New to Mining and New to Dash and the community
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Sub-Ether
Well-known member
Don't hold me to that, it can change quickly and there is the new 370 range coming out soon.
I believe the Nvidia are better on electricity and slightly higher hashes per dollar spent.
Amazing
Member
Greetings. I'm also new to the Dash community. I want to run a masternode, but I am trying to start mining first. I've been working for the last week to try to get a mining rig going running Ubuntu with an old computer. I had what I thought would be an ok driver for hashing, a ATi Radeon 9800 SE. I don't have much experience on Linux, but I am starting to think maybe this card isn't compatible with with AMD-APP software. Whenever I try to install any catalyst drivers I get a black screen. But if I try to configure sg-miner without these drivers it gives me a message that it can't find OpenGL.
Does anyone have experience mining with this card? I am feeling discouraged and think I will try mining with BAMT (can I get it to mine Dash?)
Does anyone have experience mining with this card? I am feeling discouraged and think I will try mining with BAMT (can I get it to mine Dash?)
Sub-Ether
Well-known member
The memory/spec is too low, normally over 1 gigabyte minimum, it will be slow if you do manage it.
The oldest card that I have managed is a AMD 5850 at 1.5 megahash, I suggest trying CPU mining.
https://dashtalk.org/threads/sub-ethers-guide-to-cpu-mining.6170/
sorry its windows, but have the github sources, good luck!
Amazing
Member
Thanks Sub-Ether. I'm going to compile the cpu-miner and see if I have luck with that.
Amazing
Member
Im user Green Racoon's Linux CPU install guide, but getting this error at step 5 when I try to make:
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/m/darkcoin-cpuminer-1.2c'
Making all in compat
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/m/darkcoin-cpuminer-1.2c/compat'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/m/darkcoin-cpuminer-1.2c/compat'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/m/darkcoin-cpuminer-1.2c/compat'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/m/darkcoin-cpuminer-1.2c/compat'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/m/darkcoin-cpuminer-1.2c'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/m/darkcoin-cpuminer-1.2c'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/m/darkcoin-cpuminer-1.2c'
I've already made sure my libtools are update and also Janson. Any ideas what's going wrong?
Christoph
New member
"Hello @M4MB4 , here are my steps to do mining for fun.
1. Have your own Dash address (Wallet can be downloaded from www.dashpay.io/downloads)
2. Have miner program , you already have, please make sure that the miner program support X11 algorithm.
3. Play with pool, I would recommend p2pool , you can search for your nearest pool from lists on this post (https://dashtalk.org/threads/all-p2pool-nodes-list.4670/), If block founded by p2pool, you will get your share directly to your wallet.
For your connected pool, I could not answer you when will be paid out or when its complete.
BTW, major pools can be found from explorer's statistics for extraction. list of blockchain explorers ( https://www.dashpay.io/blockchain-explorers/ )"
Thats the description I needed, just at
Step2: Please list some minerprograms that are good
as I am new to mining
1. Have your own Dash address (Wallet can be downloaded from www.dashpay.io/downloads)
2. Have miner program , you already have, please make sure that the miner program support X11 algorithm.
3. Play with pool, I would recommend p2pool , you can search for your nearest pool from lists on this post (https://dashtalk.org/threads/all-p2pool-nodes-list.4670/), If block founded by p2pool, you will get your share directly to your wallet.
For your connected pool, I could not answer you when will be paid out or when its complete.
BTW, major pools can be found from explorer's statistics for extraction. list of blockchain explorers ( https://www.dashpay.io/blockchain-explorers/ )"
Thats the description I needed, just at
Step2: Please list some minerprograms that are good
as I am new to mining
RichardAO
Member
What this forum needs is a sticky thats updated regularly for new miners. Many links here are years out of date. Can anyone write up new working guides?
P2Pool looks appealing to me, but how do i use it?? I have a linux computer, and an internet connection...take my hand and walk me thru this!
P2Pool looks appealing to me, but how do i use it?? I have a linux computer, and an internet connection...take my hand and walk me thru this!