Outages Everywhere! For Everyone! You get an Outage! And you get an Outage! Everyone gets an Outage!

Yeahhh, So, I woke up to an internet outage. Needless to say, I couldn’t set up Teamviewer. Instead, I went on a yoga date and asked Danny to set up Teamviewer on the rig when the internet returned so I could login at work and get some headway on our new task list.

Then I got to work. And it was a shit show. Apparently we blew a transformer because we were drawing too much power from the house we’re shooting at. All systems were down, all routers down, all monitors, all cameras, you name it. They finally got us up on some of the backup generators and then we got to hang out in the furnace that is our engineering bay. No air conditioners. No fans, just smoking hot machines.

Anyway, its late now, most of the camera operators have been cut and I get to work on the rig remotely!

First things first. I would like to congratulate the community for upping the gas limit. It was necessary, and you guys did it in a matter of weeks. Secondly, I would like to encourage all of you to look into smaller mines. I know that Ethermine/ethpool and F2p look tempting but we are trying to build a distributed system here. These two pools are pushing 51% of the Hashing power. https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6ki68z/a_call_to_miners_to_redistribute_hash_power_to/

I’ll be supporting nanopool, and I can say its SUPER easy to set up.

That being said, The first thing I did today on the rig this evening was set up claymore to mine on nanopool.

I set it up two different ways just so I could become more familiar with claymore.

For testing purposes, I started to make some new folders to contain my different claymore files. I extracted everything out of the Claymore’s Dual Ethereum+Decred_Siacoin_Lbry_Pascal AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v9.6 — Catalyst 15.12–17.x — CUDA 8.0_7.5_6.5.zip (https://mega.nz/#F!O4YA2JgD!n2b4iSHQDruEsYUvTQP5_w) and put it into organized files so , one of my folders being NP_Ethonly_Clay9.6 another being Ethmine_EthDcr_ClayD9.6 and so on and so forth. In each one I would play with the config files, setting them to whichever pool I wanted, putting in my wallet info, etc. then I would play with epools.txt, loading up any FailOvers that I wanted or were required by the pool. I think nanopool requires you to use their failovers.

Then I looked at how that early instance of claymore/nanopool dual miner I had set up worked. I realized they were just making a .bat file instead of using the configs. The bat file would set GPU allocation, run Etheminer64.exe and all the information you would put in your config with out accessing the config.

Download these two and look at the differences if you’d like to learn more.

https://mega.nz/#F!O4YA2JgD!n2b4iSHQDruEsYUvTQP5_w

https://github.com/nanopool/Claymore-Dual-Miner/releases/download/v9.6/Claymore.s.Dual.Ethereum.Decred_Siacoin_Lbry_Pascal.AMD.NVIDIA.GPU.Miner.v9.6.zip

Easiest way to set up claymore for nanopool:

Lets start by going here: https://eth.nanopool.org/help

Download the miner, you don’t need top open it yet.

Click the config generator

Here we’re going to input a bit of data. If you’re using my system, you’ll select windows and Nvidia.

Worker name: what ever you want to call your rig.

Email: the thing about this email is that it works as the password for your worker name AND THATS OKAY!

I was really freaked out thinking that anyone that could find my email could access my shit. And that’s just not the case. You can actually put in anything you want here to be your password. If you put in your email address nanopool will send you email updates if you go offline. The only settings one could change with your password (email) would be your minimum payout.

Main server: which ever server is closest to you.

First algorithm: Ethereum

First algorithm address: your Public key to your wallet.

Second algorithm: none.

There’s an example, hit generate. It will download a zip file containing epools.txt and start.bat.

Now go back and unzip that claymore miner you downloaded and put it somewhere. It can be in a folder on the desktop for all I care.

Go back to your folder that you got from the generator and copy epools.txt and start.bat to the folder you put claymore in. You should be prompted to overwrite files. Do it.

Now double click that start.bat and congratulations you’re mining! AND you’re supporting a smaller pool.

You’re a good guy. If I had a bag of pepperonis I would give you one.

Now, you’ll see all that info flying across your screen with hash rates and shares and stuff and thats cool.

Maybe you want to see your stats?

Go to https://eth.nanopool.org/

Look at the top right of the page where it says address. Put in your public key for your wallet that you’ve been using. And damn son you got all those pretty stats. I’d bring you to a baseball game if I liked baseball and probably buy you a hotdog. But like a sport, you would give that hotdog to the pretty girl next to us and casually throw a thumb in my direction and say “its from this guy”, because you’re so fucking awesome.

Sorry, where was I?

So maybe you’re a real neckbeard and you want to learn how this shit works and have been reading this pile of crap I’ve been blogging.

If you’re with me to this point, you should know that we like playing in the config and executing the Ethermine64.exe because we’re lazy scrubs who don’t know how to use Bat files. Well, lucky you, I learned.

Member that README!!!?

| You can use “config.txt” file instead of specifying options in command line.

If there are not any command line options, miner will check “config.txt” file for options.

If there is only one option in the command line, it must be configuration file name.

If there are two or more options in the command line, miner will take all options from the command line, not from configuration file.

Place one option per line, if first character of a line is “;” or “#”, this line will be ignored.|

Right click the start.bat that you generated on nanopool and open it with notepad++ you’ll see the same commands that were in your config file. Plus Etherminer64.exe Guess what, it just opens Etherminer64.exe and then it runs those commands (wallet, pool, password, ect. ) Boom, you understand how bats work.

Now I’m thinking that I can start making these bat files and instead of the commands, I can load different configs. That way I can build more complex config files if we want to mainly because I really like the layout of the configs being 1 command per line. I’m gonna go test this and see what’s up

Yeah, it works like that.

So, go and rename your config to config2.txt

Open notepad++ and write down this line, using which ever exe you wish to execute

Ethdcrminer.exe config2.txt

Save As: name it something awesome like DeezNutz and in the drop down menu under the name select .bat

Save it to the same folder that your exe and config file are in.

Double click deeznutz.exe and boom, we’ve just proven we can make our own batch files and tell it which configs to pull from. This can be helpful if we want to make different bats and configs to mine different alt coins like make one for decred or saicoin or pascal or what have you.

Imma go digging in that read me and see if there are any cool commands that we can use to tweak hash rates.