FYI
Etheteum pool status: over 50% of ETH miners are using Stratum pool.
We strongly recommend you this way of mining ethereum.
Advantages od Ethereum Stratum mining:
- reduction of orphaned and uncle blocks
- increased earnings ( my estimate is 5%-10% )
- stratum uses much less bandwidth than getwork protocol
It is really easy to set up. Just download mining_proxy.exe: https://github.com/Coinotron/eth-stratum-mining-proxy/releases/tag/v1.0
and start mining using following commands:
mining_proxy.exe -o coinotron.com -p 3344
ethminer.exe --farm-recheck 200 -G -F http://127.0.0.1:8332/workername:workerpassword
More details you can find here: https://github.com/Coinotron/eth-stratum-mining-proxy
Etheteum pool status: over 50% of ETH miners are using Stratum pool.
We strongly recommend you this way of mining ethereum.
Advantages od Ethereum Stratum mining:
- reduction of orphaned and uncle blocks
- increased earnings ( my estimate is 5%-10% )
- stratum uses much less bandwidth than getwork protocol
It is really easy to set up. Just download mining_proxy.exe: https://github.com/Coinotron/eth-stratum-mining-proxy/releases/tag/v1.0
and start mining using following commands:
mining_proxy.exe -o coinotron.com -p 3344
ethminer.exe --farm-recheck 200 -G -F http://127.0.0.1:8332/workername:workerpassword
More details you can find here: https://github.com/Coinotron/eth-stratum-mining-proxy
Instructions are good.
The one mini-gotcha is that it is really accountname.workername:workerpassword. Knowing this convention is a standard thing for veteran miners, but is usually a source of confusion when someone puts in just their workername / password and get the connection failure output from the proxy miner.
Edit: A 'Nice-to-have' (which i do not see that the Ethminer provides) is the estimated real-time hashrate reached on the submitted work attached to the report as printed out by the mining proxy exe.
The problem is that as i look at the eth miner now, i cannot tell if it is running at the hashrate it should be. (Am i missing a setting/flag on the miner?)
You are right about this "mini-gotcha". I had exactly the same problems when I started mining myself on deepbit and slush pools back in 2011. Currently I'm working on new version of user interface. I will fix those gotchas
Currently we don't support gethashrate provided by Ethminer. I will consider it
