Feathercoin guide needed for newbie miners

[afrustrum]

I saw the Windows Feathercoin gui announced on https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=188134.0 and so far the GUI works as far as synchronising and encrypting the wallet, but I cannot get mining to work. 

Where is good guidance for setting up mining, either solo or through a pool? I already mine with the BitMinter client, which worked first time.

The thread at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178286.0 tells me to setup the .conf like this:

server=1
daemon=1
rpcuser=miner
rpcpassword=SetSomeRandomPassword
rpcport=8100
port=8101

Should "miner" be set to something specific?

Is there a link to a detailed overview of what this client does? I cannot tell if it includes a mining client like BitMinter's client does.

The client's Start Mining does not give any feedback and I see no load on my CPU or GPUs, I suspect a separate miner program is needed?

I registered with http://fhc.ub3rl3[Suspicious link removed]m/ and set up the client to pool mine on that server, but the client reports:

"minerd --algo scrypt --scantime 99 --url http://fhc.ub3rl3[Suspicious link removed]m:9344 --userpass myusername.1:mypassword --threads 99 --retries -1 -P

[23:31:47] - Miner failed to start. Make sure you have the minerd executable and libraries in the same directory as Feathercoin-Qt.
"

The pool's getting started page suggests I should use cgminer. Is that required?

Thanks for any pointers.

[DeathProxy]

I want to know this as well. I tried also to mined but failed.

[Konkwest]

i want to know if you can exchange the coins for real feathers. 

[bobbyb]

Three days ago I mined Feathercoins solo with 396khash/s (6950) for about 6h but I got only 2 stales/invalids, so i went back to LTC pool mining.

[afrustrum]

Three days ago I mined Feathercoins solo with 396khash/s (6950) for about 6h but I got only 2 stales/invalids, so i went back to LTC pool mining.

Could you post how you mined them? Which programs and which command lines?

[hilfigjp]

Use cgminer. Same .conf as litecoin, just swap out hostname and login info for FC pool. Simple

[afrustrum]

Use cgminer. Same .conf as litecoin, just swap out hostname and login info for FC pool. Simple

Ok, thanks for the help. cgminer reports "Pool 0 slow/down or URL or credentials invalid".

How exactly should I setup Feather and/or cgminer?

What exactly should be placed in feathercoin.conf?

I downloaded cgminer 3.0.1 and ran this command in a Windows command prompt:

Code:

cgminer.exe --scrypt -o http://fhc.poolname.com:9344 -u your_user_name.1 -p passwordforpool 

cgminer reported:

Code:

 [2013-04-27 02:19:57] Started cgminer 3.0.1
 [2013-04-27 02:19:57] Started cgminer 3.0.1
 [2013-04-27 02:19:57] Probing for an alive pool
 [2013-04-27 02:19:58] Pool 0 slow/down or URL or credentials invalid

 [2013-04-27 02:20:57] Please check the details from the list below of the serve
rs you have input
 [2013-04-27 02:20:57] Most likely you have input the wrong URL, forgotten to ad
d a port, or have not set up workers

The URL is copied from http://fhc.ub3rl3[Suspicious link removed]m/news.php, and I found no mention of how to setup workers in cgminer's help.
(EDIT: this forum removes part of the URL, which is http://fhc dot ub3r l 3 3 t dot com/news.php - some .s replaced by "dot"s and some spaces inserted)

[MarKusRomanus]

This should be correct:

Code:

cgminer.exe --scrypt -o http://fhc.ub3rl33t.com:9344 -u your_user_name.1 -p x

[afrustrum]

This should be correct:

Code:

cgminer.exe --scrypt -o http://fhc.ub3rl3[Suspicious link removed]m:9344 -u your_user_name.1 -p x

Okay, thanks, I was using that command but with a password for the fhc account.

When I use exactly "-p x" cgminer  does start, and does show a hash rate, but is shown as inactive on the fhc stats webpage.

