Prohashing Mining Pool Forums

Hi. I'm a brand-spanking-new miner. I'm trying to get set up, and having issues with my miner.

I have a custom-built PC with an AMD 3-core processor, and on-board graphics. I'm using GUIminer for my mining software. (I'll note that I'm not married to it.)

I think I have everything set up except for the settings in GUIminer. Please correct me if I'm wrong about that too. In guiminer, I chose File> new CG miner. I used this one because I want to make a CPU miner. It seems my GPU doesn't support mining. Or it isn't supported by GUIminer? Next, for the server, I choose Other and manually input prohashing.com. I had 3334 as the port. Username and password are what they are. I leave "extra flags" blank. Underneath that, I have the CPU affinity. Its options are 0, 1, and 2. I choose 2 because my CPU has 3 cores. When I click "Start mining!" nothing happens. The status in the bottom right says 'Stopped.'

The first thing I tried was just filling in the settings boxes without choosing "new" anything from the file menu. I chose prohashing for the server; 3333 for the port (I saw that number listed in some instruction); same name and pass; nothing for "device" because it reads "No OpenCL device" and nothing for extra flags. Again, I clicked 1 and 2 for CPU affinity. With this option, I do get stuff in the status field. Left side reads "Shares: 0 accepted, 1 stale/invalid." Right side reads "connecting." (At times, the bottom left reads "ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack." Very perplexing to me.)


I'm eager to get this solved so I can start my mining. Thank you in advance.

for cpu mining, you need to use minerd, keep in mind cpu mining this late in the game is not profitable, unless youre just getting your feet wet

Hi. I am getting my feet wet. But I want to make some coin too. What's your recommendation as far as an alternative? GPU mining? It a big machine with an ASIC board?

you can either buy a decent GPU but your electricity cost might outweigh your earnings.. if you have existing funds you can check out mining righ rentals, i can link you there if you like, you can rent a full mining rig for x hours and set your pools. its good for beginners to test the waters and for pros who know how to make good profit. did you try out minerd? if not i can link you to my recommended branch

I haven't tried minerd. I actually haven't been back home long. Please recommend away. And if possible, direct me to a step-by-step setup.

Many thanks

(I'm pricing graphics cards right this moment. )

CNPurvis wrote:I haven't tried minerd. I actually haven't been back home long. Please recommend away. And if possible, direct me to a step-by-step setup.

Many thanks

(I'm pricing graphics cards right this moment. )

minerd-multi: .bat examples:

Beautiful. Many thanks. How do I proceed with these? I've never used batch files more than an average user, even though I'm not an average user.

CNPurvis wrote:Beautiful. Many thanks. How do I proceed with these? I've never used batch files more than an average user, even though I'm not an average user.

-in the folder you unzipped minerd to: right click > new > text document
-change the filename from New Text Document.txt to prohashing.bat
-then open the file with notepad, then paste one of the two lines in the file, x11 to mine x11 algo, scrypt, for scrypt. and change the "-u phusername" to your username
-save the changes
-now double click the bat file, and minerd should start with the settings in the bat

Thank you! Should it run as a command line?

I followed your directions, and have a file whose contents look like this:

minerd -a scrypt -o stratum+tcp://prohashing.com:3333 CNPurvis -p "n=test a=scrypt"

I saved the file, and when I double click, it just reopens the text doc.

Does my pw need to be in there? I believe I already opened port 3333.

yes