@grumpyoldadmin said in Looking to get started mining....:

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There you go, take good care of them.

@zohtar I've got two processes going on at the moment - I'm using the pocc converter from here:

https://github.com/PoC-Consortium/Utilities/tree/master/poc1to2.pl

in order to do in-place conversion on my (Ubuntu) mining PC. It's not massively quick but it does the job.

I'm also replotting other plots on a Windows PC, using the latest version of Turboplotter from here: https://blackpawn.com/tp/

Bear in mind that turboplotter can restart if you have a power issue or crash, but poc1to2 can't - so if you have an issue, you'll have to replot anyway. This has only happened twice for me, both on slow-as-balls Seagate external USB drives.

Also you'll have to change the "path" section to match your actual username.

Ha, it's added part of it as a code block but you get the general idea.

@zohtar Try this - copy and paste the following into a file, save it as 'mining.conf' in the folder your creepminer.exe file is in. If it starts then, the username and password are both '123' for the webserver. You can change them to whatever you want.

{
"logging" : {
"config" : "information",
"general" : "information",
"logfile" : true,
"miner" : "information",
"nonceSubmitter" : "information",
"output" : {
"dirDone" : true,
"lastWinner" : true,
"nonceConfirmed" : true,
"nonceFound" : true,
"nonceFoundTooHigh" : false,
"nonceSent" : true,
"plotDone" : false
},
"outputType" : "terminal",
"path" : "C:\Users\matth\.creepMiner\1.7.19\logs\",
"plotReader" : "information",
"plotVerifier" : "information",
"progressBar" : {
"fancy" : true,
"steady" : true
},
"server" : "fatal",
"session" : "error",
"socket" : "off",
"useColors" : true,
"wallet" : "fatal"
},
"mining" : {
"benchmark" : {
"active" : false,
"interval" : 60
},
"bufferChunkCount" : 16,
"cpuInstructionSet" : "AUTO",
"getMiningInfoInterval" : 3,
"gpuDevice" : 0,
"gpuPlatform" : 0,
"intensity" : 0,
"maxBufferSizeMB" : 0,
"maxPlotReaders" : 0,
"passphrase" : {
"algorithm" : "aes-256-cbc",
"decrypted" : "",
"deleteKey" : true,
"encrypted" : "",
"iterations" : 1000,
"key" : "",
"salt" : ""
},
"plots" : [

    ],
    "poc2StartBlock" : 502000,
    "processorType" : "CPU",
    "rescanEveryBlock" : false,
    "submissionMaxRetry" : 10,
    "targetDeadline" : "00:00:00",
    "timeout" : 45,
    "urls" : {
        "miningInfo" : "http://voiplanparty.com:8124",
        "submission" : "http://voiplanparty.com:8124",
        "wallet" : ""
    },
    "useInsecurePlotfiles" : false,
    "wakeUpTime" : 0,
    "walletRequestRetryWaitTime" : 3,
    "walletRequestTries" : 3
},
"webserver" : {
    "activeConnections" : 32,
    "calculateEveryDeadline" : false,
    "connectionQueue" : 64,
    "credentials" : {
        "pass" : "::::fb364f9dba7171303f88f0071d387a53be6c9633",
        "user" : "::::61817c5ad287da153bf6c208763d44b24bf41828"
    },
    "cumulatePlotsizes" : true,
    "forwardMinerNames" : true,
    "forwardUrls" : [

    ],
    "start" : true,
    "url" : "http://127.0.0.1:8080"
}

}

@zohtar I've just loaded up the Windows version and messed about with it to get it working.

When you first run the .exe, it will create a mining.conf file in c:/Users/[You]/.creepMiner/1.17.19

Either edit it there or copy it into the directory you're running creepminer from - the one in the active directory will then take priority.

It won't start if it doesn't have details about your pool so put your pool web address into the "miningInfo" and "submission" properties.

Put a username and password into the webserver properties if you want to use that; if not, set 'start' to false and just edit the file manually.

If you do want to use the webserver, save your config file, start creepminer again and go to 'http://localhost:8080' (or whatever other port you've set it to run on in the config file).

You can either edit your plot files and settings in the mining.conf file, or through the webserver once it's up and running.

@zohtar Dunno, I don't use the Windows version. Does it work if you follow the instructions here?

https://github.com/Creepsky/creepMiner/wiki

Take a look here for more information about the hard fork:

https://www.burstforum.net/topic/9185/hard-fork-resources-everything-a-happy-burster-needs/33

You need to make some changes then! Everything changed since block 502000 - download the latest release from https://github.com/Creepsky/creepMiner/releases

(I recommend the 1.7 branch rather than 1.8, it's more stable.)

You might want to look into converting your plots to poc2 as well, because you'll find the read time is roughly twice as long as it was before if you don't.

@cybermancer The pool seems to be running fine now but I just. can't. win any blocks right now! My hard drives are all useless lumps of evil and I hate them. Don't think that's anything you can help me with though, I'll just sit here and quietly seethe.