Quote from: Jothand on December 17, 2013, 02:08:05 AM

Quote from: manobra on December 16, 2013, 06:32:11 PM

Hi,

I work in a Call Center as the TI admin.

These machines stay turned on from 23h to 8am just with screen saver. So I´d like to let them mining during this time.

As the computers r not very good to fight against ASICs miners to get Bitcoins, I have some questions:

1) I think that should be better work with script coins. Am i right?

2) If so, what coin (in your opinion) I should start mining?

3) And what is the best software do mining the coin you suggested? (cpuminer, bfgminer, cgminer, etc...)

4) I am working in a linux to be the pool server (P2Pool). Do you suggest another? (Windows / Linux)

I´m not english speaker, so I have some dificulties to understand ALL the details about cryptocurrency, but I am studying and count on you to help!

Thanks in advance!

Best regards!

Caio

Hi Manobra,

Since the 93 computers do not have good graphics cards you will need to mine with the CPU. Use cpuminer for that. Also, you should set up one of the computers as a stratum mining proxy. Find a scrypt altcoin pool to join and set up a unique username and password for each miner, this will take a while since you have so many computers. Then point your proxy at the pool and point your miners at your stratum proxy. Even if the version of cpuminer you use supports stratum I think it's still a good idea to run your own stratum proxy. This allows you the flexibility of changing pools quickly. Instead of changing each individual miner, you can just point your proxy to the new pool.

You may also want to check with the pool admin first and make sure they allow that many workers. Some pools may suspect you of running a botnet. I use wemineltc.com and I believe they allow up to 100 but will allow more if you put in a request.

I think you should stay away from mining any sha256 coins and stick with scrypt but that's just my opinion. I suggest trying a few different coins and stick with what you like.

Noted! Thank you very much! This is the "way" I was looking for....

.... Scrypt + cpuminer + (join a pool) or (make my own pool) + (try these coins: Quark, Memory, etc...)

Regarding joining a pool and have to contact them in order to let my 100 worlers, what about my own pool?

I think I misunderstood the issue: "pool server"...

I´ve downloaded P2Pool (and many others), tried to configure ... I made cgminer to connect to it, but no hashrate (0.0Kh/s).

Now you said: "make my own proxy server" and after "will be easy to change from pool" that lead me to think that I can´t have my "own private pool", I can only have a "proxy" to centralize the miners and point it to a pool.

Could you please just try to clarify me this point?

Thanks again!!

I´m almost there!! (I think!!)