Questions tagged [ethminer]
Questions dealing with the ethminer client.
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Ropsten testnet is under kind of attack? What can we do?
For the last approximately 24 hours, Ropsten testnet is under an attack in my opinion. The gas limit is raised to 200m and the attacker was proposing blocks with more than 4,000 internal txs ...
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ethminer Failed to submit hashrate
I keep getting an error: ethminer Failed to submit hashrate :(
I am very new to this whole mining thing, and just want to learn more.
I am using:
Geth
Version: 1.5.0-unstable
ethminer version 1.2.7
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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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How to do Ethash CPU mine using ethminer?
I have a Private Ethereum Network. I just want to do Ethash CPU mining using ethminer. I know that to have a smaller foot-print it is recommended to use GPU or openCL but for private networks, I only ...
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Sync blockchain while mining?
I'm new to ether mining.
Do I have to sync with the blockchain while mining?
Currently I'm using ethminer for solo mining with GPU and geth to sync with blockchain.
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How can I maximize the probability that my ETH nodes stay synchronized with mainnet for as long as possible?
I run three full ETH nodes, one on my local, home network, and two in the cloud. All three make use of geth.
My "local" node, is always in sync with mainnet, i.e. always showing the same last block ...
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Mining stops after generating DAG for epoch
I first initiate the node using the genesis file with the command:
>geth init genesis.json
Then i start the blockchain network using the following command:
>geth --identity "node1" --rpc --...
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**Updated** Ethminer - no such file or Directory error after building cpp-ethereum on Ubuntu 14.04
I am new to all of this, although I do some programming on Windows and the web.
I have a small rig I want to use for mining ethereum. It is a dell inspiron 560.
It has a new Nvidia GE-Force 610 ...
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ethminer not recognizing multiple GPUs (AMD Radeon / Ubuntu)
I have 5 GPUs on my setup currently:
$ sudo aticonfig --list-adapters
* 0. 01:00.0 AMD Radeon (TM) R7 370 Series
1. 02:00.0 AMD Radeon (TM) R7 370 Series
2. 03:00.0 AMD Radeon (TM) R7 370 ...
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Would a fork require miners to update software it they mine on a pool?
Would a miner have to update their mining software, such as ethminer, to go on a forked version of the chain? Or is it up to the pool to decide which chain to mine?
Also, if a miner is mining on a ...
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Once I have created my new Crypto Currency, how may miners mine for my currency?
Will the miners mine my new currency by using the same miner as Ethereum?
And will they need to configure their miner to specially mine my currency? I would be grateful if someone can explain me how ...
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GPU can't allocate the DAG in a single chunk. Bailing?
I decided to do solo GPU mining and set everything up (probably). Synced the blockchain, ran the Genoil 1.0.7 beta of ethminer on Windows. But I keep receiving this error:
Creating one big buffer for ...
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is it possible to run pending transactions on local node to see the outcome?
I am looking for a way to execute current pending transactions on local node, to see their outcome and log events, without really mine it.
it is some kind of pre-simulation, to see what is going to ...
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How do I know that I am mining?
Is that everything is ok with this result?
When will I receive my first coin? And why can't I see my balance, it shows (it started about 8 hours from first) When I type eth.getBalance(eth.coinbase) ...
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Ethminer "No GPU device with sufficient memory was found"
I have two Sapphire Nitro+ RX 480 OC cards. When only one is inserted into a PCIe slot, I am able to mine ETH with no issues. When both are inserted into PCIe slots, my terminal returns:
"No GPU ...
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ethminer never seems to mine - repeated DAG generation
I've installed geth and ethminer to get started mining. I've got an Ubuntu 16.04 box with a couple Nvidia TitanX cards. When I fire up ethminer like so...
ethminer --no-precompute -G --opencl-...
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What do miners get paid for mining on the Ropsten testnet?
I am just wondering that how Miners got paid in Ropsten test net or other test nets?
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How to calculate the average hashrate when ethminer reports hashrates that seem variable?
The Ethereum miner ethminer sometimes produces variable hashrates like:
miner 02:16:07.510|ethminer Mining on PoWhash #ad8608a0… : 20971520 H/s = 4194304 hashes / 0.2 s
miner 02:16:07.711|ethminer ...
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Geth private testnet: what's wrong?
I have downloaded geth and ethminer, and started running a testnet with 2 nodes - 1 mining and the other not. Here's my (noobish) problems:
If I submit a txn to my non-mining node, it won't get ...
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How to mine ethereum on Linux
I am new to mining ethereum and have been trying to set it up for the last few hours. I have created a coinbase wallet and have followed the advice given in this question. The accepted answer has me ...
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Setting Up Geth / Ethminer - Am I Doing This Right?
My apologies if this has been covered elsewhere, but I went through several different guides and sources, both "official" documentation, and whatnot, about how to get started for mining. I ...
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Account Balance 0 after 1 full day of GPU mining - GTX 770 - go-ethereum and ethminer [duplicate]
I am a little bit new in Ethereum Mining but I took a couple of days to read, study and understand the concept. I make my system (a clean one) Linux Ubuntu 14.04 ONLY for Ethereum Mining. I installed ...
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Will I lose all mining time if I restart my miner?
An example about solo mining with my own pool:
When I stop the miner after about 3 days and start it again, is the mining time lost to find a block?
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Getting weird OpenCL error messages and a 0 H/s benchmark result when mining. What could be wrong?
I am trying to mine Ethereum using geth and ethminer using a single AMD Radeon HD 7850 with 2 GB of memory on Ubuntu 16.04. I installed the latest recommended driver, ran geth --maxpeers 0 (to avoid ...
