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Quote from: dmwardjr on October 09, 2014, 09:38:40 AM

Quote from: dmwardjr on October 09, 2014, 09:36:02 AM

Have you not watched the news very much lately on line?

There is a BIG STORM BREWING for a lot of BIG PLAYERS to buy into BTC in anticipation for different things I'm not willing to mention for the sake of the bet. Also, for the sake of keeping others from mining or increasing their hashing power once they see how much BTC will be going up. It's going to the moon very soon. Seriously!

It has gone from $300.00 to $377.00 since Sunday evening!

I read a lot of news and a LOT of chat from very smart speculators in the BTC game.

A SERIOUS STORM IS BREWING!!!

I KNOW WE WILL BE AT LEAST $470 BY END OF THANKSGIVING BUT I'M OBVIOUSLY BETTING ON IT BEING $510.00.

WE BOTH WIN EITHER WAY FROM OUR MINING FARMS. THAT'S THE WAY I SEE IT...

ALSO, PLEASE DON'T THINK WE ARE ARGUING OR GETTING INTO A HEATED DISCUSSION. WE CANNOT SEE EACH OTHERS FACE OR DISPOSITION. THIS IS A GENTLEMAN'S BET BETWEEN RESPECTFUL INDIVIDUALS.

I PLAY TEXAS NO LIMIT HOLDEM QUITE A BIT. IT TOO IS A GENTLEMAN'S GAME...

WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING?

srsly do you not notice your capslock on b4 you post?

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Quote from: wasikidding on October 09, 2014, 05:42:05 PM

Quote from: dmwardjr on October 09, 2014, 05:27:17 PM

Quote from: wasikidding on October 09, 2014, 05:19:17 PM

Does anyone know if a transaction from Blockchain.inf will time out after multiple days I sent a transaction and I have no idea why but it posted with no miners fee's went in and looked and my fee payout was still set to normal I then tried to resend a transaction to same person like 6 hours later this one showed miner fee's both have been there for 3 days no confirmations both show 0% network propagation I have received multi transactions in I just cant send any out until those 2 clear, does anyone know how to make them reset I tried to manually post the hex to the network using coinb.in and the blockchain.inf sites but both error-ed out

WOW!!!

Doesn't sound good...

I know I have had like .15 btc tied up in no man's land for 3+ days

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I use "Terminal" occasional on my Mac OS. However, not sure if I'm needing to do what you suggest with my Batch 8's as you have suggested. I might do it later, in a couple of months, or especially if they stop mining for whatever reason.

If you can log into your batch 8 S3 using terminal, then you should find the time to update it as the updated cgminer plugs some security flaws that (still!) ship with the S3+ today.

It is actually not as laborious as you may think and it takes a few minutes at the most, just make sure you do all the steps sequentially (not forgetting the chmod +x cgminer which most people forget).

EDIT: - if you are running the stock cgminer, you will DEFINITELY improve your peek hash-speed no doubt, so I would urge you to go ahead and do it.

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Quote from: dmwardjr on October 09, 2014, 05:27:17 PM

Quote from: wasikidding on October 09, 2014, 05:19:17 PM

Does anyone know if a transaction from Blockchain.inf will time out after multiple days I sent a transaction and I have no idea why but it posted with no miners fee's went in and looked and my fee payout was still set to normal I then tried to resend a transaction to same person like 6 hours later this one showed miner fee's both have been there for 3 days no confirmations both show 0% network propagation I have received multi transactions in I just cant send any out until those 2 clear, does anyone know how to make them reset I tried to manually post the hex to the network using coinb.in and the blockchain.inf sites but both error-ed out

WOW!!!

Doesn't sound good...

I know I have had like .15 btc tied up in no man's land for 3+ days

wasikidding

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Quote from: dmwardjr on October 09, 2014, 05:24:55 PM

Quote from: wasikidding on October 09, 2014, 05:08:56 PM

Quote from: dmwardjr on October 09, 2014, 05:05:45 PM

Quote from: pekatete on October 09, 2014, 04:55:40 PM

Quote from: dmwardjr on October 09, 2014, 04:34:22 PM

Quote from: pekatete on October 09, 2014, 03:09:06 PM

^^^^ - ckolivas posted an updated cgminer today that tries to address the S4 issue(s) with low diffs (also works a treat with the S3+)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9134744

Please tell me how to update my S3+ miners.

