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Invalid diff in my own pool
I am creating a pool as a pet project and using open-ethereum-pool as reference. I am working at share verification phase right now. But for some miner sends invalid shared. After viewing logs I found ...
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What happens if internet get disconnected while mining ethereum?
Does the mining process starts all over again and I loose all the work my machine has done or does it start from where it get disconnected and do I get the rewards for that?
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Mining pool 0.2 minimal payout
New miner here trying to mine Ethereum on my R9 290 tri-x with a reported hashing rate of 28 MH/s.
So yesterday I was mining solo with ethminer console before I realized that you'd need months and be ...
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Ethereum Solo Mining - Adding additional miners to the rig
I am new to mining and have setup my test mining setup in EC2. I know that this is not profitable but doing to understand how this works.
I have 2 EC2 instances where in the first instance, I am ...
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How to stop cpp-ethereum processes and remove cpp-ethereum and blockchain
Mac OS X, using command line:
How do I stop cpp-ethereum? I installed it last night, and it's been running my processor at 100% ever since. I kill the processes ($ kill < PID >) and it just starts ...
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How can I retrieve ETH that was sent to my MetaMask wallet from coinbase and my Exodus wallet but were never deposited? [closed]
I sent ETH from my coinbase and exodus wallets to my metamask wallet but the coins were not deposited. How can I trace and retrieve the coins?
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How does block beneficiary work? What's the point?
From Gavin Wood's yellow paper:
In general, Ether used to purchase gas that is not refunded is
delivered to the beneficiary address, the address of an account
typically under the control of ...
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Brand new miner on Windows 10, with 1060 GTX 6gb
I am a brand new miner, pretty much know nothing about programming (some C++ classes in school). Was using cryptocompare.com guide to get going, but ethminer.exe keeps crashing at the grabbing DAG ...
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Why write an EVM in bytecode, and not in something like Python or Go?
I know that Ethereum runs in virtual byte code and there's a javascript-like wrapper language called Solidity. This question is about why the developers chose this approach?
What makes it infeasible ...
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Since Ethereum is ASIC resistant, what happens when the GPU mining return is less than electricity bill?
If mining return is less than electricity bill, no miners would like to provide their hash power to support the system, what happens to the system then?
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Noob Question About Pool Mining & Wallets
I'm sure this is a stupid question; but please be gentle, I am still learning the basics.
Some Background:
I have a rig I purchased from a 3rd party that mines ETH using MiningPoolHub.com. It ...
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How to modify the gasLimit of the private block chain on the console
as the title,How to modify the "gasLimit" of the private block chain on the console?
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Is it possible to tell whether an address is mist, mew or parity?
How can I tell if an address is from Mist, MyEthereumWallet or Parity? Is there anyway to know? Are they encoded differently?
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Ubuntu 14.04 building from source problem with CMake & Cuda K80
So I'm trying to get the K80 to work on Ubuntu 14.04 with Cuda instead of the OpenCL buy using https://github.com/Genoil/cpp-ethereum miner. I have followed the instructions for Ubuntu 14.04 and Cuda, ...
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How can one apply and work for the Ethereum Foundation?
I would like to know how one can apply and work for the Ethereum Foundation as a software developer. I tried to look online but could not find the answer.
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Ethereum miner don't start
I want to try to mine ethereum.
Its only a Test if it's working.
I am new to Ethereum. I am only mining Bitcoin.
So I installed the ethereum miner.
And want to mine in the f2pool.
In the help "...
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Possibly corrupted DAG file
I've started mining on Ubuntu 16.04 using AMD-GPU PRO driver and this miner:
https://github.com/ethereum/cpp-ethereum/
Video card is a RX480 with 8GB stock.
I'm getting a lot of bad shares, like 10%...
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MIning Reward Pool vs Solo-mining?
I am about to invest in mining big time and questions regarding mining solo. I'm building a system consisting of 10 units with 168Mh/s of processing power. Is my effort on the pool calculated all ...
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Can we mine BTC on Ethereum Platform?
I am wondering if it is possible to write Solidity code to Mine Bitcoins on Ethereum's distributed computing platform?
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How to set eth (not geth) data directory?
I could find solutions for geth to set the data directory
geth --datadir = ./chaindata
What is the eth alternative for the same?
Does it make a difference in using geth or eth client?
and how to ...
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Payouts from ethermine.org rate
I relatively new to mining in general and I only want to explore what it is like to mine (I'm not really crazy on building rigs or anything but I just want to know the vast ocean of knowledge about ...
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Do mining pool or miners decide on which transaction to be included in the next block?
This question is about mining pools specifically, which is why I don't think it's a duplicate of this question.
I understand that with most Bitcoin mining pools, the mining pool computes the header ...
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Read Write restrictions in private blockchain [duplicate]
How to create admin node in private blockchain?
How to give read write permission in private blockchain?
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Mining solution found
I've just started mining with a gtx 1070, and following a guide on the web I've set everything up, using a pool (nanopool).
Watching the result of the mining program I noticed alread 3 times that I ...
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Transactions not syncing among nodes in private network when volume is high
I have 3 nodes are all of them are mining. I called sendTransaction 150k times at a time on node 1. In the txpool of node 1 I see all 150k in pending but in node 2 and node 3 I can see only 50-100 ...
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Mining investment [closed]
I was wondering if a mining contract is a worthwhile endeavor. I hesitate to call it an "investment" as the principal, the cost of the contract, is lost at the start.