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Should ethminer continue mining the same PoWhash even after a solution is found?
Is it normal for ethminer to find a solution to a problem, and even after submitting it upstream, it still continues to hash the same problem?
Here is an example: (Genoil's ethminer in stratum mode)
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what does verifying smart contract execution means?
I know that when somebody wants to run a function in a contract, she sends a transaction; and then a miner needs to run that function based on the function input received from the user, adding the ...
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How can I get MHash value when ethminer doesn't provide one?
In order to set up the ethminer I need the MHash value. I'm testing CPU, so I ran:
ethminer -M
and I got a weird output:
Trial 1... 0
Trial 2... 0
Trial 3... 0
Trial 4... DAG 17:33:59.896|miner0 ...
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Is there a way to "clean up" the ethminer installation (ethminer after crashes)?
I'm NOT running Geth or any other wallet on the miners. I have dedicated systems for mining running Ubuntu 15.04, 64 bit desktop with ethminer compiled from cpp-ethereum. Motherboards/Processors range ...
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How can i see the balance of my geth wallet?
I am new to eth mining and i have some problem finding my balance.
I know that if you mine via pool you dont have to download the blockchain.
So, i downloaded geth, i made a new account and i am ...
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After a miner validated a block where do they broadcast it?
For reference: Ethereum Mining - Number 5
Where does the certificate for the newly created block get broadcasted, so the nodes can verify it? As it states the new unconfirmed transactions first get ...
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Starting ethpool / ethermine using ethminer on ubuntu
I am trying the below and they don't work for me :
ethminer --farm-recheck 200 -G -F eu1.ethermine.org:4444/0x<Your_Ethereum_Address>.<RigName>
ethminer --farm-recheck 200 -G -F eu1....
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None of the Geth commands are working
I can not get geth commands to work. I read a lot of information that says use "this" command for "this". Such as --upgradedb or --removedb. These are not working. They reason im trying these ...
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Ethminer Segmentation Fault
I'm having problems with ethminer on my system. Software works completely fine except the situation when I'm trying to run ethminer over SSH and I'm not "physically" logged in on that particular ...
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Cannot mine on Ubuntu 14.04
I've been trying to start mining on an Ubuntu 14.04 machine for two days now but I just can't make it work; there are no error messages or anything but the behaviour is very weird:
I've tried mining ...
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ethminer || Segmentation fault: 11 [duplicate]
I recently updated cpp-ethereum. I am now on ethminer version 1.2.3
when I start it to mine with ethminer --opencl-device 1 I get the folowing output.
Getting work package...
Segmentation fault: 11
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GPU gave 3 Eth in 3 weeks, then added another GPU and no ETH after 1.5 weeks?
I got the first 3 Eth in 3 weeks and then I decided to add another card (RX480s).
I stopped the mining (CTRL - C)
Then stopped geth node (CTRL - C)
Shutdown PC and installed extra GPU.
Ran geth test ...
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Etherminer has stopped working
ethminer.exe -G -F
poolurl/mywallet
it stops working at Grabbing DAG for #deb.
Mining is impossible...
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DwarfPool mining: Blockchain-syncing and firewall settings
Some questions related to this DwarfPool (ETH) mining command:
ethminer -F http://eth-eu.dwarfpool.com/0xb...
Is it correct that...
ethminer does not download the blockchain, it only creates DAG ...
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Why does ethminer only show 3GB on my Sapphire R7 370 4GB?
Ethminer found my Sapphire R7 370 Nitro 4GB but only shows 3221225472 bytes of memory.
My r7 had 4GB of memory.
I would like to konw why my Sapphire R7 370 4GB only use 3GB of gpu memory.
I am ...
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mining requires access to the entire blockchain?
I am reading the white paper and confused by two sentences bellow:
In the Section of Mining Centralization:
... miners are required to fetch random data from the state, compute some randomly ...
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Running Ethminer on a private Ethereum network
I'm trying to carry out some tests on Ethminer and was trying to run benchmarks on it before it starting returning a hashrate of 0, from what I've been able to tell this is becasuse the GPU I'm using ...
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How do I get Ethminer to work again?
THE PROBLEM I AM TRYING TO RESOLVE: ethminer.exe stops working when I execute the bat file below. It initially worked fine for about two weeks and then it stopped working. I have no idea why.
I have ...
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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 attach ethminer to parity node
I have accomplish to add a parity node to the private network with the help of this valuable guide: https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/a/13035/4575
Now I would like to attach ethminer to my parity ...
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Ethminer pool mining success log
What do the ethminer logs look like when you have successfully mined something as part of a pool. Say on ethermine.org?
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How do I set my Ethminer adress?
How do I set the address that mining rewards are sent? This means that ethminer will send mining rewards to that a address.
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Ethereum Wallet not mining
I installed latest Ethereum Wallent and I connected on test network and I clicked on Start Mining (Testnet only), but nothing is happening. I still have 0 ETH in my account.
I'm not sure if it's bad ...
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Prevent other mining softwares to mine my public forked Ethereum chain
I forked an Ethereum chain and put it as public, but I only want my own software/client to be able to mine. Other miners using ethminer, geth, etc, cannot mine and profit from my chain (At least not ...
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Object is not JSON-Valid: Database Error
Having a difficult time with mininig for Eth. GPU does not have enough RAM, so that's out of the picture, but it's fine. I do this for fun and learning...
When I mine with CPU, it does a few hashes, ...
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Ethminer from LAN
Is it possible to run ethminer from a different pc in my LAN than the one running my Parity ETH client?
I tried with -F http://private.ip:8545 but it seems to be not reacheable.
Thanks!
PS: I'm ...
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