How To Mine For Beginners??
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@lcr11 I read and hear you loud and clear man.
I will dedicate some time in writing a “Noob Friendly” / Beginners intro to mining Feathercoin. With the aim to make it as simple and easy as possible, plus a learning experience.
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I’m exactly saying you have to get a number of badly explained details right. Each one of pool and miner set-ups are different, so we can’t just tell you what they are. Maybe try Supranova, or p2pool to get going. You need to download Nvidia compatible miners.
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@wrapper said in How To Mine For Beginners??:
I’m exactly saying you have to get a number of badly explained details right. Each one of pool and miner set-ups are different, so we can’t just tell you what they are. Maybe try Supranova, or p2pool to get going. You need to download Nvidia compatible miners.
Ohhh, you’re saying that nsg and sg miner aren’t Nvidia compatible? only AMD? Well, if so that might explain some things. I can’t download anything on the computer I’m using now but i’m guessing p2pool and Supra are miners, I can see p2pool has a downloadable file on github and the posted readme shows it’s used in conjunction with a program called python I’d have to download also, I’ll look into that when I get home.
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@lcr11 p2pool and Supra are mining pools. The best NVidia miner is ccminer for your 1070s. https://github.com/tpruvot/ccminer/releases is the GitHub address and I’d recommend ccminer-x64-2.2.2-cuda9 for you!
For a basic mining rig you just need a wallet with a receiving address; a compatible miner (ccminer); a pool you plan to mine in; and a batch file that will run everything
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@lcr11 said in How To Mine For Beginners??:
Ohhh, you’re saying that nsg and sg miner aren’t Nvidia compatible?
That used to be true, but this is bleeding edge, some version may have added nVidia. Thats why I said check the latest pool instructions :
Keep us updated.Just to clarify as everything you thought was wrong.
p2pool is a distributed pool, you mine to an FTC address. There are on line servers but you can run your own
Here is a server : : http://46.4.0.101:19327/static/
here is a list of other servers : http://p2pool.neoscrypt.de/
here is p2pool instructions for your miner : http://46.4.0.101:19327/static/ -
@narbss I’ve got the wallet from this website downloading and it’s only 3 years behind when I left this morning. I’ll go ahead and download the CCminer when I get back to the house and see if their readme has a walk through, I can’t unzip files on these computers here to check. If CCminer has a batch walk through then I think I should be fine. If not I’ll be back for some more help.
@wrapper I’ll look up the CCminer narbss linked and go from there. I’ll look at the pools posted on the site and decide which one works best between fees and what not. I don’t think at my level, of a 7GPU rig it will matter much. If I can get this rig up and running full tilt I’ll be building a 7-13gpu rig by the new year.
I really do appreciate everyone’s help, as I said I’m mere days into the whole crypto thing. I’m not expecting to get rich it’s simply a hobby. I spend thousands of dollars on other hobbies that literally have zero ROI other than fun. Mining is interesting, completely foreign to me, and is making me learn a completely new skill set which is perfect for a long term commitment to the effort. All of that makes it exciting, fun and frustrating; but It’s the only hobby I’ll have that makes money so I’ll be certain to give back to the community in some way.
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Yes, cool. Don’t forget you can make a receive address before the sync, so you don’t have to wait for that. If your mining you can check the contents of the address on a blockchain explorer : http://explorer.feathercoin.com/chain/Feathercoin
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Does this mean I’m mining?
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@lcr11 yes. You are mining! You are probably well aware of that at this point! It sure feels good when you finally get it going…
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@jimmy24651 Yes, it took awhile for the givemecoins pool to update so I was scared I didn’t get it right. The big problem was I had downloaded a completely different CCminer that didn’t have an exe file so none of the things I was reading made sense.
I managed to run some tests on the 4 cards and I can get up to about 900khs on each card overclocking at 100% power. I saw your post showing over 1,000khs on your 1070 so I’m interested to know your settings. The most stable I could get was +150clock and +800 mem on MSI Afterburner. I undervolted it down to -20% and could manage just over 6 hashes/watt as measured total system from the wall.
