Hash down to 29 ths, so switched on a miner at Miningpools.tk. 5 blocks so far.
@FK (and other miners using these new-fangled mining pools for UNO) ...
God I miss miningpool.co. They shut down recently because apparently they weren't profitable. But they were so straightforward to use, they were great. Apparently I wasn't the only one who felt this way, as they often constituted more than half of the entire network hash!
Before that I had been using uno.coin-pool.org. They were so-so/ok, except for one major flaw: if you happened to leave their "dashboard" open in your browser, you'd come back and find that (at best) your browser was locked up tighter than a clam and you'd have to kill it (if you could), and -- more often than not -- you'd have to reboot your entire machine!
So after miningpool.co's demise, I tried digitalgold.co. More on this below...
And now I just tried your suggested miningpools.tk.
I go to the "Getting Started" link there. Only two options:
1. Download NOMP app
Our preconfigured app makes mining that easy.
I click that, and it comes back with an Alert saying "NOMP app development still in progress.", and your only choice is to click "OK". (And what the heck does "NOMP" mean anyway?)
Okey dokey, so let's try option #2:
2. Select a coin for connection details
Configurations for each coin are available for advanced miners
I click that one (it IS a link) but nothing happens.
Okey dokey.
Now there's a list on the left of a whole bunch of coins. So I scroll down and click on "Unobtanium". Nothing happens. I wash, rinse and repeat Options 1 and 2 again, then scroll down and click on "Unobtanium" again. Nothing. Somehow, I scroll back up and see there was indeed a hidden Alert/info box/whatever you want to call it, waaay up at the top. It says:
Configuration:
Username: your unobtanium wallet address
Password: anything
Algorithm: sha256
URL (difficulty 512): stratum+tcp://miningpools.tk:80
Ahh, now maybe we're getting somewhere. Except none of these fields are editable, so I certainly can't paste in a UNO address in the "Username" field.
OK, so let's look some more. There's a "Worker's Stats" link at the top, I click it. Nobody is mining UNO there. I'm starting to get more bummed than I already was.
Hmm, what else? Ah, there's a "Mining Key" link at the top. I decide to check that out.
In so doing, I run into the same quagmire I ran into at digitalgold.co. In fact, they look like they're running the
exact same script. I'm pretty sure they are.
This sure ain't the kind of stuff for granny. In fact, this ain't the kind of stuff for grandson. Let's look at it. Note that all these keys and address are *generated*, you can't edit them, not even your Public UNO address...
NO NOT LOSE THIS PRIVATE KEY. Any coins mined using this public key can only be controlled with this private key.
Private key: a...
Key for mining (hashed public key): c...
An address for any type of coin can be derived from this mining key -
and each of those coin address can only be controlled by this private key
Public Unobtanium address: u... [ed: uneditable!]
Private Unobtanium key in wallet import format: 8X...
How to import your private key for Unobtanium:
Open your Unobtanium wallet app
Go to Help -> click Debug window -> click Console tab
Enter the following command: importprivkey 8X...
So I go to the Console...
20:20:52
Welcome to the Unobtanium RPC console.
Use up and down arrows to navigate history, and Ctrl-L to clear screen.
Type help for an overview of available commands.
And I paste in the above "importprivkey 8X...":
00:04:16
importprivkey 8X...
00:04:16
Error adding key to wallet (code -4)This is the exact thing I got when I tried these buck-teeth, taped up glasses, pocket-protector convolutions with the same script at digitalgold.co.
God I miss miningpool.co.
I'm not mining now, haven't been for 10 days or so.
@BW, I know you don't read this forum, but please hurry up and bring MM to UNO, and please make it doable by mere mortals! :-)
This shouldn't be this hard for normal folks.