Is it under "System" then "Software" then "Actions" after logging into the miner?

If that is where you go, what do I do after that?

I am not sure what you mean by updating your S3+, however, if you are refering to the latest cgminer, then you should SSH into the S3 and login then enter these commands: (press enter after each line)

cd /usr/bin
mv cgminer cgminer.bak
wget http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/antminer/s3/4.6.1-141009/cgminer
chmod +x cgminer
reboot

Okay, I have MacBook Pro's and Mac Pro. I do have windows installed via parallels. That would be the only way to have cgminer on my computer. So, no, I'm not familiar with that at all.

I'm NEW to mining [September 22,2014] and have no knowledge of how to use cgminer. So, it's obvious I'm using my S3's "stand alone" without going through my computers via cgminer before connecting to a pool. At least that's the way it sounds like you are doing it with cgminer.

Ck told me cgminer was built into the S3's one day [Or maybe I misunderstood]. So, I assumed I could do this firmware update in the miner itself.

Please pardon the misunderstanding.

Thank you for your reply.

Correct Cgminer is in the s3 however it's an outdated version you do not run it on your pc however with the program PUTTY you log into s3 in a terminal style interface all black screen etc so you open putty put in the ip of the ant at screen enter root for user hit enter then your password and enter then follow steps **note while typing your password nothing shows on screen** If you are not comfortable with command line entries you may not want to do this also because you have 10 ants you need to do each one independently

I use "Terminal" occasional on my Mac OS. However, not sure if I'm needing to do what you suggest with my Batch 8's as you have suggested. I might do it later, in a couple of months, or especially if they stop mining for whatever reason.

yeah def. don't do unless you find the need to I only did it because I was only doing on a couple just install latest fw from bitmain and adjust freq# to your liking If you are hashing 450+ there should be know need and like I said because of the 10 you have I would only do it on a possible trouble ant to improve performance

dmwardjr

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Quote from: wasikidding on October 09, 2014, 05:19:17 PM

Does anyone know if a transaction from Blockchain.inf will time out after multiple days I sent a transaction and I have no idea why but it posted with no miners fee's went in and looked and my fee payout was still set to normal I then tried to resend a transaction to same person like 6 hours later this one showed miner fee's both have been there for 3 days no confirmations both show 0% network propagation I have received multi transactions in I just cant send any out until those 2 clear, does anyone know how to make them reset I tried to manually post the hex to the network using coinb.in and the blockchain.inf sites but both error-ed out

WOW!!!

Doesn't sound good...

dmwardjr

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Quote from: wasikidding on October 09, 2014, 05:08:56 PM

Quote from: dmwardjr on October 09, 2014, 05:05:45 PM

Quote from: pekatete on October 09, 2014, 04:55:40 PM

Quote from: dmwardjr on October 09, 2014, 04:34:22 PM

Quote from: pekatete on October 09, 2014, 03:09:06 PM

^^^^ - ckolivas posted an updated cgminer today that tries to address the S4 issue(s) with low diffs (also works a treat with the S3+)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9134744

Please tell me how to update my S3+ miners.

Is it under "System" then "Software" then "Actions" after logging into the miner?

If that is where you go, what do I do after that?

I am not sure what you mean by updating your S3+, however, if you are refering to the latest cgminer, then you should SSH into the S3 and login then enter these commands: (press enter after each line)

cd /usr/bin
mv cgminer cgminer.bak
wget http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/antminer/s3/4.6.1-141009/cgminer
chmod +x cgminer
reboot

Okay, I have MacBook Pro's and Mac Pro. I do have windows installed via parallels. That would be the only way to have cgminer on my computer. So, no, I'm not familiar with that at all.

I'm NEW to mining [September 22,2014] and have no knowledge of how to use cgminer. So, it's obvious I'm using my S3's "stand alone" without going through my computers via cgminer before connecting to a pool. At least that's the way it sounds like you are doing it with cgminer.

