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smoothrunnings

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Quote from: ProfMac on January 18, 2014, 07:38:17 PM

Quote from: smoothrunnings on January 18, 2014, 07:32:37 PM

Quote from: ProfMac on January 17, 2014, 04:09:53 PM

Quote from: Luke-Jr on January 17, 2014, 01:53:33 PM

I don't think it's worth your time to bother with the scamcoins: remember you need to maintain a working full node for them, and IIRC the ones with merged mining are all buggy and a pain to keep running (besides namecoin, anyway).
That being said, if you guys want to setup a bounty on something, I will of course consider it.

Unrelated note: I still don't have an Avalon myself to work with, so if anyone is planning to get rid of theirs, please let me know...

I want to end up with (a) shell script(s) that can start with a fully standard newly installed & updated Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) that has bytecoind built & installed,

1. do apt-get install
2. git an eloipool distribution
3. perform any necessary localizations and have bytecoin mine to that eloipool installation.

I am aware of the eloipool installation thread, but I still have some learning curve and have not been successful getting it to work. I don't know whether I am an hour or a month away from reconciling the working system that I have, and the differences between it and the forum thread's procedure.

I can provide access to a VirtualBox installation of Ubuntu with bytecoind if that will be helpful.
I have a 2nd VM with a working eloipool + bytecoin, but this was the result of unzipping a file sent by a forum member, and I want to have a process that goes to official sources.

What sort of bounty would interest you in this?

What's the difference between eloipool and P2Pool?

P2Pool doesn't work well with ASICs.

Explain what you mean exactly?

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Quote from: smoothrunnings on January 18, 2014, 07:32:37 PM

Quote from: ProfMac on January 17, 2014, 04:09:53 PM

Quote from: Luke-Jr on January 17, 2014, 01:53:33 PM

I don't think it's worth your time to bother with the scamcoins: remember you need to maintain a working full node for them, and IIRC the ones with merged mining are all buggy and a pain to keep running (besides namecoin, anyway).
That being said, if you guys want to setup a bounty on something, I will of course consider it.

Unrelated note: I still don't have an Avalon myself to work with, so if anyone is planning to get rid of theirs, please let me know...

I want to end up with (a) shell script(s) that can start with a fully standard newly installed & updated Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) that has bytecoind built & installed,

1. do apt-get install
2. git an eloipool distribution
3. perform any necessary localizations and have bytecoin mine to that eloipool installation.

I am aware of the eloipool installation thread, but I still have some learning curve and have not been successful getting it to work. I don't know whether I am an hour or a month away from reconciling the working system that I have, and the differences between it and the forum thread's procedure.

I can provide access to a VirtualBox installation of Ubuntu with bytecoind if that will be helpful.
I have a 2nd VM with a working eloipool + bytecoin, but this was the result of unzipping a file sent by a forum member, and I want to have a process that goes to official sources.

What sort of bounty would interest you in this?

What's the difference between eloipool and P2Pool?

P2Pool doesn't work well with ASICs.

smoothrunnings

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Quote from: ProfMac on January 17, 2014, 04:09:53 PM

Quote from: Luke-Jr on January 17, 2014, 01:53:33 PM

I don't think it's worth your time to bother with the scamcoins: remember you need to maintain a working full node for them, and IIRC the ones with merged mining are all buggy and a pain to keep running (besides namecoin, anyway).
That being said, if you guys want to setup a bounty on something, I will of course consider it.

Unrelated note: I still don't have an Avalon myself to work with, so if anyone is planning to get rid of theirs, please let me know...

I want to end up with (a) shell script(s) that can start with a fully standard newly installed & updated Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) that has bytecoind built & installed,

1. do apt-get install
2. git an eloipool distribution
3. perform any necessary localizations and have bytecoin mine to that eloipool installation.

I am aware of the eloipool installation thread, but I still have some learning curve and have not been successful getting it to work. I don't know whether I am an hour or a month away from reconciling the working system that I have, and the differences between it and the forum thread's procedure.

