Bfgminer on windows setup guide for bitcoin users youtube. Thanks for the excellent guides on starting mining on a mac. Ubuntu,mac macbook pro retina, inch, late 20 macos. I mine it myself, although the difficulty is somewhat high to. Because i couldnt find anything and didnt receive any help here, i wanted to share what i ended up doing to help others in the future. How to mine both btc and ltc on gridseed 5chip gc3355 asic.
Lookup your apple computer, the architecture should. If you dont know what cpu architecture your specific apple computer has, check out the website. Macminer is the first native mac, objectivec gui app for the most efficient mining software, bfgminer, cgminer, and cpuminer minerd are all. It also looks like cpuminer is available as a precompiled package, at. So if 26 weeks out of the last 52 had nonzero commits and the rest had zero commits, the score would be 50%. Hi there, i dont really know if this is going to be useful to anyone but anyway, in the last few days i have tried to include x11 compatibility into the popular mining software cgminer. Sgminer gc3355 gridseed bfminer 300 kh miner ltc cex. Contribute to sikloncpuminergc3355 development by creating an account on github. Plus ive been using the cpuminergc3355 version because it reports hash rate and will autotune the freq so the chips run at their max without excessive hw errors. This being said its not that difficult to get it running and optimizing it for your graphics card.
Download cpuminer for gridseed 5chip gc3355 asics with reduced power usage. This action is for 1 gridseed gblade asic scrypt miner 5. Mac mini late 2009 is core2 architecture, so select yamyvg1900m8amacos64core2. I had everything working, but then i stopped anyway, now id like to start up again, though ive wiped my compute. I have been trying it out over the weekend on a couple of different laptops, one air and one pro. You need to download a special modified version of cpuminer for. Gridseed gc3355 with scritpa and cgminer for the rpi in 5 easy steps smiley.
This score is calculated by counting number of weeks with nonzero commits in the last 1 year period. It supports the getblocktemplate mining protocol as well as the stratum mining protocol, and can be used for both solo and pooled mining. All you have to do is rightclick on the process you want to adjust, choose set cpu priority, and you you will be shown a list with six options. Here is a list with some alternatives to cpuminer for mac. If the driver installation is successful you will see this. The 5chip gridseed gc3355based asic devices that support dual mining for. Find file copy path fetching contributors cannot retrieve contributors at this time. The task manager gives you a way to adjust cpu priority and it is amazingly simple.
How to setup gridseed 5 chip scrypt asic miner using cpuminer duration. Updated minera system id based on ethernet mac address changed minera. How to make stackable tower gridseed rig with raspberry pi. The 5chip gridseed asic miner is revolutionizing mining with its simple, efficient, and effective production. Im personally conservative and generally opt for a lower setting than a higher one. An easy guide for mac users mining with any gridseed device, with several compiled miners. Macbook pro late 20 is haswell architecture, so select yamyvg1900m8amacos64haswell. Cpuminergc3355 fork bfgminer latest original version. Windows will install the driver and you will see this. As for the cpuminer, i just started using that one because of the gc3355autotune switch. If you like minera please consider a donation to support its development. Even if there is no cpuminer for mac released yet, you. Cpuminergc3355 fork bfgminer latest original version cgminer latest original version.
Jump to litecoin mining software cpuminer is a bitcoin and litecoin mining software. We have updated our windows builds of the cgminer 3. Mining with gridseed asics including dualminer on mac os x. A recent subscriber on my youtube channel requested to compile a version of cpuminer for raspberry pi to mine bitcoin altcoins. Also, the greenred lights blink regardless of cpuminer running or not. Squeeze the most profit automining coins with the highest rates.
