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Oc gpu core to If the free miner needs cat Try installing 4 or 5 cards and then start installing cat Then shutdown, plug the extra 1 or two cards and boot. Go to device manager and find the hardware device with a question mark your extra gpus , right click and install them using the driver inf inside the folder where the amd catalyst extracted its contents. Should be able to recognize at least 5 or 6 cards depending on the Os win 7 5, win 8 6. Well 2 cards run a bit slower than one: D Seems like xpm is the most profitable coin for high end amd cards atm I will look and see if I can figure out the pool and client tonight.
If anyone else gets it going, let me know and I will join in and try it out. I am not going to have time for this tonight, for some reason my wife has plans for me all of this weekend. Did anyone here get a server set up for this? I don't even have an os that will work. I will mess with it a bit. I think a trustworthy pool would be awesome He has integrated madmax's improvements for a doubling of cpd, as long as they are calculated in a similar way.
I will try it out overnight. I am at 21cpd with 3x x. I am trying to compile and figure out the pool, but I don't have time to finish tonight, maybe tomorrow. I am still working on getting the pool running. There are a ton of deps required, that I am still installing. I will post if I get it figured out. If you are interested in extremal's pool, pm him and he will send it to you. Info in this thread: If you can make one, I'll donate a day of xpm to you, and pay a fee of your choosing.
You're using madmax's miner right? I am working on it, maybe i used the wrong version of ubuntu or something. I have been installing dependencies all morning. Will let you know if I figure it out. I now have 2 xs on primecoin right now getting about 6. Anyone have a rough idea of x power or should I just leave them on something else? At what level would it be best to switch to solo? I run my xs on Extremals pool with madmax's miner.
My Other rig with mixed gpus- , x2, run clymore's solo. Madmax's was much lower cpd on the mixed GPU rig, but close on the xs. On claymores solo I get 6. Right now I only have 9 active connections to the network, how many are you guys running? I googled for some nodes and added those and a seednode but that's all I've connected to so far.
I'm lucky to get 8 connection on any wallet on a good day. Pretty sure that you can mine to a wallet on your LAN. From what I'm seeing here, I'm guessing Primecoin is doing better than Myriad.
So, given that I've got 1 machine with 2 and 4 X, and 2 machines with 2 each, what is the best way for me to mine primecoin? All computers are on the same LAN. With those cards I would run claymore's solo, but keep an eye out, hopefully someone will release a no fee solo miner with decent performance. Is it a percentage, or up front fee? I guesstimate a profit of 0. It goes right to your wallet, then you wait for confirms. So your blocks are about 7.
I got 6 blocks yesterday. Calculator is pretty close. Solo is only good if you get a lot of connections in your wallet, otherwise stick with a pool Did you start this torin? I would be curious to know your status and the income from this. Since I moved my x rig 21cpd to Extremals pool with madmax's miner. I have earned 4. I will leave them both as is, until tomorrow, but I seem to get more solo. Also, as far as nodes, my rig that is running solo has 12 connections.
I think this is more relevant the slower your connection. My main rig usually only has 8, and is usually luckier than average when solo mining. Is anyone else running, extremal's pool? I get latency and was wondering what others get. I just got set up. Weird thing, my Vista machine started out an error, and reported estimated cpd of over and started getting less.
I'm assuming it will eventually level out to 3cpd. I've got 9 connections now and I've had as many as 11 when downloading the blockchain. But I've got FiOS too. The profitability calculator said I should get a block every. Did you go with claymore's solo?
I take it the primecoin-qt wallet is the official one, or do I need to get a different wallet? I don't think there is any other XPM wallet other than qt. But I was told that I don't need the wallet to solo? I Must have mis-read. Use official Primecoin wallet with this miner. Of course you can change settings in "primecoin. It is very important to have a lot of connections in Primecoin wallet, otherwise you will have many orphaned blocks.
So if you have only 8 active connections, you need to allow incoming connections, check related topics about it. The answer was no. I can't find that post though: Ahh so then I mis-read. You need a wallet for solo, but not for pool mining. I must have been really tired when I posted that question lol. Correction, I got 2 in the first half hour. One has just cleared the confirms. The other should be in a few minutes. D Soloing is fun I hear: Thanks, I'm not sure what is going on though.
I've got 2 primecoin windows that show about the same average cpd numbers, and the scrollback only goes back to about the half hour mark. But it took another hour to show up in my wallet for one, and the other hasn't yet. It is still immature, and has about blocks to go for maturity. I guess the other was an orphan. You can see them in the wallet. They should show up right away. Look in the transactions tab.
It will show how long until confirmed. Ok, I looked it up in the blockchain explorer, and I still had the block in my scrollback The other client that looked like it had one seem to be having a glitch on it average cpd calculation Mine are only pulling about 3.
