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choosing the best of the two pools f2pool vs litecoinpool
by
dvsrk
on 19/02/2018, 21:28:37 UTC
Hello,

I'm pretty new to the crypto mining & my average mining rate for litecoin is appx. 130MH/s. I'm trying to choose the best pool out of the following two & can someone please suggest me the best out of these two & if possible the reason being chosen specific pool.

  • f2pool
  • litecoinpool

Based on my research i have seen the following differences...

f2pool:
 current hashrate is appx. 20TH/s
 offers free 1000 dogie coins for ever 1 LTC mined
 paid based on PPS

litecoinpool:

 current hashrate is appx. 35TH/s
 paid based on PPS


Does the amount paid for PPS varies based on the pools overall hashrate? if that is the case does the litecoinpool pays more than f2pool ?

Appreciate if any further details / suggestions provided on this.

thank you.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
by
dvsrk
on 16/02/2018, 18:30:52 UTC
Can someone suggest me the best pool out of the following?

litecoinpool.org
f2pool.com

does anyone has any insights among these two mining pools?

Thanks

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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
by
dvsrk
on 02/02/2018, 18:56:53 UTC
Hi,

I have ORICO 2.0 30 port USB hub connected with couple of moonlander 2 devices but none of them getting detected when connected to raspberry pi 3.  can someone please help me on this? This works perfectly fine on windows 10 machine.

Do i need to install any additional drivers to make it work on my raspberry pi 3? I have already installed the following as per instructions,

Quote
sudo apt install libjansson-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

thank you.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
by
dvsrk
on 17/01/2018, 19:25:45 UTC
Hi,

I'm currently running the moonlander 2 usb devices connected to PC (Windows 10 OS). I'm planning to switch to raspberry pi 3 to cut down the power consumption, & need few suggestions,

1) What is the best/suggested OS for raspberry pi 3 to better run moonlander 2 devices or to be stable.
2) I'm panning to connect a USB2.0 hub(external powered with each usb port delivering consistent 2A current output) with 20 usb ports (probably connected with 10 moonlander 2 usb devices)
3) Do any of the Operating Systems of raspberry pi 3 has limitations on USB hubs connected to them?

Do anyone of you tried this and anyone of you think switching from PC to raspberry pi 3 is a bad idea?

Thanks

I switched to Pi recently. Running 3 sticks on NOOBS without issues (at the moment 6 days without interruption) ... but i'm real NOOB when it comes to rasp and linux so can't answer you more questions. Very happy I did that. Now entire setup is behind window (I have double windows in my house) so heat nor noise is issue anymore (original fans were really loud sometimes).

I say go for it.


thank you Bitfort for sharing your experience Smiley

I'm planning to go with Radpbian or UbuntuMate as operating system on pi3. Any suggested/recommended OS that can better run moonlander 2 with USB hub attached?

thanks
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
by
dvsrk
on 15/01/2018, 21:22:37 UTC
Hi,

I'm currently running the moonlander 2 usb devices connected to PC (Windows 10 OS). I'm planning to switch to raspberry pi 3 to cut down the power consumption, & need few suggestions,

1) What is the best/suggested OS for raspberry pi 3 to better run moonlander 2 devices or to be stable.
2) I'm panning to connect a USB2.0 hub(external powered with each usb port delivering consistent 2A current output) with 20 usb ports (probably connected with 10 moonlander 2 usb devices)
3) Do any of the Operating Systems of raspberry pi 3 has limitations on USB hubs connected to them?

Do anyone of you tried this and anyone of you think switching from PC to raspberry pi 3 is a bad idea?

Thanks
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
by
dvsrk
on 27/12/2017, 23:35:55 UTC
Can "Moonlader 2" mine any other altcoins efficiently other than litecoin ? thanks
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Board Computer hardware
Re: [Batch 2 Pre-Order] FutureBit Moonlander 2 Official Pre-order Thread
by
dvsrk
on 22/12/2017, 18:56:01 UTC
Hi. I sent a pm to op but maybe not see pm. Can i buy direct from here https://bittawmart.com for Eastern Europe? https://www.bitshopper.de/shop/scrypt-miner/usb-miner-scrypt/moonlander2/ i check here but is no stock

You can buy from wherever you want if they do international shipping, but the point of distributors is to keep cost to end customers low. Keep in mind that there will be more stock end of January if you missed Batch 2 pre-order.

jstefanop,

Just want to check if the batch-2 can be shipped out to distributors ahead of estimated date. So, they can be delivered to the customers sooner?

