Prerequisites For Mainnet. Unofficial Airdrop Import & Mining Guide. Use At Your Own Risk!

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  1. sambiohazard

    sambiohazard Sr. Member

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    thanks for your appreciation :)
     
  2. Dedale

    Dedale New Member

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    There is no .bat file to run for linux cgminer. I guess i should enter commands in CLI mode. What would those be ?
     
  3. Mike O'Donnell

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    Does anyone know whether/how to start solo mining with minerd instead of cgminer (on Linux, in case that matters). I tried winging it using the options suggested for cgminer and got "[2016-02-08 14:06:31] HTTP request failed: Protocol https not supported or disabled in libcurl" which suggests, alas that my minerd installation is just not compatible with the https. I was solo mining Phoenixcoins with minerd in the past, but I don't remember how the connection was configured.
     
  4. sambiohazard

    sambiohazard Sr. Member

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    for solo mining

    cgminer --blake256 -o https://127.0.0.1:9109 -u rpcuser -p rpcpass

    use your daemon username & password
     
  5. Dedale

    Dedale New Member

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    ok, Thank you. Not the new address generated by drcrdctl in your tutorial ?
     
  6. sambiohazard

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    This coin is dominated by GPUs. minerd is for CPUs so you might as well be wasting your time. Although there is a cpuminer that supports decred.

    https://github.com/tpruvot/cpuminer-multi/tree/decred

    You might need to ask tpruvot how to use this miner.
     
  7. sambiohazard

    sambiohazard Sr. Member

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    you have to use that address while you restart dcrd. As is said in the guide.
     
  8. zero

    zero Full Member

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    #108 zero, Feb 8, 2016
    Last edited: Feb 8, 2016
    Sorry but my complains had nothing to do with your guide. I am just wondering if that found share thing is normal.

    Your guide is helpful and personally I find it very difficult and time consuming to make a flawless guide.

    I personally used your guide and anondran guide for both testnet and mainnet to make my own notes right before launch and everything worked as it should.

    Keep up the good work.
     
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  9. Dedale

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    Ok, sorry to strectch you. i have done what you say and i get this output in a terminal:

    [2016-02-08 21:22:33] Started cgminer 3.7.2
    [2016-02-08 21:22:33] Started cgminer 3.7.2
    [2016-02-08 21:22:34] Probing for an alive pool
    [2016-02-08 21:22:35] Pool 0 slow/down or URL or credentials invalid

    EDIT: strange that it mentions a pool since it is supposed to be solo mining.
     
  10. sambiohazard

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    hmm i am not sure why this is happening, try removing https:// from your command. One user got it to work by doing that. Maybe its different for linux. Try this although i am just guessing now.

    cgminer --blake256 -o 127.0.0.1:9109 -u rpcuser -p rpcpass

    EDIT: also it counts your localhost/your computer as a pool server as you are solo mining, so you are your own pool.
     
  11. HeapsIoN

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    Alright, got my mining working now. Still having troubles with the wallet

    Back to page one :p
     
  12. Dedale

    Dedale New Member

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    Same thing. I also tried to replace https per http.
     
  13. CommanderVenus

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    Step 4 results in the line following the command showing a ">" hanging there not doing anything.
     
  14. Lucien

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    Why i'm receiving this message?

    loadConfig: Mainnet is currently inaccessible, please use testnet or simnet

    when i run the first basic command?

    dcrd --rpcuser [your already created username for dcrd] --rpcpass [your already created strong password for dcrd]
     
  15. Dedale

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  16. Spayse

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    no connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it
     
  17. sambiohazard

    sambiohazard Sr. Member

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    If you are on linux try
    cgminer --blake256 -o 127.0.0.1:9109 -u rpcuser -p rpcpass
     
  18. HeapsIoN

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    Have you got the daemon running?
     
  19. sambiohazard

    sambiohazard Sr. Member

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    I am not sure Probably @davecgh can answer if he is available.
     
  20. Lucien

    Lucien New Member

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    if i run dcrd -u username -P password i got the message mainnet is not running
     

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