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[killingthemonkey]

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

[Monkey1]

That sounds pretty decent.  If you are so new, how have you got 50 GHash?

[hamdi]

he probably played with a calculator and now aims to this hashrate.

[mufa23]

Is 50Ghash decent?

Yeah it's good. You'd get around 14 BTC a day. ($170+ ish)

[Undefined31415]

50 Gigahash/s?

Server farm?

[killingthemonkey]

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.

[paraipan]

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? 

[killingthemonkey]

I mouse over guiminer icon and it says 51.046 GHash/s. Open guiminer and it says same at bottom of window.

[paraipan]

I mouse over guiminer icon and it says 51.046 GHash/s. Open guiminer and it says same at bottom of window.

Screenshot please 

[killingthemonkey]

Here it is:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/820/guiminer.png/

[paraipan]

Here it is:

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

[killingthemonkey]

Synch the block chain?

Once more for the newb, please?
 

More info from guiminer. Does this help?
http://imageshack.us/a/img22/5342/guiminer2.png

[b!z]

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.

[killingthemonkey]

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.

[b!z]

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.

[killingthemonkey]

What client do you use? I'm not afraid of command line, if needed.

[Kontakt]

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.

[killingthemonkey]

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?

[killingthemonkey]

Tried two different pools. I'm currently connected to slush. Instead of 50 Ghash, I'm getting 21 MHash. 

[paraipan]

Tried two different pools. I'm currently connected to slush. Instead of 50 Ghash, I'm getting 21 MHash. 

That is way more accurate