Questions tagged [miner-configuration]
This tag should be used for questions about configuring and optimizing the software settings on mining rigs.
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How to quickly get the target of the next block to be mined from bitcoin-core over RPC?
The target for the next block is available in getblocktemplate but I can not figure out if there is a way to get the target without also getting all of the pending transactions, which can take a very ...
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In a mining pool, can there be any two or more nodes mining a block using the same nonce?
Me and my friend decided to try to mine cryptocurrencies using somewhat old (few years old) unused but somewhat decent gaming PC. We decided to create or join a mining pool to double our processing ...
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How to install the latest bfgminer binaries directly from terminal without 'aptitude' on a raspberry pi 4 8gb running raspbian?
months ago I found an entry on StackExchange or somewhere else on how to install the latest (!) bfgminer binaries directly from terminal. I can not find the stackexchange post, no matter how deep I ...
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No OpenCL devices found in your system. Closing lolMiner [migrated]
New to mining. I am trying to figure out how to use lolMiner on Ubuntu 20.04. Here are the specs of my GPU:
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: ...
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Miner's pool and Mempool relationship
I am wondering why we need Mempool (central and aggregated pool) while each miner has its own pool?
If we need the Mempool as an architectural design, how we can make sure that miners are sending ...
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Mining wallets - how to?
all I want to know is what do I do when using a mining software and it asks me for a wallet address... I've tried to use bitcoin address etc but it doesn't work! says invalid wallet! where to get a ...
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How to setup SOLO mining with Bitcoin QT
Where can I find instruction how to setup solo mining using bitcoin QT and an ASIC farm, everything is in the same local network.
(I am aware that pool is better)
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Classifying Miners based on their Location
Is there any way to classify the bitcoin miners based on their geographical locations?
Is there any possibility of doing so for the participants in cooperative mining as well?
Thank you
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Can one manually type the mined block on bitcoin core and broadcast it?
I get that all miners compete to find the block first, which is then broadcasted to other nodes who then verify it. But what spikes my interest is would it be possible to broadcast the block to the ...
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How wallets/ miners differentiate bitcoin and bitcoin cash (forks of cryptos)? (technical IT question)
I could not find the answer by web search. People usually interested in economic differences. I guess it is a question for those who know how mining algorithms works.
Internet is kind of decentralized....
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How to generate a coinbase transaction?
I am creating a miner in C++ for solo mining, and am struggling to create the proper coinbase transaction.
Say I have a bc1 address, like bc1qfc7fameteuguetm0kfzypnvf2ju6wppdvj6tkc , what would be and ...
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KNC Neptune (mining hardware)
I have a two KNC Neptune miners that I can no longer log into, as I don't have a record of the username/password. In order to correct this, I need the executable firmware update files in re-order to ...
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Reasons Behind Finding an IP addresses of Miners [duplicate]
I am wondering if Finding IP addresses of each miner, can help the transactions to be processed by them without waiting time in mempool or not?
I do not understand clearly why people are looking for ...
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How do I compute the coinbase in for a stratum pool?
I searched around Google and didn't get a correct answer, some one says I should use:
hashed_coinbase_ = coinbase1 + extranonce + extranonce2 + coinbase2;
And some other pages says:
hashed_coinbase_ =...
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How to setup cgminer.conf for solo mining?
How can I configure an ASIC such as S9 using cgminer.conf, in order to do solo mining? I would appreciate a guidance for creating the config file.
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How can i solo mine with antminer? Using local bitcoin core
I am having trouble setting up mining with antminer.
I have a gpu rig which is successfully mining with 2060 rtx on bitcoin with bfgminer at a hashrate of 1.5gh/s
Obviously 1.5gh/s is nothing compared ...
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Miner for Non-Standard Transactions
I understand that bitcoin-core introduced the IsStandard() check in v0.9(?) to prevent non-standard transactions from being broadcast (unless in a mined block).
I'm interested to know whether there ...
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In a closed, working test network, how would I generate a signed block that a Bitcoin miner would otherwise create?
I have a POC where the essential, critical, priority goal is to use C# and the .NET Core Framework (Bouncy Castle for crypto, or Microsoft primitives for BigInteger ) where I do the following
Accept ...
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How Do I Stop My Voltage Converter From Overloading?
I have been trying to run miners that I obtained from Whatsminer
They require 220V - 240V power source. Since I live in the United States, I have tried 110 to 220 V step up converters. I have tried 3 ...
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How to join a mining pool? [duplicate]
I'm running a Bitcoin node on my computer.
Can I configure it so I can join a mining pool?
If so, how to do this, or where can I find the documentation?
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Cannot connect to slushpool with bfgminer
I am a complete newbie and just want to see how mining works in principle. No profit required. I have created an account on slushpool and have username and password. Then I go to my Ubuntu machine (a ...
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Recommendation for educational mining
I've been running a full bitcoind node (Ubuntu) for a while now and would like to experiment with mining for educational purposes.
Googling anything to do with "Bitcoin mining" is fraught so ...
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Refusal to connect cgminer when connecting to a router
I have a miner and when I connect the miner's ethernet port to my router (which has internet) the cgminer API log shows cgminer socket connect failed => connection refused, but when I connect my ...
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What is the relationship between bitmain-freq, Hashrate and Power Consumption?
I am running a few old miners (T9+) to heat my home and they are too loud and making a loss (which is ok, as I am interested in the heat). Following this suggestions (sticking with the standard ...
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cpuminer: Running two nodes -The requested URL returned error: 500 Internal Server Error, json_rpc_call failed, retry after 30 seconds
I'm trying to mine new blocks using cpuminer. My blockchain network runs on localhost on the testnet network with two nodes. When I'm trying to mine the blocks I'm receiving the following error:
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Why are mined blocks not always full
Why do mined blocks tend to vary so much in size. If the miner's objective is to maximize their revenue from transaction fees they should add transactions starting with the one with the largest fee, ...
