Mining issues On Macbook Pro

Hi All,

Many thanks for your posts (and the following link by Chrisj) which are helping me familiarise myself with the area of FTC and Mac :)

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I was aware of thermal damage potential when mining on a laptop. Coincidentally I had purchased a Targus Chillmat (with Fan!) which may help matters 8). After an initial few days attempting (and failing) to mine with DiabloMiner I switched to the Guiminer download in second video. I finally believe I am mining using my GPU (or CPU?) - Ta Da!!. The current rate is around 1.7 Mhash/s and I have 14 ‘Shares’ accepted. Can someone explain why do both the Guiminer and FTC-QT need to mine simultaneously?

My FTC-QT client is synchronised. I entered the following details into the client which mirrored that of Guiminer

-u (ftc wallet id code)
-p x
-o p2pool.org
-r 9377.

I clicked pool mining and I also attempted both Debug Logging options. However when I attempt to mine via FTC-QT (client) I get the following message.

Miner failed to start. Make sure you have miners executable and libraries in the same directory as Feathercoin-Qt.

How do I resolve the FTC QT error message if required to do so. I have read some background information re this problem (on this and other forums such as Litecoin) and get the impression that this is a PC message and not related to Mac? - Its all a bit double dutch to me.

Finally are my ‘shares’ then downloaded into my FTC-QT wallet address and i f so how?

Thanks. Dave

pyxis

Welcome,

Don’t use the client to mine.
Use it as a wallet for your coins.
Use GUIminer or cgminer as your miner software.

Shares are not coins and will not show in your wallet, are you sure your hash rate is 1.7Mhash?,
sounds like 1.7Khash with 14 shares, 1.7Mhash should generate tens of thousands of shares per day where as 1.7Khash would generate only a few shares a day, and it also sounds like your CPU mining.

When pool mining, you mine a share of the block found, a block payment is 200 coins, to find that block it may take a pool of miners 100,000 shares(this number could be anything) to find. Your pool will have information on how coins are shared in proportion to work done.

whats wrong with using the client to mine? What if I dont want to use shitty asteroid or GUI miner ?

Kevlar

It only does CPU mining. Your chances of ever actually finding a coin with it are so close to zero you may as well just buy the FTC given the amount of electricity you’ll spend without any reward. We’re talking years here.

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