Another software miner now has support for the 5chip gridseed gc3355 btcltc asic devices and that is bfgminer, though you should. Even if there is no cpuminer for mac released yet, you can still use other applications that share the same functionality. Im very glad to announce the first release of minera a new web management system for your gridseed miniblade mining devices. If you would like to do it with linux, proceed to the tutorial on headless linux litecoin miner setup. The site is not intended to provide tax, legal, insurance or investment advice, and nothing on the site should be construed as an offer to sell, a solicitation of an offer to buy, or a recommendation for any security by guidetocrypto or any third party. Updated minera system id based on ethernet mac address. Cpuminergc3355 fork bfgminer latest original version cgminer latest original version cgminer dmaxl zeus fork it should support every cgminerbfgminer forks as well. But if you feel more comfortable with windows, there wont be a problem as the actual mining performance on both platform would be the same. Macminer contains two versions of the gridseed cgminer for btcsha256 mining and a cpuminer that only supports scrypt. Currently supported algorithms are sha256d and scryptn, 1, 1.
How to use bfgminer, cgminer, sgminer and cpuminer for mac. They can all be run at the command line, the miners are all in. Currently supported algorithms are sha256d and scrypt1024, 1, 1. How to change cpu priority and why daves computer tips. Crypto gui is an opensource project allowing users to easily control cpuminer with a simple graphical user interface. How to setup and optimize your cgminer config file anyone who starts out mining decred if you want to get the best mhashs from your gpu or gpus. Gc3355specific options can be specified via gridseedoptions or gridseedoptions in the configuration file as a commaseparated list of suboptions. After learning how to build your own mining rig, the next step is to decide which operating system to set it up with. With the most powerful bitcoin and litecoin mining backends available on the mac, mac miners now have a user friendly application which even allows you to run the backends in the terminal if you just want an easy installation of bfgminer, cgminer or cpuminer minerd. Litecoin mining on mac os x cpu mining blog davcamer may 12, 20 at 12.
Guide gridseed gc3355 5 chip setuppowerwindowslinuxrpi by unicornhasher. Plug in the gridseed dualminer usb into your computer usb porthub. How to setup and optimize your cgminer config file. Cpu mining with ubuntu linux and darkcoin cpuminer 1. As always, great video, congrats plus thank you very much for sharing all of your hard work.
How to setup gridseed dual asic miner on windows, mac osx. Knowing that its not really worth the cpu cycles, i decided to compile a version for anyway. Github gitter developer star fork watch issue download. Gridseed asic miner for litecoin and bitcoin mining. Both versions include the latest official releases cgminer source and cpuminer source and in the source folder you can find our modified files for adding additional frequencies for overclocking if you want to compile from the source code yourself. It is very easy to setup mining and is a cpu mining coin. Crypto gui project, a project aiming to develop a stable user interface for cpuminer. Im following this tutorial for mining litecoins, and im having a little hard time finding the optimal cgminer settings for my amd radeon hd 6670.
Download cpuminer for gridseed 5chip gc3355 asics with. It basically automagically steps up the clock speeds of every individual chip on the gridseed until it finds an optimal tradeoff between hashrate and errors. It supports the getwork mining protocol as well as the stratum mining protocol, and can be used for both solo and pooled mining. The project is compatible with both linux and windows platforms.
Start mining effectively with your computer or smartphone. Gridseed asic users will be happy to learn that there is a new fork of the cpuminer software with support for gridseed asic. How to setup gridseed dualminer scryptsha256 asic usb miner. Used, gridseed 5 chip orb gc3355 asic usb dual min gridseed 5 chip orb gc3355 asic usb dual miner. With just one radeon gpu, i was easily consuming over 200 watts of power to get about 333khs. You can specify multiple devices, but the length of the chips array must be equal to the number of chips on the gc3355 miners, blades have 40 chips but you can only address chip07 clusters of 5 chips, so the max is 8. Contribute to gridseedcpuminer development by creating an account on github. Install cgminer for your gridseed asic scrypt miner. Fabulouspandas macminer running bfgminer, cgminer and cpuminer minerd at the command line on apple mac os x bfgminer download macminer and put it in your applications folder open the terminal in the utilities folder and type. Depending on your network setup, grab the mac address from the back of the controller.
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