Bitblock is a new X15 based cryptocurrency, read more about it here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=665159.0It is quite easy to mine it currently as diff is quite low:
1.
Sign up for a DigitalCloud Account here.
2. Top up your account with PayPal for at least 10 $
3. Choose "Create Droplet" and start a 8 CPU Droplet with Ubuntu 13.10 x64 in Amsterdam (Country does not matter, you can use more CPU's too)
4. Log into your Droplet using SSH and download the Miner from here:
Windows (pre-compiled):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hnleulsps90opt9/miner.rarLinux (Source):
https://github.com/bitblockproject/Bitblock-CPUminer5. Register at
https://bbl.suprnova.cc for an account and set up a worker under "My Workers".
6. Start your worker:
For Linux do:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev zip automake screen libjansson-dev
git clone https://github.com/bitblockproject/Bitblock-CPUminer
cd Bitblock-CPUminer
chmod +x autogen.sh
./autogen.sh
./configure CFLAGS="-O3"
make
now enter a "screen" for getting the thread into the background:
Start your miner:
./minerd -a bitblock -o stratum+tcp://bbl.suprnova.cc:3663 -u worker.username -p worker.passsword
You can now put this thread into the background by pressing CTRL-A and then "d" (without the "")
For Windows:
Open a DOS Box where you've downloaded the CPU Miner and:
minerd -a bitblock -o stratum+tcp://bbl.suprnova.cc:3663 -u worker.username -p worker.passsword
7. You should now see something like this:
root@mine1:~/miner# ./minerd -a bitblock -o stratum+tcp://bbl.suprnova.cc:3663 -u suprnova.mine1 -p x
[2014-01-07 17:56:19] Starting Stratum on stratum+tcp://bbl.suprnova.cc:3663
[2014-01-07 17:56:19] Binding thread 0 to cpu 0
[2014-01-07 17:56:19] Binding thread 3 to cpu 3
[2014-01-07 17:56:19] Binding thread 2 to cpu 2
[2014-01-07 17:56:19] Binding thread 6 to cpu 6
[2014-01-07 17:56:19] 8 miner threads started, using 'bitblock' algorithm.
[2014-01-07 17:56:19] Binding thread 4 to cpu 4
[2014-01-07 17:56:19] Binding thread 1 to cpu 1
[2014-01-07 17:56:19] Binding thread 5 to cpu 5
[2014-01-07 17:56:19] Binding thread 7 to cpu 7
[2014-01-07 17:56:20] Stratum detected new block
[2014-01-07 17:57:17] thread 5: 2097152 hashes, 37.03 khash/s
[2014-01-07 17:57:17] thread 6: 2097152 hashes, 37.00 khash/s
[2014-01-07 17:57:18] thread 1: 2097152 hashes, 36.87 khash/s
[2014-01-07 17:57:18] thread 3: 2097152 hashes, 36.60 khash/s
[2014-01-07 17:57:18] thread 4: 2097152 hashes, 36.63 khash/s
[2014-01-07 17:57:18] thread 7: 2097152 hashes, 36.40 khash/s
[2014-01-07 17:57:19] thread 2: 2097152 hashes, 36.17 khash/s
[2014-01-07 17:57:19] thread 0: 2097152 hashes, 36.09 khash/s (yay!!!)
8. Check your hashrate on the pool, it should reflect your minerrate +-50kh/s
You're now mining Bitblock !
Remarks:
There are several BitBlock Pools, I've used Suprnova (
https://bbl.suprnova.cc) for testing, at the time of writing there is also HashHarder:
http://www.hashharder.com/x15/bitblockIt sometimes takes quite long for an accepted share (a yay!!!), this is (probably) due to the whirlpool algo in the X15 algo as it is
"hard" to cpu's. Give it some time until you see the first yay!!!
