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[casilan]

Love how easy it is to mine bitcoin with a java web start client.

Anyway, would love to be able to look up my name under a specific block to check did I perform during a block.

I could see many pay and share in
https://bitminter.com/block/btc/00000000000000216c79bc593023d961788497044812c2b24b240df84361878f
but can't find myself easily to help me gauge where is my work done for a block.

[DrHaribo]

Hi,

nice to hear you like the pool

I could see many pay and share in
https://bitminter.com/block/btc/00000000000000216c79bc593023d961788497044812c2b24b240df84361878f
but can't find myself easily to help me gauge where is my work done for a block.

I will add a "find me" button in the future. For now it may be easier to find it under "my account" -> "transaction history" in the website menu. At least for recent blocks.

[OneMadSquid]

Aloha all! OneMadSquid here. I'm a newbie to Bitcoin mining, but I think I am getting the gist of it. I am currently running a very weak rig, but again I'm new so I am only operating with what I had around the house at the moment. I am hooked now though, and have just ordered my very first ASIC unit. It's not a behemoth either, but it will multiply my hash rate by 3-4 times. Right now, with just my old GPU, I am getting ~130Mhps. Nothing to get excited about, but way better than I was expecting. I have a MacbookPro 13" as well, and it's newer than m y GPU by several years, but it registers way down in the Thps range and seems like a waste of time to mine with.

None of that is likely to surprise any of you though. Sorry. Again, I'm a very green newbie here. I can say for sure that I am very happy to have joined the BitMinter pool because the entire process seems very streamlined, the software works perfectly (near as I can tell), and the website is easy enough to navigate and operate. In a strange way it feels good not just to be earning my first BTC ever, but to be contributing to something larger, something that has meaning to other people.

Anyhow, I don't mean to opine at great length. I'm actually here to ask a favor from my fellow pool members. I am currently one of ten entrants in the Alienware Arena Patterns Image Contest, meaning that I have a decent shot at winning. The contest is a picture contest where entrants submit a screenshot of their best creation in Linden Lab's Patterns game. The prize for this contest is an Alienware X51. Now, I am indeed a gamer, but being a new convert to Bitcoin mining, I instantly locked onto an even more important reason for me to win: My hash rate will go up!

Now, I realize that the X51 has an NVIDIA card, not the preferable type. Still, I found a site that says I should be able to get a cool 60Mhps out of it, taking me from my current 130 and putting me much closer to 200. Add my new ASIC, which should be here very soon now, and I'll be floating in the 500Mhps area. Because we benefit together as pool members from any increase in hash rate, I was hoping to garner a few simple, totally free votes to help me win this contest. Most of the others have zero votes. The highest rated entrant now has 7 votes (and his build is a smaller version of mine, essentially). That means that if as few as, oh, I don't know, 10 of my fellow miners can hop over to this link and simply vote for my entry, called Obsidian Castle Glows and submitted by onemadsquid, we can all benefit!

Here is the voting page: http://na.alienwarearena.com/contest/entries/patterns

For the sake of clarity, this is my entry: http://na.alienwarearena.com/galleries/photo/4473

Thank you in advance!

[Eiko]

Yikes. BFL's Easy Miner application goes unresponsive every few days and needs to be reset so I thought I would try the nifty looking BitMinter application and benefit from NMC mining as a bonus. It sets up quick and easy, but within 20 minutes I got more than 20 stales. Lots of work rejected, not good. Even with the app glitches, the other pool I was using has zero reported rejects/stales. Maybe I'll come back to BitMinter with an AMD video card if I ever get one, but as soon as I reach the payout limit, my ASIC's will probably head back to the last pool. It's a great application from the looks of it though. Very shiny, easy to add new hardware, easily configured, etc. But 1 stale work unit per minute is unacceptable.

[DrHaribo]

None of that is likely to surprise any of you though. Sorry. Again, I'm a very green newbie here. I can say for sure that I am very happy to have joined the BitMinter pool because the entire process seems very streamlined, the software works perfectly (near as I can tell), and the website is easy enough to navigate and operate. In a strange way it feels good not just to be earning my first BTC ever, but to be contributing to something larger, something that has meaning to other people.