Ck told me cgminer was built into the S3's one day [Or maybe I misunderstood]. So, I assumed I could do this firmware update in the miner itself.

Please pardon the misunderstanding.

Thank you for your reply.

Correct Cgminer is in the s3 however it's an outdated version you do not run it on your pc however with the program PUTTY you log into s3 in a terminal style interface all black screen etc so you open putty put in the ip of the ant at screen enter root for user hit enter then your password and enter then follow steps **note while typing your password nothing shows on screen** If you are not comfortable with command line entries you may not want to do this also because you have 10 ants you need to do each one independently

I use "Terminal" occasional on my Mac OS. However, not sure if I'm needing to do what you suggest with my Batch 8's as you have suggested. I might do it later, in a couple of months, or especially if they stop mining for whatever reason.

wasikidding

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Does anyone know if a transaction from Blockchain.inf will time out after multiple days I sent a transaction and I have no idea why but it posted with no miners fee's went in and looked and my fee payout was still set to normal I then tried to resend a transaction to same person like 6 hours later this one showed miner fee's both have been there for 3 days no confirmations both show 0% network propagation I have received multi transactions in I just cant send any out until those 2 clear, does anyone know how to make them reset I tried to manually post the hex to the network using coinb.in and the blockchain.inf sites but both error-ed out

wasikidding

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Dance Dance Dance we need the block boogie woogie woogie Undecided

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Quote from: dmwardjr on October 09, 2014, 05:05:45 PM

Quote from: pekatete on October 09, 2014, 04:55:40 PM

Quote from: dmwardjr on October 09, 2014, 04:34:22 PM

Quote from: pekatete on October 09, 2014, 03:09:06 PM

^^^^ - ckolivas posted an updated cgminer today that tries to address the S4 issue(s) with low diffs (also works a treat with the S3+)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9134744

Please tell me how to update my S3+ miners.

Is it under "System" then "Software" then "Actions" after logging into the miner?

If that is where you go, what do I do after that?

I am not sure what you mean by updating your S3+, however, if you are refering to the latest cgminer, then you should SSH into the S3 and login then enter these commands: (press enter after each line)

cd /usr/bin
mv cgminer cgminer.bak
wget http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/antminer/s3/4.6.1-141009/cgminer
chmod +x cgminer
reboot

Okay, I have MacBook Pro's and Mac Pro. I do have windows installed via parallels. That would be the only way to have cgminer on my computer. So, no, I'm not familiar with that at all.

I'm NEW to mining [September 22,2014] and have no knowledge of how to use cgminer. So, it's obvious I'm using my S3's "stand alone" without going through my computers via cgminer before connecting to a pool. At least that's the way it sounds like you are doing it with cgminer.

Ck told me cgminer was built into the S3's one day [Or maybe I misunderstood]. So, I assumed I could do this firmware update in the miner itself.

Please pardon the misunderstanding.

Thank you for your reply.

Correct Cgminer is in the s3 however it's an outdated version you do not run it on your pc however with the program PUTTY you log into s3 in a terminal style interface all black screen etc so you open putty put in the ip of the ant at screen enter root for user hit enter then your password and enter then follow steps **note while typing your password nothing shows on screen** If you are not comfortable with command line entries you may not want to do this also because you have 10 ants you need to do each one independently

dmwardjr

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Quote from: pekatete on October 09, 2014, 04:55:40 PM

Quote from: dmwardjr on October 09, 2014, 04:34:22 PM

Quote from: pekatete on October 09, 2014, 03:09:06 PM

^^^^ - ckolivas posted an updated cgminer today that tries to address the S4 issue(s) with low diffs (also works a treat with the S3+)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9134744

Please tell me how to update my S3+ miners.

Is it under "System" then "Software" then "Actions" after logging into the miner?

If that is where you go, what do I do after that?

