Newbie learning to mine

by vonpupp · Sun Sep 24, 2017 07:18 PM UTC · Post #9747 · Sun Sep 24, 2017 07:18 PM UTC

Newbie learning to mine

by vonpupp · Sun Sep 24, 2017 07:18 PM UTC · Post #9747

Hi,

I am trying to mine for the first time in the meantime my asic arrive.

I am using cpuminer-multi [1] on a VPS.

Code:

> $ ./cpuminer --version                                                                                                                                       [±linux ✓]
** cpuminer-multi 1.3.3 by tpruvot@github **
BTC donation address: 1FhDPLPpw18X4srecguG3MxJYe4a1JsZnd (tpruvot)

 built with GCC 5.4.0 the Sep 24 2017
 compiled for AVX2
 config features: x86_64 SSE2 XOP AVX AVX2

libcurl/7.47.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2g zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.32 librtmp/2.3
jansson/2.7

The commandline I am using is the following:

Code:

> $ ./cpuminer -o stratum+tcp://prohashing.com:3333 -u vonpupp -p "c=Verge" --debug

If I understood properly I could be able to automagically mine Verge and I don't need to setup the algorithm nor any other parameter. However I receive the following error:

Code:

** cpuminer-multi 1.3.3 by tpruvot@github **
BTC donation address: 1FhDPLPpw18X4srecguG3MxJYe4a1JsZnd (tpruvot)

[2017-09-24 17:45:45] 1 miner threads started, using 'scrypt' algorithm.
[2017-09-24 17:45:45] Starting Stratum on stratum+tcp://prohashing.com:3333
[2017-09-24 17:45:53] Stratum authentication failed
[2017-09-24 17:45:53] ...retry after 10 seconds

If I try to use the x17 algo and more parameter as follows:

Code:

> $ ./cpuminer -o stratum+tcp://prohashing.com:3333 -u vonpupp -p "a=X17 u=vonpupp c=Verge" --debug

I get the same error.

Any help please? Thanks!

[1]: https://github.com/tpruvot/cpuminer-multi.git

micca410evo · Sun Sep 24, 2017 08:13 PM UTC

Re: Newbie learning to mine

by micca410evo · Sun Sep 24, 2017 08:13 PM UTC · Post #9749

i don't know x17

try: $ ./cpuminer -S -o stratum+tcp://prohashing.com:3333 -u vonpupp -p "n=worker1 c=Verge" --debug

not sure if -S have to be added but check the help function "Run "cpuminer --help" to see options.", i think you need to add -S to mine scrypt

by vonpupp · Mon Oct 02, 2017 05:22 PM UTC · Post #10129 · Mon Oct 02, 2017 05:22 PM UTC

Re: Newbie learning to mine

by vonpupp · Mon Oct 02, 2017 05:22 PM UTC · Post #10129

Thank you for your answer but it is definitively not working.

I tried both with a VPS (hangs) and an ASIC (reported as dead). Perhaps the stratum server for that coin is dead? (not sure if each coin must have it's own stratum server, but I think it works that way).

Maybe someone from the support team could help me out?

by gestalt · Mon Oct 02, 2017 05:42 PM UTC · Post #10131 · Mon Oct 02, 2017 05:42 PM UTC

Re: Newbie learning to mine

by gestalt · Mon Oct 02, 2017 05:42 PM UTC · Post #10131

The Verge coin currently has an error here. It's not going to work until that gets resolved. You should try it with a different coin. You can see which coins are currently working on the main page at the bottom. Click on show all to see the full list. The ones with errors are at the end of the list. Also, only scrypt and x11 will work here.

Steve Sokolowski · Mon Oct 02, 2017 06:04 PM UTC

Re: Newbie learning to mine

by Steve Sokolowski · Mon Oct 02, 2017 06:04 PM UTC · Post #10132

vonpupp wrote:Thank you for your answer but it is definitively not working.

I tried both with a VPS (hangs) and an ASIC (reported as dead). Perhaps the stratum server for that coin is dead? (not sure if each coin must have it's own stratum server, but I think it works that way).

Maybe someone from the support team could help me out?

Feel free to submit a support ticket to Chris about this coin. Chris may be able to fix whatever the error is. There are always so many coins in error that it's possible it's a fixable error that was just low priority because nobody really cared about it until now.