I was working on setting up LiteCoin on my PC last night, and had problems. The downloads insist on going onto the C drive, which in my case is a 60 GB SSD that's nearly full already. I forced them to the E drive, but then they didn't work right. So I'll have to swap in a 256 GB SSD I have and use that as the boot drive.
And in the GUIMiner-scrypt settings, it has defaults for various video cards, but nothing below a 5750. I guess my 4870 can't or won't work on it? I'll work on it more tonight. I've got bigger better GPUs coming. And even when the 4870 was showing that it was mining, it never got over 25 Khashes/second, and it errored everything.
When trying to run the miner in the Litecoin wallet, set to pool mining with Coinotron, it'd say "Miner failed to start. Make sure you have the minerd executable and libraries in the same directory as Litecoin-Qt.
I read through the setup for CGMiner and found one called CGEasy also, I'll see how those go tonight while getting everything set up. Looks like CGEasy can only work with identical video cards in one PC, but that will be ok.
Don't forget - Uncle Sam wants his cut. Any gains from mining are taxable income. Since you aren't among the country's elite, tax evasion is a serious federal offense.
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KwitkoSheriff of Banning (Retired)By the thing near the stuffIcrontian
I'm glad Tim values hard work over an easy-money approach.
I don't. But that opinion is not always the same for other people. We need people who can surf the internet for 6 out of 8 hours a day at their desktop support jobs (me!), and we need people to operate the shovels.
It has been VERY hard to pick the correct lottery numbers, and I have not succeeded in that yet, so if you consider that hard work, then yes I do value hard work.
Anyone else looking into mining any type of coins? The thing I like best about Litecoin is that FPGA's and ASICs don't work on them, at least not without a total redesign, so that brings me up to equal with anyone else mining Litecoins.
I'm half thinking of mining for myself and not in a pool, we'll see.
I'd like to find a miner that has some sort of graphical interface like BitMinter, when I put it on my PC for bitcoins, it started up and ran with no problems at all.
Don't forget - Uncle Sam wants his cut. Any gains from mining are taxable income. Since you aren't among the country's elite, tax evasion is a serious federal offense.
Accountant's note: it's not tax evasion (not legal), it's tax law they're following (legal).
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TeramonaConsulting Tea Specialist Best Coast! Icrontian
edited May 2013
For a very long time I was convinced that Tim was some Icrontian's alter ego. I thought, "has anyone ever actually met this 'Tim'?" But... Now I'm starting to believe he's real.
For a very long time I was convinced that Tim was some Icrontian's alter ego. I thought, "has anyone ever actually met this 'Tim'?" But... Now I'm starting to believe he's real.
What is real? How do you define real? If you are talking about the ability to post, the ability to troll, bitcoins you can mine and videos you can render, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your browser.
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TeramonaConsulting Tea Specialist Best Coast! Icrontian
For a very long time I was convinced that Tim was some Icrontian's alter ego. I thought, "has anyone ever actually met this 'Tim'?" But... Now I'm starting to believe he's real.
What is real? How do you define real? If you are talking about the ability to post, the ability to troll, bitcoins you can mine and videos you can render, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your browser.
I am, in and of myself, that which we all strive to be, be it in some large or small part. When we dream of what we want to do, when we scheme and figure ways to attain our goals, that is the Tim that lurks inside all of us. Most people do not let their inner Tim show, for the fear of being perceived as un-normal, weird, strange, or "that guy".
Those with the courage to show their true selves, who are unafraid to reach for their goals, no matter how unrealistic they may be, are the ones who are willing to let their inner Tim show. And they have a greater chance of success in unconventional ways.
There's a force in the universe that makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with it. Stop thinking, let things happen, and be the Tim.
I might have to mine Bitcoins instead for a while, that cgminer for LiteCoin has been a real pain to get it set up and working properly.
Why can't Litecoin have something like BitMinter? It came from the pool site I joined, and it has a nice graphical display, and I had to do almost nothing, and it worked easily! That, plus something like EVGA Precision or MSI Afterburner, and things should be good.
Once I get my motherboard in and get the main miner PC set up, I'll try playing with it. Maybe I'll make you all a special YouTube video of it. To show my realness.
For a very long time I was convinced that Tim was some Icrontian's alter ego. I thought, "has anyone ever actually met this 'Tim'?" But... Now I'm starting to believe he's real.
I also wondered if he was real. I feel like we need a history of Tim lesson. The main reason i thought he wasn't real is because everyone on Icrontic is a dick to Tim and that isn't what i expect out of our community.
@Zanthian you think half of the community aren't dicks??? Who do you hang out with?
Tim litecoin is pretty easy to set-up. I use cgminer for GPUs and a proxy-minerd for cpus. The only real set-up for this stuff is to get all of your workers squared away on a pool then set the connection address correctly plus that specific miners username/password
Tim is a fascinating topic. I stood up for him once before I caught on to how Tim works around here, and then a member told me in private that he was a troll so I didn't need to try and defend his opinion. That's when I got interested, watched a chunk of his video show, and decided that Tim is not a troll. Tim is a Tim, and good for him, for being Tim, instead of Jim. When Icrontic gets bland, and needs some spice, we can look to Tim for sound advice.
Here's some advice for anyone who has ever had to pay a parking ticket: NOPE
I normally post my thoughts and ideas in the Pub section, which is supposed to be for open chat, but the mods and site owners here take great pleasure in deleting my detailed and informative posts right after I finish them. That is very annoying.
I suggested to Prime the need for a "Tim" subsection in the Pub but he said no.
