[ANN]Bminer: a fast Equihash/Ethash/Cuckaroo29z miner for AMD/NVIDIA GPUs 16.4.9

[mejutty]

I have 3 pc's and 1 will not run bminer it just sits there for about 3 seconds shows now output on screen then just exits.  Anything I can do to see why it's just not starting or even throwing an error??  It just the other 2 equihash miners just fine.

Can you please show the screenshots or logs? Thanks.

im running in windows litteraly the dos box is blank no output.  where and how is a log generated?

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[MeistroUK]

v5 is working good for me with btg... Slightly faster than dstm and doesn't keep randomly stopping for couple secs like the other one does too. CPU usage is down too from previous builds which is why i didn't use it but will now

[Quarx2k]

Very good miner, but not reconnects to pool after internet recoonect. Just stop sumbit shares... (win, latest version).

[Rexheyi]

Someone creates a .Bat with these parameters.

STRATUM:   stratum+tcp://btg.suprnova.cc
PORT:   8816
Username: master0.slave0
Password:   masterslave00

I would love to use it, but I have tried everything and I can not use it.

[fourthandshort]

Someone creates a .Bat with these parameters.

STRATUM:   stratum+tcp://btg.suprnova.cc
PORT:   8816
Username: master0.slave0
Password:   masterslave00

I would love to use it, but I have tried everything and I can not use it.

I used the following and it works like a charm.

@echo OFF

REM Change the following address to your Zcash taddr.
SET ADDRESS=*My Wallet*
SET USERNAME=master0.slave0:masterslave00
SET POOL=btg.suprnova.cc:8816
SET SCHEME=stratum+ssl

START "Bminer: When Crypto-mining Made Fast" bminer.exe -uri %SCHEME%://%USERNAME%@%POOL% -api 127.0.0.1:1880

I think you needed to add the +ssl to your scheme.  I was getting an authentication error until I did that.

[Kansalis]

Does anyone have information how to use this on altminer? I tried what I figured would be the correct commandline but get this error:

panic: interface conversion: interface {} is []interface {}, not string
[WARN] [2018-01-14T19:37:18Z] Miner died! It will be restarted soon...

I'm starting it with this: bminer -uri stratum://wallet.workername:x@eu1.altminer.net:10000 -api 127.0.0.1:1880

[NameTaken]

Does anyone have information how to use this on altminer? I tried what I figured would be the correct commandline but get this error:

panic: interface conversion: interface {} is []interface {}, not string
[WARN] [2018-01-14T19:37:18Z] Miner died! It will be restarted soon...

I'm starting it with this: bminer -uri stratum://wallet.workername:x@eu1.altminer.net:10000 -api 127.0.0.1:1880

That url and port is for NeoScrypt. This miner is for Equihash.

[fourthandshort]

I have 3 pc's and 1 will not run bminer it just sits there for about 3 seconds shows now output on screen then just exits.  Anything I can do to see why it's just not starting or even throwing an error??  It just the other 2 equihash miners just fine.

Can you please show the screenshots or logs? Thanks.

im running in windows litteraly the dos box is blank no output.  where and how is a log generated?

Try taking out the START command and just have the bminer.exe followed by the references. 

You can add a pause after that and it will show you the error.  I had to mess around a bit to get it to show me what I was doing wrong.

[Rexheyi]

Someone creates a .Bat with these parameters.

STRATUM:   stratum+tcp://btg.suprnova.cc
PORT:   8816
Username: master0.slave0
Password:   masterslave00

I would love to use it, but I have tried everything and I can not use it.

I used the following and it works like a charm.

@echo OFF

REM Change the following address to your Zcash taddr.
SET ADDRESS=*My Wallet*
SET USERNAME=master0.slave0:masterslave00
SET POOL=btg.suprnova.cc:8816
SET SCHEME=stratum+ssl

START "Bminer: When Crypto-mining Made Fast" bminer.exe -uri %SCHEME%://%USERNAME%@%POOL% -api 127.0.0.1:1880

I think you needed to add the +ssl to your scheme.  I was getting an authentication error until I did that.

