Hi there,
I remember the time when the Bitcoin client had a bult in miner (in the GUI) version which was removed to being obsolete from the client in 2011.
Now there are many new crypto currencies emerging - some of them still have a very low difficulty and one could at least try to cpu mine either solo or pool.
Now here is a question I posted several times in different threads for specific currencies and never really got a satisfying answer.
Realizing that it actually is a general question about cpu mining I dare to open another thread.
So here it is: some clients (old Bitcoin QT and some of the new cryptos) have this built in mining feature. As far as I know in order to start mining you need to open the debug window, then the console and enter: setgenerate true -1
If you want to check whether this was successful you enter: getmininginfo
You will get a response like this:
"blocks" : 4105,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 0.32427337,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"hashespersec" : 3644,
"networkhashps" : 11395692,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
(As you can see the entry "generate" is set to true, meaning you're mining).
Now in the GUI there is a mining window and there you have a button which says start mining (once you press it it switches to stop mining).
a) Is using the comand "setgenerate true -1" equal to pressing the start mining button OR do you first need to enter the command and then press the start mining button
b) SOLOMING: Is this everything you need to do if you want to solo mine OR do you have enter something in the entry fields on the mining window:
Solomining OR Poolmining
Threads: 1 (default)
Scantime: 1 (default)
Debug logging: on/off (default = off)
Server: (default=empty)
Port: (default = empty)
Username: (default = empty)
Password: (default = empty)
c) if you want to solomine do you need to do ANYTHING else? Do you need an additional mining program? Do you need to change some settings somewhere? and so on...
d) What do you need to do if you want to poolmine?
Since I strongly believe that a lot of first time miners will have the same or similar questions I would really appreciate some clear instructions on how to use this feature.
Thank you for your time and your attention!