Related to the software used for mining cryptocurrencies
Questions tagged [mining-software]
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What open source miner applications are there?
What open source miner applications are there? Especially to see how the mining process works.
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What is NTime rolling/nonce range? And what miners support it?
From Slush's pool's homepage:
Pool now supports Long polling and NTime rolling. Older miners have many problems with those new features, which can negatively affect your rewards. Please update your miners to latest version!
What does NTime rolling…
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Why doesn't the Bitcoin core team develop official Bitcoin mining software?
If I am right, the Bitcoin Core just maintains the software necessary to run a full node. Essentially it's the code for the Bitcoin wallet, which just verifies blocks, but doesn't mine. But mining is an important part of the Bitcoin network, and the…
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Why do miners go offline?
As per my understanding mining process in bitcoin is fully automated. A manual intervention is needed only when:
(i) A hardware failure occurs
(ii) You might want to cool down the hardware
(iii) You completely shut it off (can be due to various…
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Is this thing on? (How to tell if my cpuminer is working?)
I have pretty much no idea what I'm doing. But I've had cpuminer running on my laptop for a half hour or so, just playing around. I know it's not near worth the time or electricity, I'm just having some fun.
I'm using Slush's pool, and ran the…
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Fastest CPU Miner
I have a Windows Server with 20 cores at 2.10 Ghz (AMD Opteron 4171 HE). I am currently using Ufasoft CPU miner and getting about 35 Mhash/s.
I want to know what is the fastest CPU miner that I can use.
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How to solo-mine bitcoins with bfgminer?
I'm completely new to Bitcoin, so my understanding of mining is still improving.
I downloaded BFGMiner, and now I would like to perform some solo mining.
(I would rather have it use my GPU, but if a CPU is noticeably easier than I'll go that route…
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Want to write my own solo cpu bitcoin miner
I just want to understand how this mining process works (from the developers point of view from very start to end). Can someone guide me towards a doc or a open source code (I am newbie here so a VERY BASIC one)?
Thanks in advance
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What are some reasons that a rational miner won't switch to P2Pool?
Besides the initial time investment of downloading & learning how to use a new tool ... what are some more reasons for a rational not to switch to P2Pool?
(Some reasons to switch is a slightly higher payoff in P2Pool due to bonus donations, and the…
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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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Mining on Mac OSX
Has anyone successfully set up a miner on Mac OSX? What are the most recent mining clients that will work on my 2011 MacBook Pro? I've tried DiabloMiner and poclbm but can't seem to get them running. I'd rather have a command line client if…
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Is there a command line Bitcoin CPU miner for Windows?
Is there a Bitcoin miner that I can run using the command line on Windows? I want a CPU miner, not a GPU miner.
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How can I solo mine using Bitcoin Core?
I want to mine Bitcoin using the Bitcoin Core client.
I have followed the steps on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd4Opw0Upok, but when I type "setgenerate true" in the console, it replies with "Method not found (code -32601)"
How can I mine…
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Mining pool software for home use
I have tried to set up a mining pool with my home computers. I am running bitcoind on one machine, and the others, also running bitcoind, were started with --url and --userpass to my central bitcoind server.
Now, are these machines already forming a…
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Full example data for scrypt Stratum-client
I'm trying to write a Mining client for Scrypt-based mining using Stratum Communication.
As of now, I have some trouble verifying all my bit orders and sequences. Hashes I'm generating get always rejected due to not meeting the Target.
What I'm…
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