I can provide access to a VirtualBox installation of Ubuntu with bytecoind if that will be helpful.
I have a 2nd VM with a working eloipool + bytecoin, but this was the result of unzipping a file sent by a forum member, and I want to have a process that goes to official sources.

What sort of bounty would interest you in this?

What's the difference between eloipool and P2Pool?

smoothrunnings

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Do the Gen1 Avalon's support jumbo frames, has anyone tried?

Thanks,

smoothrunnings

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That looks like a Gen2 board which if I understand it correctly will need a different controller to get them running at 200GH/s, but I could be wrong.

fasmax

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I have almost finished my project to adapt an Avalon module to a Klondike backplane controller.
I have purchased a defective module from ste0024 to develop this with.
I was going to break the Avalon module down into smaller units but decided not to do it that way.
The board accepts an Avalon module and looks like 4 Klondike units.
Here is a picture of what it looks like.
One Klondike unit is hashing at 1/2 the expected rate because of the defective sub-unit on this module.
This is running at 345mhz.
https://i.imgur.com/kcixt6d.jpg

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That module must use Avalon gen 2 chips.
Do you see any thing that has burnt?
If you have a voltmeter check the voltage across the larger ceramic capacitor that's between the Avalon chips.
This should be around 1 volt I think.
If the voltages are OK then it gets harder to determine what is wrong.
Where are you located?

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I could use a little help. I purchased two Avalon-based miners from the following seller:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/group-buy-worldwidebtmine-v1-miner-200ghs-btc-24-379819

They both arrived in working condition and each was hashing at ~200Gh/s. I was doing some housekeeping this morning - moving them around, plugging them into different outlets, etc. However, afterwards one of my miners was only hashing at ~130Gh/s. I took the whole thing apart down to each cable and board and started troubleshooting. After trying every possible combination, I isolated the problem to a bad Avalon board. It looks like this:

Each miner has two of these boards, and one of the boards will mine at ~100Gh/s but the other board only mines at 30Gh/s. I plugged them in individually to confirm this. I also swapped everything (cables, etc) to confirm the board itself is the issue.

Any idea on how to fix this board? And if it's not repairable, is there someplace I can purchase one? This looks like something that several Chinese companies are using, so I think it is pretty generic. The manufacturer is very unresponsive unfortunately and I might have to bite the bullet and buy one elsewhere.

Thanks!

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Quote from: ProfMac on January 17, 2014, 04:09:53 PM

Quote from: Luke-Jr on January 17, 2014, 01:53:33 PM

I don't think it's worth your time to bother with the scamcoins: remember you need to maintain a working full node for them, and IIRC the ones with merged mining are all buggy and a pain to keep running (besides namecoin, anyway).
That being said, if you guys want to setup a bounty on something, I will of course consider it.

Unrelated note: I still don't have an Avalon myself to work with, so if anyone is planning to get rid of theirs, please let me know...

I want to end up with (a) shell script(s) that can start with a fully standard newly installed & updated Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) that has bytecoind built & installed,

1. do apt-get install
2. git an eloipool distribution
3. perform any necessary localizations and have bytecoin mine to that eloipool installation.

I am aware of the eloipool installation thread, but I still have some learning curve and have not been successful getting it to work. I don't know whether I am an hour or a month away from reconciling the working system that I have, and the differences between it and the forum thread's procedure.

I can provide access to a VirtualBox installation of Ubuntu with bytecoind if that will be helpful.
I have a 2nd VM with a working eloipool + bytecoin, but this was the result of unzipping a file sent by a forum member, and I want to have a process that goes to official sources.

What sort of bounty would interest you in this?

Luke,
I will just need mm proxy sample to talk to scam coins daemons and any specific secrets to scam coin + Nmc daemons also
Wink

Profmac,
Probably best will be to open a bounty thread with public record of donations. I am sure that when we collect enough Luke will show up. The best will be that he will answer to our questions later? Thee is not universal how to

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Quote from: Luke-Jr on January 17, 2014, 01:53:33 PM

I don't think it's worth your time to bother with the scamcoins: remember you need to maintain a working full node for them, and IIRC the ones with merged mining are all buggy and a pain to keep running (besides namecoin, anyway).
That being said, if you guys want to setup a bounty on something, I will of course consider it.

