Questions tagged [mining-pools]
mining pools are a way for miners to pool their resources together and share their hashing power while splitting the reward equally according to the amount of shares they contributed to solving a block.
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When trying to connect to a pool it says ethminer.exe is written wrong or wasn't found
So I started 2 days ago with farming eth and I wanted to join a pool. So I searched up a good pool, for me I chose Nanopool and looked at the tutorials on how to connect.
They say type this into your ...
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Pending Balance Doesn't Payout to Miner
I was mining on my own pool with open-ethereum-pool.
Now I had mined and I have Pending Balance on my account there.
How can I payout it? When I make ./build/bin/open-ethereum-pool payout.json which ...
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Mining own Pool - Error reading from socket
When I will mine on own pool, I get this Error.
First, my Claymore says 5-15 Shared found, like spamming this and than claymore says gpu 0 failed
The Server says that:
Error reading from socket: ...
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Ethereum Mining Hashrates fluctuate wildly
Hi, I've just set up a new rig and I'm having very variable hash rates, which I don't think are normal?
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* GIGABYTE GA-B250M-DS3H Motherboard
* DUAL Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB x2
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ETH vs ETC on Dwarfpool and Poloniex?
Noob miner here,
Does anyone mining on Dwarfpool know if they have updated to the forked code (ETH), or are we still mining Ethereum classic (ETC)? I currently use Poloniex as my intermediary wallet ...
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Add Miners in open-ethereum-pool
I am using open-ethereum-pool for creating the ethereum mining pool over an private ethereum network . but it always give me no. of miners in pool are 0 . How do i add miners in the pool , I do not ...
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mining pool rewards [duplicate]
I don't intend to apply for the mining pool reward activity, which requires USDT 30000. The activity period is 15 days, and the reward is 5 ETH. Can I use USDT, from which I withdraw profit each day, ...
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What ports do I need to open when setting up a mining pool
I am setting up a pool as a VM on my home computer using the instructions provided by https://github.com/sammy007/open-ethereum-pool/
I have followed the instructions and managed to get a test miner ...
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Hey! My USDT was withdrawn from my Trust Wallet without my authorizing it. I did a test on Crypto.com Wallet, same thing my USDT was withdrawn [closed]
Looks like another contract has appeared.
Transaction Hash:
https://bscscan.com/tx/0x5ca358080d6c762174a296998efef393d81fbcfa7f4421febe0cac3e197483df
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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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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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Share difficulty and hashrate
Can anybody explain relations or formulas between share difficulty, target and hashrate?
Thank you.
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Transactions not being mined on Quorum QBFT Chain
I am deploying the smart contract on Quorum QBFT Chain using Nethereum with running 5 Nodes,but transaction being not mined yet stucking in mining.
Please check and help me on it ...
I am adding my ...
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Mining pool rewards erc-20 smarts contract [duplicate]
I was contacted from a girl of Singapore,she told me to join the website PETL.top,with 1k of buying USDT erc-20,every day I withdraw 30 dollar,but today I accept this partecipation for the claim the ...
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how tornado cash commitment is safe?
When you deposit funds to tornado cash, you get a secret which is called "commitment". When you withdraw funds, you pass this secret, zk-Stark algorithm can detect which deposit belongs to ...
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Do you need Ethereum specific-software to mine ether?
My question relates to the current Ethereum proof-of-work chain.
I am just wondering if one needs specialized Ethereum software to mine ether. Or maybe you can just connect to a pool that runs the ...
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what does 2miner.com's "hr2" and "rhr" numbers mean?
2miner.com's JSON stats returns stuff like
{
"workers": {
"Rig1Name": {
"lastBeat": 1652915927,
"hr": 29087609,
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Is eth-proxy still a thing in 2021?
I've been mining with my several GPUs on https://ethermine.org and while doing a research on how to increase mining efficiency, I've found ethproxy project on GitHub (https://github.com/Atrides/eth-...
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Why does ASIC-resistance in PoW decrease miner concentration
I seem to read this argument all the time - for example here or here - that GPUs are more general interest, so consumers are more likely to have them, and so, because there's one less filter ...
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invest in ETH using the POS - what am i missing?
I'm wondering if i can invest in ETH using the POS system. I have the following idea:
Get a computer (regular one no special GPU) to be up 24\7
Connect to a staking pool like RocketPool or similar
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connecting custom FPGA to a pool
I have created an FPGA with a C function wrapper that accepts the Ethereum header and difficulty and returns the calculated hash value. I want to connect this FPGA to one of the Ethereum mining pools, ...
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Can I reset the initial set price for erc20 token on uniswap?
I am relatively new to cryptocurrency and wanted to try listing an erc20 token. I listed my erc20 token on Uniswap and set its initial price while adding the first liquidity. Later, I wanted to change ...
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Why would a mining pool work on different blocks at the same time?
I have been mining with several rigs pointed to one pool (top 10 miner) for a while now and just stumbled across this by pure chance when looking at the mining logs of my rigs.
So I noticed, that the ...
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How to get work from ethermine.org?
I could not find any tools or software that only supports getting work (or in other terms, getting the block data and target) from Ethermine pools. The ethermine.org's website provides the host ...
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What does all those transactions with 0 mining fee corresponds to?
There have been many transactions with apparently 0 mining fees (gas price set to 0) lately. Including from F2Pool BabelPool and SparkPool.
While miners had always been free to include any ...
