I promise, this will be the last MaxCoin story for a while. We aren’t getting paid to post there, but as most of us have struggled over the past few days to get everything to work, here’s our side of the trials & tribulations.
So the first 24 hours were a major pain in the rear for several reasons. The launch was delayed by a full day, because BitcoinTalk couldn’t handle the traffic. (No surprise there, you don’t need a PhD to know something like that would happen).
When MaxCoin actually got released though , us Windows users had to wait to download the Windows client, which was a command line only “interface”. But it worked, if you managed to get it to sync to the network…
Ok , so, you have the client running and synced, and you want to mine. The client starts auto-mining whenever you run it, so that’s good. But there are also pools out there, so you need a seperate cpuminer..oh there is the Windows one! Cool.
Great, downloaded, it runs, it’s sending shares, and now we can finally go to bed….Wait. Wait. What is this? Why did my pool just die? Oi! Come back! Oh, there’s another pool….Oh wait, that’s down too…. Goddamnit….
Solo mining all night it is then, which yielded us absolutely nada, nothing, zip zilch, rien de knots. But oh well! Oh, the pools are back! And now I’m earning next to nothing because people can mine with their GPU’s? Ooooh…Cudaminer….
Cudaminer works very well, in fairness. As long as you’re not looking to connect to a MaxCoin pool that’s using the stratum protocol. Cudaminer doesn’t like Stratum. It’s evil.
Alright, earnings are coming in, we have made a total 5 MaxCoin in a few hours. Should be 0.20 BTC, right? What do you mean, the price has dropped to .01 BTC each? Jesus Christ …..
Anyway, to make an otherwise (even) long(er) story a bit short, I have my Radeon card mining at nearly 300MHash on MaxCoin now, and my CPU is doing pretty much nothing. GOod profits to be made, whether you like MaxCoin or not.
OOOooo I am pretty angry about that same exact experience. People are saying it was a covert premining operation. I’m just now getting my first whole maxcoin after working at it for almost 3 days and all the waiting seems even longer. The guys at hashfaster figure the devs kept the modified stratum for themselves to mine. I’m pissed off that I still can’t get my cpu miners to mine anything. But I got their cgminer gpu miner mining finally and the pools are hit and miss still. I got a 7770 and I’m get about 100 mh/s. So far max.1gh.com is the best pool. Anyways it was/is a good learning experience.
What graphics card are you using?
nice blog, i cant be mad this is the first time i make 2 btc in 48 hours mining, i have a small 3 rig op and im pretty happy ill be getting my 4th rig with the 2 btc i made.
this -> "Anyways it was/is a good learning experience."
i had only used gui wallets, and the cli was just a black command prompt, not text or anything, just blackness. i noticed the log growing in size so peeked at it but i couldnt understand shit.
then someone talked about cudaminer in reddit so i managed to make it work and solo mine for a while before going to bed. again, no fucking clue if it was working because cudaminer didnt report any yays, the wallet was black and i still couldnt figure the log.
so i turned it off and went to bed.
next morning i managed to see the balance and it turns out i had mined 96 coins.
if i had known i would had left the gpu running all night solo mining…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDoaf5Vnh7s lol says it all really
Sooner or later they will all come back to buying Quark. Love it or hate it – it is still the best coin around.