Got another block overnight, so about 15 XPM in 8 hours or so. Yeah it's taking forever. I've had a payout of 10 from the hours I was at ypool with 25 more waiting to payout. I'm now doing solo and in less than 24 hours I've earned about 45 xpm, but not a single one is confirmed yet all are immature. I currently have 20 active connections on my prime client but if anyone has a big conf file with a ton of nodes please post it up: Also, overnight for some reason my primecoin-qt lost connection to the network apparently all of my rigs weren't doing anything despite it being on and connected to the network.
Had to force close the qt and re-open before they connected again. It does take a long time to confirm, though block time is up pretty high due to the miner improvements, so around 48 hours is pretty close. Well, the two blocks are about halfway mature, but no new blocks since last night. I've got 15 connections to the network, so I guess it is just taking its time. I have about 35 cpd total from 2 rigs.
I have only picked up one today, but got 5 yesterday. I've mined 5 blocks so far today with about 35cpd across 2 rigs. I mined a couple yesterday but also was on ypool for multiple hours and had down time for an undermined amount of time over night this morning.
Can you beat that? Well I've mined about 40xpm today with approximately 6. Which amounts to approximately. Pretty impressive if curecoin is giving.
Oh, nope, that's with an r9 , 3 r7 s and an i7 It's not directly proportional with scrypt mining, but you get a rough idea Those are my top three picks anyway It's a good idea to diversify risk like that.
Are yo guys selling asap or holding? XPM i assume you are talking about? I'd be selling most of it for now. Wait for a floor and a trend reversal before holding or buying.
With the new miners and perf increases, I'd expect a lot of dumping till it's no longer profitable. Seems like a really good choice for windows users I'm mining triple vert atm. This is a more accurate way of calculating solo mining profitability guys: I got home and found that all my computers were down for about 10 hours.
It was a long power outage, at least half an hour, my UPSs didn't keep things up. Still nothing since the first 2 blocks. I checked this morning and I had 15 active connections. If I haven't gotten anything when I get home in 10 hours, I think I may switch to curecoin, or something else. Even taking into consideration my 10 hours of downtime, I'm looking at over 55 hours running Clyamore's miner with no block with 8 cards.
Is it possible I'm doing something wrong? Solo is alll luck my friend. You need to switch to the new 11ch miner now Google is not enlightening me. Are your stats going up? I got 3 yesterday and 2 so far today. I sold all my xpm made about 60 or so in a couple days. The luck was too annoying. I have or so now. I think I will hold, hoping for a rebound in the price This is what I see: Looks like it is working. I'll let it run until tomorrow, then I'm switching it over to curecoin.
So, I've got about 22 XPM. Hopefully my luck will improve a bit. I have only gotten one today. I suspect that the quickly increasing difficulty and weak price has pushed the profitability down on this. I would be curious if anyone has run the numbers lately. Don't know if it was luck, or what.
Got the most blocks in one day, that I have gotten since gpu mining primecoin started. Too bad the values of some of my chosen alts have gone down so much today. Madmax released the solo mining pool server thing. Been using eXtremal's pool on one rig, pretty cool My connection is a bit poor, running solo doesn't work so well.
Look at the bitcointalk search for primecoin GPU and I should pull up the relevant threads. I have gotten 10 block yesterday and today. Most of them is on my Xs. Using the latest claymore solo miner. It seems to be good at 11 chains. I got 6 of them. Beeeeer has GPU mining for xpm now. Folding right now lol. I have 2 XPM in Xolokram's pool too. Diff is too high to mine in College He said he can do manual payouts. I asked him about getting the leftovers out a while back.
I'll have to drop him a line one day. Difficulty is dropping on this. I still have one small rig on this which is finding blocks more consistently lately. If you like the coin, it could be beneficial to check the profitability. Primegpu new version out btw Did you try that? It's something like 2. I haven't tried it yet, still on Claymore's, I haven't had much time to mess with miners lately.
Steam sale is really interrupting my to do list. Besides I have a and a that are down, both going in for rma, so production is reduced anyways. Mining monero, those are numbers from the primegpu guys There is a bump in xpm price today. It has been a while since we saw one of those I am holding and still mining this. Hopefully it is the start of a reversal. In order to mine, in general, you will need a graphics card with more than 2 GB of memory, basic knowledge of how to use the command line or willingness to learn, and an Ethereum wallet or a wallet corresponding to whatever coin you are mining.
After choosing the graphics card, mining software, and pool, mining Ethereum is actually pretty straightforward. If you want some help with these prerequisites or a more detailed guide to getting started check out the Ethereum Mining Wiki.
With mining, the details of how to mine and the best strategies are constantly changing, so if you want to get into mining be prepared to figure some of the details out for yourself. It probably helps to understand to some extent how cryptocurrencies work and to keep up with the latest trends in the market. The most obvious benefit to mining is to make a profit. GPU mining is a unique type of investment that requires a relatively low up-front investment in time and money to get started.
