As always - plenty of things going on around here
Today we welcomed a new XMG mining pool into the fold, which is rather good actually since we needed a replacement for Noncepool who took their XMG pool down a short time ago. Visit the new
Cloud2b pool at:-
http://xmg.cloud2b.de/index.phpNow of course this means we also have some
New Windows Software Releases to keep up to date. 32 bit and 64 bit supported.
Firstly, for users of the
Autominer software, all you have to do is update the list of mining pools. Run the program:-
C:\XMGminer\Setup.bat
and click "OK" to the welcome screens, then choose "Download latest list of XMG Magi mining pools" from the drop-down menu and click "OK". This will only take a few seconds to download, then return to the drop-down menu again. Now choose "Proceed with setup" and click "OK" and you should be familiar with the rest of it.
If you do not want to alter your present setup, you can download the "beginner package" below and it will live alongside your current software and not interfere with it in any way.
Cloud2b Beginner PackageThis will get you up and running in double-quick time. It is essentially a cut-down version of my Autominer without pool fail-over (*) or the ability to divide the hashing power across multiple pools. The software will start a single instance of the miner and run a number of threads equal to the number of processors in your computer by default, but you can choose a lower number if required. The software runs the miner at LOW priority.
I have designed the package to live in the same folder as my Autominer package i.e C:\XMGminer so that it will share a single copy of the minerd binaries. Also, the distribution package below does not include the minerd binaries so that the initial download does not trigger any anti-virus warnings. The minerd binaries are downloaded automatically if they do not already exist on your computer and a warning about possible interference from anti-virus software is issued before the download starts.
For Cloud2b: https://www.dropbox.com/s/80x0b37owcf07oc/C2poolWin.exeDownload the package and run the executable. This is a self-extracting Zip file which unzips to C:\XMGminer by default. Once unzipped, run the setup file:-
C:\XMGminer\C2setup.bat
You will need to provide your pool username, worker name and worker password. After that you get the choice of how many threads you want to run (default = number of processors), then it asks if you want any custom minerd switches (default = none). The software creates a startup file for you and creates a desktop icon for it.
The whole procedure can be completed in under a minute, provided that you have set up your mining pool account beforehand.
The software also includes options to run an operational test, a benchmark, to download the whole package again and to download the latest minerd binaries, which will come in useful if/when I update the minerd.
(*) I lied. The code does actually include some lines to provide for fail-over to one other pool but I have not implemented it in this release. They "fail-over" to the same pool. If you know a good bit of Windows command line programming you should be able to spot it and implement pool failover just by editing a single line of code. Now there's a challenge for you.
Windows PoolStats Utility UpdateIf you are using this already, then you might have noticed that instead of the entry for Noncepool showing as "Pool closed" there are now some figures showing. These figures are actually the stats for Cloud2b pool right now - looking good for a newbie
I have updated the software on the original link:-
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uxbp8tz9f2occiz/XMGpoolstats.exeDownload the executable and run it. This is a self-extracting Zip file which will unzip the files to folder C:\XMGminer\PoolStats by default. If you are just updating, you do not have to run the Setup.bat again.
Or if you prefer, you can just edit the file C:\XMGminer\PoolStats\XMGpoolstats.bat using Notepad and replace every instance of the string Noncepool with the string Cloud2b (because that is all I had to do)
Happy hashing