Topic: My lightweight C# Bitcoin Miner (Read 11184 times)
Nice to see people working on BTC with C#
Thanks for this, good to have some basic code to work off of and learn...
Awesome, This is much more effective than running lets say bfgminer, on a mid-range laptop (might as well mine while I'm at work!) lol
Good Idea, I might get my work pcs "working" for a change lol.
Awesome, This is much more effective than running lets say bfgminer, on a mid-range laptop (might as well mine while I'm at work!) lol
Hmmm sorry to dampen your enthusiasm, but consider yourself lucky if you get one cent per week...
see:
http://tpbitcalc.appspot.com/?difficulty=11187257.4614&hashrate=0.2&exchangerate=114.40&bitcoinsperblock=25.00&rigcost=99.00&powerconsumption=40.00&powercost=0.10&investmentperiod=355
see:
http://tpbitcalc.appspot.com/?difficulty=11187257.4614&hashrate=0.2&exchangerate=114.40&bitcoinsperblock=25.00&rigcost=99.00&powerconsumption=40.00&powercost=0.10&investmentperiod=355
Yeah,
after a day or so of mining, I finally got one share in btcguild... worth 0.00000071 BTC. Hurray!
Funny to think that it's more profitable to spend your time at bitcoin faucets. Or to collect recyclable bottles and return them to the store. Well, it was a nice exercise.
Neat. I had no idea mining could be that simple.
I compiled the source on an OS X machine by downloading Mono SDK from http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html. The compilation step and running the compiled binary was as easy as:
Let's see if I actually manage to get any bitcoins with my 180 Kh/s miner
Next step: actually understanding what it does
I compiled the source on an OS X machine by downloading Mono SDK from http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html. The compilation step and running the compiled binary was as easy as:
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$ mcs Program.cs
$ mono Program.exe
$ mono Program.exe
Let's see if I actually manage to get any bitcoins with my 180 Kh/s miner
Next step: actually understanding what it does
Hmmm sorry to dampen your enthusiasm, but consider yourself lucky if you get one cent per week...
see:
http://tpbitcalc.appspot.com/?difficulty=11187257.4614&hashrate=0.2&exchangerate=114.40&bitcoinsperblock=25.00&rigcost=99.00&powerconsumption=40.00&powercost=0.10&investmentperiod=355
Good job, will look into this when I got some spare time... Easy sample code is always helpful for understanding concepts
Neat. I had no idea mining could be that simple.
I compiled the source on an OS X machine by downloading Mono SDK from http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html. The compilation step and running the compiled binary was as easy as:
Let's see if I actually manage to get any bitcoins with my 180 Kh/s miner
Next step: actually understanding what it does
I compiled the source on an OS X machine by downloading Mono SDK from http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html. The compilation step and running the compiled binary was as easy as:
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$ mcs Program.cs
$ mono Program.exe
$ mono Program.exe
Let's see if I actually manage to get any bitcoins with my 180 Kh/s miner
Next step: actually understanding what it does
Wow... That's amazing... I'll check out your code
Nice. Thanks for sharing.
Hey,
that was a great work ... Now i can see how it works in a simple way ...
Thanks a lot
that was a great work ... Now i can see how it works in a simple way ...
Thanks a lot
About the binary that is included in your repo: could you post instructions on how to build it?
Can it be built using a free compiler? I have zero C# experience...
That way, anyone can verify that it is indeed derived from the source code. I'm sure it is, and am running it in a VM as a safety measure anyway, but this community is paranoid about new binaries in general, as I'm sure you'll understand.
Can it be built using a free compiler? I have zero C# experience...
That way, anyone can verify that it is indeed derived from the source code. I'm sure it is, and am running it in a VM as a safety measure anyway, but this community is paranoid about new binaries in general, as I'm sure you'll understand.
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Nonetheless incredible amounts of electricity (~1 GW/h) are wasted on mining Bitcoins which is basically spend calculating zillion’s of SHA256 hashes.
Failed.
Source also failed (Virtual Bitcoin Mining Is a Real-World Environmental Disaster)
With that, how much of a failure is this lightweight C# Bitcoin Miner?
Failed in what way? It doesn't reflect your opinion or factual errors?
Really nice and easy to understand! Thanks for this.
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Nonetheless incredible amounts of electricity (~1 GW/h) are wasted on mining Bitcoins which is basically spend calculating zillion’s of SHA256 hashes.
Failed.
Source also failed (Virtual Bitcoin Mining Is a Real-World Environmental Disaster)
With that, how much of a failure is this lightweight C# Bitcoin Miner?
I haven't looked into litecoin mining, yet. So I can't help you with scrypt!
I just started to learn all that stuff a couple of days ago. In fact when I wanted to write a blogpost about my miner I realized how awkwardly unfamiliar a lot of terms and principles still are. If you could have a quick look and correct potential misconception before I make a fool about myself that would be awesome. Blogpost is here: http://blog.pixelpracht.net/
I just started to learn all that stuff a couple of days ago. In fact when I wanted to write a blogpost about my miner I realized how awkwardly unfamiliar a lot of terms and principles still are. If you could have a quick look and correct potential misconception before I make a fool about myself that would be awesome. Blogpost is here: http://blog.pixelpracht.net/
This is awesome! Thank you. I'd also be interested in how to go about an scrypt implementation.
glad you like it!
@betonbro: I implemented the pool communication based on the information on: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Getwork and tested it with btcguild and bitcoin.cz pools.
I'm not familiar with Litecoin and Feathercoin so no idea what it would take to mod it to support that.
@betonbro: I implemented the pool communication based on the information on: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Getwork and tested it with btcguild and bitcoin.cz pools.
I'm not familiar with Litecoin and Feathercoin so no idea what it would take to mod it to support that.
Hi, nice
Is it possible to use it to mine Litecoin or Feathercoin?
Have tried it with mining-foreman.org pool but it says:
ERROR Didn't find valid 'data' in Server Response
Is it possible to use it to mine Litecoin or Feathercoin?
Have tried it with mining-foreman.org pool but it says:
ERROR Didn't find valid 'data' in Server Response
looks like an interesting way to learn a bit more about the technical site of bitcoins, thanks a lot will have a look.
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