Unrelated note: I still don't have an Avalon myself to work with, so if anyone is planning to get rid of theirs, please let me know...

I want to end up with (a) shell script(s) that can start with a fully standard newly installed & updated Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) that has bytecoind built & installed,

1. do apt-get install
2. git an eloipool distribution
3. perform any necessary localizations and have bytecoin mine to that eloipool installation.

I am aware of the eloipool installation thread, but I still have some learning curve and have not been successful getting it to work. I don't know whether I am an hour or a month away from reconciling the working system that I have, and the differences between it and the forum thread's procedure.

I can provide access to a VirtualBox installation of Ubuntu with bytecoind if that will be helpful.
I have a 2nd VM with a working eloipool + bytecoin, but this was the result of unzipping a file sent by a forum member, and I want to have a process that goes to official sources.

What sort of bounty would interest you in this?

ProfMac

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Quote from: Luke-Jr on January 17, 2014, 01:53:33 PM

I don't think it's worth your time to bother with the scamcoins: remember you need to maintain a working full node for them, and IIRC the ones with merged mining are all buggy and a pain to keep running (besides namecoin, anyway).
That being said, if you guys want to setup a bounty on something, I will of course consider it.

Unrelated note: I still don't have an Avalon myself to work with, so if anyone is planning to get rid of theirs, please let me know...

I have copied your SSH public key to an Avalon that I bought recently. This is a Batch #1 unit. I also have a Batch #2 unit available.

You should be able to ssh into [email protected]:1701

I generally try to keep this unit mining. It is touch & go whether it will pay for itself. However, if it will help you, please feel free to use it for testing.

loshia

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Quote from: Luke-Jr on January 17, 2014, 01:53:33 PM

I don't think it's worth your time to bother with the scamcoins: remember you need to maintain a working full node for them, and IIRC the ones with merged mining are all buggy and a pain to keep running (besides namecoin, anyway).
That being said, if you guys want to setup a bounty on something, I will of course consider it.

Unrelated note: I still don't have an Avalon myself to work with, so if anyone is planning to get rid of theirs, please let me know...

Thanks Luke! Guy's what about to collect some bounty and have how to from an expert?
We can skip scam coins if we like of course

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I don't think it's worth your time to bother with the scamcoins: remember you need to maintain a working full node for them, and IIRC the ones with merged mining are all buggy and a pain to keep running (besides namecoin, anyway).
That being said, if you guys want to setup a bounty on something, I will of course consider it.

Unrelated note: I still don't have an Avalon myself to work with, so if anyone is planning to get rid of theirs, please let me know...

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Quote from: loshia on January 17, 2014, 01:28:19 PM

Mm proxy is doing the trick it is located in Luke GitHub. I am damn sure that it is a pice of cake for him. So I propose if you want to open a thread with a bounty for him or someone else who can write tutorial. I hate that word though. We need btc + 4 alt coins
I do not have time to moderate / collect in such a thread that will be best approach in my point of view
What do you think? Besides all we know that a single mistake in the setup can cost a lot

what about you Luke? Are you going to do it?

I actually let Luke-Jr have a SSH login to my TP-503n router before my Avalon arrived, and moved that login to my Avalon once it did arrived. I decided not to approach him about this project because he is pretty outspoken against alt coins.

However, the bounty idea is not a bad one. I had forgotten that.