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@lcr11 said in How To Mine For Beginners??:
@jimmy24651 Yes, it took awhile for the givemecoins pool to update so I was scared I didn’t get it right. The big problem was I had downloaded a completely different CCminer that didn’t have an exe file so none of the things I was reading made sense.
I managed to run some tests on the 4 cards and I can get up to about 900khs on each card overclocking at 100% power. I saw your post showing over 1,000khs on your 1070 so I’m interested to know your settings. The most stable I could get was +150clock and +800 mem on MSI Afterburner. I undervolted it down to -20% and could manage just over 6 hashes/watt as measured total system from the wall.
It highly depends on which 1070 card you have, I get 1.1mh/s with my Gigabyte GTX g1 Gaming
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@chekaz said in How To Mine For Beginners??:
@lcr11 said in How To Mine For Beginners??:
@jimmy24651 Yes, it took awhile for the givemecoins pool to update so I was scared I didn’t get it right. The big problem was I had downloaded a completely different CCminer that didn’t have an exe file so none of the things I was reading made sense.
I managed to run some tests on the 4 cards and I can get up to about 900khs on each card overclocking at 100% power. I saw your post showing over 1,000khs on your 1070 so I’m interested to know your settings. The most stable I could get was +150clock and +800 mem on MSI Afterburner. I undervolted it down to -20% and could manage just over 6 hashes/watt as measured total system from the wall.
It highly depends on which 1070 card you have, I get 1.1mh/s with my Gigabyte GTX g1 Gaming
I’m starting to find out some of this; I’ve got different cards on the rig, the EVGA ACX 3.0 can’t handle overclocking as well as the Zotac minis and the Founders card runs about 10 degrees hotter than the others. Lesson learned, although you can just get a bad card here and there I’ll be building rigs with like cards to reduce variables. I’m thinking about going all in and building a 13 GPU split miner AMD/Nvidia
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@lcr11 said in How To Mine For Beginners??:
@jimmy24651 Yes, it took awhile for the givemecoins pool to update so I was scared I didn’t get it right. The big problem was I had downloaded a completely different CCminer that didn’t have an exe file so none of the things I was reading made sense.
Well done.
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I must be too old for this stuff!
I am trying to mine with nsgminer
my bat file:
nsgminer -k neoscrypt -g 1 -w 64 -I 15 -o stratum+tcp://ftc-neo.give-me-coins.com:3336 -O tfeller.GPU:1960try to mine from GPU 1080X MSI card.
Any help would be greatly appreciative
Thanks for your time in this matter
tfeller
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@tfeller said in How To Mine For Beginners??:
Hi and welcome to the forum.
Sorry can’t check that without registering, with GMC, what are the instructions? (cut and paste the demo line) and what happens when you run the bat file?
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stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
The Network difficuly has been set to 681483
stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
Accepted “long number” diff 773.423/256,004 olc 0
stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
stratum from pool 0 requested work restarthiding 0 pool from us
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Looks like you are attaching, now I need the instructions you copied / the generic example on the pool site instructions … , to check your user name format is correct etc
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As it is longpolling you could just try removing the stratum as a first test. The pools can autoset that after connection. Try a lower intensity first as well, then build up.
nsgminer -k neoscrypt -g 1 -w 64 -I 8 -o ftc-neo.give-me-coins.com:3336 -O tfeller.GPU:1960
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do you mean my bat file?
nsgminer -k neoscrypt -g 1 -w 64 -I 15 -o stratum+tcp://ftc-neo.give-me-coins.com:3336 -O tfeller.GPU:1960
I have a GTX 1080 gamer x card 8gigs
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No, I mean, the instructions you are following, like here :
http://give-me-coins.com/support/neoscrypt-guide/
where it says attach to ftc-neo.give-me-coins.com:3336 not stratum
