BitMinter.com * Optional Custom Miner, PPLNS, Merged mining, Newbie-Friendly! *

[L00n3y]

Looks fun, gonna try it out once

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[rmbell]

Joined this pool a few days ago, very happy so far! core i5 2500k + radeon 6870 running cgminer averaging about 330mh/s

[DrHaribo]

Welcome all you new members!

I hope our luck stays with us and we can keep delivering these high payouts! 

[P4man]

Joined this pool a few days ago, very happy so far! core i5 2500k + radeon 6870 running cgminer averaging about 330mh/s

330 MH with a 6870  . Nice overclock!

[Bitcoin2CDKey]

very nice! thanks!

[topsport]

Nice, keep going

[rmbell]

Joined this pool a few days ago, very happy so far! core i5 2500k + radeon 6870 running cgminer averaging about 330mh/s

330 MH with a 6870  . Nice overclock!

running the core at 980 and using cgminer -C

[ToriAmos1963]

DrHaribo,

Have you set up a donation mechanism?  I want to support you and your miner.  It just runs and runs without any issues or many rejections.  The only time I had a problem, it was caused by the terrible Catalyst driver upgrade procedure.

Thanks,
Ali

[DrHaribo]

Sorry, no donation mechanism yet. But among all the changes to the database yesterday are some things to make donations possible. So I have started to pave the way for it.

I still have some other things to implement before donations, but it's coming. Thanks for wanting to support BitMinter - it will soon be possible.

[Ibdabloke]

Well, so far so good. I'm running the beta code of bitminter for a couple weeks now. I did have to add the option -Xnosplash to my command line shortcut or the program would just stall. Win7 x64

Ibdabloke

[DrHaribo]

Well, so far so good. I'm running the beta code of bitminter for a couple weeks now. I did have to add the option -Xnosplash to my command line shortcut or the program would just stall. Win7 x64

Hmm, I haven't seen that problem before. Maybe it's firewall-related? I found this when googling it: http://www.shankh.com/2008/12/14/java-web-start-jnlp-splash-recv-failed/

[Ibdabloke]

Indeed I do have that running for my firewall. The post you linked is one I had not seen. Good info there for those that want to edit their registry. Thanks.

[MrTuffles]

I tried it out for a bit, but found the interface rather clunky. To be honest, I prefer GUIMiner. 

[DrHaribo]

I tried it out for a bit, but found the interface rather clunky. To be honest, I prefer GUIMiner. 

Thanks for trying it out. Anything specific I could improve on?

[DrHaribo]

The hashrate is a bit reduced right now, with two of the biggest miners off for the moment. But please keep at it. We can push the hashrate up to a steady 100 Ghps before the end of the year. Thanks for supporting the pool.

Try out the new beta release of the miner, over in the miner thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=31163.msg640162#msg640162

[Craftyman]

Hi, I left deepbit to join this pool because I liked the GUI. Do I have to download something to receive namecoins or can i just store them at bitminter?

[P4man]

Here is what I do; register at an exchange that trades namecoins, like
https://btc-e.com/

Generate a namecoin deposit address, enter that in your bitminter account settings. That way all your namecoins are transferred to the exchange where you can sell them for bitcoins or USD.

[tbdunamis]

I'm new to Bitminter, and am running it on my Commodore 64, which has an Intel Atom D525 dou core processor.  The app. presently shows 3 gauges.  The first one shows a power output of .05+/- Mhps, and in the controls panel it says 3/4 cores.  The second gauge is reading at 3.19+/- Mhps, and the controls panel has an icon of 3 gears with the words 2 CUs above it.  The third gauge reads at 3.27+/- Mhps, and nothing is displayed in the controls panel.

Then, in the status box at the bottom, the following messages are displayed:

Unfamiliar GPU ION (#1) - using default power meter
Found 1 OpenCL - compatible GPU
Unfamiliar CPU Atom D525 - using default power meter
Starting long polling

Since typing this out, I now see that the bottom gauge is the sum of the CPU and GPU, and shows the approximate mint speed of .0017+/- coins per day.

My question is: Can anything be done to make this faster?  I'm aware of the performance mode button.  And for the record, my computer is connected directly to a modem, without first going through a router.  At the same time, the CPU performance gauge on my desktop shows that it is maxed out.

Also, I just noticed that I have 1 proof of work accepted by the server.  Yay!

[P4man]

My question is: Can anything be done to make this faster? 

No. Sorry to say it, but your hardware is simply inadequate for bitcoin mining. CPU mining is useless with any cpu, even with a 6 core Core i7 its a complete waste of time, never mind with an Atom. I am surprised your videocard supports OpenCL at all, Im guessing its not the onchip GPU but an nVidia ION? Either way, its almost as pointless. Anything other than relatively recent and mid/highend AMD videocards is pointless.

What I would suggest is mining Litecoins with the atom CPU. Litecoin uses an algorithm that does not benefit from OpenCL, so it can only run on cpus, and even with an Atom you will mine some at least. you can trade litecoins for bitcoins. Should make you a few bitcoins per month, rather than a few bitcoins per century .

[DrHaribo]

Welcome, new guys

I'm new to Bitminter, and am running it on my Commodore 64, which has an Intel Atom D525 dou core processor.

Finally someone mining on a C64! Although the hardware sounds a little different from what I can remember. 

Unfamiliar GPU ION (#1) - using default power meter
Found 1 OpenCL - compatible GPU
Unfamiliar CPU Atom D525 - using default power meter
Starting long polling

The program doesn't know this GPU or CPU, so the gauges may look strange. Normally the green zone is where you can expect your device to be without overclocking. I'll add those devices into a future version.

My question is: Can anything be done to make this faster?  I'm aware of the performance mode button.  And for the record, my computer is connected directly to a modem, without first going through a router.  At the same time, the CPU performance gauge on my desktop shows that it is maxed out.

The BitMinter miner is very slow on CPUs and only decent on Nvidia GPUs. You could get much higher CPU-speed with a good CPU miner and at least some extra speed on the GPU with a CUDA-based miner. Most miners are OpenCL-based, but there's one or two using CUDA and I believe they are faster on Nvidia GPUs. Still, and this is the reason I have only optimized for AMD GPUs so far, CPU-mining is always very slow and AMD is much faster than Nvidia GPUs. Also, this is one of the slowest Nvidia GPUs to boot. That computer does not sound like a good computer for making bitcoins.

You can see a useful comparison of different hardware here:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

You may want to turn off the CPU and go in the "tune & tweak" for the Ion GPU and make sure "manual vectors" is turned off. That's usually best for Nvidia GPUs with this program. But I think a more powerful GPU is the way to go.