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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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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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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How to create an Ethereum mining pool. [duplicate]
How would one begin to create an Ethereum mining pool?
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Can you mine with 2GB cards or less? Thinking about the DAG issues
So I'm really new to mining and I tried setting up a Claymore miner on a rig with a 2GB card, it gave me a error saying something that the DAG wasnt enough and then I looked it up on google and I only ...
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Mining for 5 days at an avg of 19 Mh/s but not a single cent, is this normal?
Okay so i've been using ETHMiner and this cmd file to start it, and I've been mining for about 60-80 hours with and avg of 19 Mh/s and I havent recieved a single cent to my Jaxx wallet, is this normal?...
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I do not get any ether when mining
I'm mining on nanopool with Claymore's miner.
This is the batch file:
setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx ...
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Join mining pool with Geth
I followed this guide to set up aws to mine ethereum with an instance that has GPUs. After set up, I let the miner go for a day without any pay in the smallest denomination of Ethereum. I researched ...
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Mining one gas costly transaction yourself due to lowered gas limits
Giving the current Ethereum network circumstances with transaction spam, a lot of miners have decreased their transaction upper gas limit. However this makes deploying some more complex contracts, ...
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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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How does pool mining work in Ethereum?
When mining in pools, does a user get the mining reward for a block as a function of computational resources even if he did not find the PoW for that block?
My guess is that the rewarding scheme is ...
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I'm having a problem connecting to pools
I can't get my miner-worker to connect to any pools. I can get my reported hashrate to show on the pool site but it always says "0 workers". My miner always shows hashing and getting work packages. I'...
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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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Mining Nanopool for 24H with Radeon RX 480 and yet no shares found
I am mining with Ethminer in Nanopool for around 24h (or more) and I still didn't find any shares so my account is not yet created in Nanopool. I think this is not right.
I use the miner like this:
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What are eth_getWork parameters?
I was looking over at https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/JSON-RPC#eth_getwork and I don't understand some of the parameters:
DATA, 32 Bytes - current block header pow-hash
DATA, 32 Bytes - the ...
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Strange revenue from Ethermine
I noticed that ethermine revenues change with eth's price.
I expected that revenue were to chage with difficulty's increase, what wrong? It's normal?
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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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In a pool, who executes the EVM code?
Does the central pool server run the EVM code and just send out block headers, or does every miner run every contract?
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How to check if a mining pool runs the forking client or not? [The DAO]
As Geth and Parity forking version are out, the switch to a soft fork related to The DAO is said to happend on block 1800000 if block gas limit is below or equal to 4M. We can see global gas limit on ...
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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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What are the advatages of Stratum protocol over websocket RPC?
Some of the largest Ethereum pools have a support for Stratum mining protocol, they claim that there is about 20% advantage over normal type of protocol. My question is what are those advantages? I ...
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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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Ethereum mining pool centralization
There are a number of well known undesirable effects of mining pool centralization, primarily:
increased risk of collusion
a small set of pools effectively gain veto power on the evolution of the ...
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Is it possible to prevent nodes from mining on a private blockchain?
Is it possible to prevent mining on a closed block chain, in a sense that only a set of addresses are allowed to perform transactions but are not allowed to mine?
Mining should always be done by a ...
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For pool mining, what exactly is a share?
Can someone please explain exactly what a share is in the context of pool mining? I have a superficial understanding of testing random nonces to find a hash under the current difficulty. I also ...
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Solo Vs Pool Mining With A GPU
Currently I'm using 1 r9 380 card with 20 MH. I've only been mining for 3 days straight (72hours). I used the Mining Calculators from Etherscan and Cryptocompare. While these sites calculate it will ...
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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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How to run my own full node pool? (error: unexpected identifier)
When I run this geth with the following parameters:
geth --rpc --rpcaddr "my ip" --rpcport 8545
I get an error like:
(anonymous): Line 1:13 Unexpected identifier (and 1 more errors)
Please help.
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Is it possible to define a smart contract as the address when mining on a pool like ethermine?
I would like to create a contract that shares mining rewards between multiple accounts.
Can I set this contract address as the target address when running eth-proxy ?
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Risk of using BlockHash, other miners preventing attack. [duplicate]
When I read about the risk of using the blockhash as a random number it was explained to me the issue was that a miner can trow away the block if the block-hash is not in his advantage, and keeps ...
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Synchronisation failed Invalid old chain
I got this error "Synchronisation failed: Invalid old chain" I tried geth removedb and geth upgradedb but I got the same error again any help please?
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AlethOne : GPU can't allocate the DAG in a single chunk
I'm trying to do some pool mining using AlethOne, but get the following error:
Allocating/mapping single buffer failed with: "clEnqueueWriteBuffer(-4). GPU can't allocate the DAG in a single chunk. ...
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How do I create my own mining-pool?
I have about 900+ Mh worth of power and I'm thinking of creating my own pool and putting all my miners in the pool instead of pooling with others. However I've found no instruction on how to do this. ...
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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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"Failed to submit hashrate" error
I'm currently using geth and ethminer to mine, I'm using version 1.2.2 of Ethereum. I'm trying to mine on pool Ethereumpool, using these instructions. So my command is ethminer -G -F http://...
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Will there be mining pools with the Proof-of-Stake?
Ethereum will eventually move to Proof-of-Stake algorithm. I guess it is a very basic question, but how the mining pools are supposed to work in that case (if at all)?
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Should I run multiple instances of qtminer for multiple GPUs?
I am using qtminer from ethpool for mining with a single card. I want to add extra cards to the rig, should I start a new instance of qtminer for every card or should I start a single instance of ...
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Why did the DAG file change in block 1080000?
I'm mining to dwarfpool, and all of sudden am getting this message on the account: "DAG file changed in block 1080000"
Does this mean that my DAG is out of sync and if yes, how do I resync it, tried ...
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What are some good mining pools? [closed]
I'd like to try a bit of mining, but my GPU is way too weak to mine on my own. I've tried finding reviews on existing mining pools for ether but they're very sparse. Could you recommend a pool?
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Will pooled staking be implemented using multisig deposits?
Would this be a valid implementation for an ether staking pool if the goal was to eliminate the need for depositors to forfeit control of their ether to the pool owner?
Depositor creates a contract ...
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Why do we have Ethereum mining pools?
When Ethereum wasn't even launched, I remember Vitalik saying that the Ethereum mining process was designed in such a way to prevent the formation of mining pools. (I vaguely remember the reasoning ...
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