Hello, I'm trying out this coin but I'm pretty much a newbie in this whole thing, so I could use a few tips
A block is found when the miner displays that message "...accepted 1/1 yay!!" right?
I'm getting a lot of those messages in an hour with just CPU mining, but I only have 7 XIV so far..by contrast I get very few of those messages with DOGE, but I easily get 10 or 20 coins. Am I doing something wrong with XIV? Should I manually adjust the difficulty? If so, how?
Thanks in advance!
No. When your miner says "...accepted 1/1," that means that one of your hashes was accepted and you got a share. You didn't find a block. It takes a few shares to equal a whole coin. With DOGE, the number of coins per share is greater than XIV. That's why you're getting so many more coins mining DOGE than you are XIV. You're not doing anything wrong, per se, other than the fact that you're trying to CPU mine things. If your computer has a graphics card of any kind, it would be preferable to use that over your CPU.
Since you seem to be a complete newbie at this, I would suggest you download and use GUIminer-scrypt alpha. It uses a GUI interface instead of a command line interface (GUI is much easier to use in my opinion).
Here's the sourceforge link for it:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scryptguiminer/If you have an antivirus installed on your computer, you may need to pause it in order to be able to complete the download. The zip file contains cgminer, which some antivirus programs flag as a virus (it's not though, you're safe).
Once you've installed and opened guiminer, enter your pool information, along with the setting that you think will work best for your particular GPU. For reference, I have my miner set with these settings : Thread concurrency - 3200, Worksize - 256, Vectors - 1, Intensity - 12, GPU threads - 1. Don't set your intensity too high (11 is usually the safest, but I can deal with a little bit of lag caused by having it set at 12) or else you'll cause your computer to lag out so bad you won't be able to move your mouse. I use this rule: if in doubt, leave your mouse cursor directly over the start/stop button until you know how the settings will affect your system. If things start to lag too hard, you can just push stop and everything will go back to normal and you can adjust the settings lower. If you move your mouse and your computer starts to lag too hard, you'll have a REALLY hard time trying to get the cursor back over the start/stop button (trust me on this one... personal experience... I've had to do a hard reset on my computer because I couldn't get my mouse back over the button). Once your miner starts showing accepted shares, you'll know that you're mining correctly.
If you're having trouble getting GUIminer to work properly, here's the bitcointalk thread discussing that miner:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=150331.0Once you get everything working, you'll find that mining coins with a GPU is much more efficient than with a CPU and you'll also notice that you'll be receiving more coins (faster hashrate = more shares = more coins).
Good luck and happy mining!
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XIV: XGiyNHgk9TD2AJzNFTUon647JC8nVRAdkw
BTC: 13QkiRAj7jonoZn7HBquWFAydHWy4NdWc5
DOGE: DP813maQUBENvtc46GYFQqy9djCxRZ2s5d