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Quote from: ProfMac on January 17, 2014, 01:16:42 PM

Quote from: loshia on January 17, 2014, 08:47:14 AM

Quote from: ProfMac on January 17, 2014, 07:52:01 AM

Quote from: loshia on January 17, 2014, 07:07:47 AM

ProfMac,
Will you share how you did it? Soon i plan to move al my avalons to solo before switching them off. As far as i know we can mine 4 Alt coins + BTC
Posting your configs + modes will be enough or patch Grin

Thank you

I'm working on a script that will pull the eloipool git, and apt-get install the support libraries for a Ubuntu VM. It's not ready to release yet.

I anticipate that all the Avalons will mine alt coins sometime soon. There is one pool + exchange that is implementing auto switching to the most profitable alt coin. They are having trouble with the fast ASICs at the moment, but they are actively working on a fix. This is http://www.coinex.pw for worker registration, and stratum+tcp://stratum.coinex.pw:9944 for the pool address. I'm mining BTE on it with one of my Avalons.

Even during beta, their switched pool has 5 TH/s. Even with an Avalon, I think solo mining is a thing of the past.

Not quite true. By my calcs merging 4 alt coins + BTC can almost pay the power bill. And you can wait safely for the jackpot Wink

However i am about to do it solo. That is what i was asking. There are a plenty of good tutorials how to setup eloipool. The interesting part is pool config and most interesting is merged mining proxy support for all alt coins Wink

I did set up a virtual machine, made the Bytecoin client, and unpacked a zip file that someone on the forums sent me. I went through the tutorial from a thread here on bitcointalk and also the diff files between bitcoin and bytecoin sources, and made the changes to the init file.

My impression at the moment is that the git that I am working with is a solo mining version that is hard wired to 1 coin. The block payout address is hardwired into the initialization source. This is my first Python project, and so far I do not have a good understanding of the source.

I'm willing to forward the zip file to you. I don't know enough about git to know if is a useful too to just deposits diffs or otherwise help with this effort.

Mm proxy is doing the trick it is located in Luke GitHub. I am damn sure that it is a pice of cake for him. So I propose if you want to open a thread with a bounty for him or someone else who can write tutorial. I hate that word though. We need btc + 4 alt coins
I do not have time to moderate / collect in such a thread that will be best approach in my point of view
What do you think? Besides all we know that a single mistake in the setup can cost a lot

what about you Luke? Are you going to do it?

ProfMac

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Quote from: loshia on January 17, 2014, 08:47:14 AM

Quote from: ProfMac on January 17, 2014, 07:52:01 AM

Quote from: loshia on January 17, 2014, 07:07:47 AM

ProfMac,
Will you share how you did it? Soon i plan to move al my avalons to solo before switching them off. As far as i know we can mine 4 Alt coins + BTC
Posting your configs + modes will be enough or patch Grin

Thank you

I'm working on a script that will pull the eloipool git, and apt-get install the support libraries for a Ubuntu VM. It's not ready to release yet.

I anticipate that all the Avalons will mine alt coins sometime soon. There is one pool + exchange that is implementing auto switching to the most profitable alt coin. They are having trouble with the fast ASICs at the moment, but they are actively working on a fix. This is http://www.coinex.pw for worker registration, and stratum+tcp://stratum.coinex.pw:9944 for the pool address. I'm mining BTE on it with one of my Avalons.

Even during beta, their switched pool has 5 TH/s. Even with an Avalon, I think solo mining is a thing of the past.

Not quite true. By my calcs merging 4 alt coins + BTC can almost pay the power bill. And you can wait safely for the jackpot Wink

However i am about to do it solo. That is what i was asking. There are a plenty of good tutorials how to setup eloipool. The interesting part is pool config and most interesting is merged mining proxy support for all alt coins Wink

I did set up a virtual machine, made the Bytecoin client, and unpacked a zip file that someone on the forums sent me. I went through the tutorial from a thread here on bitcointalk and also the diff files between bitcoin and bytecoin sources, and made the changes to the init file.

My impression at the moment is that the git that I am working with is a solo mining version that is hard wired to 1 coin. The block payout address is hardwired into the initialization source. This is my first Python project, and so far I do not have a good understanding of the source.