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Dragonmint T1, cannot find on network anymore (AngryIP Scanner) + NO SDCARD SLOT
I was using Braiins OS for a while, but couldn't get the voltages to settle down no matter what I did, so I went to Braiins OS website and noticed they would no longer be supporting the DM-T1, so I ...
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How were miners supposed to signal support for BIP148?
Under BIP141 (SegWit), you could signal support by setting nVersion bit 1 equal to 1. BIP9 counted:
20000002 100000000000000000000000000010
20000012 100000000000000000000000010010
30000007 ...
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Unable to replicate block header validation errors: time-too-old and time-too-new
we are playing with the regtest and we don't able to replicate the two blocks validation error managed here
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/5b24f6084ede92d0f493ff416b4726245140b2c1/src/...
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How do I disable mining in `bcoin`?
When running bcoin, how does one disable mining by default? I just want to run a full node without mining. There seems to be no config options to control it.
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Is it possible to mine using Asics on AWS?
As title says, I would like to know if mining with asics on aws is possible and how to do it? I don't mean profit because I don't really care and only do it for fun. Thanks!
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How do miners communicate in Bitcoin/ Decentralized Network?
1.)If there is no central authority maintaining database how miners differentiate among other miners.
2.)Do they have there own database which have details(Mac/IP address) of neighbouring miners .
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How do i configure two (or more) Antminer S9s on one bitcoin.com account?
I just added a second Antminer S9 to my pool. I've been mining with one S9 and bitcoin.com for about a year. in Antminer-1 configuration I have my bitcoin username in the "Worker" Field / password "...
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How to perform CPU mining on bitcoin TESTNET on Linux?
I need approximately 100 Bitcoin Testnet to run an experiment on the lightning network.
Any suggestion on how to run CPU mining? Should I use cgminer?
Make any sense to perform solo mining on ...
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Hash rate of “Antminer S9” in “Antpool.com” is ZERO
I setup an Antminer S9 using this document: (Link to document).
And I configured connection to antpool.com using this guideline: (Link to guideline).
So, I filled out the fields as follows:
Pool 1:
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Does getting shares when mining mean that I have earned a reward? [closed]
So I have 13 Total Shares (Non Rejected) and my pool is Mining Pool Hub. It does not show that I have gained any Ethereum when I go to Dashboard (Under Ethereum) on Mining Pool Hub. Do accepted shares ...
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CPU Miner return Internal Server Error for getblocktemplate request
I was developing an altcoin using bitcoin v 0.17. I am using CPU miner for mining purposes.
I started the miner using this command:
./minerd -a sha256d -o http://localhost:19230 -O adreno:adreno@123 -...
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Looking for old bitcoin [duplicate]
I briefly ran a node on my Mac in mid to late 2012/early 2013, but didn't understand it at the time and let it go. Is it possible that I still have bitcoin on my computer from that installation, if so,...
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How do I solo mine my own modified altcoin
I forked DASH a week ago. I am able to generate genesis block hash, merkle hash. I created one VM (ubuntu 16.04) for rpc server. Another one VM For mining. I am able to establish connetion between two ...
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Farming with CPU in my Lan
I have recently built an internet network for my entire condominium to use for a very cheap price, and i thought, why not farm bitcoins with it using users CPU?
I heard about coffee miners, but i ...
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Problem in understanding other miners validating puzzle solving miner's claim
I understand that miner's role is to validate the block of transactions by calculating nonce based on difficulty level and finding hash of {block + nonce + hash of previous block} .
Then it adds this ...
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Other people mining my coin without my permission, how to avoid this? [closed]
I have created an altcoin and i wanted to solo mine all coins myself. I disabled generate function in wallet, hidden the source code as private in github. I run one main node and i mine in my laptop.
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How can I check what mining algorithm does an altcoin use?
Where in the sourcecode files can this be checked?
For example, lets get a specific coin:
Chronon
https://github.com/ChrononGroup/Chronon
In what file can one check the mining algorithm?
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Is a miner running a full node?
Is a miner just running a full node that is connected with the mining hardware? Or is there such thing as a miner node? Does it use additional software for transaction selection?
Thanks in advance!
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who actually amasses or builds the blocks … and how do they get passed to miners?
The question is not about the block being included on the block chain, but
who actually creates a block? Like what is the process here.
Can someone walk me through this? I do know that blocks are ...
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Is it possible to simulate a mining pool with localhost in windows?
All I want to do is run the miner in CPU (without mining any real coins, no online pool, and no wallet) without connecting to any online miner. I tried using XMRig miner to do a localhost run but ...
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Alternative to Nicehash Miner for Linux
I have a high performance Desktop computer with a powerful NVIDIA GPU available.
I wonder if there is some software similar to NiceHash Miner which I can install in Linux to make some little cash ...
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One Code, Two Different Compilations (One Dirty Version of BitCoin)
Right now i'm developing an AltCoin based on BitCoin Cash.
I have one code, which i compiled in two different servers (A and B).
The A server, compiles the Bitcoin as "Bitcoin ABC version v0.16.3....
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Calculating Hashrate / Threads correlating to Average Block Time
Wondering if anyone can provide some detailed fact based information on how pool mining using Fixed Difficulty affects the probability of N number of shares found over T time given the variables X ...
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Can a miner just download the blockchain once and then delete it (don't have a full node)?
I am wondering if all bitcoin miners need to be full nodes. Or is it possible for a miner to just download all the blockchain once, do all necessary computations to start mining and then delete the ...
