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

[kade123]

@realbminer not saying this miner is a Trojan horse, but it was working ok for many hours then in the night suddenly it started using all my hash for miners using it "Bminer 5.4" to mine somewhere else with IP address amazon compute(i.e. hosted by amazon) and some other places there was no change on the console nor was there a disconnect from the miner just that all shares found where going else where and my pool address share rate went to zero for about 30-60 minutes though miners where mining for all systems using the miner.

That is miner was mining for someone else for 30-60 minutes(not fee mining), this could have been triggered remotely by you as the miner appears shady, you need to explain, also there maybe a back door author uses to access mining machines using windows RDP (I had to disable this as passwords no longer accepted on some systems for RDP sessions)



https://imgur.com/a/ANf3N

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[Scorpio777]

https://imgur.com/eydIqps

Results looking good. Running a single GTX1080

Very good result, especially efficiency sol/watt!
Can You share yours VGA settings: what vendor GTX1080 do you have? What is the actual core/memory clocks and core voltage during the mining, nvidia driver version?
Thanks!)
  

[TrophyMiner]

i started using Bminer and i heard many good and bad things about it but i think the numbers on the miner are not accurate

here is a test i ran for exactly 24 hours of mining

6X ZOTAC 1070 AMP EX
GPUs are OCd to 450 memory clock and 70 core clock with 120 power 100 volt
TEMP at 50~60

i mined ZCASH using BMINER @ 3100 sols 3.1KHs
every gpu was giving me over 500 sols and some ran at 520 sols
using miningpoolhub

i only mined .02708199 ZCASH ( around 11$ with current rate)
what to mine showed around 14~15$ by that time in 24h
the miner never stoped and never crashed it ran for a straight 24hours

is what i mined accurate?

i like bminer because its very stable and can handle the OC but i dont want to lose or see fake numbers while using it

so what do you think about it?

[Bimmber]

Do not use whattomine as comparison tool, its not very accurate.

[TrophyMiner]

Do not use whattomine as comparison tool, its not very accurate.

what do i compare with then?

how can i find out if the miner is correct or a scam?

how can i know if this chart shows me correct numbers

https://imgur.com/a/oqdir

[melpheos]

@realbminer not saying this miner is a Trojan horse, but it was working ok for many hours then in the night suddenly it started using all my hash for miners using it "Bminer 5.4" to mine somewhere else with IP address amazon compute(i.e. hosted by amazon) and some other places there was no change on the console nor was there a disconnect from the miner just that all shares found where going else where and my pool address share rate went to zero for about 30-60 minutes though miners where mining for all systems using the miner.

That is miner was mining for someone else for 30-60 minutes(not fee mining), this could have been triggered remotely by you as the miner appears shady, you need to explain, also there maybe a back door author uses to access mining machines using windows RDP (I had to disable this as passwords no longer accepted on some systems for RDP sessions)

@realbminer needs to adress this question but you also need to show the logs showing this. This is your first post so as you can imagine one can question it as well

[kade123]

@realbminer not saying this miner is a Trojan horse, but it was working ok for many hours then in the night suddenly it started using all my hash for miners using it "Bminer 5.4" to mine somewhere else with IP address amazon compute(i.e. hosted by amazon) and some other places there was no change on the console nor was there a disconnect from the miner just that all shares found where going else where and my pool address share rate went to zero for about 30-60 minutes though miners where mining for all systems using the miner.

That is miner was mining for someone else for 30-60 minutes(not fee mining), this could have been triggered remotely by you as the miner appears shady, you need to explain, also there maybe a back door author uses to access mining machines using windows RDP (I had to disable this as passwords no longer accepted on some systems for RDP sessions)



https://imgur.com/a/ANf3N

@realbminer needs to adress this question but you also need to show the logs showing this. This is your first post so as you can imagine one can question it as well

The miner appears to have a backdoor or some sort of remote control where author "@realbminer" can selectively control clients that use his miner "bminer" where to direct hash from 0 to 100 % as he sees fit; you are not going to see it in logs, only external tools that monitor the process remote connections it initiates will detect this, the console is to only fool you. I will try and capture a picture when it makes a connection, he appears to trigger it when he thinks no one is watch i.e. miner as been mining for a long time no starts or stops, he then directs what ever percentage to an amazon compute host while completely ignoring your pool and switches back as he sees fit, I think for a 1080 Ti the miner may hash around 780-800+ and he only gives you about 750 and controls a lot of things, he knows this is true that is why pros are not using his miner, he is a devious criminal.

[melpheos]

@realbminer not saying this miner is a Trojan horse, but it was working ok for many hours then in the night suddenly it started using all my hash for miners using it "Bminer 5.4" to mine somewhere else with IP address amazon compute(i.e. hosted by amazon) and some other places there was no change on the console nor was there a disconnect from the miner just that all shares found where going else where and my pool address share rate went to zero for about 30-60 minutes though miners where mining for all systems using the miner.

