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September 29, 2012, 07:41:10 PM |
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Hey! My name is Doug. This whole bitcoin thing is fairly new to me. I was under the misapprehension that my wallet was the bitcoin client. I've sat for a month or so wondering why I haven't generated any coins. A little reading has fixed that. I'm also doing the dailies at Daily Bitcoins and a couple others.
I'll start with a question:Is 50Ghash decent?
Thanks! Doug
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September 29, 2012, 07:59:49 PM |
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That sounds pretty decent. If you are so new, how have you got 50 GHash?
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September 29, 2012, 08:02:44 PM |
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he probably played with a calculator and now aims to this hashrate.
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September 29, 2012, 08:04:53 PM |
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Is 50Ghash decent?
Yeah it's good. You'd get around 14 BTC a day. ($170+ ish)
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September 29, 2012, 08:11:47 PM |
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50 Gigahash/s?
Server farm?
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September 29, 2012, 09:33:09 PM |
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Actually, that's what guiminer says. I'm personally a little suspicious of it because I'm running solo. Shoot, I'm not even running ATI, or even a really hot card.
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September 29, 2012, 09:36:32 PM |
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Actually, that's what guiminer says. I'm personally a little suspicious of it because I'm running solo. Shoot, I'm not even running ATI, or even a really hot card.
5mh/s maybe? ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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September 29, 2012, 09:38:51 PM |
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I mouse over guiminer icon and it says 51.046 GHash/s. Open guiminer and it says same at bottom of window.
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September 29, 2012, 09:41:17 PM |
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I mouse over guiminer icon and it says 51.046 GHash/s. Open guiminer and it says same at bottom of window.
Screenshot please ![Roll Eyes](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/rolleyes.gif)
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September 30, 2012, 12:09:49 AM |
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September 30, 2012, 01:26:40 AM |
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Here it is: ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fx03sv.png&t=665&c=-cSrjzpOZRfkSw) FTFY, was not loading. From that image only, I can tell you're mining solo on the bitcoin rpc port with network difficulty 1. So you probably have to wait a bit more and synch the blockchain first. The value is obviously an error from guiminer ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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September 30, 2012, 03:41:10 AM |
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Open up your Bitcoin client and let the blockchain become in sync with the rest of the network. It will load for a while (an hour maybe), just leave it open. That should solve your problems.
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September 30, 2012, 03:49:53 AM |
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OK, guiminer is the client, correct? Or... Is it just a front end for poclbm?
I double-click poclbm.exe and it opens and closes. I navigate to the directory on the command line and it errors out. There are about eight missing Python files.
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September 30, 2012, 03:56:25 AM |
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OK, guiminer is the client, correct? Or... Is it just a front end for poclbm?
I double-click poclbm.exe and it opens and closes. I navigate to the directory on the command line and it errors out. There are about eight missing Python files.
I'm not sure, I have not tried guiminer. If you open it, does it have a % loaded (syncing blockchain)? If not, idk.
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September 30, 2012, 04:04:46 AM |
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What client do you use? I'm not afraid of command line, if needed.
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September 30, 2012, 06:12:22 AM |
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You have to install the bitcoin-qt client and allow the blockchain to sync fully before you can mine solo. If you're new at this, I would recommend mining with a pool. Solo mining is very ineffective unless you really do have multi-gigahash. Start with guiminer and poclbm on a pool, like Bitminter, or use bitminter's built in client. (It's about as efficient as guiminer.) When you feel like you have a better grasp of how bitcoin works, move up to a more advanced, configurable command-line client. For example, I get ~270 mhs with poclbm on guiminer, and I get ~300 mhs with a tweaked Phoenix miner. Bitcoin mining is quite daunting at first, but easy once you get past the learning curve. It helps is you know a bit of python and can write some scripts to automate the process a bit.
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September 30, 2012, 02:39:47 PM |
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OK, I'm following your advice, Kontakt. One thing I read is that I'll be better off as part of a pool. I'm guessing there's a board on here about the different pools?
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September 30, 2012, 03:13:13 PM |
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Tried two different pools. I'm currently connected to slush. Instead of 50 Ghash, I'm getting 21 MHash. ![Tongue](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/tongue.gif)
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September 30, 2012, 03:25:10 PM |
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Tried two different pools. I'm currently connected to slush. Instead of 50 Ghash, I'm getting 21 MHash. ![Tongue](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/tongue.gif) That is way more accurate ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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