Iniziare a minare

Ho comprato 1 antminer perchè sono economiche e vanno bene per imparare a fare mining su asic, spendendo poco. Una bitfury costa un pò di più, e se non si bruciano in overclock, le antminer arrivano anche a 4 gh/s (ok, diciamo che 1,8 è più realistico Wink

) Poi un cosa non esclude l'altra, uno inizia, poi upgrada. Tornando al mining 4 dummies:

ok, allora, la prima cosa è: don't panic, prendi il tuo asciugamano e ricorda che google è tuo amico http://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams

punto uno: leggi il manuale Wink

https://raw2.github.com/AntMiner/AntGen1/master/manual/AntMiner-U1%20user%20guide.pdf - resisti alla voglia di isntallare i driver per windows. Linux, quasi sempre, non usa driver.
dal manuale, intuisci che devi andare su:

https://github.com/AntMiner/AntGen1/tree/master/cgminer che è un GIT. i git sono una figata, impara ad usarli, a prescindere. Se non hai installato il "client", dai da terminale (do per assodato che sai gestire permessi, sudo, muoverti fra le dir da terminale etc):

sudo apt-get install git

quindi, puoi clonarti il git in locale con:

git clone https://github.com/AntMiner/AntGen1

per tua fortuna antminer fornisce i files precompilati (diciamo che vogliamo fidarci del fanto che non ci siano trucchetti nel codice Wink

) quindi ti basta rendere eseguibile il file e avviarlo:

cd AntGen1/cgminer/
sudo chmod +x cgminer-run-linux
./cgminer-run-linux [sintassi]

per l'uso di cgminer, ti riporto il man della versione precedente installabile con il classico

sudo apt-get install cgminer (si, cgminer è nei repository, è per questo che linux è bello Cheesy

)

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CGMINER(1) User Commands CGMINER(1)

NAME
   cgminer - multi-threaded multi-pool GPU, FPGA and CPU bitcoin miner.

SYNOPSIS
   cgminer [-DdGEgIKklmpPQqsTouvwOchnV]

DESCRIPTION
   multi-threaded multi-pool GPU, FPGA and CPU bitcoin miner. Built with bflsc GPU bitforce icarus avalon modminer scrypt mining support.

OPTIONS
   Options for both config file and command line:
   --api-allow <arg>
   Allow API access only to the given list of [G:]IP[/Prefix] addresses[/subnets]

   --api-description <arg>
   Description placed in the API status header, default: cgminer version

   --api-groups <arg>
   API one letter groups G:cmd:cmd[,P:cmd:*...] defining the cmds a groups can use

   --api-listen
   Enable API, default: disabled

   --api-network
   Allow API (if enabled) to listen on/for any address, default: only 127.0.0.1

   --api-port <arg>
   Port number of miner API (default: 4028)

   --balance
   Change multipool strategy from failover to even share balance

   --benchmark
   Run cgminer in benchmark mode - produces no shares

   --bfl-range
   Use nonce range on bitforce devices if supported

   --compact
   Use compact display without per device statistics

   --debug|-D
   Enable debug output

   --device|-d <arg>
   Select device to use, (Use repeat -d for multiple devices, default: all)

   --disable-gpu|-G
   Disable GPU mining even if suitable devices exist

   --disable-rejecting
   Automatically disable pools that continually reject shares

   --expiry|-E <arg>
   Upper bound on how many seconds after getting work we consider a share from it stale (default: 120)

   --failover-only
   Don't leak work to backup pools when primary pool is lagging

   --fix-protocol
   Do not redirect to a different getwork protocol (eg. stratum)

   --gpu-dyninterval <arg>
   Set the refresh interval in ms for GPUs using dynamic intensity (default: 7)

   --gpu-platform <arg>
   Select OpenCL platform ID to use for GPU mining (default: -1)

   --gpu-threads|-g <arg>
   Number of threads per GPU (1 - 10) (default: -1)

   --lookup-gap <arg>
   Set GPU lookup gap for scrypt mining, comma separated

   --intensity|-I <arg>
   Intensity of GPU scanning (d or -10 -> 20, default: d to maintain desktop interactivity)

   --hotplug <arg>
   Seconds between hotplug checks (0 means never check)

   --kernel-path|-K <arg>
   Specify a path to where bitstream and kernel files are (default: "/usr/lib/cgminer")

   --kernel|-k <arg>
   Override sha256 kernel to use (diablo, poclbm, phatk or diakgcn) - one value or comma separated

   --load-balance
   Change multipool strategy from failover to efficiency based balance

   --log|-l <arg>
   Interval in seconds between log output (default: 5)

   --lowmem
   Minimise caching of shares for low memory applications

   --monitor|-m <arg>
   Use custom pipe cmd for output messages

   --net-delay
   Impose small delays in networking to not overload slow routers

   --no-restart
   Do not attempt to restart GPUs that hang

   --no-submit-stale
   Don't submit shares if they are detected as stale

   --pass|-p <arg>
   Password for bitcoin JSON-RPC server

   --per-device-stats
   Force verbose mode and output per-device statistics

   --protocol-dump|-P
   Verbose dump of protocol-level activities

   --queue|-Q <arg>
   Minimum number of work items to have queued (0+) (default: 1)

   --quiet|-q
   Disable logging output, display status and errors

   --real-quiet
   Disable all output

   --remove-disabled
   Remove disabled devices entirely, as if they didn't exist

   --rotate <arg>
   Change multipool strategy from failover to regularly rotate at N minutes (default: 0)

   --round-robin
   Change multipool strategy from failover to round robin on failure

   --scan-time|-s <arg>
   Upper bound on time spent scanning current work, in seconds (default: -1)

   --sched-start <arg>
   Set a time of day in HH:MM to start mining (a once off without a stop time)

   --sched-stop <arg>
   Set a time of day in HH:MM to stop mining (will quit without a start time)

   --scrypt
   Use the scrypt algorithm for mining (litecoin only)

   --shaders <arg>
   GPU shaders per card for tuning scrypt, comma separated

   --sharelog <arg>
   Append share log to file

   --shares <arg>
   Quit after mining N shares (default: unlimited)

   --socks-proxy <arg>
   Set socks4 proxy (host:port)

   --syslog
   Use system log for output messages (default: standard error)

   --temp-cutoff <arg>
   Temperature where a device will be automatically disabled, one value or comma separated list (default: 95)

   --text-only|-T
   Disable ncurses formatted screen output

   --thread-concurrency <arg>
   Set GPU thread concurrency for scrypt mining, comma separated

   --url|-o <arg>
   URL for bitcoin JSON-RPC server

   --user|-u <arg>
   Username for bitcoin JSON-RPC server

   --usb <arg>
   USB device selection

   --vectors|-v <arg>
   Override detected optimal vector (1, 2 or 4) - one value or comma separated list

   --verbose
   Log verbose output to stderr as well as status output

   --worksize|-w <arg>
   Override detected optimal worksize - one value or comma separated list

   --userpass|-O <arg>
   Username:Password pair for bitcoin JSON-RPC server

   --worktime
   Display extra work time debug information

   Options for command line only:
   --config|-c <arg>
   Load a JSON-format configuration file See example.conf for an example configuration.

   --default-config <arg>
   Specify the filename of the default config file Loaded at start and used when saving without a name.

   --help|-h
   Print this message

   --ndevs|-n
   Display number of detected GPUs, OpenCL platform information, all USB devices, and exit

   --version|-V
   Display version and exit

cgminer 3.2.0 June 2013 CGMINER(1)

dimmi se ti funziona tutto, come ti ho detto, non ho ancora l'hardware fra le mani