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Normal hashrate but no accepted shares in
200Mh/s is impossibly high for an HD6850 mining scrypt. My bet is that you're mining SHA256d, not scrypt. I don't see a -scrypt in your configuration file.
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Bitcoin regtest mining
You can build your miner with a bash command:
$ while true; do bitcoin-cli -regtest generate 1; sleep 300; done
You'l get a block every 5'. If you want a better simulation of mainnet you could use a ...
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Logging Antminer Statuses
I looked at /www/pages/cgi-bin/minerStatus.cgi, and it parses
cgminer-api -o
cgminer-api -o pools
cgminer-api -o stats
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Mining Bitcoin with scrypt, what will happen.. i
Bitcoin Core uses SHA-256d as its proof-of-work function. If you use a different hashing algorithm such as Scrypt, your work output cannot produce a valid block for the Bitcoin blockchain—you are only ...
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Setting up and running CGMiner on a Raspberry Pi for a Jalapeño
I recommend using bfgminer, and so does Butterfly Labs. Well, I guess they say cgminer will work, too :P.
The 4.10/4.3 branch, as well as the latest/master branch, work especially well with the ...
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"block decode failed" error while mining in pool
Are you running "bitcoin-cli submitblock xyz" manually? You are not supposed to do this. Software does this. If you mine in a pool you don't even need to run bitcoind at all.
If you do want to run ...
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Solo Mine with an AntMiner
You have run the BFGMiner on the local machine starting it as a Stratum proxy listening on port 3333 adn then point your AntMiner to it.
Run BFGminer on the same computer as Bitcoin Core with the ...
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Solo Mine with an AntMiner
Check your rpcallowip configuration, you will need to explicitly allow connections incoming to your RPC port from the network. If your local network for example is 192.168.0.x, the rpcallowip ...
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Mining without pool where does the bitcoin/reward go if successful?
Read the cgminer documentation about "solo mining". You'll need to install and set up bitcoind and sync the entire block chain, so see its documentation as well.
As far as payouts, note the --btc-...
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How to know if cgminer is really mining?
CGMiner no longer has support for GPU or CPU mining at all. You are currently not mining anything. In order to do GPU mining, you will need to either compile it yourself to support GPU mining or get ...
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Bitcoin regtest mining
I am answering my own question for those who run into the same situation and for the sake of knowledge sharing.
YES you can mine on a regtest network. The difficulty of mining on regtest is extremely ...
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How can I mine a specific block?
Mining software generally do not work like that. They don't have any idea of what is in the Bitcoin blockchain nor know how to construct a block (i.e. selecting transactions). Rather these mining ...
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Can I mine Bitcoin from my Hosting server?
Since it is a dedicated server, I doubt that the company that you are leasing it from would care. But ultimately to answer that question, you need to take a look at the Terms & Conditions of the ...
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Antminers - Can you monitor via SNMP, and set up configuration file Chron Jobs
The Antminer software doesn’t support anything for automation like this, though you can ssh in and make these modifications manually. There is no support for remote monitoring with SNMP, but there is ...
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CPU Mining Test with CGminer
Q: What happened to CPU and GPU mining?
A: Their efficiency makes them irrelevant in the bitcoin mining world today
and the author has no interest in supporting alternative coins that are better
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How might I reduce the percentage of rejected shares using an Avalon 741 with NiceHash?
If you live in the U.S. you need to connect to the US server.
stratum+tcp://sha256.usa.nicehash.com:3334
NOT
stratum+tcp://sha256.eu.nicehash.com:3334
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How to enable device in cgminer?
CGMiner doesn't come with support for that particular miner by default. I believe you have to get the driver for it. You can use bfgminer, which from 5.3.0 supports your miner out of the box.
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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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Can you mine Monero using sgminer?
No you cannot. Monero uses a different PoW that is incompatible with sgminer, but also uses a different pool communication protocol that is Stratum-like but not actually Stratum.
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Solo mining without a pool?
Are you aware how much hashing power you need to stand a chance to solo mine? In case you don't the rest of the answer is moot and you'll need to study the topic of mining some more.
Yes you'll need ...
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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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Trying To Get More MH/s Litecoin Mining
Mining hardware comparision on Litecoin.info lists an "AMD 6530D" with a hashrate of 47 kH/s. This is in the same range as what you achieve. The higher numbers you found were probably associated with ...
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correct settings for cgminer 4.9.2
bmsc only works with the BITMAIN cgminer...
I have fully tested and configured cgminer 4.9.2, the latest to work with the U3, check out my videos on vimeo and dailymotion, do a search for cgminer and ...
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Why my mining has average so low
USB stick ASIC mining devices often fail due to lack of power over the USB port: laptop USB, weak USB hub, weak power supply.
Make sure you use a powered USB hub that others have had success with. ...
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Antminer U1 running on raspberry pi not accepting shares
The line connected to mint.bitminter.com diff 512 means that the remote pool will only accept shares with an effective difficulty of 512 or above. Your miner has not yet found any shares with satisfy ...
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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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"block decode failed" error while mining in pool
Good Day,
Are you solo mining or pool mining?
If you are solo mining.... You will need to have about 1000 Th/s of ASIC Cheddar to Mine Solo. So, that is striked.
If you have that kind of cheddar of ...
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What could be the reason for one loop being significantly more power hungry on an SP20?
Copying asker's own answer, so that this question can be removed from the unanswered queue (assuming this answer gets upvoted).
I have found out how to get rid of the problem: Setting the start ...
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How to connect to Terraminer via USB?
I found out that it's a simple serial connection.
On Linux or Mac this does work for me:
screen /dev/tty.usbserial-XXXXXX 9600.cs8
Or you can you any other program for serial communication, e.g. ...
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