I'm liking how my score is going up, a couple more reds and then a nice flow of greens and i'll make some good BTC with my wimpy miners. Except this streak of reds seems to be following a $/BTC downward trend as well. Could be my fault for buying that whole pack of blue underwear. Sorry guys . Of course I just got a 20port hub and a power brick to molex connector for extra cooling too. Cheers to everyone sticking with bitminter though.  Hopefully loyalty will have its rewards.

I won't speak for the good Doc. But i use this site Vircurex to store my namecoins that come from Bitminter. https://vircurex.com/welcome/index?locale=en  The highest valued altcoin on their radar is the litecoin (lightcoin?) and it's only just over a bit penny per litecoin. It seems to me altcoins made an appearance and were just used to obtain BTC. New ones come and go without ever appearing on the list and they discontinue trading of other alt coins all the time because they just get TOO worthless.

Now I  ONLY mine Bitcoins so i don't know how quickly you can come across altcoins even with high powered rigs. But it just seems it's most worthwhile to mine BTC directly. I'm sure there are tons of opposing opinions and I would love to hear a few. Could always use an excuse to check out a different miner like a Gridseed or DualMiner or otherwise if I'm convinced there's any reason to invest in an altcoin miner.

But all that merchandise and followers of the dogecoin are apparently now trading them in for BTC at 0.00000029BTC per 1 Dogecoin. That doesn't sound profitable no matter how you look at it. In fact name coins, which we get for free just for mining BTC are worth, what is that, 10000 times more than a dogecoin is now? YEESH. Miner beware. If i'm missing something though please inform me, I always love to learn more about virtual currency and I'm just a SMALL time miner. JUST enough to not pay for humble bundles and the occasional electronic toy from certain stores that will accept Bitcoins for payment.

Anyway, that's just my two (bit) cents on the topic of alt coins. Hopefully someone can tell me they mine at 100's of times the rate of BTC and the equipment is such and such cheaper to get started, etc. Any way to make a little more out of a little less.

I just got one of those 20 port USB hubs, which works great btw. Actually has been reducing errors on all my ants and allowing some to OC further. So with my older smaller hubs I got to plug in all my old Block erupters just to add a few more GH/s to my wimpy 110GH/s total. This 3 day block is killing me since i have to wait for 6 blocks to give me a bitcent payout. But every H/s counts with me so even when an ant is starting to go bad i switch it over to BFGminer on a different computer and get it to run whatever it will. As wonderful as the bitminter program is, it just won't let a miner die slowly without constantly restarting it and throwing error codes at me. I had one antminer get down to .07GH/s and it was completely cool to the touch, but it died a day later. All the old 333MH/s miners are still running fine though.

PS- SOMEONE BREAK THIS BLOCK! At this rate I wouldn't be surprised if my name popped up when it gets cracked.

Fixed it. I was making a stupid mistake. I was only putting in my worker name since that's all it was asking for. This last time I reinstalled it I noticed they never ask for a username so i put it in the worker name as the usual "user_worker" and it's going for now. Hopefully the option of "restarting suspect miners" lives up to its name and I can finally stop worrying about its operation. An R-Box as I mentioned before, which has as tendency to get "sick" or "dead" when running on bfgminer.

Check with BTCGuild or slush pool? What about exactly? I've only been to MM and here to deal with miner issues. Not sure why I'm being sent off to different pools...

And you type stratum+tcp:// into the field right next to where it says it's adding it in front anyway?

Bitminter wasn't recieving any hashpower even though i'd set them up in the initial setup wizard. Do i have to wait for 1% of a day to pass before it switches over? Or is it taken out gradually?

Yes

Hi guys, I've just started using multiminer so that i can run an R-Box and have it monitored and reset when it gets sick or dead rather than having to do it manually through bfgminer like i have been. Well I use bitminter and entered all its credentials perfectly into the client but whenever i start mining, Multiminer just signs it into eligius which is something I've never even used and certainly DONT WANT TO. Why won't it just listen to me and mine where I want? Does anyone out there have a fix? I feel like it should be noob stuff (really it SHOULDNT be an issue since I've never entered information for eligius in the 1st place). Thanks for anyone with help.

-John-

I had the same problem. Doc just said the program was fickle about furies. Did you install its driver? the BF1.inf?
If so bfgminer loves to run them, it pops up running before you even do a search for devices, same with the new BFx2 sticks (or bricks more aptly named). But thats what happened on my windows machine, not sure if mac has another workaround. Might wanna hit up the Blue (Red) Fury forum: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=319419.0


Sidenote: Whatcha workin on Doc? What's coming in the next miner? Any new support or features?