Thanks, looks like it worked !!!

[realbminer]

The version 5.1.0 has released:

• Support NiceHash.
• Fix unstable network connections in 5.0.0.
• Fix performance regressions for 1080Ti under Linux.

Enjoy mining!

[LoraineLY]

I am currently using ewbf. Is this one faster? How about dstm?

Could anyone tell me which equihash miner is the fastest one? ewbf, dstm, or bminer?

[Vann]

This miner just keeps getting better. ~1100 H/s with a 1080 and a 1070 @ 300-310 W. About 10 H/s better than v5.0. Thanks for the update.

[Thebdl]

I take a sit and I will report my rig stats 

[Jsorrentino]

The version 5.1.0 has released:

• Support NiceHash.
• Fix unstable network connections in 5.0.0.
• Fix performance regressions for 1080Ti under Linux.

Enjoy mining!

Was the retries timeout fixed where it was not exiting as it should?

Also, AwesomeMiner is not compatible because you are not supporting the necessary interface commands, you can talk to the devs there by emailing info@awesomeminer.com.

His reply to me was "Bminer has at least an API from what I can see, but it's not supported by Awesome Miner right now."

Thanks.

[Rexheyi]

Does it work with nicehash GUI?

[realbminer]

Thanks everybody for the feedback. The 5.0.0 version has been released:

• Minor performance improvement for GTX 1060.
• Fixed performance regressions in 4.0.0 on Windows.
• Optimization on the networking layer.
• Show GPU ID in case of hardware errors.
• Introduced the option -no-timestamps which suppresses the timestamps in the logging messages.

Happy mining!

You should probably put the Version number in the subject of this thread so ppl know easily when you update your miner.
e.g. [ANN] Bminer (v5.0): a fast Equihash miner for CUDA GPUs

That way ppl wont have to look at page 1 or 13 everytime to figure out if there's been an update.

Good job on bringing new versions I havent tested it yet but the last one didnt work for me. Will do so over the weekend.

Thanks for the suggestions. I made the changes.

[SPEC1AL1ST]

The version 5.1.0 has released:

• Support NiceHash.
• Fix unstable network connections in 5.0.0.
• Fix performance regressions for 1080Ti under Linux.

Enjoy mining!

It actually shows all sols computed by the bminer. Note that the number remains the same even the devfee is turned off (which does not submit devfee shares but it disables *quite a few* optimizations).
Im curious what these optimizations do?

1) You can add GPU temps on miner window?
2) You can add colors to miner window for best reading?

[sir_blacks]

The version 5.1.0 has released:

• Support NiceHash.
• Fix unstable network connections in 5.0.0.
• Fix performance regressions for 1080Ti under Linux.

Enjoy mining!

New version same thing: Miner it use 2 extra internet connection 100% of time beside mining pool & appi so agen i will say pass on using this miner

Code:

bminer.exe	TCP 	104.31.68.221		https
bminer.exe	TCP	gre14.anti-ddos.pro	6633

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The version 5.1.0 has released:

• Support NiceHash.
• Fix unstable network connections in 5.0.0.
• Fix performance regressions for 1080Ti under Linux.

Enjoy mining!

Are you sure for the increase hashrate ?
I use GTX 1080Ti under Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) and I've not seen any hashrate increase between 5.0.0 and 5.1.0...

[DES_MX]

This is really weird, the miner seems faster in miner and on API, but slower on the pool than DTSM.

Checked on 1080Ti cards: reports ~800h/s in miner and API per card; DTSM shows ~780h/s
Checked on Titan Xp cards: reports ~840h/s in miner and API per card; DTSM shows ~810h/s

Aggregated hash rate for 15 cards total (2x titan xp and 13x 1080ti) ~9 Khash in pool.

On DTSM aggregated hash rate for 15 cards total (2x titan xp and 13x 1080ti) ~11 Khash in pool.

Checked with ZCASH on flypool and with ZCLASSIC on Coinmine.pl

Optimizations are on. nofee command isn't listed.
What gives?