MaxCoin | CPU Cloud Mining Guide | MAX VPS // has been LAUNCHED@6.2/7:30 GMT

[CanaryDimeCoin]

I'm getting stratum connect errors on rocketpool and when I do manage to connect I get crazy high speeds that just can't be right, about 780 khash per core (ubuntu @ azure). Pool shows very low hashrate around 10-20 kh/s.

Whats uP?

WTF?

[2014-02-07 19:13:53] thread 6: 2097152 hashes, 365.25 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:13:53] thread 5: 2097152 hashes, 361.98 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:13:53] thread 3: 2097152 hashes, 361.73 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:13:53] thread 1: 2097152 hashes, 357.17 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:13:53] thread 4: 2097152 hashes, 355.41 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:13:53] thread 0: 2097152 hashes, 351.20 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:13:53] thread 7: 2097152 hashes, 347.79 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:13:53] thread 2: 2097152 hashes, 348.80 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:13:56] thread 1: 1415298 hashes, 404.91 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:13:57] accepted: 1/1 (100.00%), 2897 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2014-02-07 19:14:01] thread 0: 3229077 hashes, 392.32 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:14:01] thread 0: 112358 hashes, 443.14 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:14:02] thread 0: 9077 hashes, 423.47 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:14:02] accepted: 2/2 (100.00%), 2969 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2014-02-07 19:14:02] accepted: 3/3 (100.00%), 2969 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2014-02-07 19:14:02] accepted: 4/4 (100.00%), 2969 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2014-02-07 19:14:03] thread 3: 3958602 hashes, 397.35 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:14:03] accepted: 5/5 (100.00%), 3005 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2014-02-07 19:14:05] thread 3: 687340 hashes, 348.66 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:14:05] accepted: 6/6 (100.00%), 2956 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2014-02-07 19:14:11] thread 1: 5358070 hashes, 362.70 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:14:16] thread 6: 8455638 hashes, 364.42 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:14:16] thread 7: 8535443 hashes, 366.16 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:14:21] thread 4: 10245492 hashes, 370.37 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:14:22] thread 7: 2242213 hashes, 392.60 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:14:24] thread 3: 6875223 hashes, 361.17 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:14:31] thread 1: 7958473 hashes, 397.40 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:14:32] accepted: 7/7 (100.00%), 3020 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2014-02-07 19:14:32] accepted: 8/8 (100.00%), 3020 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2014-02-07 19:14:32] accepted: 9/9 (100.00%), 3020 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2014-02-07 19:14:32] accepted: 10/10 (100.00%), 3020 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2014-02-07 19:14:32] accepted: 11/11 (100.00%), 3020 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2014-02-07 19:14:32] accepted: 12/12 (100.00%), 3020 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2014-02-07 19:14:32] accepted: 13/13 (100.00%), 3020 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2014-02-07 19:14:40] thread 5: 17497361 hashes, 374.34 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:14:40] thread 1: 3204672 hashes, 363.37 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:14:41] thread 1: 348758 hashes, 397.94 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:14:42] thread 2: 18999069 hashes, 384.54 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:14:44] thread 1: 1379166 hashes, 405.00 khash/s
[2014-02-07 19:14:50] thread 4: 11318352 hashes, 391.20 khash/s

And then:
Stratum connection failed: Failed connect to max.rocketpool.co.uk:3333; Connection refused
[2014-02-07 19:15:55] ...retry after 30 seconds

 

[steelmythos]

root@STEELMYTHOS:~/cpuminer# ./configure CFLAGS="-03"
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/root/cpuminer/missing: Unknown `--is-lightweight' option
Try `/root/cpuminer/missing --help' for more information
configure: WARNING: 'missing' script is too old or missing
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/root/cpuminer':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
root@STEELMYTHOS:~/cpuminer#


Help please can't get past this error

[steelmythos]

root@STEELMYTHOS:~/cpuminer# ./configure CFLAGS="-03"
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/root/cpuminer/missing: Unknown `--is-lightweight' option
Try `/root/cpuminer/missing --help' for more information
configure: WARNING: 'missing' script is too old or missing
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/root/cpuminer':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
root@STEELMYTHOS:~/cpuminer#


Help please.

