FabulousPanda
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It's hard to mine BTC with CPU/GPU these days due to the rise of ASICs, but apparently nicehash can provide low difficulty enough shares that it's possible on their pool. I prefer slush's pool if you have capable hardware but that's how it goes! …
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Different pools run different software and some can produce lower difficulty shares than others so it's possible that's the issue here.
For Cryptonite I'd suggest using xmr-stak set up for Monero mining as opposed to MacMiner, which doesn…
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Nicehash runs a very different type of pool software to most others, I'm guessing it can provide far lower difficulty shares - it's good to know there's still somewhere you can get away mining these algorithms on standard hardware! However most p…
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Where are you getting that info? According to wikipedia 'The five DigiByte mining algorithms (Sha256, Scrypt, Groestl, Skein & Qubit)'
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What currency/algorithm are you mining, what hash rates is it showing and is anything showing up at the pool?
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At those hash rates the difficulty is too high too solve any shares. To mine Bitcoin you need to be using an ASIC these days.
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For Electroneum, Intense and Sumokoin you can use Monero settings.
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The Antminer S7 is a standalone miner which runs cgminer on a board it has inside it. You need to scan your network for its IP address and access that via the web interface where you would set it up.
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I guess it would be a good idea to try to find out what kind of hash rate you need at a minimum to mine successfully with the specific coin/pool/algorithm.
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Which version are you using? The latest would be in a folder called bfgminer-5.4.2-mac although I mean to update it to recently released 5.5
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There should be a file called config.txt in the same folder as the miner binary which contains the pool information.
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How long did you give it? If it's anything like Bitcoin I'd guess the SHA256 difficulty is too high for the GPU to solve any shares, you might have better luck mining with scrypt but that has ASICs too, albeit less efficient ones, you might actua…
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Probably Monero, but... well it depends what currency you want to mine. Like what pool are you using and which currency is it for.
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It looks as though you set up a SHA256 (Bitcoin) pool but not a scrypt (Litecoin) pool and you have it set to mine scrypt?
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Yeah that means you do have 8 cores, the processors have hyper threading which means each core can run 2 threads but I think it's most efficient just to run one thread per core so you might want to try deleting the odd numbered lines from the cpu…
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The thing about Nvidia is people have different versions of the Nvidia drivers installed so either it would only work for people using whatever drivers I can install or I'd have to do a bunch of versions for the different versions of the drivers …
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I might make a separate miner GUI on top of xmr-stak if there's enough support for it but how does just an install script sound for the command line miner? That would be a lot faster to put together.
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Yes, and because you're using nvidia GPUs it requires linking to the specific version of the nvidia drivers you have installed so you should grab it from the GitHub here http://github…
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Oh I forgot to add, I don't believe there would be much difference as far as CPU mining goes between macOS and linux, but you'd get a world of difference GPU mining.
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MacMiner has a Monero (XMR) cpuminer built in but it's out of date and less efficient than the xmr-stak option
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Are you certain you're running a machine with 8 cores? What's the output of these commands in Terminal:
sysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_string
outputs the specific model of CPUsysctl hw.physicalcpu
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That is weird. For my 12 cores I get a generated conf from 0-22 skipping all odd numbers. For whatever reason yours has included some extra odd numbers in with the even ones. What do you see in the CPU hash rate report when you type 'h' …
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I don't want to come off rude but if you can't figure out how to compile it for AMD you probably shouldn't. And even if you can, you still probably shouldn't. I'm actually considering taking down the version I compiled and put up with a usage war…
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I get around the same on a 2x 2.66 6 core Xeon mid 2012 so that sounds good. I got about 23h/s out of a 5770... and if I increase the intensity the Mac becomes completely unresponsive. As in ctrl-z the process has no effect, no way to force quit,…
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You don't need homebrew for any of the software I provide precompiled, you'd only need that for compiling software yourself. The MacMiner error you posted seems to indicate no pool has been set up for LTC, but Monero doesn't use LTC, it uses cryp…
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If you double click and then run from the command line the Terminal instance retains something of the previous instance which caused it to fail, so open a new Terminal window and run it fresh exactly as per the instructions included in the downlo…
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Hey, you're mining Feathercoin right? That uses neoscrypt not the scrypt that Litecoin uses so you'll need to set up for that instead which uses the sgminer backend which itself is half untested so I'd appreciate feedback on how you get on with i…
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Is it showing you a crash log you can post, and any accompanying info you can give like is it the first time you're opening it, what version of macOS are you running?
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They do have features which down clock chips or rev up the fans, but it's very rare for any process to work the GPU this hard for that long and Apple prioritises thin, quiet running machines over really pro capable ones so unless you're running a…
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X17 is not currently supported in MacMiner, although you would be able to mine verge with scrypt.