Litecoin Mining for Funtoo - Revision history

Drobbins: adding coinotron

2013-05-20T20:06:58Z

adding coinotron

Drobbins: explain reasoning behind litecoin and what funds are used for

2013-04-05T01:26:34Z

explain reasoning behind litecoin and what funds are used for

Drobbins: fixes for miner URLs in script, refer to 13.1 ati-drivers

2013-04-03T08:35:25Z

fixes for miner URLs in script, refer to 13.1 ati-drivers

75.173.111.10 at 08:30, 3 April 2013

2013-04-03T08:30:14Z

Drobbins: remove yipyo, seems gone

2013-03-28T17:42:17Z

remove yipyo, seems gone

Drobbins: fix ozcoin web link

2013-03-28T17:41:45Z

fix ozcoin web link

Drobbins: update ozco.in to ozcoin.net (new pool to replace old)

2013-03-28T16:59:17Z

update ozco.in to ozcoin.net (new pool to replace old)

Drobbins at 01:39, 21 December 2012

2012-12-21T01:39:04Z

Drobbins at 01:38, 21 December 2012

2012-12-21T01:38:45Z

68.229.0.176: Added Yipyo Mining

2012-12-14T04:50:14Z

Added Yipyo Mining

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 ! stats
 ! review
 |-
 | Burnside's Litecoin Mining Pool

← Older revision		Revision as of 01:26, 5 April 2013
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	Litecoin mining is a fun and easy way that you can help support the Funtoo Linux project. Litecoin is a virtual cryptographic currency that is generated using CPUs and video card GPU computational power, and can be converted into a traditional currency like US dollars.		Litecoin mining is a fun and easy way that you can help support the Funtoo Linux project. Litecoin is a virtual cryptographic currency that is generated using CPUs and video card GPU computational power, and can be converted into a traditional currency like US dollars.
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		+	== How does Litecoin Relate to Funtoo? ==
		+
		+	Part of Funtoo is having fun, and part of having fun is being creative, and exploring new ideas and concepts, and not being limited by the expectations of others. These concepts include technology, but also include new community concepts and approaches for supporting a community. Distributed support via CPU and GPU power is certainly a novel way of supporting an open source project, and because of this it is a perfect fit for Funtoo. In many ways, the resource challenges faced by open source projects are more complex than the technical challenges, and deserve to be taken seriously. By exploring the use of Litecoin, we are exploring an innovative way to fund the project.
		+
		+	=== What are Funtoo Litecoin Funds Used For? ===
		+
		+	These funds will be used to pay the Development Lead of Funtoo, who assists me (Daniel Robbins) in ensuring that day-to-day often unglamorous work is completed in a responsive way for our users. The goal of this effort is for litecoin funds to pay the Development Lead so he can work on Funtoo Linux full-time.
		+
		+	Why is this important? Sometimes, I get busy at work and cannot be involved in Funtoo, and the Development Lead ensures that the Funtoo community stays afloat during these periods. The Dev Lead also assists with running the project when I'm available, so I can focus on development activities more deeply. This also helps to keep the project fun for me, so it is not an unreasonable burden.
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		+	Any surplus funds beyond this will be used to pay for our 10Gbit/sec hosting infrastructure and servers, which I currently pay for myself.
		+
		+	== Litecoin Pools ==
		+

	Typically, Litecoins are mined by pools of computers, and funtoo is part of the following pooled litecoin mining efforts:		Typically, Litecoins are mined by pools of computers, and funtoo is part of the following pooled litecoin mining efforts:

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 === Prerequisites ===
-First, X will need to be installed, and you will need to ensure all your video cards are defined in <tt>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</tt>. For AMD cards, the beta drivers -- <tt>ati-drivers-12.9_beta</tt> and <tt>ati-drivers-12.11_beta</tt> appears to work very well (12.10 did not offer very good OpenCL performance for me.) Ensure that full hardware acceleration is working and that <tt>ati</tt> OpenGL and <tt>amd</tt> OpenCL are selected via <tt>eselect</tt>. (This is probably how things are set up if you simply emerged ati-drivers.)
+First, X will need to be installed, and you will need to ensure all your video cards are defined in <tt>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</tt>. For AMD cards, ati-drivers 13.1 appears to work well. Ensure that full hardware acceleration is working and that <tt>ati</tt> OpenGL and <tt>amd</tt> OpenCL are selected via <tt>eselect</tt>. (This is probably how things are set up if you simply emerged ati-drivers.)
 === Install cgminer ===
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 export DISPLAY=:0
 cgminer \
--o http://lc.ozcoin.net:9332/ -u funtoo.public -p p \
+-o http://newlc.ozco.in:9332/ -u funtoo.public -p p \
--o http://bdfl.funtoo.org:9327/ -u funtoo.public -p p \
+-o http://ltc.kattare.com:9332/ -u funtoo.public -p p \
 --intensity 17 \
 --scrypt \
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 </pre>
-This script will start cgminer to connect to lc.ozco.in, but will automatically fall back to the funtoo.org p2pool if ozco.in is down. Intensity ranges from 1-20, with higher settings generally offering better hashrates. But if you get too close to 20, you will notice a slow down in interactive performance when using the X server. ssh performance will be unaffected.
+This script will start cgminer to connect to newlc.ozco.in, but will automatically fall back to the kattare pool if ozco.in is down. Intensity ranges from 1-20, with higher settings generally offering better hashrates. But if you get too close to 20, you will notice a slow down in interactive performance when using the X server. ssh performance will be unaffected.
 Be sure to properly set the number of shaders on your card -- 1536 is for an unlocked Radeon HD 6950. Consult [https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/blob/master/SCRYPT-README SCRYPT-README] (look for the <tt>--shaders</tt> description) to view the correct shaders to use for your card.

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 |-
 | OzCoin
-| <tt>lc.ozcoin.net</tt>
+| <tt>newlc.ozco.in</tt>
 | <tt>9332</tt>
 | <tt>funtoo.public</tt>
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 | [https://lc.ozcoin.net/content/overview ozcoin overview]
 | very good PPS pool
 |}

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 | N/A
 | lower performance but always available - use as backup only
 |}

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 Litecoin mining is a fun and easy way that you can help support the Funtoo Linux project. Litecoin is a virtual cryptographic currency that is generated using CPUs and video card GPU computational power, and can be converted into a traditional currency like US dollars.
-Typically, Litecoins are mined by pools of computers, and funtoo is part of the following pooled litecoin mining efforts
+Typically, Litecoins are mined by pools of computers, and funtoo is part of the following pooled litecoin mining efforts:
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 | <tt>p</tt>
 | N/A
-| Very fast performance.
+| Brand new pool.
 |}