I am not sure what you mean by updating your S3+, however, if you are refering to the latest cgminer, then you should SSH into the S3 and login then enter these commands: (press enter after each line)

cd /usr/bin
mv cgminer cgminer.bak
wget http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/antminer/s3/4.6.1-141009/cgminer
chmod +x cgminer
reboot

Okay, I have MacBook Pro's and Mac Pro. I do have windows installed via parallels. That would be the only way to have cgminer on my computer. So, no, I'm not familiar with that at all.

I'm NEW to mining [September 22,2014] and have no knowledge of how to use cgminer. So, it's obvious I'm using my S3's "stand alone" without going through my computers via cgminer before connecting to a pool. At least that's the way it sounds like you are doing it with cgminer.

Ck told me cgminer was built into the S3's one day [Or maybe I misunderstood]. So, I assumed I could do this firmware update in the miner itself.

Please pardon the misunderstanding.

Thank you for your reply.

wasikidding

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Quote from: dmwardjr on October 09, 2014, 04:34:22 PM

Quote from: pekatete on October 09, 2014, 03:09:06 PM

^^^^ - ckolivas posted an updated cgminer today that tries to address the S4 issue(s) with low diffs (also works a treat with the S3+)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9134744

Please tell me how to update my S3+ miners.

Is it under "System" then "Software" then "Actions" after logging into the miner?

If that is where you go, what do I do after that?

you have to ssh into your miners via putty etc note doing this incorrectly can brick your s3 below is copy and pasted from previous thread and I have done this myself I am changing the wget address to current location of new cgminer

1. SSH into the S3 and login
2. Issue the following commands sequentially.
a) cd /usr/bin
b) mv cgminer cgminer.bak
c) wget http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/antminer/s3/4.6.1-141009/cgminer <---------Is the current cgminer refrenced in your posted thread
d) chmod +x cgminer
e) reboot

Once again these are commands that you must enter once SSH'd into s3 via putty Do at your own RISK!!!

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Quote from: dmwardjr on October 09, 2014, 04:34:22 PM

Quote from: pekatete on October 09, 2014, 03:09:06 PM

^^^^ - ckolivas posted an updated cgminer today that tries to address the S4 issue(s) with low diffs (also works a treat with the S3+)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9134744

Please tell me how to update my S3+ miners.

Is it under "System" then "Software" then "Actions" after logging into the miner?

If that is where you go, what do I do after that?

I am not sure what you mean by updating your S3+, however, if you are refering to the latest cgminer, then you should SSH into the S3 and login then enter these commands: (press enter after each line)

cd /usr/bin
mv cgminer cgminer.bak
wget http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/antminer/s3/4.6.1-141009/cgminer
chmod +x cgminer
reboot

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Quote from: dkaufman on October 09, 2014, 03:03:59 PM

Because there is a problem with the S4's never getting up to anywhere near their 2TH capability on a pool unless that pool lets them set the minimum difficulty to 2048. I don't pretend to understand it... something about an underpowered controller board and a death spiral dance it does with vardiff. But the the upshot is I can't point my S4 at slush's pool unless they bring back some way of specifying my per-worker minimum difficulty setting :-(

And I just had a very sad few days at BTC Guild... now i have to try GHash -- I would just like to keep ALL my terahashes here at the Slushiest Pool of Them All :-)

I'm still wanting to get the S4's very soon. I would rather keep them here on Slush myself. However, if I have to point them at another pool and keep my S3's here, I will do it. It's a shame if that's the case... really is!

Seems like I heard rumors of a NEW LOOK to the home page, statistics page, etc. coming in January. Makes me wonder if Slush will enable the ability to adjust the diff if the user chooses too when the NEW LOOK comes in January?

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Quote from: wasikidding on October 09, 2014, 03:51:42 PM

Need some blocks to fall been rough 48 hours Cry

Yes, it has been rough! VERY!!!

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Quote from: pekatete on October 09, 2014, 03:09:06 PM

^^^^ - ckolivas posted an updated cgminer today that tries to address the S4 issue(s) with low diffs (also works a treat with the S3+)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9134744

Please tell me how to update my S3+ miners.

Is it under "System" then "Software" then "Actions" after logging into the miner?