Welcome to the pool. And yes, Bitcoin is awesome

Yikes. BFL's Easy Miner application goes unresponsive every few days and needs to be reset so I thought I would try the nifty looking BitMinter application and benefit from NMC mining as a bonus. It sets up quick and easy, but within 20 minutes I got more than 20 stales. Lots of work rejected, not good. Even with the app glitches, the other pool I was using has zero reported rejects/stales. Maybe I'll come back to BitMinter with an AMD video card if I ever get one, but as soon as I reach the payout limit, my ASIC's will probably head back to the last pool. It's a great application from the looks of it though. Very shiny, easy to add new hardware, easily configured, etc. But 1 stale work unit per minute is unacceptable.

You're mining with a BFL ASIC? It's odd you got that many stales so quickly. But unless something is wrong it should even out to below 0.5% over time.

[Eiko]

You're mining with a BFL ASIC? It's odd you got that many stales so quickly. But unless something is wrong it should even out to below 0.5% over time.

Indeed I am (2 of them if it matters), and sadly the trend has continued in the same direction since my last post.

[DrHaribo]

Indeed I am (2 of them if it matters), and sadly the trend has continued in the same direction since my last post.

How many accepted and how many rejected?

[JohnWasser]

Having a problem with the BitMinter app crashing on Mac OS X 10.7.5. Java 14.8.0.

Code:

Process:         java [2560]
Path:            /Users/USER/Library/Application Support/Oracle/*/BitMinter Client.app
Identifier:      java.BitMinter Client
Version:         ??? (???)
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:  ??? [1]

Date/Time:       2013-09-30 08:31:36.058 -0400
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7.5 (11G63)
Report Version:  9

Interval Since Last Report:          986063 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           11
Per-App Interval Since Last Report:  1096385 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   5
Anonymous UUID:                      2366D0EE-494B-4896-9D5E-7C4F63E2DBB2

Crashed Thread:  0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:  EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000

Application Specific Information:
objc[2560]: garbage collection is OFF

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x00007fff918ea1d1 __HALT + 1
1   com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x00007fff9183c960 CFBasicHashRemoveValue + 2944
2   com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x00007fff91862c46 CFRunLoopRemoveTimer + 166
3   com.apple.QuartzCore          	0x00007fff88b05d74 _ZL12update_timerP13CAOpenGLLayer + 408
4   com.apple.QuartzCore          	0x00007fff88b087e3 _ZL28CAOpenGLLayer_timer_callbackP16__CFRunLoopTimerPv + 974
5   com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x00007fff91862934 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_TIMER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 20
6   com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x00007fff91862486 __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 534
7   com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x00007fff91842e11 __CFRunLoopRun + 1617
8   com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x00007fff91842486 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 230
9   com.apple.HIToolbox           	0x00007fff8fa9d2bf RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 277
10  com.apple.HIToolbox           	0x00007fff8faa456d ReceiveNextEventCommon + 355
11  com.apple.HIToolbox           	0x00007fff8faa43fa BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 62
12  com.apple.AppKit              	0x00007fff8bcad779 _DPSNextEvent + 659
13  com.apple.AppKit              	0x00007fff8bcad07d -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 135
14  libosxapp.dylib               	0x0000000113e0a6f4 -[NSApplicationAWT nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 124
15  com.apple.AppKit              	0x00007fff8bca99b9 -[NSApplication run] + 470
16  libosxapp.dylib               	0x0000000113e0a557 +[NSApplicationAWT runAWTLoopWithApp:] + 156
17  libsplashscreen.dylib         	0x0000000113dc1996 __SplashInitPlatform_block_invoke_1 + 86
18  libdispatch.dylib             	0x00007fff85d17a82 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 18
19  libdispatch.dylib             	0x00007fff85d198f2 _dispatch_main_queue_callback_4CF + 308
20  com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x00007fff91842e7c __CFRunLoopRun + 1724
21  com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x00007fff91842486 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 230
22  java                          	0x000000010c5e03b0 CreateExecutionEnvironment + 871
23  java                          	0x000000010c5dab5c JLI_Launch + 1952
24  java                          	0x000000010c5e070d main + 101
25  java                          	0x000000010c5da3b4 start + 52

[philipma1957]

to the poster above me are you running fire fox.  I was only able to run mac with firefox

[philipma1957]

to the ebayer I am trying to get started please let me know if you found this thread‹

[DrHaribo]

Having a problem with the BitMinter app crashing on Mac OS X 10.7.5. Java 14.8.0.

I haven't seen that before and couldn't figure it out from googling. It runs fine on my OS X 10.8.

