Topic: A beginners guide to CPU Mining On Ubuntu 12.04 [TuT] (Read 36750 times)

I will try your guide for my laptop UBUNTU mining some altcoins

Can it even payout? I was thinking of running a miner for some altcoins but I have a shitty pc. Is mining with a slower pc profitable in any way and is there any preset miner for any kind of alt?

If you are telling that this PC is older and buying a HDD is wasted, then why do  you want to mine, as i think your PC is not sufficient to load ubantu and the latest version is high configured.

How much hard drive space does ubantu take up ? I'm looking for a way to mine on my PC withough a HDD just a USB drive. Its an older PC and buying a HDD fpr it would be wasted.

Need Help Any One Help me i have 24 core Server i start Server After slushpool Not Show My date

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Yes it is, however, the speed is far too slow.

Thank You Conch!  
I installed CPU miner but I didn't know how to mine with it. In windows we can use a notepad file and save it as a .bat file. But in Ubuntu I was totally confused. I like to donate BTC but unfortunately I don't have enough BTC to donate. If you find any affiliate program in any site that would give you BTC when I sign up, please post the your referral link. So that I can sign up through your referral link and you can get ~0.011-0.0011 BTC .

The thread was made in 2012, and OP knew CPU-mining bitcoin is pretty pointless in 2012 

Great tutorial but wouldn't it make more sense to post this in the mining section?

Thanks for the tutorial

If I wanted to run another pool (eg. quirkcoin) at the same time, can I run another term window with the same minerd command with credentials relating to that pool?

Also, is it advisable to run more than one?

Thanks in advance.

I'm gonna check this out, seems like a great tutorial. thanks!

This is a dedicated server running ubuntu with Intel Core i5 Processor and 16 GB of RAM Memory. What should I do?

If you want to mine with CPU, you could at least mine a coin that is only minable with CPU, like Primecoin or Quarkcoin.

This means its working correctly?

http://i62.tinypic.com/jz7b6b.jpg

Hey great tutorial!

I followed it very closely, and I'm getting an error I can't seem to find a solution to. I am using the same mining pool as you, and have followed the same formatting for starting to mine. This is what I get though:

toast@toast:~/Desktop/cpuminer-1.0.2$ sudo minerd --url http://api.bitcoin.cz:8332 --userpass USER:PASS
[2013-05-27 15:24:07] Binding thread 0 to cpu 0
[2013-05-27 15:24:07] HTTP request failed: The requested URL returned error: 502
[2013-05-27 15:24:07] json_rpc_call failed, retry after 30 seconds
[2013-05-27 15:24:08] Binding thread 1 to cpu 1
[2013-05-27 15:24:09] Binding thread 2 to cpu 2
[2013-05-27 15:24:10] Binding thread 3 to cpu 3
[2013-05-27 15:24:11] 4 miner threads started, using SHA256 'c' algorithm.
[2013-05-27 15:24:38] HTTP request failed: The requested URL returned error: 502
[2013-05-27 15:24:38] json_rpc_call failed, retry after 30 seconds


That error then keeps repeating. Every once in a while theres a 403 error, but mostly all 502. Any ideas?

Gabi guide to mining:
CPU mining: useless
GPU mining: almost useless

What to do: get ASICs

 

Yes, cpu mining is totally useless

Even with being in a mining pool, would it still be pointless?

Hey guys, I'm pretty bored right now till I get released from the newbie section so I thought I'd write a little guide, to help people get started in Mining.

I figured it would be easier for people to start CPU Mining to begin with, then they can move onto GPU mining, once they feel comfortable.

Note: CPU mining is pretty pointless, the reason I'm writing this guide is to help people get started with the basics, I tried mining on a single core CPU laptop, it was absolutely pointless, and I run the risk of overheating my laptop and I basically got no where, if you want to be a dedicated miner, I recommend buying/using a rig fitted with a GPU.

With that out of the way, let's begin..

So I presume you're using the latest Ubuntu edition which is, 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) If you're using Windows, there are guides you can follow on here

We are going to be using a command line miner called "CPUMiner" - Don't worry if you don't feel comfortable using the terminal, and want to use GUI's. - It's really easy
Besides, you're using Linux, almost everything is done in the Terminal for quicker tasks

Open up the terminal, and we want to install some dependencies for CPUMiner,
Type..
Press "Y" to continue installing, Once done, go to this page..

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1925.0

And extract the folder to your Desktop.
Now back in the terminal, type:
Example of recent version..

Now we need to install it from source.
Back in the terminal, type:

Hopefully no errors will occur, which means we successfully installed from source.
Now whenever you want to use CPUMiner, we can call it anywhere from the /bin/ dir. - Don't worry if you don't understand, It's not needed

Now back in the terminal, type:

We're just going to be using the minimal switch arguments, which is --URL - For the Mining Pool we want to join to start mining.
And: --userpass Username:Password for the worker which is assigned to the pool. Again don't worry if you don't understand, it will all become clear

This is the Mining pool I use:- https://mining.bitcoin.cz/
As you can see on their homepage, the URL is right in front of your eyes after you scroll down a bit We will use this in CPUMiner, it is as follows:

Now register yourself an account on Bitcoin.cz, once done, assign a new worker - This will be used for the Username:Password in CPUMiner.
A worker is as follows: So mine could be:
This is the full username followed by : Then the password.
So to wrap this up and get the CPUminer running for you. Type in the Terminal:

Replace Conch.MiningPool:Password - To your own Username and Password.

It should start calculating your hashes and you're off
There will be a few messages pop up, like the status of your Mining progress, from "Yay!!!" - for Good (Working well) & "Boooo" - For bad, (basically meaning you're mining for nothing because it isn't working This could be because of a wrong password or other problem though.)

And that wraps it all up, I hope you learn something from this tutorial
I also can't stress this enough, if you want to earn cash in your back pocket, please consider upgrading for a GPU/power rig

If you found this tutorial useful please feel free to drop me a little BTC, every penny, ahem.. BTC counts :
. - I'll do my best to bring more tutorials.

Regards,
~Conch.