After that your computer or mining rig will generate a high rate of return without you doing much at all. If you are looking to invest more than a few thousand dollars you are out of luck unless you want to rent or buy a dedicated property for mining, and hire an electrician.
Even before that, you may be reluctant to have a monster computer with multiple GPUs generating lots of excess heat and noise in your home. What this means is that GPU mining can be a great investment up to a certain amount before it loses its appeal. That is if all of the parameters were to stay the same which they won't so it is an extremely rough estimate.
So for me at least investing in one card was a no-brainer. In addition to the profit that you can generate from mining, mining also helps contribute to Ethereum or the cryptocurrency that you are mining which I believe is a positive force in the world and worth supporting. Outside of ETH, a miner could mine Curecoin and help the world by folding proteins, or mine Primecoin and help the world by finding prime numbers.
There are also benefits to learning about the technology. I think that because you can hit a ceiling so fast on the amount that you can invest in mining, it is only worth it if you believe in these less tangible benefits to some extent and you are interested in the technology behind it.
On the other hand, if you already have a powerful home PC that you use for gaming or VR, then it is not going to hurt to have it mine at night and while you are at work.
Not all cryptocurrencies can be mined profitably with GPUs. In the earliest days of Bitcoin mining long before I knew about Bitcoin , people could mine thousands of Bitcoins with their CPU alone. At some point, someone wrote a program that allowed miners to mine Bitcoin with their GPUs which allowed them to significantly increase their hash rate. Eventually, lots of other cryptocurrencies were designed that chose to use different hashing algorithms which could not as easily be mined with ASICs.
For example, Ethereum uses a different hashing algorithm that requires lots of memory. In addition miners have to execute smart contract code in order to verify blocks. Finally, with Ethereum switching to proof of stake soon, it would not make sense to design an ASIC that would work only for the next year or so. With this switch from a proof of work consensus algorithm to a proof of stake algorithm, there is a very small window of profitability left for mining ETH.
Once that switch is complete, GPU miners will have to switch to other coins. Fortunately for miners, there are plenty of other coins that can be mined with GPUs. It is likely that GPU mining will be profitable for at least the next few years.
Of course miners will have to upgrade their GPUs every years or so to stay competitive because of the Law of Accelerating Returns.
In the long term, I think proof of stake will become the dominant consensus algorithm and more cryptocurrencies will use proof of stake except for the ones where the proof of work algorithm provides some useful result like Primecoin and Curecoin. This is because proof of stake is more secure and uses less electricity then proof of work. When choosing mining software I wanted to use one of the official Ethereum clients so that I could trust that the software did not contain any hidden malware, and to ensure that it did not charge any fees.
For example, the official cpp client includes this text in their Readme:. The support for GPU mining has been dropped some time ago including the ethminer tool. Try using the fork https: To use Genoil you need download a binary from the releases folder in their repo, not the zip on the releases tab in Github. I tried mining with Genoil and got it running fine, but was not able to find any shares within an hour.
While troubleshooting the problem, I found a Github issue that suggested it may be an issue with the latest AMD drivers. One of the replies recommended switching to Ethminer because it is more up to date. I am still not sure what caused the problem, or if I was just unlucky, but when I tried Ethminer I was able to successfully find shares.
Ethminer is a fork of Genoil which seems slightly more active in terms of development. I downloaded the latest version and was able to successfully get it to mine.
I am now comparing my results against Claymore's Miner which is the first miner that I used for a few weeks. I recommend Ethminer because it charges 0 fees, is open source and seems to have one developer who is actively making commits to the project. Claymore's miner is a bit easier to use, but the shadiness of the app makes me want to use something else.
It seems that this is a mining client associated with Nanopool. I was hesitant to use this miner for a number of reasons. Fist, the code is not open source. The Github repo belongs to Nanopool and when you look at their website there is no information about whether a company or individual owns it. The fact that it is closed source and seemingly developed by a person who does not want to use a real identity is slightly suspicious.
Another shady thing is that apparently, Windows Defender recognizes it as a virus. From the Claymore Readme:. Windows 10 Defender recognizes miner as a virus, some antiviruses do the same. Miner is not a virus, add it to Defender exceptions. I write miners since Most of them are recognized as viruses by some paranoid antiviruses, perhaps because I pack my miners to protect them from disassembling, perhaps because some people include them into their botnets, or perhaps these antiviruses are not good, I don't know.
For these years, a lot of people used my miners and nobody confirmed that my miner stole anything or did something bad. Note that I can guarantee clean binaries only for official links in my posts on this forum bitcointalk.
If you downloaded miner from some other link - it really can be a virus.