The fact that someone could not live in the real world by the terms that Tim lays forth in his videos and in the posts he shares with us is why I know Tim is a troll. The only time his threads are deleted is because they are political, promote illegal activity or are against any other rule of the forum. Just as we would with any other post. For example, this thread still exists, but I edited the link in the above reply because of the suggestions made in that video.
I actually appreciate Tim. He fills a role here and does it well despite all the crap he tends to get and doesn't seem to take it personally. He's something of an enigma and I hope one day he gets his ass to an event. I imagine he could provide some interesting discussions in person.
Also, what the hell actually is bitcoins? Or rather, who or what actually provides the income for this?
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Straight_ManGeeky, in my own wayNaples, FLIcrontian
I received 2 of my 6870s yesterday, and tried putting one of them into my computer case, but it has that 3-4 inch long metal thing hanging off the back of the card and wouldn't fit. What is that, some kind of huge heat sink? The other 6870 has a known artifacting problem and I got it for $25, just to see if I could fix it.
Canti - you and others here should all put in a few bucks to buy me a plane ticket from Pittsburgh to Detroit or wherever Expo Icrontic is for this year. Southwest Airlines. It'd be cheaper to have me come this year, as by the time of the next Expo Icrontic next year I'll be back out in CA, hence a more expensive ticket.
So that backplate can just be unscrewed and left off?
Canti - it's not about a lack of money, I could buy my own plane ticket to Detroit and back if I wanted to. But if I'm coming there so people can meet me and see in person, it's like I'm providing entertainment in real life instead of just on the forums. Would you ask Gabriel Iglesias or George Carlin (yes I know he's dead) to come perform at Expo Icrontic and tell them they have to pay their own way?
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And in the GUIMiner-scrypt settings, it has defaults for various video cards, but nothing below a 5750. I guess my 4870 can't or won't work on it? I'll work on it more tonight. I've got bigger better GPUs coming. And even when the 4870 was showing that it was mining, it never got over 25 Khashes/second, and it errored everything.
When trying to run the miner in the Litecoin wallet, set to pool mining with Coinotron, it'd say "Miner failed to start. Make sure you have the minerd executable and libraries in the same directory as Litecoin-Qt.
More work to do.
It has been VERY hard to pick the correct lottery numbers, and I have not succeeded in that yet, so if you consider that hard work, then yes I do value hard work.
Anyone else looking into mining any type of coins? The thing I like best about Litecoin is that FPGA's and ASICs don't work on them, at least not without a total redesign, so that brings me up to equal with anyone else mining Litecoins.
I'm half thinking of mining for myself and not in a pool, we'll see.
I'd like to find a miner that has some sort of graphical interface like BitMinter, when
I put it on my PC for bitcoins, it started up and ran with no problems at all.
That's impossible.
Instead...only try to realize the truth. There is no Tim.
Edit: Wait...I'm Tim
WAHAHA
wrong reference, gtfo.
:P
I am, in and of myself, that which we all strive to be, be it in some large or small part. When we dream of what we want to do, when we scheme and figure ways to attain our goals, that is the Tim that lurks inside all of us. Most people do not let their inner Tim show, for the fear of being perceived as un-normal, weird, strange, or "that guy".
Those with the courage to show their true selves, who are unafraid to reach for their goals, no matter how unrealistic they may be, are the ones who are willing to let their inner Tim show. And they have a greater chance of success in unconventional ways.
There's a force in the universe that makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with it. Stop thinking, let things happen, and be the Tim.
And: http://www.loudmouthtim.com
Why can't Litecoin have something like BitMinter? It came from the pool site I joined, and it has a nice graphical display, and I had to do almost nothing, and it worked easily! That, plus something like EVGA Precision or MSI Afterburner, and things should be good.
Once I get my motherboard in and get the main miner PC set up, I'll try playing with it. Maybe I'll make you all a special YouTube video of it. To show my realness.
Tim litecoin is pretty easy to set-up. I use cgminer for GPUs and a proxy-minerd for cpus. The only real set-up for this stuff is to get all of your workers squared away on a pool then set the connection address correctly plus that specific miners username/password all of the flags on there were stuff I pulled off the web real fast and took me less than 15 minutes playing with to get it set for me.
Tim is a Tim,
and good for him,
for being Tim,
instead of Jim.
When Icrontic gets bland,
and needs some spice,
we can look to Tim for sound advice.
I normally post my thoughts and ideas in the Pub section, which is supposed to be for open chat, but the mods and site owners here take great pleasure in deleting my detailed and informative posts right after I finish them. That is very annoying.
I suggested to Prime the need for a "Tim" subsection in the Pub but he said no.
The fact that someone could not live in the real world by the terms that Tim lays forth in his videos and in the posts he shares with us is why I know Tim is a troll. The only time his threads are deleted is because they are political, promote illegal activity or are against any other rule of the forum. Just as we would with any other post. For example, this thread still exists, but I edited the link in the above reply because of the suggestions made in that video.
/:offtopic:
Also, what the hell actually is bitcoins? Or rather, who or what actually provides the income for this?
Canti - you and others here should all put in a few bucks to buy me a plane ticket from Pittsburgh to Detroit or wherever Expo Icrontic is for this year. Southwest Airlines. It'd be cheaper to have me come this year, as by the time of the next Expo Icrontic next year I'll be back out in CA, hence a more expensive ticket.
@Tim http://icrontic.com/discussion/97157/expo-communism/p1
Canti - it's not about a lack of money, I could buy my own plane ticket to Detroit and back if I wanted to. But if I'm coming there so people can meet me and see in person, it's like I'm providing entertainment in real life instead of just on the forums. Would you ask Gabriel Iglesias or George Carlin (yes I know he's dead) to come perform at Expo Icrontic and tell them they have to pay their own way?