Anyone have any comments or ...
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What is a sealer and what is the difference between Ethhash, NoProof and BasicAuthority sealers?
Default sealer in cpp-ethereum is NoProof:
https://github.com/ethereum/cpp-ethereum/blob/43bae2c78e2a968ef4eb37bec2da4d9b85fa2392/libethcore/ChainOperationParams.h#L73
But I don't understand what is ...
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Pool worker to miner mapping
On mining pools like Suprnova, one connects to a worker they create, with a username and password.
What I'm wondering is, if you're running a miner should you create a different worker for every ...
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C++ library for Ethereum client documentation
I am looking for documentation for C++ Eth client. So it will be really helpful if you could share few useful links to understand how Eth client command works.
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When I try to mine ethereum I get JSON-RPC error
I am new at ethereum mining and I am trying to solo mine. I already installed geth and now I am trying to mine. When I go to ethereum software folder and type ethminer -G, it gives me the following ...
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Can't see GPU when starting with rc.local (Linux)
I'm mining ethereum on my Linux Mint mining rig with the claymore miner. I can manually launch my miner with the command line but if I try to start the miner with /etc/init.d/rc.local then I get the ...
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Convert Eth Key to Geth Key
I have some eth keys that I would like to convert to geth keys. There was a previous post about this, however the solution provided was to use ethkey, but this tool has now been deprecated. Any help ...
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Top Speed of Radeon RX 480 8GB
I'm mining in ethpool with windows 7 (intel i7 @ 2.80GHz 16GB....but that doesnt really matter, right?) and a Radeon RX 480 8GB card. humming along at a steady 24.75 mh/s. haven't done a thing to the ...
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Dwindling Pool Mining Shares Ethpool
anyone notice lower share count over the last cpl days on ethpool? i'm humming along at my blazing 25 mh/s speed (lol) and have seen my share count go from ~22/hr to low teens or even ~10/hr lately. ...
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Stolen ETH on Myetherwallet.com [closed]
I have problem with stolen 205 ETH from myetherwallet.com
Story , in short:
My first login and creating account/wallet, was on Jan 7 2017, when i deposited 205 eth.
ETHs was transferred from my ...
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How can I verify mining progress?
Been at this for 1/2 a day now. How do I know if I'm getting anywhere? It's all very much Greek to me. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Cheers
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Mining-pool for MacOS?
I would like to use a mining-pool like nanopool, but I have a Mac - what alternatives do I have?
Is my understanding right, that whenever I want to be part of a mining-pool I need a miner provided ...
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Mist wallet showing no balance but nanopool showing ether in address
How do I eventually get the ether I have just successfully been mining or paid for by nanopool into a wallet that I can sell for USD? I wish to know why my mist wallet still contains a balance of 0.00 ...
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Invalid shares? using Dualminer through Nanopool
So, i have just started using Dual Miner V8.0 and i have been in email contact with nanopool support and it seems i am mining alot of invalid shares. In my code i am not seeing any notification for an ...
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If we are running a private chain with multiple nodes, as a connected node still do I need to start mining?
I have a Private Ethereum Network. As a node I connected to the network as a peer. When I submit a transaction from my node, it won't fall into mining pool, in case I start mining on my node.
When I ...
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distributed mining in ethereum. is it possible?
is there a way to run mining on different nodes for the same network? say I have a network of 3 nodes and i want that three should run miner.start
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what arguments does the sendTransaction function take?
I have set up my private blockchain using geth and am using web3 to call different methods. I have successfully created new accounts from the web browser and can view all addresses and the balances. ...
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What is ethash shared mode?
I red over ethash source code and saw this code:
func CreatePoW(config *Config) (pow.PoW, error) {
switch {
case config.PowFake:
glog.V(logger.Info).Infof("ethash used in fake mode")
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How many ethereum can I mine with 6 * Radeon RX 480 GDDR5 8GB mining rig? [duplicate]
I planned to create a mining rig with 6 * Radeon RX 480 GDDR5 8GB cards ? I just want to know how many Ethereum I can mine per day if i use it 24hours continuously..
The mining rig is expected to get ...
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How can i confirm transaction in geth from other peer of blockchain?
I have a query , I have create a private blockchain in which one geth node1 is use for transaction taking and other one(node2) is for mining .They are peered with each other and perfectly ...
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Money and ETH upside and downside against hard assets while in the developing stage [closed]
Ethereum: has or will Ethereum back up its software with a hard asset in the future? only if the unthinkable happens!
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How to unlock account in ethereum where Transaction are too higher? [duplicate]
While working on the ethereum , I come out with the issue of out of memory because of multiple transaction execution concurrently . The main reason was , i was unlocking account of that user every ...
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ETH Based GPU Pools After Casper [duplicate]
I've been reading a bit about Casper lately and I've seen that a lot of the miners are upset because they think their GPUs will become useless but there are tons of uses for GPUs besides ...
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ethminer not picking up Radeon R9 RX 480
I hope someone can help.
My system has 3 GPUs, one that sits on the motherboard and two RX 480s that I added for mining purposes.
I've installed the latest AMD drivers (Version Crimson-16.7.1) to ...
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How to change the compiler the mix-ide uses?
I have build the mix-ide from source, is there a way to change the solidity compiler it uses? I have tried to simply replace the solidity folder in the webumbrella directory with a new version but ...
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