Topic: [ANN] The Definitive List of Mac Altcoin Wallets - page 25. (Read 75319 times)

Certainly! Will post here when it's ready.

Hi maxpower,

Any chance of an updated Mac wallet for GameCoin using this repo?

Thank you Max! I will send you some CGB shortly!

Finally, some updates!

• Updated CryptogenicBullion wallet.
• Added BottleCaps wallet.

Thanks! Added to OP.

Processor  2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
Graphics  AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB

and also have access to a macbook pro which has a processor of 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB

I am attempting to mine from macminer from suggestions from people but only see bitcoin and litecoin as an option on there. Is there anyway to mine altcoins through macminer?

I agree it is a worthy endeavor even if I dont turn an immediate profit because I am more interested in helping this community of cryptocurrencies than securing financial gain

Sure! I do a bit of pooled CPU mining. If I didn't make myself clear before I think it's a worthy endeavor even if it's not strictly profitable. What kind of Mac do you have? Do you know what the graphics processor is?

So its not really feasible to mine any of these altcoins on a mac by solo mining it seems but is it a worthy endeavor to join a mining pool for these alt coins?
 

We've had a Mac client since launch for a fair start on Spots

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-spot-successful-fork-complete-on-coinpaymentsnetcryptsycoins-e-259764

If you want to see results from solo mining, follow the "Alternate cryptocurrencies" board for newly-released currencies. You'll have to catch them in their first few days (possibly hours) in order to see any results. Often you can catch them before pools exist, though if you're CPU mining you're still competing against the people with GPUs. Plus you'll probably either have to get their code to compile or run a Windows version of their client. By the time a coin gets enough attention that someone puts the work into making a Mac build.

That said, I believe you can run most of these clients as solo miners in server mode (is that what it's called? someone help me out here) but point a standalone mining app (capable of interfacing with your GPU) at them. You'll still be solo mining but running multiple apps.

That being said, don't get your hopes up if your Mac doesn't have an ATI card. The NVidia cards you can get with a Mac are great for processing graphics, not so great for mining coin. I can get 20MH/s out of my NVidia 8800GT on a good day mining SHA-256, and anyone here will tell you that ain't much. I haven't successfully gotten the NVidia to mine scrypt-based currencies faster that 2-3KH/s, which is slower than a single core of CPU mining.

All of that being said, go for it! It's one of my pet peeves when people say not to bother if you don't have the "right" equipment. You'll learn a lot and hopefully have fun getting it working with whatever you've got to mine with, and if that doesn't discourage you, there's never anything stopping you from upgrading. When you upgrade, you'll 1) be up and running and only learning the ins and outs of the new device, not everything from scratch and 2) have been around the block long enough to make smarter choices about what to buy.

This morning I solo mined two blocks of Lebowskis. It's a joke coin that was launched yesterday but it was a very gratifying experience to be able to solo mine something on my CPU. The days of being able to actually find my very own blocks solo mining anything else are long past. (And yeah, I did it in a Windows virtual machine.)

The "more to it" is video cards -- its going to be tough for you to compete with them even on coins with a relatively low difficulty if ur mining with your CPU  : (   I've been playing a little at solo mining with a sub 5 Mh/s rig and feel like a small fish in a big pond.

I have downloaded these files and attempted to solo mine from them but have yielded no results even with the smallest difficulty of the altcoins. Do I need to to join a pool mining group in order to yield results on a daily basis? Or is there more to it than just simply downloading and clicking solo mine?

That's not good. I'll look at that when my dev system is back up and running, too.

Sorry for the radio silence, I've been moving over the last few days. Bottlecaps is at the top of my list to compile as soon as I get my dev system set up in my new place--probably in a few days. I'll post here when it's ready.

Bitbar must have forked or something, your compiled version won't fully download the Bitbar blockchain.

Sorry for duplicating the PM, but would you consider compiling the Bottlecaps client too?   

UPDATE: Updated CryptogenicBullion wallet.

UPDATES:

• Added Emerald wallet.
• Updated BitGem wallet.
• Updated Namecoin-Qt wallet to the latest beta version.

Great, glad you're finding these builds helpful! I use all the wallets I build, so I know how you feel.

UPDATE: Posted a CryptogenicBullion wallet.