That is miner was mining for someone else for 30-60 minutes(not fee mining), this could have been triggered remotely by you as the miner appears shady, you need to explain, also there maybe a back door author uses to access mining machines using windows RDP (I had to disable this as passwords no longer accepted on some systems for RDP sessions)

@realbminer needs to adress this question but you also need to show the logs showing this. This is your first post so as you can imagine one can question it as well

The miner appears to have a backdoor or some sort of remote control where author "@realbminer" can selectively control clients that use his miner "bminer" where to direct hash from 0 to 100 % as he sees fit; you are not going to see it in logs, only external tools that monitor the process remote connections it initiates will detect this, the console is to only fool you. I will try and capture a picture when it makes a connection, he appears to trigger it when he thinks no one is watch i.e. miner as been mining for a long time no starts or stops, he then directs what ever percentage to an amazon compute host while completely ignoring your pool and switches back as he sees fit, I think for a 1080 Ti the miner may hash around 780-800+ and he only gives you about 750 and controls a lot of things, he knows this is true that is why pros are not using his miner, he is a devious criminal.

Please bring proofs... A screenshot is not proof of what you are saying.
I ran bminer for a while and did not see any issue on 4 rigs with 6 cards each.
You are the second person with one single post giving such information. Doesn't sound legit to me but more like a witch hunt

[paresser]

after windows update or new drivers miner starts and the window closes. With all versions of bminer/ What happened? 0.3.4 miner works fine as usual.

[Regulater]

After long testing, with the fee, and without the fee i receive less hashrate on the poolside than EWBF. The API and CMD prompt show over 10% higher hashrate than the average on the pool. This was using 24 and 48 hour averages reading from the pool tested on multiple pools. Also seems that BMiner will randomly drop heavily in hashrate for 30 to 90 minutes then recover back to normal.

[melpheos]

after windows update or new drivers miner starts and the window closes. With all versions of bminer/ What happened? 0.3.4 miner works fine as usual.

Run it on command promp so you have the error message

[wetblanket]

I've moved back to dstm for now - not because of performance (I think there are both positive and negative reports with bminer, so many variables, etc) but because there's not really enough transparent communication. I was super keen and supportive here, but I'm pulling back. I didn't notice any particularly nefarious activity, for those who are wondering.

bminer seems like a solid & stable miner, and I suspect that realbminer thinks he/she's been open and transparent enough, but it's obviously not open enough; people have real questions that aren't being answered. Maybe the random connections are all about devfees and are legit, but then again, maybe not. There have been valid concerns raised by others that I don't feel have been adequately addressed.

I'll definitely keep tabs on this project though. Lots of potential. Good luck with the community management, realbminer! I think if there's improvement on that front, you'll see a major uptake on bminer.

[Eneen]

Why isn't it possible to set stratum diff multiplier/divider? It's important with autoswitching...

[wetblanket]

Why isn't it possible to set stratum diff multiplier/divider? It's important with autoswitching...

Don't pools (that support this) allow this through the password field or something like that?

[Eneen]

Why isn't it possible to set stratum diff multiplier/divider? It's important with autoswitching...

Don't pools (that support this) allow this through the password field or something like that?

Right I forgot about this! Thx!

[2g]

I'll pile on here with some very unscientific numbers.

Tested out bminer for a bit.  Reported a an average of ~1650 sol/s vs ~1550 on EBWF.  MPH reported ~1500 for both miners over a 24 hour period.  (sporadically checked).  Power usage was ~30-50w higher with bminer (according to UPS).

While bminer was working, it didn't seem to really beat EBWF too badly.  Unfortunately, bminer did crash and restart.  When it came back up, it was mining another address on nanopool.  After some playing around, it turns out that just starting the bminer executable with no arguments causes it to mine for the dev full time...

This seems incredibly dishonest.  @realbminer is evasive and vague about the private connection, and the rosiest estimates that I've read in this thread put bminer less than a percent ahead of other miners, assuming nothing crashes.  Hardly worth it in my book.  Definitely gives the impression that someone wanted some of that sweet dev fee income and threw integrity to the wayside.

[baf28]

bminer does not start, produces an empty string in the console

[Bimmber]

Is anybody noticing high cpu usage? Is bminer secretly mining on cpu for dev 

[giveen1]

Is anybody noticing high cpu usage? Is bminer secretly mining on cpu for dev 

I dont see that at all, my processor is about 15% usage

[melpheos]

Is anybody noticing high cpu usage? Is bminer secretly mining on cpu for dev 

At startup bminer uses 100% to start the thread on each GPU. Dev is looking into fixing this.
After 30-45 sec the CPU goes down to normal usage.
It's not secret mining (would be kinda useless to mine for 45 seconds only on start of the miner)