Hello! (and noob question.)

[Yolomojo]

Hey I'm new here. So I'm trying to CPU mine with ScryptMiner GUI, and its not working. I'm trying to use the pool settings seen at https://www.gldtalk.org/index.php?topic=361.0 , as it is one less thing that I can screw up. (I will enter my pool info once I can get this working, I just want to try eliminate variables.) I have it set at 8 threads, scantime 25. I hit the start button, and it says"[XX:XX:XX] - Miner started. It usually takes a minute until the program starts reporting information. Parameters: --algo scrypt -s 25 --url http://cryptocoinmine.com:3333 --userpass ipaint.test:test --threads 1 -P ". Almost 15 minuets later, nothing happens. The output spams, "[20XX-XX-XX XX:XX:XX] HTTP request failed: couldn't connect to host
[20XX-XX-XX XX:XX:XX] json_rpc_call failed, retry after 30 seconds" every 30 Sec. Do I just need to weight longer for the Miner to start? 15 minuets seems long for something like this to start. I can't figure it out. Any ideas?

Also, from what I understand, modifying the thread # and scantime, is mostly used for increasing hashrate and reducing rejected shares right?

[MicroGuy]

Welcome to the Goldcoin community. 

I sent you a few bonus Goldcoins to hold you over until we can get your mining situation resolved. I'm also going to move your thread to the mining board in the hope of finding you a quicker response.

[kreno777]

Hi Yolomojo

Firstly, i would like to state that CPU mining will yield very low results (I will explain though how to set it up for you), producing about 0.08 GLD per day at 109 Difficulty as of 23/11/2014, but for tech I will provide the basic info to proceed.

1. http://cryptocoinmine.com/ is dead hence the HTTP request failed, so go to either one of these mine pools and register with them :

http://gld.minepool.net
http://gld.cryptcoins.net
http://gld.lifeforce.info
http://gld.hashfaster.com

2. Once you have registered, create a worker at the pool.

3. Substitute http://cryptocoinmine.com:3333 with the settings received from the pool you registered with, normally found under Help or Getting Started. Eg: http://gld.minepool.com:3333

This should get you started off. Once you have it mining you can tweak the settings to get the max for your CPU.

Hope this helps.

[Yolomojo]

I'm still getting the same error.  RCP server: us.lifeforce.info        port: 1616     user: yolomojo.1  Pass: 1234

[kreno777]

Hi Yolomojo

This is the address that works for me :  tcp://gld-eu.lifeforce.info:1616

Info
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EU Server : gld-eu.lifeforce.info
Port : 1616

Give that a try.

[Yolomojo]

In the future if anyone has similar problems, this is how it was fixed. SryptMiner GUI will not work with a pool that has Stratum. This means the prefix stratum+tcp://us.lifeforce.info:1616. It seems like almost everything uses stratum though, so I gave up on trying to find a pool for my software, and found software for my pool, I am using minerd now and it works. A whole 16 khash/s but it works. Will look into GPU mining at a later date. Also, the "minerd -a --scrypt -t 6 -s 4 -o stratum+tcp://gld-eu.lifeforce.info:1616 -u yolomojo.1 -p 1234" Lifeforce tells you to put in is the wrong code. I had to modify it to this "minerd --url stratum+tcp://gld-eu.lifeforce.info:1616 -u yolomojo.1 -p 1234".