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February 15, 2014, 01:24:42 PM |
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I have been testing solo mining too and after 6 hours i found the first block with 1300kh. Thats more than the estimated i could get in a pool on 24h. Now i am on the second block at about 12h, let see how it goes. But still this is all about luck. If i find a block in the next 8 hours i will have the double income, if not, i still on profit of about 1000 EAC... I can see bumblebee33 point now.
I just wanted to show everybody that at these difficulties and with medium size hardware, you can still find blocks solo mining. Even if you are making about the same as on a pool, you are still better off. In fact is you are probably making at least twice as much as with a pool. You know 100% that nobody is skimming off you, as you are completely in charge. So if you can afford to take chances with solo mining, then it's totally worth it. Plus it gives you like a gold rush feeling whenever your workers found a block.
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February 15, 2014, 01:37:09 PM Last edit: February 15, 2014, 04:02:14 PM by centurion76 |
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Earthcoin Hats and T-Shirts now available for order on https://earthazaar.com. Help us test out Earthazaar by ordering your very own Earthcoin hat or T-shirt today. (Don’t pay any attention to the red banner telling you not to order. You can order hats and T-shirts ) If you are a merchant and would like to sell your products for EAC and have your own store on Earthazaar please pm me.
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February 15, 2014, 02:02:55 PM |
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Earthcoin Hats and T-Shirts now available for order on https://earthazaar.com. Help us test out Earthazaar by ordering your very own Earthcoin hat or T-shirt today. (Don’t pay any attention to the red banner telling you not to order ) If you are a merchant and would like to sell your products for EAC and have your own store on Earthazaar please pm me. super cent, I´ll have tons of time for a month after this weekend, let´s make it happen!
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February 15, 2014, 04:58:43 PM |
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bumblebee33
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February 15, 2014, 08:42:07 PM |
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I am happy that so many were successful with my *small* discovery.
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February 15, 2014, 08:47:07 PM |
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I've never been able to get cgminer working no matter what I try. I'm trying to use the mining option in the wallet itself, how can I tell if it's working?
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February 15, 2014, 08:58:33 PM |
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I've never been able to get cgminer working no matter what I try. I'm trying to use the mining option in the wallet itself, how can I tell if it's working?
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tins
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February 15, 2014, 09:14:08 PM |
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When is next 5x mining day?
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bumblebee33
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February 15, 2014, 09:31:59 PM |
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I've never been able to get cgminer working no matter what I try. I'm trying to use the mining option in the wallet itself, how can I tell if it's working?
GPU mining or CPU?
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February 15, 2014, 09:34:26 PM |
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I've never been able to get cgminer working no matter what I try. I'm trying to use the mining option in the wallet itself, how can I tell if it's working?
If you're trying to mine from within the wallet app, you can't use cgminer, that's not quite how it works. I believe that wallets are bound to minerd for CPU mining only, I've never heard of any instances of GPU mining from within the wallet app.
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February 15, 2014, 09:48:03 PM |
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I want to share some other discovery I made today:
In the last few days I was playing around with several other settings like --queue --expiry and --scan-time. And the more time passed, the less blocks my miners picked up. I tried all kinds of things to get it working again like resetting router, restarting rigs, ... I was about to give up when it occurred to me that the part of these settings might still have been stored and corrupted my mining settings. Then I remembered something you do when testing out new settings, to delete the "scrypt130511Tahitiglg2tc8192w256l4.bin" file in the cgminer folder.
No more than 10 minutes passed after deleting this file and my miners found already the first block again.
To make a long story short - if you play around with several settings and experience bad luck, try deleting this file - as this will reset and rebuild your proper mining settings.
Also, another tip:
If you add at least 2 --fallover-only -o stratum+tcp://pool.com:xxxx -u user -p password backup pools to your .bat file, you will increase your chances of finding a block while solo mining, as you will use the stratum's servers data to update your miner when a block gets found, so you are always working on the latest block. (And thus avoiding orphaned blocks.)
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February 15, 2014, 09:55:52 PM |
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I've never been able to get cgminer working no matter what I try. I'm trying to use the mining option in the wallet itself, how can I tell if it's working?