./configure CFLAGS="-03" should be O3, not the number 0

Thanks that worked

[PincoPluto]

MaxCoin CPU Cloud Mining

https://i.imgur.com/EKQ2nh2.png

>MaxCoin (MAX) Official Thread

COIN HAS BEEN LAUNCHED!

DIFFICULTY IS HIGH, PLEASE LOOK OUT FOR POOLS!

README: This guide was originally written February 05, 2014, 06:39:31 PM before the first launch which was unfortunately delayed. Back then, working Pools were promised to be up right at launch time and no GPU miners were available. The maxcoin-cpuminer was published, however, which lead to the early development of the SHA-3 GPU cudaminer. The guide is originally meant for pool mining, I had added the solo mining part on the evening before launch (6th Feb) in order to counteract the frustration of no pools and to get the mining operations going. Do not solo mine, it is not worth it any more. Use the pools.  Finally please note that I am not affiliated with the MaxCoin devs and merely provide this guide for the community.

0. Preparation:

• Windows: Download PuTTY (putty.exe) so you can connect to your VPS.
• Mac/Linux Users: use Terminal

(!) Please note that this guide runs your mining droplet as root which can potentially be a security concern.  [If you would like to create a new user for mining operations instead, please head over to a similar guide of mine where you can read how to create a new user.]  Let's go ahead and get started:

1. Sign Up for an SSD cloud server or log in if you already have an account.

2. Fund your account with credit ($10+). Add voucher code SSD2014 for $10 extra credit when signing up for the first time (thanks to weedoge for pointing this out)!

3. Click 'Create Droplet' to get your instance running

4. Select the specifications you wish to mine on as well as the latest Ubuntu x64 image. I personally use 8 threads with the 8 Core plan. You can also consider creating several smaller ones, e.g. 4x 2 Core. Or just use one, decide as you wish. The more CPUs the more power you have.

5. Your username and password will be emailed to you within 55 seconds

6. Log in to your droplet via SSH

7. Change your root password.
    

Code:

passwd

8.  Relocate into the home directory

Code:

cd ~

9. Create a swap file

Code:

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=64M count=16
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile

10a. Install dependencies

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev git zip

UPDATED! PLEASE GET THE NEW 1GH.COM MINER!
10b. Download the 1GH MaxCoin (SHA-3) minerd (+configure and compile)

Code:

git clone https://github.com/1gh/cpuminer
cd cpuminer
./configure CFLAGS="-O3"
make
strip minerd

Test whether your compiled minerd launches fine:

Code:

./minerd --help

It'll return all its command options.

10c. Now head over to a Pool and follow the instructions posted, for example:

Code:

./minerd -a keccak -o stratum+tcp://maxpool.1gh.com:17333 -u mRQmzB5nzqw4Lx1gvEF7uREBqPv5A6jBYJ -p x

[change this with your wallet address!]

---> Congratulations, your MAX mining operations started.

To check your balance, head over to http://max.1gh.com/user?wallet=YOURWALLETADDRESSHERE

Please note that it takes time until blocks are confirmed and coins payed out.

If you wish to run this in your background so it doesn't close once you drop the SSH conncetion, go ahead and use "screen"
launch screen

Code:

screen

press space, launch the miner

Code:

./minerd -a keccak -o http://pool:port -u username -p password

to restore the session when logging back in, use

Code:

screen -r

All done. Good luck and have fun.

POOLS

PLEASE CHECK THE OFFICIAL TWITTER, SITES, FORUMS & THIS THREAD!

How to Solo Mine MAX in the Clouds

UPDATE: Solo CPU mining has become obsolete since the difficulty has risen high / stable pools are up. If you have set up your droplets for pool mining and it's working fine, disregard this part. I will let it stay here for informational purposes.

Code:

cd ~
wget wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/z9foskje35ag1aw/maxcoind
chmod +x maxcoind
export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

Code:

mkdir -p .maxcoin

14.

