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Topic: Gridseed and BFGminer. Easy to setup compared to CGminer? (Read 11576 times)

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I wondered with all the new ASIC scripts coming out. Is based off the Gridseed chip.
legendary
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nice dude. How long does your computer last before you have to restart it?
We've had to restart once, and that's because the PSU for the GS got bumped, and the ground cable became unplugged. Other than that, it's been solid.
legendary
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Try the following setup with a raspberry pi and bfgminer https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/how-to-mine-with-gridseeds-and-a-raspberry-pi-517451. I was not happy with cgmienr 3.7.2 on Win7 or raspberry pi because the hashrate would slow down after 6-10 hours with more than 10 miners and the reject rate went from 0.45% to 3%.
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nice dude. How long does your computer last before you have to restart it?
legendary
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We're running 12 GS on Ubuntu and CGMiner. No issues at all, and it works really nice!
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Hi everyone,

I am actually really interested on Gridseed. Has anyone tested Gridseed out on BFGminer? If so, how easy is it to use on BFGminer? If you could give a simple run down that would be great.

I can't add anymore BTC miners it would be too much load for my home. So would love to run a couple Gridseeds.

don't buy it

it's very expensive

you can have better choice
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This thread is misleading because of the title's missing question mark........

imho
J
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Hi,
   any screenshot?
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If you just want to do LTC a note book is easy as cake. I ran mine on Multiminer until I figured out dual mode on the RPi. I am actually helping to build a Distro that can dual mine gridseed with a webUI on a PI you can check it out here https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=9908.msg144472#msg144472

I think, for the time being at least, that it really is worth it to run dual mine on these. It is only profitable for 3-4 months (I pay $.10/kWh) but it will reduce your break-even date by about half. Otherwise LTC mode on a PC especially is incredibly simple, and I know that Nwoolls and Luke-jr are working on support in the next release of bfg.

In the meantime you can compile yourself from here https://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer/tree/feature/gridseed-dualminer-support
and there are some particularly good instructions on how to do so here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/how-to-mine-with-gridseeds-and-a-raspberry-pi-517451

Feel free to shoot me a PM if you need any pointers
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Hi everyone,

I am actually really interested on Gridseed. Has anyone tested Gridseed out on BFGminer? If so, how easy is it to use on BFGminer? If you could give a simple run down that would be great.

I can't add anymore BTC miners it would be too much load for my home. So would love to run a couple Gridseeds.

I have, I am running one on an RPi with BFG that I compiled from Nwoolls gridseed fork. It is a bit more difficult than most mining setups, but if are comfortable with running your miners by command line you shouldn't have any major issues. Once you've got it all setup with the correct flags and written a config file for both BTC and LTC, then mining is pretty easy, but there was a fair amount of trial and error that went into it

Thanks DocGonzzo. I manually enter command lines. I am planning instead of the RPi, I am going to buy a notebook dedicated to mining. Would the install be much easier. I am interested in getting Litecoins. I am already running a crazy BTC rig that equals 30 BFLs so I have no more amps left. I am basically doing 9k worth of watts per hour. I was looking at the Gridseed.
newbie
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Hi everyone,

I am actually really interested on Gridseed. Has anyone tested Gridseed out on BFGminer? If so, how easy is it to use on BFGminer? If you could give a simple run down that would be great.

I can't add anymore BTC miners it would be too much load for my home. So would love to run a couple Gridseeds.

I have, I am running one on an RPi with BFG that I compiled from Nwoolls gridseed fork. It is a bit more difficult than most mining setups, but if are comfortable with running your miners by command line you shouldn't have any major issues. Once you've got it all setup with the correct flags and written a config file for both BTC and LTC, then mining is pretty easy, but there was a fair amount of trial and error that went into it
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Does anyone run the Grid Seeds?
member
Activity: 98
Merit: 10
Hi everyone,

I am actually really interested on Gridseed. Has anyone tested Gridseed out on BFGminer? If so, how easy is it to use on BFGminer? If you could give a simple run down that would be great.

I can't add anymore BTC miners it would be too much load for my home. So would love to run a couple Gridseeds.
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