Appreciate all your hard work on this. Hope you will come up with many powerful versions ahead Smiley

thanks


Unfortunately I can't make things magically faster wish I could. Batch 2 is still on schedule to be shipped out to distributors after January 15th, so most of you will have them in hand end of January/Beginning of Feb.

Appreciate your update. Thank you Smiley
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Re: [Batch 2 Pre-Order] FutureBit Moonlander 2 Official Pre-order Thread
by
dvsrk
on 19/12/2017, 21:43:55 UTC
Hi. I sent a pm to op but maybe not see pm. Can i buy direct from here https://bittawmart.com for Eastern Europe? https://www.bitshopper.de/shop/scrypt-miner/usb-miner-scrypt/moonlander2/ i check here but is no stock

You can buy from wherever you want if they do international shipping, but the point of distributors is to keep cost to end customers low. Keep in mind that there will be more stock end of January if you missed Batch 2 pre-order.

jstefanop,

Just want to check if the batch-2 can be shipped out to distributors ahead of estimated date. So, they can be delivered to the customers sooner?

Appreciate all your hard work on this. Hope you will come up with many powerful versions ahead Smiley

thanks
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
by
dvsrk
on 18/12/2017, 23:16:57 UTC
Hello all,

Can someone suggest if the following USB HUB is a good buy to run multiple moonlander 2 USB miners with its optimum performance? appreciate your quick help on this,

https://www.amazon.com/Sipolar-Bitcoin-Mining-Black-Industrial/dp/B01K4EHLBW/ref=sr_1_5?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1513632237&sr=1-5&keywords=sipolar+USB+2.0+hub

Thank you.

Don't think it's got enough power per port...

"5V/650mA sufficient current per port"


Yep a lack of juice per port

Any good suggestions that are available on Amazon? Thanks.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
by
dvsrk
on 18/12/2017, 21:29:51 UTC
Hello all,

Can someone suggest if the following USB HUB is a good buy to run multiple moonlander 2 USB miners with its optimum performance? appreciate your quick help on this,

https://www.amazon.com/Sipolar-Bitcoin-Mining-Black-Industrial/dp/B01K4EHLBW/ref=sr_1_5?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1513632237&sr=1-5&keywords=sipolar+USB+2.0+hub

Thank you.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
by
dvsrk
on 14/12/2017, 19:57:47 UTC
New driver release is out, sorry for the delay and thanks for being patient. I added some last minute debugging code to better help people with issue and rule out any hardware problems. The compile binaries include the big restart fix, so these should technically hash forever without needing any manual restarts (as long as the power supply is semi-stable and you haven't really screwed up the voltages).

Let me know if the binaries run fine on respective systems...might have mis-compiled something while trying to keep track of every architecture  Undecided

https://github.com/jstefanop/bfgminer/releases/tag/bfgminer-5.4.2-futurebit2-beta2

Perfect, It was doing awesome on windows-10 x86 ....  Cheesy

https://imgur.com/a/Pdzek
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
by
dvsrk
on 12/12/2017, 22:54:00 UTC
I have got my moonlander 2 & facing couple of issues,

I have connected the USB device to my laptop with clock set to the lowest frequency ("--set MLD:clock=384"). I'm using the low frequency setting until i get my new USB HUB. The issue is the hashing stops/halts after running for few minutes. Below are the two cases i have observed.

case 1:
hashing stops/halts when it encounters "stratum connection to pool 0 interrupted". I have waited for almost 30 minutes after this last message in my screenshot & it never progressed.
https://imgur.com/rpn2Fre

Please help me if I'm missing anything here or to tweak anything to make it run continuously without restarts for every few minutes.

Thank you.  


I'm getting this exact same problem on my moonlander2. After mining for a few hours, the stratum connection is interrupted and the GPU hangs.  Once I manually reset it, it works fine.


Does anyone know for a way to auto-restart bfgminer if this specifically happens? Or know why this is happening?  I'm running Windows 7.