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ethminer fails to allocate DAG buffer -only- when connecting to a pool
When I run ethminer -G it starts the miner as expected. It takes around 60 seconds to allocate the DAG, and then it starts pumping out hashes on the GPU (at a dismal 1MH/s but that's besides the point....
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Byzantium related homework required for pool operators and developers
Is there a summary of what code and/or configuration changes need to be implemented by mining pools and associated code to properly support the upcoming hard-fork? Do packages like ethash need to be ...
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Properly using consensus/ethash module in go-ethereum
Traditionally, Ethereum pools used the deprecated Ethash, which is quite inconvenient to use with modern golang, specifically around the usage of Go modules. Examples of this are Sammy007's Open ...
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Why can I no longer mine on the binance pool? [closed]
This question was closed due to being off-topic, which is fair enough, but I'll add the solution here in case it helps someone:
Change protocol to stratum1+tcp.
I have been using the ethminer client ...
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What's a "worker", or a "worker name"
Using a "worker" or "worker name" is often an option when you do pool mining. It is often exemplified by "rig1". But how do you create one, and what is its use?
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Mining with 1.06GH/s
So right now I'm using 2miners and I rented 1.06GH/s to mine Ethereum. It says every 2 months I should find a block solo at 11k reward. Pool mining I'll get .55eth if pool finds a block now. It never ...
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Do services such as exchanges offer the participation in mining pools?
I am studying the structure of mining pools and their participants with on-chain data from GBQ. I noticed that several mining pools use proxy addresses (by combining and filtering for different ...
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Why is the frequency of new block header pow-hash on mining pools much higher than the average network block frequency?
I recently got back into mining on the ethereum network and experimented with a couple of mining pools in the process.
One thing I immediately noticed when taking a look at the log from the mining ...
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Pool mining: How is DAG generation possible without knowing the block number?
This is little bit similar to this: Do i need to be synchronized to blockchain when creating DAG for mining on pool? and this https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/2333
Essentially pool ...
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What is Miner Extracted Value (MEV)?
I came across MEV in this reddit posted by Flexpool (i think) because Flexpool was claiming MEV was a big improvement and good for miners.
The close I could get to an explanation is that there are ...
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Do Larger Mining Pools Waste Fewer Hashes?
I wanted to check my understanding of the PoW consensus algorithm as it pertains to ETH and BTC mining.
Mining pools pool together resources from many miners to search over nonce values to create the ...
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Dual mining ETH/ZIL with 4GB?
I recently saw this video about dual mining of ETH and ZIL. The video especially targets GPUs with 3-4GB of VRAM. I still have to try it, but I'm wondering: isn't ETH dagger size bigger than 4GB? How ...
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Do my outgoing gas fees of a single transaction increase if my sending wallet contains ETH made up of many small transactions?
I'm still learning about how ethereum calculates fees, and I wondered if I would have to pay more to send ethereum from my wallet if my wallet received smaller transactions as opposed to a single ...
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Mining Eth with a pathetic laptop
I am a newbie in mining, I have a couple of shitty laptops around 8-16gb ram and an Intel graphics card.
I don't pay for the electricity and don't really care if the laptop dies. I tried to search ...
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Low hashrate with Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
I just set up a cheap mining rig running Ubuntu server 18.04 and using Nanominer, which I have been using for Monero.
Now I installed an Asus Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti using a Riser pci-1X to pci16X ...
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How many transactions are submitted to transaction pool per second?
As the title, is there any statistics about how many transactions are submitted to the transaction pool per second?
Note that this is different from the number of transactions processed by Ethereum.
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how miners within a mining pool execute transactions and verify blocks?
I know that solo miners have to select & execute transactions in a block and also verify the recipint block and its transactions, all by themself.
However, I am not sure how this works in a mining ...
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Did f2pool manipulate transactions during the Status ICO?
Blocks such as this one and this one appear to show preferential treatment being given to f2pool transactions in blocks mined by f2pool during the beginning of the Status ICO (at block height 3903900)....
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How to get the pending transactions in the whole network from ethereum?
I would like to get the pending transactions in the whole network of ethereum.
For example, the transaction '0xabcdefg' is right now pending in the pool, waiting to be mined by miners, after 12 ...
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Can I solo mine ethereum instead of pool?
I am running a single rx 480 at 22mh/s, this rig is not geared towards mining and I’m doing it for fun. Would I be able to solo mine ethereum blocks for a higher payout? Or should I stick to pool ...
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How is this account able to consistently get her/his transactions with zero gas price mined?
This account https://etherscan.io/address/0xbe7cd41e060cdb07c548d6c65f1d786e43f1c392 is able to keep sending transactions with zero gas price and they are mined. If I try to do the same, my ...
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ETH: How many transactions are added to the mining pool per time period
Every ETH transaction which is created is first added to a pool of pending transactions, from which then the miners pick them. I wonder whether there is any source (research paper / ETH stats website /...
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Has ERC20 mining been disrupted?
Do you know why a single address of type contract is mining 38% of 0xbtc? Does it mean that a single person has find a way to mine as much 0xbtc as a whole mining pool? Plus how come a contract is ...
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After POS is implemented, what stops mining pools from being formed?
There won't be "mining pools" but stake pools but what if someone creates a system where participants stake everthing in one place in order to make the mkst money?
Is this allowed and is this a ...
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how does a smart pool identifies the valid block in ethereum
I have been reading this paper https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/019.pdf.
To my understanding, the miners send the shares in batches and later the smart pool verifies the shares with sampling with ...
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