Code:

sudo nano .maxcoin/maxcoin.conf

insert:

addnode=maxcoin.cloudapp.net
addnode=maxcoinus.cloudapp.net
addnode=maxcoinasia.cloudapp.net
addnode=maxexplorer.cloudapp.net
addnode=213.179.202.19
addnode=213.192.56.163:8334
addnode=213.192.56.163:8334
addnode=107.170.15.110:8668
addnode=131.111.33.245:8668
addnode=137.116.204.146:8668
addnode=138.91.116.247:8668
addnode=144.76.107.81:8668
addnode=144.76.113.132:8668
addnode=144.76.238.140:8668
addnode=148.251.11.196:8668
addnode=162.251.118.42:8668
addnode=187.104.154.105:8668
addnode=95.85.43.202
addnode=95.85.43.189
addnode=95.85.25.162
addnode=107.170.246.18
addnode=107.170.245.188
addnode=107.170.245.192
addnode=107.170.10.242
addnode=192.241.174.133
addnode=95.85.45.177
server=1
daemon=1
gen=1
rpcuser=yourmaxcoinrpc
rpcpassword=yoursupersecurepassword

CTRL+O to save, CTRL+X to quit

Code:

cd ~ && ./maxcoind --daemon && watch './maxcoind getinfo && ./maxcoind getmininginfo && ./maxcoind listaccounts'

If you wish to run this in your background so it doesn't close once you drop the SSH conncetion, go ahead and use "screen"
launch screen

Code:

screen

press space, launch the miner

Code:

cd ~ && ./maxcoind --daemon && watch './maxcoind getinfo && ./maxcoind getmininginfo && ./maxcoind listaccounts'

to restore the session when logging back in, use

Code:

screen -r

IF YOU CHANGED YOUR CONFIG and it still doesn't connect:
Kill the process and relaunch! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=450539.msg4982489#msg4982489

--> Mining operations started. You will find your wallet.dat file in ~/.maxcoin

THIS WALLET HOLDS YOUR BALANCE, THUS YOUR MAXCOINS. MAKE SURE TO BACK IT UP / OR SEND IT OVER TO YOUR COMUTER. Do NOT delete droplets without securing your MaxCoins!

You may also use the command

Code:

./maxcoind sendtoaddress maxcoinaddress amount

to SEND FUNDS TO ANOTHER WALLET, e.g. your Main Computer's wallet.

WATCH OUT FOR WORKING POOLS, they are much needed as the difficulty's rising.
IF you want to switch back to your cpuminer operations path to pool mine:

1. kill your earlier maxcoind process!

Code:

ps x

search for the process that's called maxcoind and check its ID on the left, then kill that process:

Code:

kill -9 IDHERE

Change IDHERE with the actual ID. For example kill -9 13172

2. Change path

Code:

cd ~/cpuminer

OR if you used the earlier guide

Code:

cd ~/maxcoin-cpuminer

After that you may launch your minerd.


PS. Make sure that you have only one account at Digital Ocean. Multiple accounts violate their ToS! BE GENTLE and DO NOT excessively use resources, it might get you banned.

If you'd like to tip me a beer for supplying this guide, please feel free!

(BTC): 1Js1iRHFYkdksmwV2KNkNBWi6WfAZaEyTp
(VTC): Vt94bTHQkbp4cW5AyLzegiQMiaUoENr7WP
(MAX): mQx2pXUizWbsr1P18Cv2gLP55QdvtmJnjS

Thank you very much. Hope you have a good one everybody, be well!

I found this site www.maxcoin.org.uk guess is a mirror of the official site, the miner here was working immediatly when the other one was not.....

[bjalbert]

What -a option am I supposed to use on windows?

minerd -a keccak does not work and I just get type --help

Is anyone using anything different in minerd string besides -o -u -p -t?

[toknormal]

************************************ WARNING ************************************

EDIT: They've kindly let me back in for 1 hour to clear out my stuff and check my balance.

Digital Ocean (who's site is linked to at the head of this thread by the ANN post) are shutting down cryptomining accounts without any notice and locking you out of your account.

I wasn't even able to get back in to access my instances - have emailed them requesting this and am waiting on a reply. Luckily I didn't have anything on there that I need (like wallets    ) as I was pool mining, but there's no warning. They just lock you out, say goodbye and that seems to be the end of story. I hope I'm not still getting billed because the servers were still running when I last was logged in and they have all your credit card details including security number etc.

Digital Ocean Support wrote:

There has been a response to your ticket:

Hello!

Thanks for getting back to us with your information. Your account has been terminated due to a violation of our Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy (https://www.digitalocean.com/tos):

Our policy states in section2.17: DigitalOcean reserves the right to terminate services in the event Subscribers misuse system resources, including but not limited to employing programs that consume excessive network capacity, CPU cycles, or disk IO.