If you're trying to mine from within the wallet app, you can't use cgminer, that's not quite how it works. I believe that wallets are bound to minerd for CPU mining only, I've never heard of any instances of GPU mining from within the wallet app. I'm trying to GPU mine. I've always just mined in pools with gui-miner scrypt cuz I couldn't get cgminer to work (I tried so many tutorials and followed the steps exactly but I always get an error when starting cgminer) any way to solo mine with gui-miner scrypt? That would be perfect
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February 15, 2014, 11:49:27 PM |
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I want to share some other discovery I made today:
In the last few days I was playing around with several other settings like --queue --expiry and --scan-time. And the more time passed, the less blocks my miners picked up. I tried all kinds of things to get it working again like resetting router, restarting rigs, ... I was about to give up when it occurred to me that the part of these settings might still have been stored and corrupted my mining settings. Then I remembered something you do when testing out new settings, to delete the "scrypt130511Tahitiglg2tc8192w256l4.bin" file in the cgminer folder.
No more than 10 minutes passed after deleting this file and my miners found already the first block again.
To make a long story short - if you play around with several settings and experience bad luck, try deleting this file - as this will reset and rebuild your proper mining settings.
Also, another tip:
If you add at least 2 --fallover-only -o stratum+tcp://pool.com:xxxx -u user -p password backup pools to your .bat file, you will increase your chances of finding a block while solo mining, as you will use the stratum's servers data to update your miner when a block gets found, so you are always working on the latest block. (And thus avoiding orphaned blocks.)
it's good practice to always start your .bat with del *.bin .. how do you know your change in settings made any difference in such a short time frame? You could have been just unlucky at that point rather then it was the settings. I started my own testing myself, will report back how it goes .. 4 blocks found so far in 7 hrs .. i guess i'm pretty lucky tho tonight hehe .. and thanks for the tip about the failover, added it to my bat aswell
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February 16, 2014, 12:09:33 AM |
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When I tried altcoins first, EAC was among the ones I invested some small money into. Some of them will cost x10, all others will be worth nothing. Why EAC price is falling like vaginacoin's? Why are you all selling so cheap???
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February 16, 2014, 01:13:41 AM |
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I think people are awaiting the "relaunch", until then, there's not a whole lot going on with the EAC community. It probably also needs more initiatives (like DOGE has done) to really promote it's value as the "green coin".
Lastly, there was a pump attempt a few weeks back. I'm sure there are a lot of people exiting from that.
I anticipate the coin stabilizing through March, and then looking towards the 200 satoshi range by May. Just my guess, but there are a ton of factors at play.
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February 16, 2014, 02:03:33 AM |
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Well that was interesting, I wonder what just caused the massive spike in difficulty? I'm guessing high profitability factor on EAC causing multipools to latch on? The difficulty is falling from 93.
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February 16, 2014, 02:41:56 AM |
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Well that was interesting, I wonder what just caused the massive spike in difficulty? I'm guessing high profitability factor on EAC causing multipools to latch on? The difficulty is falling from 93.
Doge is not so profitable, so Middlecoin is raping other coins harder now. 22 gh/s plopping down on at 1.75 gh/s coin = messed up. Can we get more people to participate at http://www.reddit.com/r/Earthcoin/ ? It needs action. Subscribing would also be nice.
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Let me know if I am doing something right. DOGE: DKBx8CMVnFwnea2uQ3RsLLB2CvQCFkzVT8 Cryptsy: 8981f2166046a5b587c4f86a2c994ec573a8a236
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SteveoMB
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February 16, 2014, 03:09:37 AM |
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I have been testing solo mining too and after 6 hours i found the first block with 1300kh. Thats more than the estimated i could get in a pool on 24h. Now i am on the second block at about 12h, let see how it goes. But still this is all about luck. If i find a block in the next 8 hours i will have the double income, if not, i still on profit of about 1000 EAC... I can see bumblebee33 point now.
I just wanted to show everybody that at these difficulties and with medium size hardware, you can still find blocks solo mining. Even if you are making about the same as on a pool, you are still better off. In fact is you are probably making at least twice as much as with a pool. You know 100% that nobody is skimming off you, as you are completely in charge. So if you can afford to take chances with solo mining, then it's totally worth it. Plus it gives you like a gold rush feeling whenever your workers found a block. found the 2nd one. 27000 in 24h @ 300kh/s. nice bumbleBAM ty again. this works quite good.
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