Bitminter client (Windows/Linux/Mac)

[alpesh102]

dear sir.,
   i have windows 7 in my pc...and i hve intel pentium 4. 4 ghs...
   so my computer is compatible in this software?
   i m new in mining world...so help me...

[DrHaribo]

dear sir.,
   i have windows 7 in my pc...and i hve intel pentium 4. 4 ghs...
   so my computer is compatible in this software?
   i m new in mining world...so help me...

Sure, all you need is some bitcoin mining hardware.

You could buy some USB sticks for mining and run them with Bitminter client on your computer. It will not be profitable and you will never earn back the cost of the USB mining sticks.

You'll probably rather want to look into the bigger ASICs (with a much lower price per hashrate). Those have a tiny built-in computer and they don't need your PC to mine. Just use a browser on your PC to configure them. For the Bitminter pool use the URL stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333

[Darthswan]

Does the client work on Raspberry Pi yet?

[DrHaribo]

Does the client work on Raspberry Pi yet?

No, sorry, I haven't had time to work on this.

[adligo]

Hi,

   I am new to the community and I understand that ASICs are pretty much required to get profitable when mining.  I don't understand why this is the case though,
concurrent use of good processors seems like it should work well to compute hashes from my perspective, after all they have run almost all clients and servers on the
entire internet until now. 
   What is the technical reason for requiring ASIC hardware?
   Why did CPU mining get removed from bitminter.com?
      I realize that it may not be optimal, but on my fairly fast machines I spend much of my time reading web pages and typing in a text editor,
      so the CPU is hardly even used 90% of the time, even though it's on.  I buy fast CPUs for that other 10% of the time when I need the juice
      to reduce my wait time.
      It seems to me that background use of a CPU would be a great way to mine.
      Perhaps the client just needs a processor usage knob next to the start button?

Cheers,
Scott
adligo.org
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[DrHaribo]

CPUs are ASICs designed to do a very complex task. They have to interpret machine code and execute those instructions. A lot of work is just finding out what to do. CPUs can do a large variety of tasks, but they do them very slowly. Bitcoin started with CPU mining in 2009.

GPUs are similar to CPUs but with more limited instruction sets and running an instruction even slower than a CPU. The advantage is that they can perform one instruction in parallel on many sets of data. This was a great advantage for bitcoin mining and killed off CPU mining in 2011.

FPGAs are chips which logic can be changed. They are slower and cost more per chip than ASICs. But they don't have the huge start-up cost of getting a new ASIC chip to production. You can take an off-the-shelf FPGA chip and make it do bitcoin mining. This gave mining a boost until Bitcoin ASICs arrived.

ASICs are application-specific, they do one thing. The application can be something very complex like executing Intel x86 machine code. Or in the case of bitcoin ASICs; bitcoin mining (a very simple task) is the only thing they can do - but they do it extremely fast. While your CPU is just beginning to find out what to do ("oh, I'm supposed to add two numbers now"), the Bitcoin ASIC has already done many hashes. This killed off all other types of mining in 2013.

ASIC mining has driven up the bitcoin difficulty. It now takes a thousand years to mine one bitcoin with a "fast" GPU, or many thousands of years with a CPU. Not to mention that CPUs and GPUs are extremely inefficient and would cost a lot more in electricity to run than what value they are able to mine.

To start as a newbie miner today, a 1 TH/s ASIC machine or faster is recommended for a small mining-at-home operation. 1 TH/s is 1 000 000 MH/s. Compare that to the few hundred MH/s that the fastest GPUs can do.

[Irc_b0tN3t]

is this legit Sir?

[DrHaribo]

Yes.

[hthsco]

I'm trying Bitminter. I think it's good!
Hope it's not error now!
Thanks for your sharing! 

[MR.Seller]

I'm trying Bitminter. I think it's good!
Hope it's not error now!
Thanks for your sharing! 

sir is there a spec pc for the bitminter ? thank you in advance ^_^

[DrHaribo]

sir is there a spec pc for the bitminter ? thank you in advance ^_^

x86 PC running Windows, Linux or Mac OS X will work.

These days though I'd recommend buying a stand-alone miner of 1 TH/s or higher hashrate. They come with a tiny built-in computer with all the necessary software. You use a browser on your PC to configure them, and after that you can switch off your PC if you want and the miner will keep doing its thing. There's no need for Bitminter Client or any other software on your PC. For Bitminter the pool URL you give the miner is stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333

[MR.Seller]

sir is there a spec pc for the bitminter ? thank you in advance ^_^

x86 PC running Windows, Linux or Mac OS X will work.

These days though I'd recommend buying a stand-alone miner of 1 TH/s or higher hashrate. They come with a tiny built-in computer with all the necessary software. You use a browser on your PC to configure them, and after that you can switch off your PC if you want and the miner will keep doing its thing. There's no need for Bitminter Client or any other software on your PC. For Bitminter the pool URL you give the miner is stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333

Its to expensive to buy some mining machine. and beside I just want to try it on my pc. And one more question ^_^ if I run it to a windows or any OS do I need Video card? or without

[DrHaribo]

Its to expensive to buy some mining machine. and beside I just want to try it on my pc. And one more question ^_^ if I run it to a windows or any OS do I need Video card? or without

A $10 USB stick for mining will easily beat 2 or more fast gaming PCs with very expensive graphics cards. Those USB sticks are at this point useless, but that gives you an impression of just how useless a PC is for mining. You could get one of those if you want to try mining very cheaply. Keep in mind that you never earn an amount large enough to actually cash it out from the pool and that the website won't be able to show a live hashrate for your mining because your hashrate is so slow that it is essentially zero.

[winspiral]

what is this worth?
0.61231778 (namecoin)

is it Last Price: 0.3950000 USD for 1namecoin

I have it on Bitminer...
I someone interested?

[JoeCryp]

I installed Java 8 went to run your BitMinter app and the app is blocked by Java for security reasons... Whats up with that!!

[DrHaribo]

I installed Java 8 went to run your BitMinter app and the app is blocked by Java for security reasons... Whats up with that!!

For now you'll need to add https://bitminter.com to the exceptions list under the security tab of the java control panel.

[nubbins7]

Will the bitminter software ever have the option to mine other sha256 coins on other pools?

[vilain]

I installed Java 8 went to run your BitMinter app and the app is blocked by Java for security reasons... Whats up with that!!

For now you'll need to add https://bitminter.com to the exceptions list under the security tab of the java control panel.

I just did it and it's running smoothly! Very nice software!

[DrHaribo]

Will the bitminter software ever have the option to mine other sha256 coins on other pools?

Profitable miners now are standalone machines that come with a tiny built-in computer with preinstalled software. This is making the Bitminter client software obsolete.

Currently Bitminter client is in a kind of "maintenance only" mode. I haven't decided yet where to take it beyond that.

I just did it and it's running smoothly! Very nice software!

Thank you - happy to hear it's working for you

[Lorker]

Ty you for the good Client