Ok I'll give it a go
Ive run namecoind under windows and opened another dos window and have downloaded all the blocks but now what? Ive taken a punt I need to run the getwork cmd but am I actually mining?
This is what I'm seeing:
c:\>Namecoin\namecoind getinfo
{
"version" : 32150,
"balance" : 0.00000000,
"blocks" : 12628,
"connections" : 8,
"proxy" : "",
"generate" : false,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"difficulty" : 15071.20565385,
"hashespersec" : 0,
"testnet" : false,
"keypoololdest" : 1308133738,
"paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
"errors" : ""
Also, how do u select the program to mine using the CPU instead of my video card?
Mining softare/config is the same as for BTC... check the forum for specifics:
http://dot-bit.org/forumwith the phoenix miner connecting to the Bitpark pool, I have a bat file with:
phoenix.exe -u
http://NFcqBy2wEnRKjBZZD5AGoTt37zwd5WrhLQ:[email protected]:9098/ -k poclbm BFI_INT VECTORS AGGRESSION=13 WORKSIZE=128 DEVICE=0 FASTLOOP=false
NFcqBy2wEnRKjBZZD5AGoTt37zwd5WrhLQ = needs to be your address
get that by entering at the command prompt: namecoind getgenerate
or namecoind getgenerate >> address.txt
which will place the address in a text file
password can be anything, it's not actually used
No idea about CPU... not good for mining, but I suppose if you use the -t
flag you could use it alongside the GPU without affecting the GPU performance
Too bad the pool is down more than 50% of the time after people started bragging so much about how profitable it is to mine namecoins. Doesn't help that the price went down 35% the last few hours either.
Yeah, nightmare. Major waste of hash rate. Need more pools !
The mass of miners who joined up recently, now have 24 hours plus of coins, and they have obviously started to unload them.
Is namecoind the only thing available at this time?
