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Re: How to Install BFG Miner on your new Raspberry Pi - A Step by Step Guide
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village.idiot
on 06/03/2014, 12:33:04 UTC
I'm still using bfgminer-3.2.1 and it's working just fine.
Not producing much at 30Gh/s, but still running.
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Re: campbx customers service is AWFUL
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village.idiot
on 30/01/2014, 22:39:34 UTC
One time I got an excuse that they were running five days behind, when I had been waiting for my ticket to be handled for WEEKS!
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Re: campbx customers service is AWFUL
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village.idiot
on 30/01/2014, 22:21:15 UTC
WARNING

My most recent experience (and will be the last) with Camp-Not-To-Be-Trusted is, after selling a Bitcoin, I requested an ACH transfer to my bank account.  This is my usual routine and always happens within 3 days. A few days later when I was checking on it, I found a message had been attached to the request that stated "Note: Request will be processed on Wed due to ACH system upgrades."  I had put in the request before Wednesday last week.  The transfer still didn't get done Wednesday of this week.  I just converted as much as I could of my USD back to Bitcoin and fortunately was able to transfer it out of CampBlackHole.

I am absolutely done with these clowns! Angry
I think they're operating in the red and having to handle finances like a Ponzi scheme.  It looks like they depend on new deposits to cover existing withdrawal requests.

I strongly suggest that you do not fund their business.
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Re: campbx customers service is AWFUL
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village.idiot
on 14/01/2014, 23:58:07 UTC
So I tried coinmkt this week.

notice I said THIS week.

mailed a money order monday the sixth, saw it credited tonight. 7 days flat.

Excellent.

I was hoping for more prompt service but that rocks. On the other hand, they are a small exchange still.

Will be interesting to see how they handle growth.

You guys reading this post should facilitate that.

Their system just seems more thought out. Example: CampBX has you write all over the money order, then they destroy it if its not done perfectly (I guess). CoinMKT asks you to include a separate piece of paper, since the government is anal about the money orders they let exchanges accept.

Also, as a peercoin supporter, I love having the option to also spend my fiat on alts.

I'm registered with CoinMKT.  They don't have ACH yet, so I'm just waiting.
I sent them an email about it and got a response 20 hours later.
Not as fast as we would like but at least I got a response to a support question.
Beats the hell out of CampBX
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Re: campbx customers service is AWFUL
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village.idiot
on 11/01/2014, 01:07:22 UTC
I have been using campbx since November 2013. I have never sent in money order or checks, only bitcoins and ACH withdrawals. I must say that they have been almost punctual, two to three days when I withdraw fiat by ACH withdrawal. I will continue to use campbx, just not money orders or checks.
And I had the same experience since the beginning of September until 1 bitcoin wasn't retrieved by them.  I watched the value of the coin in limbo go above $1000 and couldn't sell it.
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Re: campbx customers service is AWFUL
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village.idiot
on 10/01/2014, 19:28:44 UTC
This is just to post that CampBX did finally retrieve my bitcoin today.
I want to say thank you to them for doing so, but it's hard to after not getting any response on my support ticket until I PMed someone on this forum that appears to be associated with CampBX.
And then they just blamed the problem on me!  I believe it was faulty programming in their system.
Then after waiting more than the requested two weeks with nothing happening, I finally PMed again.
Then I got an email saying that they were running five days behind schedule.  Oh, well that explains why I'd been waiting a month at that point!
I've been waiting patiently and the five days must have past now.  Apparently, they are not using the Gregorian calendar.

As long as nothing goes wrong, their exchange works okay.
But I'd rather use an exchange that has actual customer support.
Good luck to anyone that uses CampBX.
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Re: campbx customers service is AWFUL
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village.idiot
on 11/12/2013, 02:35:22 UTC
I've been very lucky so far using ACH withdrawals.
They've only taken two or three days since the first one which took a week or so.
But they do warn about that initial delay.
Tomorrow will be two weeks since they said it would take one to two weeks to retrieve my bitcoin.
We'll see how that goes.

Hey not.you,
How did they come to be holding your bitcoin hostage?

edit: never mind.  just saw the other thread
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Re: Alternatives to CampBX.com; Need US friendly bitcoin exchange
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village.idiot
on 05/12/2013, 16:26:11 UTC
Caution with coinmkt.com there are some pretty bad reviews about that site when it comes to trying to withdraw funds whether USD or btc
Okay, that one's off my list.

Thanks
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Re: Alternatives to CampBX.com; Need US friendly bitcoin exchange
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village.idiot
on 04/12/2013, 20:36:26 UTC
I wouldn't call them good solutions, because of lack of volume, but coinmkt.com is based in the US. I may try to use Ripple to deposit and withdraw with Bitstamp.net, but I'm not quite sure how great an idea that is yet.

There's also a Canadian exchange vaultofsatoshi.com. I think that is also suffering from low volume.

I did notice that campbx was extremely low volume yesterday (picking up today), probably due to the problems from Monday.
Yeah, It's kind of hard to trade on a site when you can't log in.  Grin

Thanks for the leads
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Re: Alternatives to CampBX.com; Need US friendly bitcoin exchange
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village.idiot
on 04/12/2013, 20:16:30 UTC
I am also interested in a good exchange for bitcoin & USD.
Wish I could move USD from Gox.  Miss those days.
Bitfloor was good.  Twice.  Except for trying to get your money out after he closed the shop.
CampBX seems good until something goes wrong.  Then it's difficult to get support and it's automatically your fault!
Someone please point us to a better solution.
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Re: campbx customers service is AWFUL
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village.idiot
on 04/12/2013, 20:05:24 UTC
Just discovered that my ticket with CampBX was updated Nov 27 (at least, that's the date is shows).
They're blaming me for using an old bitcoin address.  I always click their button to generate an address at the time I want to make the deposit.
I am told it will take up to two weeks to recover my bitcoin.  Okay, I can survive two more weeks.
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Re: campbx customers service is AWFUL
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village.idiot
on 03/12/2013, 15:16:42 UTC
I e-mailed them back asking what the minimum for a deposit was, and was told that they accept any amount.