Well, what i bought were sapphires, seems every other program calls them what they want to. The ones that do 333MH/s.  I say it's better than an empty usb port, when i've got the amps to spare anyway.

Nope, was on 3.10(thought that was the latest, so does google), now it sees the BFX, mining at 4.2GH/s! which is fine for me, calls my ICA's BES though for whatever reason.

I'm not overclocking it with that command line am I? because I've only got it on passive cooling but in a pretty good flow of the A/C.

Thanks for the help.

NM, that's hot anyways, puttin a fan on it.

ok so i put in "bfgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333 -u < my user> -p -S bfx:all --set bfx:osc6_bits=54"

and got "bfgminer.exe: --set: unrecognized option"


Note: I'm a serious noob to most of this. I'm used to bitminter's GUI based mining program and have mostly overclocked antminers through it up til now. I've exhausted their help and just reading through here before posting this. Other than that I've gotten a Red Fury to work at base speeds by finding its driver but that's it.

Did that and now it doesn't see any devices at all. Ran it with "bfgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333 -u -p -S bfx:all --bxm-bits=54" and it tells me that "--bxm-bits=54" is an invalid option.

Any idea what "FT_GetComPortNumber(0000000000003D84FF0 (0), 120)" error message in bfgminer is telling me to do? I see the device in device manager (running windows 7x64 btw) on COM120. I get that message when i search for all or specifically probe COM120.

Awesome so i did this and got the nano fury working faster, but just went in to bfgminer 3.10  then device manager and changed the oscillator value from 50 to 52, even got it with a (relatively) low error rate, nothing like zero like i've seen though but now the whole thing has given up on me and when i try to run the nanofury i just get the line
"nfy 0: BITFURY_INIT_OLDBUF:GIVING UP AFTER 4 TRIES" but it runs that all night if i let it. ALL my other miners are doing great together on bfgminer 3.10, but i am really stuck here.

That is where all my U1's and even U2's (apart from some @ 2.1 and some others @ 1.9) spend all their time stable. other's can do more with voltage modfying but i haven't a clue what that invloves. With the price those miners are, 2GH/s is a pretty good value and easy to setup.

Let's start by going over the stuff one piece at a time:
- what software are you using? (Win/Mac/RasPI/32/64bit/etc) and which miner (cgminer/bfgminer/etc)
- speed setting can usually be specified on the command line when you start the miner. Some of them also have options permitting you to see the current settings while everything is working. In some cases you can also change them while it's working.
- Mixing devices should be okay (even though you may still hit some USB or power or other limitations)

If for example you want to use bfgminer you could run it with the following parameters:
in which example the speed is set for 50 bits (and a reminder to replace the stuff in <...> brackets)


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Ok, i've seen stuff like this before. It's where i get real stuck. I'm running windows7 and bfgminer 3.10 for anything that doesn't work with bitminter's client.
Where do i see the command line or put this string in? Also can I add a line for the BPM (red fury)next to it? examples would be awesome. Thanks for all the help so far!

I don't know what speed setting i'm using (this is how noob we're going) my cooling is passive because it sits all by itself, sorta in the way of the air-con. It's the file which determines speed settings and what i should put in it which eludes me.

Right now this computer is running Erupters, U1's and U2's, and a Red Fury as well simply because i have my other machine with 100% Ants and this is sorta my tweakin' frankenstein computer. I could run the Ants and Erupters on another piece of software (bitminter) but the Nano Fury is probably gonna have to run alongside the red fury in bfg(which is also passively cooled as there is just one sitting wide out in the open.)

Everything else are antminers that act finicky so i got free replacements for them and this is just me trying not to waste a single H/s even if i can get them to underclock, the Erupters are there to fill in space on the hub. I hear Nano's prefer to play alone so i can go that route if i need to for trouble shooting.

Forgive my nubetude but what file do i change (and how) in order to put in the values for my ice(nano) fury? I'm only gett 1.8GH/s, and a pretty high error value as well, in bfgminer3.10.0.

Some help with control over my red fury would be cool too, it runs OK with the proper driver but on the low end of advertised speed. Remember to answer this question in a nube friendly manner if you're up for it. thank you.

I have finally filled up all my ports with ONLY U1's and U2's and have had a lot of instability and often returns back to the company with U2's vs. U1's. I've had to return 5/13 U2's and not a single one of my 21 U1's.

Since my supplier was so nice as to not to make me ship them back and simply take my word for it, I've got a handful of heatsinks to put on some U1's that don't get as much fan coverage as the others. They almost all run at 2.0 whether they're a 1 or a 2, anything more, apart from a few running 2.1, and i just get huge loads of hardware errors.

Just thought I'd throw my experiences in here.