Which version of CPUminer are you using that works with XPM?
I thought only specialized miners worked for that, as it wasn't truly scrypt?
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You need a wallet running, and a xCoin.conf set up as you've show (with gen=0). Then you simply connect your cpuminer to http://127.0.0.1: as if you were connecting to a pool and you're all set.
Great, thanks for the responses guys it really helped
You need a wallet running, and a xCoin.conf set up as you've show (with gen=0). Then you simply connect your cpuminer to http://127.0.0.1: as if you were connecting to a pool and you're all set.
No worries.
I'm not too sure, I have never used CPUminer before. I suspect you would provide it with the rpc details so that it requests work from your client and then starts mining. I would expect it should give some output to indicate it is getting work and hashing?
I'm not too sure, I have never used CPUminer before. I suspect you would provide it with the rpc details so that it requests work from your client and then starts mining. I would expect it should give some output to indicate it is getting work and hashing?
Thanks for the answer! 
So more or less, CPUminer will automatically "generate" right?
So more or less, CPUminer will automatically "generate" right?
Setting gen=1 will make the client CPU mine.
If you wish you use an external mining program, either set gen=0 or don't specify one way or the other and most clients should default to no client based mining.
If you wish you use an external mining program, either set gen=0 or don't specify one way or the other and most clients should default to no client based mining.
So pending an answer I have done the following:
Set up coin.conf with
Set up coin.conf with
Code:
gen=1
and I also have CPUminer hitting it, so I'm guessing one of them has to be right....
This is really bugging me I have been searching this question for days and I can't find a straight answer...please help if you know the right answer ...
I want to mine a scrypt coin and in the past (for XPM) I have used the High Performance client miner so I would just start it with -gen & it works... BUT...
If I want to mine a coin WITHOUT a HP client miner & use CPUminer instead, do I still need to use -gen? So I would be setting the xCoin.conf to
rpcuser=user
rpcpass=pass
server=1
daemon=1
rpcport=xxxx
-gen=???
and then connecting CPUminer to the RPCport...
Really really confused here...I don't really understand the difference (if any) between mining and generating a block...so this question is really doing my head in!!
...I want to mine a scrypt coin and in the past (for XPM) I have used the High Performance client miner so I would just start it with -gen & it works... BUT...
If I want to mine a coin WITHOUT a HP client miner & use CPUminer instead, do I still need to use -gen? So I would be setting the xCoin.conf to
rpcuser=user
rpcpass=pass
server=1
daemon=1
rpcport=xxxx
-gen=???
and then connecting CPUminer to the RPCport...
Really really confused here...I don't really understand the difference (if any) between mining and generating a block...so this question is really doing my head in!!
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