Java 7 is the latest. Not sure what the 14.8.0 version number is from. Is it the latest you are running, or is there an upgrade you could try?

[JohnWasser]

Having a problem with the BitMinter app crashing on Mac OS X 10.7.5. Java 14.8.0.

I haven't seen that before and couldn't figure it out from googling. It runs fine on my OS X 10.8.

Turns out that CPU and GPU mining had gotten turned on even though I had them 'Hidden'.  After selecting "View/Show all devices" I paused the CPU and GPU mining and the crashes stopped.  I'm using a MacBook Pro from late 2007: Core2 Duo T7700 and GeForce 8600M GT.

I'll keep them un-hidden and pause them if they get started again on a re-start.

[csireg]

Hi!

I'm new here and have problems with bitminter client.
I've 2 USB erupter connected to an Anker USB hub.
On one hand if I connect the hub to my desktop PC, everything is working fine.
On the other hand if I try to use the hub (with the two erupter) with my laptop for this kind of work, then I receive the following error message:

Code:

2013.10.08 [09:10] BitMinter Client v1.4.2 started 
2013.10.08 [09:10]  Hint: Use performance mode for best GPU results (bottom right button) 
2013.10.08 [09:10] No OpenCL-compatible GPUs detected 
2013.10.08 [09:10]  Lacking OpenCL support. If you want to use GPUs, please install the latest drivers from your graphics card manufacturer. 
2013.10.08 [09:10] Probing all ports for external devices 
2013.10.08 [09:10] Device detected on COM4: Icarus 
2013.10.08 [09:10] Device detected on COM8: Icarus 
2013.10.08 [09:10]  Icarus detection failed. Expected nonce 0x00000109 but got 0x5546CE19. 
2013.10.08 [09:10]  Icarus detection failed. Expected nonce 0x00000109 but got 0x5546CE19. 
2013.10.08 [09:10]  Icarus detection failed. Expected nonce 0x00000109 but got 0x5546CE19. 
2013.10.08 [09:10]  Probe of port COM3 failed: timeout 

On the laptop is nothing special, freshly installed Win7, new java and that's it.
Does anyone have some idea what could be wrong?

Thanks in advance.

[DrHaribo]

On the laptop is nothing special, freshly installed Win7, new java and that's it.
Does anyone have some idea what could be wrong?

This kind of thing typically happens because the block erupters don't get enough power. But I guess this is a powered USB hub, so I don't see why it should fail when using it with the laptop. You could try reinstalling the drivers. I have heard of at least one instance where that fixed it.

http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/Pages/USBtoUARTBridgeVCPDrivers.aspx

[csireg]

This kind of thing typically happens because the block erupters don't get enough power. But I guess this is a powered USB hub, so I don't see why it should fail when using it with the laptop. You could try reinstalling the drivers. I have heard of at least one instance where that fixed it.

http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/Pages/USBtoUARTBridgeVCPDrivers.aspx

Thanks for the idea but unfortunately it didn't helped. I even tried with WinUSB driver (zadig) but nothing changed.
The laptop is on a docking station but with it or without it I got the same error message.

[easynote]

I use block erupters on my pc with latest beta, because OC usb and works fine..

I have five conected in the pc and fice in a dlink hub

[DrHaribo]

Thanks for the idea but unfortunately it didn't helped. I even tried with WinUSB driver (zadig) but nothing changed.
The laptop is on a docking station but with it or without it I got the same error message.

Zadig is only used by cgminer. You could try that too. I'm running out of ideas.

[kickbit]

I think building own ASICs miners or buying ready miners no more relevant today.
Cloud technologies came to mining. And that's great. Just find cloud-miner service, pay for GHashes, get them instantly and enjoy

[easynote]

I think building own ASICs miners or buying ready miners no more relevant today.
Cloud technologies came to mining. And that's great. Just find cloud-miner service, pay for GHashes, get them instantly and enjoy

Or https://btcjam.com

Or https://coinad.com too

[kickbit]

I think building own ASICs miners or buying ready miners no more relevant today.
Cloud technologies came to mining. And that's great. Just find cloud-miner service, pay for GHashes, get them instantly and enjoy

Or https://btcjam.com

Or https://coinad.com too

Um, that's not what I mean I was talking about sites like:
www.cloudhashing.com
or
https://cex.io/ - btw, it has an official topic somewhere at bitcointalk.
I think it's much more risk-free than buying $5000 physical miner and wait it for months IMHO