If that is where you go, what do I do after that?

wasikidding

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Need some blocks to fall been rough 48 hours Cry

pekatete

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^^^^ - ckolivas posted an updated cgminer today that tries to address the S4 issue(s) with low diffs (also works a treat with the S3+)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9134744

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Quote from: Sir Alan on October 04, 2014, 08:48:03 AM

Quote from: manitu on October 04, 2014, 05:27:15 AM

Quote from: frankenmint on October 04, 2014, 05:15:53 AM

Quote from: manitu on October 04, 2014, 05:13:28 AM

Hi,
I need to set higher difficulty for my miners. How can I do that? Now I have diff from 1,4k-1,8k and need about 2k.
Thx.

What software are you using? Could be possible to do in the firmware or possibly on the workers page in Slush's Pool Settings

I am using Antminer S4 devices. How it is possible to change diff on Slush Pool? I can not find this setting.

The pool sets the difficulty. The facility to set it manually on the workers page was removed a good while ago when the auto setting was implemented. Why would you wish to set it higher, other than to reduce your bandwidth?

Because there is a problem with the S4's never getting up to anywhere near their 2TH capability on a pool unless that pool lets them set the minimum difficulty to 2048. I don't pretend to understand it... something about an underpowered controller board and a death spiral dance it does with vardiff. But the the upshot is I can't point my S4 at slush's pool unless they bring back some way of specifying my per-worker minimum difficulty setting :-(

And I just had a very sad few days at BTC Guild... now i have to try GHash -- I would just like to keep ALL my terahashes here at the Slushiest Pool of Them All :-)

This guys can explain it better (a coupla quotes from the Antminer S4 topic):

Quote from: -ck on October 08, 2014, 07:09:30 AM

Quote from: PatMan on October 08, 2014, 07:01:40 AM

I'm a little confused tbh, as ck says:

Quote from: -ck on October 07, 2014, 05:26:59 AM

It turns out the controller is so low powered that it can only process ~30 shares per second which mean that unless diff is set higher, they work their way into a death spiral before diff catches up. Great...

Which to me sounds like a hardware issue - or is it the firmware that decides how much power is provided to the controller?

It's not a firmware issue. The controller hardware they bundle with it is not fast enough to handle running at low diffs, and most pools start at a lower diff for a while before vardiff pushes them up. If they stay low diff long enough the controller never catches up. I gave them a driver code workaround (i.e. hack) to get over this hurdle. It means they'll (appear to) run at low hashrates for a while until the pool reaches a diff suitable for the device. When they say it's a firmware issue, they mean they'll offer new firmware with an updated cgminer to address the issue.

Quote from: -ck on October 08, 2014, 06:47:15 AM

Quote from: ImogenV on October 08, 2014, 06:45:32 AM

Quote from: -ck on October 07, 2014, 05:26:59 AM

It turns out the controller is so low powered that it can only process ~30 shares per second which mean that unless diff is set higher, they work their way into a death spiral before diff catches up. Great...

(quoted from another thread)

Is this a problem if one is using an S4 with solo.ckpool.org?

No. S4s work fine here.

Quote from: -ck on October 07, 2014, 06:26:55 AM

Quote from: dogie on October 07, 2014, 06:15:50 AM

Quote from: BIGBullion on October 03, 2014, 07:10:04 AM

I did a buy on the S4's and their hashrate locally is 2th/s or greater (awesome!) however, when connected to BTCGuild NONE of them show anywhere close to 2 Th/s. They show more like 200 Gh/s. I have 2 that are over 1 Th/s, but the rest between 0 - 278 GH/s. WTF Bitmain? Huh

The fix for now is to use GHash or BTCGuild with 2048 difficulty. Pools with vardiff seem to overload the miners at the start when spamming them with difficulty 16 shares. A new firmware is on the way soon^TM.

Not quite. Rapidly adapting vardiffs also do fine as the ckpool based pools do, but yes they'll hopefully bring out new firmware with the changes I gave them.

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Brainwashed this way

Hey bobsav, it's time to turn those miners back on Cheesy

Or was that you who brought us from 70 to 80 ?

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