Hi guys, I recently decided I would like to use my secondary rig to mine Ethereum. I’ve been googling and bashing my head trying to get things working. It’s seemingly “mining” but whenever i run web3.fromWei(web3.eth.getBalance(web3.eth.coinbase), “ether”); in ethconsole it always shows a balance of zero. I’m running AlethZero in windows 10 and using 2 R9 290x cards. This is my bat:
ethminer -G
–opencl-device 0,1
What I want to do is get it actually mining, and then join a pool.
I literally know 0 stuff about eth mining but I’ve researched a bit. Either your account isn’t synced up, the ethminer doesn’t recognize the second GPU (so it’s mining hella slow) or it takes a shitload of time to mine anything even with 2 GPUs (which is usually the case with bitcoin mining if you don’t own a bitcoin machine).
Here’s the forum where a dude has similar problem like you have:
Also if you find nothing, you can switch to Ubuntu and go with the Frontier. (although I’m not sure if that has to do with anything regarding your problem)
If nothing helped, sorry, tried my best to help ya. :’(
gord0 While I can’t remember all the details, you will need to find a suitable pool and begin to mine with them. Normally, in order to do so you have to sign up to the pool’s site, pick which coin you want to mine and then there will be an extra bit of the code you will have to put in the console to get the mining to begin properly. I did this a couple years back and it’s a pain to first get set up, but once you do, you’ll be able to switch between coins/pools with ease as it will literally just be changing part of your config.
It’s been years but best thing to do is find a site with pools for a few different coins, that way you can have a play about. As said, you’ll need to add something for the pool and coin to your config/program somewhere to tell it what to mine, something like +tcp://coinname.Iwannamine.com:2255 but whatever info you need will be provided on the pools site for the given coin.
I literally know 0 stuff about eth mining but I’ve researched a bit. Either your account isn’t synced up, the ethminer doesn’t recognize the second GPU (so it’s mining hella slow) or it takes a shitload of time to mine anything even with 2 GPUs (which is usually the case with bitcoin mining if you don’t own a bitcoin machine).
Also if you find nothing, you can switch to Ubuntu and go with the Frontier. (although I’m not sure if that has to do with anything regarding your problem)
If nothing helped, sorry, tried my best to help ya.
Nothing to do with multi-gpus. Getting on average 35mil megahashes/sec. For whatever reason I think it’s mining from block 0 which has long since been mined. I’ve also read that using win 10 or 8 is just a bad idea. Tomorrow I’ll throw on a linux distro and see what happens.
gord0 While I can’t remember all the details, you will need to find a suitable pool and begin to mine with them. Normally, in order to do so you have to sign up to the pool’s site, pick which coin you want to mine and then there will be an extra bit of the code you will have to put in the console to get the mining to begin properly. I did this a couple years back and it’s a pain to first get set up, but once you do, you’ll be able to switch between coins/pools with ease as it will literally just be changing part of your config.
It’s been years but best thing to do is find a site with pools for a few different coins, that way you can have a play about. As said, you’ll need to add something for the pool and coin to your config/program somewhere to tell it what to mine, something like +tcp://coinname.Iwannamine.com:2255 but whatever info you need will be provided on the pools site for the given coin.
A pool is the end goal, I just want to know that the mining process works first.
gord0 You won’t know if it works if you are not mining from a pool unless you start solo mining which there is no guarantee you’ll ever find a block to actual mine from. Either way,. you’ll still need to do a bit more setting up and adding you wallet to the program etc,. Much easier to just start from a public pool where the site will give you the instructions on how to set up your config.