I'm willing to forward the zip file to you. I don't know enough about git to know if is a useful too to just deposits diffs or otherwise help with this effort.

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rm -rf stupidity

Have 4 Avalon 2 BTMiner setups so basically knock off 55nm setups. The 703N is failing in one of them but at least from the markings I've seen in most threads it is a knock off unit. No TP-Link logo on the bottom side. Basically if you try to access it from time to time via web interface it becomes unresponsive and you have to power cycle the unit.

Is there any options beside the 703N? Something like the WR3020 or something of that nature. I originally had them all connected via USB to my linux box but went back to the TP-Link solution.

Thanks for any suggestions.

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Quote from: ProfMac on January 17, 2014, 07:52:01 AM

Quote from: loshia on January 17, 2014, 07:07:47 AM

ProfMac,
Will you share how you did it? Soon i plan to move al my avalons to solo before switching them off. As far as i know we can mine 4 Alt coins + BTC
Posting your configs + modes will be enough or patch Grin

Thank you

I'm working on a script that will pull the eloipool git, and apt-get install the support libraries for a Ubuntu VM. It's not ready to release yet.

I anticipate that all the Avalons will mine alt coins sometime soon. There is one pool + exchange that is implementing auto switching to the most profitable alt coin. They are having trouble with the fast ASICs at the moment, but they are actively working on a fix. This is http://www.coinex.pw for worker registration, and stratum+tcp://stratum.coinex.pw:9944 for the pool address. I'm mining BTE on it with one of my Avalons.

Even during beta, their switched pool has 5 TH/s. Even with an Avalon, I think solo mining is a thing of the past.

Not quite true. By my calcs merging 4 alt coins + BTC can almost pay the power bill. And you can wait safely for the jackpot Wink

However i am about to do it solo. That is what i was asking. There are a plenty of good tutorials how to setup eloipool. The interesting part is pool config and most interesting is merged mining proxy support for all alt coins Wink

ProfMac

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Quote from: loshia on January 17, 2014, 07:07:47 AM

ProfMac,
Will you share how you did it? Soon i plan to move al my avalons to solo before switching them off. As far as i know we can mine 4 Alt coins + BTC
Posting your configs + modes will be enough or patch Grin

Thank you

I'm working on a script that will pull the eloipool git, and apt-get install the support libraries for a Ubuntu VM. It's not ready to release yet.

I anticipate that all the Avalons will mine alt coins sometime soon. There is one pool + exchange that is implementing auto switching to the most profitable alt coin. They are having trouble with the fast ASICs at the moment, but they are actively working on a fix. This is http://www.coinex.pw for worker registration, and stratum+tcp://stratum.coinex.pw:9944 for the pool address. I'm mining BTE on it with one of my Avalons.

Even during beta, their switched pool has 5 TH/s. Even with an Avalon, I think solo mining is a thing of the past.

loshia

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Quote from: ProfMac on January 16, 2014, 09:28:15 PM

Quote from: brain brain on January 16, 2014, 09:20:59 PM

Please forgive me, I've searched and can't find this info in the thread, so I apologize if I missed it...

I'm solo-mining on my Avalon chip-based rigs and they seem to be using getwork and not GBT.

In the "More Options(Default: --quiet)" field I've tried the trio of "--quiet --no-getwork --no-stratum" and then it won't start hashing at all.

So, when solo mining, I'm getting about 1850 Getworks per minute and about 185 Getwork Fails (10% seems like a non-random number)...

Some system stats:
Firmware-20131110, cgminer-3.4.3, 16x55nm chips, about 200gh/s total per unit

My impression is that you must use stratum to get an Avalon to mine. I pulled a version of eloipool and modified it to work with an alt coin, and my Batch #2 Avalon did mine 1 block with it. This was just proof of concept and curiosity, not a production mining configuration.

ProfMac,
Will you share how you did it? Soon i plan to move al my avalons to solo before switching them off. As far as i know we can mine 4 Alt coins + BTC
Posting your configs + modes will be enough or patch Grin

Thank you

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