Cryptocurrency mining is very CPU intensive, and due to the shared nature of our CPU allocations large-scale cryptocurrency mining will seriously affect the quality of service we can provide to the neighbouring servers on the same hypervisors as servers running cryptocurrency mining operations. So, while we do not specifically prohibit cryptocurrency mining, we do restrict accounts doing so to prevent large-scale operations from affecting our infrastructure.

We apologize for this inconvenience, but we have to do our best to provide fair usage for all our users. Let us know if there‚s anything else that we can do for you.

Regards,
DigitalOcean Support

[varagtp]

What do I adjust in this tutorial to mine on Ypool instead? Should I still just put in my wallet adress or should i direct it to a worker i create on ypool? I dont get that part..

[toknormal]

Rocketpool are back up. At least the back end is. The front end (website) isn't.

[CanaryDimeCoin]

MaxCoin ‏@maxcoinproject  1 h
To our friends running Windows, here is your wallet:

https://github.com/Max-Coin/clients/releases

This release contains both the daemon and the graphical wallet.

*Note: Back up your wallet before update.

1 Run your maxcoind.exe --daemon
2 Open a new cmd window and go to the folder where you have your maxcoind.exe and tipe maxcoind backupwallet (location)

*(location: where you want to locate your wallet.dat backup)

3 Unzip the archives and run maxcoin-qt


Let it sinc and you will see your balance

[netadvisor]

http://max.1gh.com  pool is back up, under DDoS protection

[Alcohoin]

digitalocean have closed my account and tell me that my use of their server violate their terms and condition !

I had  made a deposit of 170$ at there, and I still don't know if they will refund me !!

WTF ?

[varagtp]

MaxCoin ‏@maxcoinproject  1 h
To our friends running Windows, here is your wallet:

https://github.com/Max-Coin/clients/releases

This release contains both the daemon and the graphical wallet.

*Note: Back up your wallet before update.

1 Run your maxcoind.exe --daemon
2 Open a new cmd window and go to the folder where you have your maxcoind.exe and tipe maxcoind backupwallet (location)

*(location: where you want to locate your wallet.dat backup)

3 Unzip the archives and run maxcoin-qt


Let it sinc and you will see your balance

Do we need to do do the backupwallet command. Is it not enough to just copy the wallet.dat file to a new location?

[CanaryDimeCoin]

MaxCoin ‏@maxcoinproject  1 h
To our friends running Windows, here is your wallet:

https://github.com/Max-Coin/clients/releases

This release contains both the daemon and the graphical wallet.

*Note: Back up your wallet before update.

1 Run your maxcoind.exe --daemon
2 Open a new cmd window and go to the folder where you have your maxcoind.exe and tipe maxcoind backupwallet (location)

*(location: where you want to locate your wallet.dat backup)

3 Unzip the archives and run maxcoin-qt


Let it sinc and you will see your balance

Do we need to do do the backupwallet command. Is it not enough to just copy the wallet.dat file to a new location?

I think its the same but I did following this steps.

[Victoo]

I have heard many good things about this coin. Is there any giveaway on?

[mfread]

I'm experiencing the same/simialr issue as Iqaz (quoted below).

The error I'm getting is:

Code:

root@santa:~# ./maxcoind --daemon
./maxcoind: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by ./maxcoind)
./maxcoind: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by ./maxcoind)

I'm on a Debian 7.0 x64 platform. I don't know Linux that well. I can tell you that /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 is linked to (is pointing to) libc-2.13.so

Any help greatly appreciated.

Am trying to mine solo as per the article at the top of this thread (while I await pools to open and stabalise).

Centos 6.5

[root@lu1 ~]# cd ~ && ./maxcoind --daemon
./maxcoind: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15' not found (required by ./maxcoind)
./maxcoind: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by ./maxcoind)
./maxcoind: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by ./maxcoind)

How to fix?

[mfread]

Appreciate the Windows GUI wallet arriving. It ran as expected (I can see my addresses ok). I've no coins yet so 0.00000000 is what I expected as my balance too.

