Testnet Only Guide: How I Got My Daemon, Wallet, And Miner Running & Also Started Solo Stake Mining

You are a good man, patiently help me

 

Just realized I can't mine to a remote wallet with TLS disabled. Hopefully, with mainnet, we can have TLS enable with Windows.


-tb-

 

Must i insert the command in deamon or miner?
Is the -u and -p as in step 1 or 5?
And how do i check how many blocks i ve mined?

 

Hi
with your guide I'm mining but I have a doubt with compiling start_local.bat. I have to enter in addition to user and password even my wallet Ts ... etc? thanks

 

sambiohazard, do you anticipate being able to get something like this out early after mainnet so we (miners who may need your guide to get going) can all get a jump on mining before the farms get on board?

 

I believe that the start_local.bat file consist of the things you need to input. all you need to do is change the -u user -p pass to your own user and pass, save and run. It should work. =)

 

you guys sure get your mining up fast.. I opened the mining for 30 mins and didn't even get accepted lololol..

 

Same here, tried this out with a hd 7800 series gpu. Its running 40 minutes now. (mining about 900mh/s on average)
Are we doing something wrong? or doesn't it just go that fast?

Upperscreen of the cgminer window:

cgminer version 3.7.2 - Started: [2016-01-30 12:01:13]
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(5s):856.5M (avg):887.0Mh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU:2361.7/m
ST: 3 SS: 0 NB: 22 LW: 0 GF: 0 RF: 0
Connected to xxx.x.x.x diff 682 without LP as user xxxxxxx
Block: 4e491800... Diff:10.3K Started: [12:41:42] Best share: 489
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[P]ool management [G]PU management S ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
GPU 0: | 856.3M/887.1Mh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU:2425.6/m I: 7

 

Thanks for this useful guide !

Is there a pool in the testnet ?

Do you know if the devs are planning to organise mining pools for the mainnet or do miners have to create some themselves ?

 

I just left the house for a few hours, back now and A=2045 atm. So i just had to be patience
Ty for help and usefull guide mate!

 

hey guys, I just can't figure out how to start mining itself, the deamon and wallet are running now, so that's all good.
when I run cgminer with benchmark everything works fine, an average of 1.5 GH/s on an older HD5850.. when I start cgminer like this "cgminer --blake256 -o 127.0.0.1:19109 -u MYUSER -p MYPASS" (username and pass same as deamon) it won't start. I get two messages: JSON invalid data then No suitable long-poll found for http://127.0.0.1:19109 and after a while No servers found that could be used to get work from, most likely wrong url, forgotten to add a port of worker setup.

does anyone know what's wrong and how to solve or troubleshoot?, how do I know the port is the right one?

 

Most likely you have the wrong URL, forgotten to add a port, or have nog set up workers
Pool 0 URL http://127.0.0.1:19109 user: MYUSER Password MYPASS
Press any key to exit or cgminer will try again in 15 s.

i'm using a Windows 10 64bit machine, also with a 64bit CGminer version. Do I need a specific one? I presume that if anything is wrong it would tell me what but I cant find out why this happens.. I tried a non-existing username and pass and it tells me credentials are invalid so it seems to connect the right way with the correct credentials