I'm honestly not sure if they even know what they accept.

If you use campbx, use delivery confirmation for sure-- or they will lose your money order and claim they've never lost a money order.
I have only deposited bitcoins and withdrawn USD using ACH.
Been working fine with the exception of one bitcoin in limbo and zero customer support.  Angry
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Re: campbx customers service is AWFUL
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village.idiot
on 03/12/2013, 03:59:05 UTC
They have been holding my BTC hostage for a full two weeks now.  Almost a full week after I opened a support ticket they said they would get around to getting my BTC back for me in a week or two and then they closed my support ticket.  I have some hope I will get it back without having to get one of my lawyer friends to start writing letters but these guys are just terrible.  They really need to let everyone get their funds out and then close up shop and go away.
Maybe we need to get a list of CampBX victims for your lawyer friend to work with
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Re: campbx customers service is AWFUL
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village.idiot
on 03/12/2013, 03:37:20 UTC
Is CampBX down today? I can't even log in to the site.

Previously the site said they would begin accepting ACH transfers today, wassup with that?

'Verification' is supposed to take 5 business days ... today is day #7 with no response.
Maybe we should take a hint
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Re: campbx customers service is AWFUL
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village.idiot
on 03/12/2013, 02:43:48 UTC
I've never gotten a response from CampBX support either. Very poor customer service.
Well, while I have a bitcoin loose in the chain, that doesn't give me a warm & fuzzy.
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Re: campbx customer service is AWFUL
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village.idiot
on 03/12/2013, 02:23:31 UTC
I'm having a slightly different experience with them.
I sent a bitcoin to my CampBX account using a fresh bitcoin address which they generated.  (I've successfully sent bitcoins to them before and since)
It didn't show up on my account.  Sad
I created a ticket using their system to get it resolved.  I updated the ticket twice as I found info in my wallet and the blockchain about the transaction.
Now, two weeks later, I have not received any support at all.  Not one communication.  Angry
What does it take to get customer support?!  Huh
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Re: BFGMiner 3.3.0: modular ASIC/FPGA, GBT, Strtm, RPC, Lnx/OpnWrt/PPA/W64, BE Blade
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village.idiot
on 21/10/2013, 13:11:18 UTC
Trying this again since I never got a response...

I'm running bfgminer on a Pi.
Thanks to the help of DrGuns4Hands, it can boot up and run unassisted.
However, when the pool was experiencing the recent DDoS attacks,
I heard the fan slow down for a long period but couldn't see the fault messages that would have been displayed if I had opened a terminal and started bfgminer manually.
So, how do I automatically start it with the output displayed or,
even better, how do I see the output messages using SSH?

I know this is really simple for you guys.  A little help, please.


hang in there bud. im still working out some bugs in a setup for ya. sorry its taken so long
Not a problem.  It's not keeping me from mining.
I appreciate the help you've already been.
I've tried messing with a few things with screen, bfgminerstart.sh and rc.local but haven't found what I should be doing.
I thought what I wanted would be easy for a linux person.
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Re: BFGMiner 3.3.0: modular ASIC/FPGA, GBT, Strtm, RPC, Lnx/OpnWrt/PPA/W64, BE Blade
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village.idiot
on 17/10/2013, 02:34:21 UTC
I tried minepeon and never could get it to work, even with mineforeman's help.
Don't know what could be different about my Pi.  Other people have no problem with peon.
Bfgminer is working fine.  I just want it to start automatically and be able to see the messages.
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Re: BFGMiner 3.3.0: modular ASIC/FPGA, GBT, Strtm, RPC, Lnx/OpnWrt/PPA/W64, BE Blade
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village.idiot
on 17/10/2013, 01:25:08 UTC
Don't understand the #!/bin/bash

So I did a few web searches on 'linux startup batch' and thought maybe you were referring to .bashrc.
I was using /etc/rc.local for the autostart before.

I added your command line to the end of the .bashrc file but it doesn't start mining.
Didn't work in the rc.local file either.
Also when I SSH in and try screen -r bfgminer
I get
-bash: -screen: command not found

So, what am I doing wrong?

Not .bashrc , copy the stuff people posted above into a text file and name it something like:
bfgminerstart.sh
Then, chmod 777 bfgminerstart.sh to make it executable.
Then you can run the script with ./bfgminerstart.sh

Also it looks like you're going to have to install screen for your linux distro with that error msg.

Installed screen and created the .sh file.  Thanks for explaining that.
It kept telling me there was no directory or file by that name until I removed the part about the log file.
Now it doesn't give me an error but doesn't start mining either.
Try to resume the screen and there is no screen to be resumed.
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Re: BFGMiner 3.3.0: modular ASIC/FPGA, GBT, Strtm, RPC, Lnx/OpnWrt/PPA/W64, BE Blade
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village.idiot
on 16/10/2013, 23:36:58 UTC
Don't understand the #!/bin/bash

So I did a few web searches on 'linux startup batch' and thought maybe you were referring to .bashrc.
I was using /etc/rc.local for the autostart before.

I added your command line to the end of the .bashrc file but it doesn't start mining.
Didn't work in the rc.local file either.
Also when I SSH in and try screen -r bfgminer
I get
-bash: -screen: command not found

So, what am I doing wrong?