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Bitcoin regtest CPUminer not even starting
It looks like the produced block does not follow the BIP34 rule that every coinbase input has to start with the height of the block it's in.
CPUMiner probably predates regtest by several years, and ...
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Solo Mining With CpuMiner (Guide / Adventure)
Bech32 support was only added to CpuMiner in January, 2019 in 7e8960212f0055d6dafaa3c80812c50cec291de3.
v2.5.0 is a release form 2017, and looks to be the latest precompiled release.
You will need ...
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Is it technically possible to solo mine bitcoin using cpu without a pool? How? Ubuntu
For development it's often helpful to start both nodes in regression test mode (regtest mode). The developer has his own private blockchain and can choose when to create a new block. You can use ...
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How are Bitcoin generated in Video Games?
These games do not actually generate any Bitcoin. No Bitcoin is being mined in these games; that's not how Bitcoin works.
The Bitcoin comes from the service running the game. They are doing something ...
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Altcoin solo mining issue with Cpuminer
I had similar issue and i switched to sgminer, even cgminer is good option but personally i used sgminer with same setting as yours, and everything is working fine in my case
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Bitcoin regtest CPUminer not even starting
The genesis block that is hardcoded in src/kernel/chainparams.cpp file doesn't follow the BIP34 rule. I guess this is the source of the issue. After generating just one single block using the ...
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Bit Coin Mining
(target + space - guess) * 100 / space
So for example, if your numbers had to be less than 200 and you needed to be less than 20 but got 30, your guess is (20+200-30)*100/200 or 95% right.
This makes ...
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Standalone Java Bitcoin Miner - Does it Exist?
Does it Exist?
No
This is because a Java app that uses the CPU to attempt to mine Bitcoin will not be able to mine Bitcoin. There is no good incentive for anyone to create such a thing.
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CPU mining Core 2 Quad Q9550
-t 6 threads should be the best setting, half of the L3 cache. Give it a try and let us know how it goes. Also, see what the developer of xmrig (cpuminer 'competitor') says about it:
xmrig commented ...
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Constantly getting connection interrupted
I'm doing:
minerd -a scrypt --threads=1 -o stratum+tcp://us.litecoinpool.org:3333 -O ab1jx.4:4
From a script and it works fine. ab1jx is my username on litecoinpool, worker is 4, password is 4. ...
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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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Why more threads reduce h/s rate?
The E7-4830v3 has 10 physical cores and 20MB of L3 cache. With two CPUs, you'd only have 20 physical cores and 40MB of L3. Since every thread is doing exactly the same thing, hyper-threading is ...
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