlander script miners (3 of them) and a Gekkoscience Bitcoin miner.

I'm looking forward to playing around and learning what this is all about. I tried my moonlanders straight off the macbook pro but it looks like I need a powered USB hub to run even one of them. I wasn't able to source a Superbpag USB hub but I managed to get an Orico 10 port powered USB hub. I hope it works.

Question about Scrypt mining, Can the moonlander mine currencies other than Litecoin? I found this site here, http://www.cryptocoinsinfo.com/ and was interested in testing a few out once my USB hub arrives.

Anything else I should know other than what's in the instructions on the first page?

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