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Overclock Antminer U3 running on raspberry pi

I set up my rasp pi b+ and U3 mining rig using the instructions in this forum post, with screen and cgminer. The command relevant to over clocking the raspi that I used is the following: sudo ./...
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Does this mean it's mining?

You are using an ancient version of bfgminer CPU mining was disabled by default even in bfgminer 3.10.0, your gpu doesn't seem to get detected You're about 4 years late for CPU mining and 3 years ...
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Simultaneously Solo and Pool Mining

Now, if I discover a block, won't both my localhost GBT "pool" and the remote pool claim it as theirs? No. That isn't possible. Changing the coinbase transaction (what controls where a block reward ...
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Simultaneously Solo and Pool Mining

You might be connected to both pools, but only working for one: When you mine, the block you are trying to find contains a recipient address for the block reward. Therefore, a block can only ...
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Overclock Antminer U3 running on raspberry pi

I have 2 u3 antminers running on a raspberry pi b+ I could not get my u3 any faster until i used minera software,set to cgminer (offical) with command: --au3-volt 830 --au3-freq 250.0 In the ...
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Why won't my bitcoin miner detect any of my hardware?

According to the release notes, current versions of bfgminer only support FPGA and ASIC mining hardware out of the box. It sounds like you don't have any such devices. CPU and GPU mining are not ...
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mining command-key term explanation

Bfgminer is the mining application, the line with the stratum output is the pool that the miner is configured to use. Your address would be a bitcoin address that you own. The worker name and password ...
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how to fix mining software make error? bfgminer bitcoin

error in miner file, something to do with cpus ./configure with enable cpu mining fixed this now able to make bfgminer note similar issue from other users: https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/issues/...
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Cannot connect to slushpool with bfgminer

I am also new to slushpool with bfgminer. follow steps if it works to you . sudo bfgminer then enter url stratum+tcp://stratum.slushpool.com:3333 then it will ask username with worker username....
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Altcoin Solo mining Help / Advice

Shares are an accounting mechanism to allow for miners in a pool to prove how much work they did towards finding the next valid block hash and fairly divide any rewards. With solo-mining, there are no ...
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Bitcoin Solo Mining with bfgminer

The error messages you see are exactly what you get if you just start bitcoind without any proper configuration. Did you make sure you started your bitcoind with the -server flag at all? Only that ...
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Why can't I get any miner to work on my PC?

You cannot mine Bitcoin on a desktop (or laptop) computer these days. If you are trying to mine Bitcoin on Slush, you will need an ASIC. You can potentially mine ZCash on Slush, if you have a high ...
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BFGMiner No device detected

The best gaming PCs gave up in 2013. Now you need ASIC hardware to mine. Even 1 TH/s (1000 GH/s) is not fast anymore - I wouldn't buy slower than that. The device bfgminer is looking for is an old and ...
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Gridseed not mining bitcoin - no shares accepted

So, I'm not much of a miner myself, so please take this with a grain of salt. When I plug in your numbers into a mining calculator, 11Gh/s resolve to earnings of just below 0.001 btc per month. This ...
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Antminer U3 not detecting in cgminer nor bfgminer?

From BFGMiner's README.ASIC file: The U3 does not support autodetection, so you will want to use --scan-serial to manually probe it. For example, to scan all devices, you can use: -S ...
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Zeusminer not being recognized with BFGminer

I'm running BFGminer 5.4.0 on a pi with two Zeusminers. Here is an example of my command that I run: --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://pool:port -u username -p password -S zeusminer:/dev/ttyUSB0 --set ...
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Gridseed USB ASIC Won't Mine Bitcoins

I found this link apparently cgminer doesn't like usb3 according to the forum post don't know why I thought usb3 is backwards compatiable. But I tried thinking this is bull but it worked.
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I'd like to connect an LKETC USB Scypt Miner to my Raspberry Pi. Help?

I build a custom driver wich allow to run lketc usb miner with other scrypt miner (originaly this driver is a zeus clone, but if you use lketc and zeus at same time one of miner not works) you can ...
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I'd like to connect an LKETC USB Scypt Miner to my Raspberry Pi. Help?

I think these might be rebranded ZeusMiner ASICs - LKETC doesn't appear to sell any scrypt miners below the 1MH/s range. Also, some of the reviews on that item say that they've had luck on linux with ...
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BFGMiner + CGMiner solo mining, how to specify payout address

It depends upon the parent's support of the coinbasetxn capability. When your (getwork or getblocktemplate) request includes the coinbasetxn flag, the response may (should) contain an address for the ...
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clDevicesNum returned error, no GPUs usable

Add --gpu-platform 1 to the start of the config line in order for it to ignore the Intel card.

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