However, when starting maxcoin-qt it not only begins to catch up on the block chain (as they all do), but it begins solo mining straight away. Why is this? Is there a setting in the .conf file I need to change?
* I was running the previous release of minerd.exe, for which I copied the example conf file to my appdata folder. Perhaps this conf is set to solo mine?

Clicking on the 'Mining' tab doesn't show any solo mining running (although it does have an entry for solo ming). When I click on the 'start mining' button the window below reflects my action, and clicking on the 'stop mining' button also updates the output/status window, and mining stops (I hear my CPU throttle back from full pelt to a murmur).

I can only guess qt starts solo mining straight away (using minerd.exe) becasue I've a setting in my conf file.

Any help appreciated.

MaxCoin ‏@maxcoinproject  1 h
To our friends running Windows, here is your wallet:

https://github.com/Max-Coin/clients/releases

This release contains both the daemon and the graphical wallet.

*Note: Back up your wallet before update.

1 Run your maxcoind.exe --daemon
2 Open a new cmd window and go to the folder where you have your maxcoind.exe and tipe maxcoind backupwallet (location)

*(location: where you want to locate your wallet.dat backup)

3 Unzip the archives and run maxcoin-qt


Let it sinc and you will see your balance

[CanaryDimeCoin]

Appreciate the Windows GUI wallet arriving. It ran as expected (I can see my addresses ok). I've no coins yet so 0.00000000 is what I expected as my balance too.

However, when starting maxcoin-qt it not only begins to catch up on the block chain (as they all do), but it begins solo mining straight away. Why is this? Is there a setting in the .conf file I need to change?
* I was running the previous release of minerd.exe, for which I copied the example conf file to my appdata folder. Perhaps this conf is set to solo mine?

Clicking on the 'Mining' tab doesn't show any solo mining running (although it does have an entry for solo ming). When I click on the 'start mining' button the window below reflects my action, and clicking on the 'stop mining' button also updates the output/status window, and mining stops (I hear my CPU throttle back from full pelt to a murmur).

I can only guess qt starts solo mining straight away (using minerd.exe) becasue I've a setting in my conf file.

Any help appreciated.

MaxCoin ‏@maxcoinproject  1 h
To our friends running Windows, here is your wallet:

https://github.com/Max-Coin/clients/releases

This release contains both the daemon and the graphical wallet.

*Note: Back up your wallet before update.

1 Run your maxcoind.exe --daemon
2 Open a new cmd window and go to the folder where you have your maxcoind.exe and tipe maxcoind backupwallet (location)

*(location: where you want to locate your wallet.dat backup)

3 Unzip the archives and run maxcoin-qt


Let it sinc and you will see your balance

I saw the same and what i did was:

Go to maxcoin.con and set:

Mining: gen=0 instead gen=1

In the wallet go to help --->> debug window --->> console and tipe getmininginfo.

It´s show me:



{
"blocks" : 3988,
"currentblocksize" : 0,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 8092.38104210,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : false,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"hashespersec" : 0,
"networkhashps" : 1166213959677,
"pooledtx" : 1,
"testnet" : false
}

I think im not mining.

The wallet still shows me at the corner a signal that tell me that im mining but i think is a bug.

If im wrong and somebody can explain us that, please post a solution

Thanks!

[CanaryDimeCoin]

Please Help

http://max.1gh.com/ looks DDoS attacked again and my miner cant connect to stratum. Sometimes it connects but after few minutes shows stratum connect failed retry after 30 sec.

http://max.rocketpool.co.uk/ is crazy.
No blocks found, stimates without sense and after 6 hours mining and almost 1000 yay!!! i have 0 confirmed and 0 unconfirmed so its seams that i was wasting my time and electricity there.

There is somebody that´s getting payments or atleast confirmed/unconfirmed balance?

Do you know another legit pool?

Ypool dont work for me, im using ubuntu and the miner is just for windows. Maybe somebody can post how to install WINE in ubuntu and setup the ypool miner.

Thanks!!

[jaykayl]

Hey,

Thanks for all the info! Sorry I'm a noob so excuse my ignorance, ..when i go to create swap file i get " text file busy'

What can I do to fix it?

Appreciate any ideas

Cheers,

Joh

[kidIcarus]

Hey Guys,

All my shares are not getting accepted - does anyone know why this is and how I can fix it?

I'd really appreciate some help!

http://imgur.com/aRnA2dY