I hope this isn't the only solution:

Anyone have a good solution on Windows to just kill bfgminer and restart from bat file every 30 or 60 minutes?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15602687/batch-file-restart-program-after-every-20-minutes





I'm able to address this problem by tweaking USB port power options. Follow these steps & it should fix your's,

1) Plug in moonlander 2 to the computer.
2) Open device manager on windows machine.
3) Under USB controllers identify the USB port to which the moonlander 2 is connected to.
4) Right click that particular USB port & select the properties.
5) Under the last tab 'Power Management', un-check the option of "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power".
6) If possible restart the computer & try again. It works for me.

Hope this helps...Happy Mining Smiley
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
by
dvsrk
on 12/12/2017, 19:54:56 UTC
I have defender and the antivirus turned off, any other possibilities?

Disabling the antivirus or turning on silent mode may help for sometime but if you restart the system it may delete it again. There are some dedicated scans which check for PUPs(Potentially Unwanted Programs) & delete them no matter if your antivirus is turned OFF. I'm using Avast antivirus which caused me a lot of pain to fix this. There are multiple scans i have to configure to exclude the folder & bfgminer.exe from scans.

The best way to resolve this is to add exclusion rules. I would suggest check the documentation of bit defender in configuring the exclusion rules. Hope this helps Smiley
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
by
dvsrk
on 12/12/2017, 19:32:29 UTC
I've got one Moonlander 2 running on Windows 10 that had been awesome for a few days and then this morning i saw it was stuck on "stratum detected a new block" which has happened before but a simple restart worked. https://imgur.com/a/kl6FE

Tried that this morning but now when I click on the start moonlander batch, it opens for a flash then quits or says "bfgminer.exe is not recognized as an internal or external command"

I have restarted my computer, deleted and redownloaded all drivers and programs but the same situation. Anyone know how to fix it?

Edited to include the screenshot*

It's for sure some anti virus program or windows defender has deleted the "bfgminer.exe" from its default location. Add exclusion rules in your anti-virus program to ignore this application from scans.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
by
dvsrk
on 12/12/2017, 07:29:01 UTC
I have got my moonlander 2 & facing couple of issues,

I have connected the USB device to my laptop with clock set to the lowest frequency ("--set MLD:clock=384"). I'm using the low frequency setting until i get my new USB HUB. The issue is the hashing stops/halts after running for few minutes. Below are the two cases i have observed.

case 1:
hashing stops/halts when it encounters "stratum connection to pool 0 interrupted". I have waited for almost 30 minutes after this last message in my screenshot & it never progressed.
https://imgur.com/rpn2Fre

case 2:

hashing stops/halts when it encounters "pool 0 stratum share submission failure...pool o http://litecoinpool.org:3333 not responding". I have waited for almost 30 minutes after this last message in my screenshot & it never progressed.

https://imgur.com/uNVoNwj


Below is the summary report generated after Quit.

https://imgur.com/PXHiiux


Please help me if I'm missing anything here or to tweak anything to make it run continuously without restarts for every few minutes.

Thank you.  
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
by
dvsrk
on 11/12/2017, 21:37:53 UTC
Alright, I've been playing with this thing all day. I've targeted it down this issue.

Code:
[2017-12-10 16:15:41] Network difficulty changed to 20.4k (146.3G)

Any time this happens the miner stops running. You can hear the fan wind up a little as if there's an increase in juice that was being used for the processor. Now the yellow light just flashes every few seconds. Once at this point, unless I restart everything, it won't work on any changes. I'm at a loss... please help.


Honestly looking for some help please.

Whenever network diff changes  new work gets sent to the ASIC and its restarted, sounds like your USB port/Hub is not providing enough power. When new work is sent to the ASIC is when it has the highest chance to get stalled because of power transients the hub can't keep up with.

Beta testing of my new update that resolve this issue and similar issues that cause the sticks to go dead and need restarting is going well and should have a binary release tomorrow. This should also keep sticks alive from poorly tuned/unstable voltages etc.

Pic below is a bunch of sticks running the new driver that I have purposely undervolted so they are unstable....driver has kept them alive and hashing for over a day now with no manual restarts needed!

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4730/27199602779_08298b6e0b_c.jpg

changes are already pushed to my GitHub for anyone that dosent want to wait and can compile on their own.

Hi,
do you have this for windows. can anyone share instructions to apply this on windows machine?
thanks