missed the bottom, and was sooo convinced we were still in downtrend, that I broke my own rules, and didn't buy back in when it passed where I had originally sold. Look out for than damn greed, it clouds judgement!    

volume is surely too low to sustain this long-term. It looks to me like it's corrected about right for having been over sold, and is ready to get back to the slow slide down again soon. This is just based on my intuition, and what some of the more convincing mid-term bears on this thread have explained previously.

Is there a typical proportion of orphaned blocks per good blocks in mining pools? Trying to work out whether certain fees are worth it, and can't work out how to get any stats on proportions of orphaned blocks.

OK, so I'll set it to 'balance' for unbiased results.

GF and RF are 0 for about 36 hours of run time. I'll check those periodically

thanks

very noobish question:

I'm load-balanced across three pools. I'm thinking of going for the one with the highest average yield, and hoping that the load-balanced setting is basically helping to show up which pools are better. Is using load-balance a reliable way of comparing pool efficiencies?

doesn't this 8 spaces password limitation make it vulnerable to hackers?

Great tutorial. Thanks for putting it together   


Everything went smooth until this bit. When I reboot, cgminer won't start automatically. I'm using cgminer 3.1.1 with Erupter USBs. Might the older cgminer be why it doesn't work?

Anyway, I wrote this script with nano, called it auto_cgminer, and saved it in my 'code' folder,


then entered

 @/usr/bin/lxterminal --geometry=90x35 -e code/auto_cgminer

in stead of

 @/usr/bin/lxterminal --geometry=90x35 -e cgminer

into the /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart file. Now it gets mining straight away to config file specs on startup.


Now here I got stuck:

I installed TightVNC onto my Ubuntu 11.10 computer, just as I had done as instructed here for the Pi. Then I don't know how to start it up so that I can do the second step, "Write your Raspberry Pi IP". Entering tightvnc or tightvncserver into terminal don't give me an option to enter the Pi's IP... What did I miss?

Is there a typical proportion of orphaned blocks per good blocks in mining pools? Trying to work out whether certain fees are worth it.

edit: probably the wrong thread - reposting in the Mining Support thread

I can't get the btminter mining button to work on firefox, nor chrome. I'm running ubuntu 11.10, and have OpenJDK Java 7 Runtime and Iced Tea Java Web Start 6 installed. When I click on the button in chrome, it just downloads the bitminter.jnlp file. In Firefox, it tries to run it, but running it in Firefox isn't right as it just opens an empty window. The button ran fine on the Windows 7 PC. any ideas?

I found https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=68901.0 yesterday. Pooling to bitminter and slush's nicely with the new config file.



Yeah. My fan only only arrived today, so we'll see if that helps, but I'm sceptical. The whole thing stops all at once, whereas with overheating I would have expected individual Erupters to stop without necessarily shutting cgminer down


This https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=51622.msg615755#msg615755    is the closest I've found to any sort of automated reconnection. I think it's for a screen thing or something, which I'm not familiar with. I don't know how to alter or implement that script for auto-restart of failed cgminer

I've just started mining with half a dozen USB Erupters on Slush's pool (Ubuntu 11.10). Cgminer periodically stops/crashes. When it does, I can't enter anything into terminal, so have to start a new terminal and restart cgminer. I've gone through the readme but can't figure out a way to make it restart automatically when this happens.

Any tips apreciated

Yup, that's about what I was expecting to be getting according to http://www.bitcoinx.com/profit/. Right now, confirmed reward plus estimated for the round is 0.0072, which would work out at 0.017 for 24 hours. I figured it might take a while to gain score



Cheers. I'll check it again tomorrow.


To be sure, my system lost connection three times. Once for a few seconds, the other for about 2 mins, and the other about 10-15 mins. Not sure if that would have cost me significantly, but I'm getting the impression not.

Hi, I'm mining for the first time, on Slush as it was frequently recommended. Still haven't got my head around the rewards systems. I've been running at 1.6Gh/s for about 10 hours, and the rewards are so far pretty low. I'm assuming this has to do with the scoring. How long should I wait until the reward rates are more representative?

damn. my bitstamp bid was 30c too low. Gotta pull it. Can't trust there to be second bounces in this maelstrom

Yeah allot of dropping without bouncing earlier, so hard to judge it. It's looking more bouncy today though. temptation is leading me to risk a small amount on this one

that's a pretty steep wall not to bounce off of...

edit:, though yes, I'd guess not to high 70s from 71, but at least mids

I guess it's worth a mention that while waiting for my d-link hubs and fans to arrive, my ubutnu 11.10 laptop is running 3 erupter off an old cheap Topcom usb mini hub 224 p2.0.

I find it really hard to predict the top of these seemingly artificial long steady bull trap rises. Only telling factor I can think of is they'll keep going until the bid depth fills up enough to be worthwhile for a big dumper. Any other factors which may help estimate this?

thanks guys, I'll go for the 2 d-links. I had actually come to that conclusion and am happy to check back here to see it's right   

Thanks for such a good thread and informative posts!

I'm getting the gear together while waiting for 10 Erupters to arrive, and have a very noob question. I've looked around but can't find an answer.

I'm not sure how the miners work so don't know whether there is any advantage of using USB3.0 vs UCB2.0 hubs. (for running 10 Erupters of a USB hub or two). I'm guessing no, but to be sure...