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Questions tagged [guiminer]

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Why are coin miners (such as GUIMiner) a "threat" in Windows Defender?

I opened up my GUIMiner and I got a rather unfriendly "Win32/CoinMiner" threat of "Medium." I installed this program knowingly, so should I be concerned? Is this just a problem because people have been installing miners on people's machine…
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What does "accepted shares" mean?

I am running GUIMiner and Triplemining server. I currently have just under 100 "shares" accepted. What does this mean? What are accepted shares used for? How do accepted shares relate to "blocks"? How does this relate to a Bitcoin?
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GUI Miner for OS X?

I'm pretty new to the world of Bitcoin; though, a few months back I tried mining. I had everything working, but then I stopped.. Anyway, now I'd like to start up again, though I've wiped my computer and reinstalled OS X since then. I had been using…
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Why is Slush Pool recognizing my worker as offline?

Just wanted to try out some mining but when I press start on GUIMiner Slush Pool dosn't recognize it. Right now I can mine at around 60Mhash/s, is that too slow or is it any other problem?
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Slush's pool worker offline

I'm new to mining, and using GUI miner on windows 7 AMD APU A-Series. I set it up today, put in my username.workername and put in stratum.bitcoin.cz as the host, and 3333 as the port. It says I'm getting 2 MHash/sec, but when I go to the Slush's…
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Help locating bottleneck on new mining rig

I built a mining rig with 3 Radeon 6850 GPUs. When I run one miner (either Phoenix or m0mchil's poclbm) it reports a hash rate of a little over 200 Mhash/sec. When I fire up a second miner pointed at a different GPU, the hash rate of both miners…
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how can i do mining on vmware machine

I am new to bitcoin mining. i have gui-miner, setup a slash mining account, and i have a VM Ware machine setup for mining. i have my own reasons for using a VM Machine and not my own... now whenever i open guiminer and click on start mining(given…
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How do I fix GUI Miner stuck at connecting?

GUI Miner v2011-08-24 just shows "connecting..." when trying to connect to slush's pool. The console shows: 2011-12-31 14:00:49: Running command: poclbm.exe smithd98@gmail.com.macbookpro:4fuqPtrI@api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 --device=0 --platform=0…
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ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack

I am giving this a try to see if I can do bitcoin mining. I took a Windows laptop and installed GUIMiner on it. I then connected to bitminter pool on http://mint.bitminter.com:8332 using my ID. When I click to start Mining, I get this message…
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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 configure it (more info below) and hit 'Start…
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Over-reporting miner?

I'm running the puddinpop rpcminer-opencl.exe that came with Guiminer. I'm running it with crazy settings -gpugrid=128 -gputhreads=256 -aggression=14 on a FirePro 2270 workstation card, and it's reporting about 20 GH/s which I understand is not even…
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Can you mine Monero using sgminer?

I've been mining Monero using my sgminer. I pointed it at https://moneropool.com/, but i when i visit the site to see my stats i see that my address is not found. Is my miner not working?
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p2pool not showing hashrate

so i wanted to test these for somewhat educational purposes and maybe make some profit along (highly unlikely), I have downloaded bitcoin core, and synced it completly, started a local p2pool pool, and connected a bunch of PC and macs to it through…
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GUIMiner gives "ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack"

I'm trying to get started mining with kiv's GUIMiner. I started, and get this error message: ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack How should I solve this?
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GUIMiner not detecting my GPU (AMD Radeon HD 7600M Series)?

GUIMiner does not appear to be detecting my GPU. Under available devices, I am only able to see my CPU. I have an AMD Radeon 7670M GPU, that I have the most updated driver for and can confirm that it is enabled and working. In my Device Manager,…
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