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Can anamurminers.com be trusted?
I'm thinking about ordering two 63 GH/s Bitcoin miner's from Anamurminers.com Also see: http://anamurminers.com/asic-miner. Can this company be trusted? They say they can ship two to the UK straight ...
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CPU Mining: Optimal Number of Threads
(I guess this question in principle applies likewise to Bitcoin, but given how un-profitable CPU mining of Bitcoin seems to be, this question actually arose with regards to Yacoin mining).
I am ...
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clDevicesNum returned error, no GPUs usable
I get this error with BFGMiner, when running "bfgminer -D -d?:"
[2013-04-25 09:47:31] ft232r_scan: Found 093a:2510 - not a ft232r
[2013-04-25 09:47:31] ft232r_scan: Found ...
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Simple GPU miner with long pooling C++
I want to write own GPU miner(Please, don't ask me why :) , but i can't find any simple solution (cgminer and RPC miner is big projects with many useless to me functions), i need sources of only a GPU ...
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Where can I buy BitForce SHA256 Single? [closed]
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison says that it's $599 and can do 80GHz per second.
Okay, it's not sold anymore at butterfly labs.
http://www.butterflylabs.com/product-details/
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Has Bit Coins Price Go up because now it's harder to make one of those? [closed]
Before I wanted to mine coins. Then I found out that in the future the number of blocks will be reduced. That will eliminate profit.
It turns out that it doesn't eliminate profit because bitcoin ...
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How do I get started mining bitcoin with a GPU? [duplicate]
I'm totally new to this, but love this idea!
I want to help, (and generate coin), and have only installed Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.1
It ran, synchronized; I encrypted my wallet.
But now what? Will ...
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What and where is the easiest way to convert bitcoin back to cash without showing ID?
so im thinking about purchasing a big bitcoin miner, but the question now is how do i convert my BTC back to cash? I don't feel safe giving out my info to mtgox or other exchanges as they require ...
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Given the probability of finding a block, and time taken, can I infer hashrate?
I'm trying to externally calculate the hashrate of a given miner based only on an arbitrarily defined target that I assign, then calculate probability it will be found. Once this probability is ...
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Which ASIC Bitcoin Miner gets you best bang for you buck as of today? [duplicate]
I'm thinking of purchasing an ASIC miner, but I'm not sure which one to go with as there seem to be multiple options. When they mention 20-60Gh/s, I'm not sure how many bitcoins can that mine in a ...
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Why should a miner chose the longest blockchain if an other chain has a higher expected reward?
Why did miners/pools choose the longest chain for continuing it?
Because with this strategy they have the highest expected bitcoin reward.
The expected bitcoin reward is (new generated bitcoin (b) + ...
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GUIMiner Won't Start
I am trying to mine Bitcoin on my CPU in Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter. I know about the consequences of CPU-only mining. I have downloaded GUIMiner - title bar looks like this:
However, when I ...
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Could miners steal money?
I've been reading around: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_bitcoin_works
What prevents a miner's block from being accepted across the network if the hash checks out when miner forges transactions in ...
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Could i build a mining rig with these parts?
I have researched bitcoin mining for a while, and i have decided that i want to build a dedicated miner. Since i am very low on budget, I thought that maybe i could use an old computer that i have in ...
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Is there a command line Bitcoin CPU miner for Windows?
Is there a Bitcoin miner that I can run using the command line on Windows? I want a CPU miner, not a GPU miner.
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Better or worse to mine multiple workers on one machine?
The title is quite self-explanatory, really.
I use cgminer on Ubuntu 12.10 to mine bitcoins in the 50BTC pool. I have three workers set up. If I run multiple instances of cgminer, each targeted at ...
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What would happen to the Bitcoin network if all miners simultaneously stopped their mining efforts?
If every single Bitcoin miner were to stop mining altogether, how would this effect the Bitcoin network?
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What are midstate and hash1 used for in mining?
The first answer here does a good job explaining how the SHA-256 function requires more than one input (an initial one is specified by to the SHA-256 specs). As far as I understand it, the "midstate" ...
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What happens when a miner does not claim all fees/generated coins?
Suppose that a miner for some reason has the generation transaction of their blocks not take all the possible coins. This can happen for a variety of reasons, almost all of which are bugs:
An ...
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Is there a mining software that I can run on my webspace (php, ruby, python)?
Is there a miner written to be run on webspace, e.g. in ruby, php or python?
I know, it will be to slow and its not worth it, but I want to see it though :)
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Relative performance of various mining software?
Has any measured the relative performance of various mining software? I figure such a study would be very beneficial for all the miners to choose the most optimal software out there to squeeze out the ...
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Which mining pools use custom mining software?
Which mining pools use custom mining software? Do those pools require the users to use their software, or just encourage their users?