(EDIT: the fhc page has started showing I'm active now!But I still suspect it's using the Intel and not the nVidia)

Code:

cgminer version 3.0.1 - Started: [2013-04-27 10:36:29]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):3.867K (avg):3.862Kh/s | A:0  R:0  HW:0  U:0.0/m  WU:0.0/m
 ST: 2  SS: 0  NB: 11  LW: 98  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to fhc.ub3rl3[Suspicious link removed]m diff 63 with LP as user my_user_name.1
 Block: 68512c7f4bdb5ab3...  Diff:1.8M  Started: [11:02:02]  Best share: 0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GPU 0:                | 3.864K/3.871Kh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 U:0.00/m I: 8
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 [2013-04-27 11:02:02] Network diff set to 1.8M
 [2013-04-27 11:02:02] New block detected on network before longpoll
 [2013-04-27 11:02:03] LONGPOLL from pool 0 requested work restart

The config file saved from cgminer looks incomplete to me, after the pools section - :

Code:

"intensity" : "d",
"vectors" : "1",
"worksize" : "256",
"kernel" : "scrypt",
"lookup-gap" : "0",
"thread-concurrency" : "0",
"shaders" : "0",
"gpu-engine" : "0-0",
"gpu-fan" : "0-0",
"gpu-memclock" : "0",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0",
"gpu-powertune" : "0",
"gpu-vddc" : "0.000",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "0",
"temp-target" : "0",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "120",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"gpu-threads" : "1",
"hotplug" : "5",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "60",
"scrypt" : true,
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"

I suspect my cgminer is still not configured correctly or otherwise cannot use the nVidia's GPU (the display looks like my Intel GPU performance ).

[BitcoinBoard]

Its not advicable to mine on your GPU with an Nvidia video cart as it is not supported. GPU mining is best done with AMD video carts

[markosaurus]

I can't see what I'm doing wtrong here - I've successfully mined both BTC and LTC in the past using cgminer, my config is as below.

From my .bat file;

cgminer --scrypt -o http://fhc.ub3rl3[Suspicious link removed]m:9344 -u worker.worker -p xxxxxxxx

What am I doing wrong here?

Thanks,

Mark

[TheSpiral]

I can't see what I'm doing wtrong here - I've successfully mined both BTC and LTC in the past using cgminer, my config is as below.

From my .bat file;

cgminer --scrypt -o http://fhc.ub3rl3[Suspicious link removed]m:9344 -u worker.worker -p xxxxxxxx

What am I doing wrong here?

Thanks,

Mark

Looks alright, should try the Stratum server just in case that's the issue. stratum+tcp://fhc.ub3rl33t .com:3334
If it's not that, would have to be a problem with the worker name/pass

[markosaurus]

A already tried the stratum URL and got the same thing.  I'm obviously missing something here.

I also tried a different pool, registered, set up a worker, changed my conf file, no cigar.

Am I right in thinking I can use a standard cgminer instance and a conf file to mine feathercoins?  Is cgminer fundamentally different for feathercoins?

[markosaurus]

In case anyone stumbles across this - I wasn't doing anything wrong.  This is running on a different port, which was blocked at the firewall.

Once I opened the port, it was fine.

[Morning]

Also, here is my suggestion, with a GUI (GUIminer-scrypt alpha).

THe pool I mention on the tutorial may not be the best as there seem to be doubts about payments and reliability, but its enough to see how it works. I will try to update it later if doubts about the pool are real and/or if someone suggests me a better pool.

So there it goes: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=193223.0

Edit: Maybe this one instead: http://feathercoin.is-a-geek.com/?

[danel70]

Feathercoin must be up like 1000% in the past couple of weeks...truly amazing.

[ihatemyjob]

I mined at http://fhc.ub3rl33t.com for two hours and on the webpage it shows zero and zero shares submitted.

Yet on my client it shows that i have nearly submitted 500 shares.  I would not minethere again.  Those people cheated me out so I becareful.

[SilentFlute]

I had a similar experience of being cheated by Eclipse Mining (EMC) when mining Btc.