ccMiner release 0.4 (Mar 24th 2014) - Groestlcoin Pool Release
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>>> Introduction <<<

This is a CUDA accelerated mining application for use with
HeavyCoin and FugueCoin. We did not take effort on usability,
so please set your parameters carefuly.

THIS PROGRAMM IS PROVIDED "AS-IS", USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK!

If you're interessted and read the source-code, please excuse
that the most of our comments are in german.

>>> Command Line Interface <<<

This code is based on the pooler cpuminer 2.3.2 release and inherits
its command line interface and options.

  -a, --algo=ALGO       specify the algorithm to use
                          heavy       use to mine Heavycoin
                          fugue256    use to mine Fuguecoin
                          groestl     use to mine Groestlcoin

  -o, --url=URL         URL of mining server (default: " DEF_RPC_URL ")
  -O, --userpass=U:P    username:password pair for mining server
  -u, --user=USERNAME   username for mining server
  -p, --pass=PASSWORD   password for mining server
  -v, --vote		Heavycoin block vote (default: 512)
      --cert=FILE       certificate for mining server using SSL
  -x, --proxy=[PROTOCOL://]HOST[:PORT]  connect through a proxy
  -t, --threads=N       number of miner threads (default: number of nVidia GPUs in your system)
  -r, --retries=N       number of times to retry if a network call fails
                          (default: retry indefinitely)
  -R, --retry-pause=N   time to pause between retries, in seconds (default: 15)
  -T, --timeout=N       network timeout, in seconds (default: 270)
  -s, --scantime=N      upper bound on time spent scanning current work when
                        long polling is unavailable, in seconds (default: 5)
      --no-longpoll     disable X-Long-Polling support
      --no-stratum      disable X-Stratum support
  -q, --quiet           disable per-thread hashmeter output
  -D, --debug           enable debug output
  -P, --protocol-dump   verbose dump of protocol-level activities
  -B, --background      run the miner in the background
      --benchmark       run in offline benchmark mode
  -c, --config=FILE     load a JSON-format configuration file
  -V, --version         display version information and exit
  -h, --help            display this help text and exit

>>> Examples <<<

Example for Heavycoin Mining on heavycoinpool.com with a single gpu in your system

ccminer.exe -t 1 -a heavy -o stratum+tcp://stratum01.heavycoinpool.com:5333 -u <<username.worker>> -p <<workerpassword>> -v 512



Example for Heavycoin Mining on hvc.1gh.com with a dual gpu in your system

ccminer.exe -t 2 -a heavy -o stratum+tcp://hvcpool.1gh.com:5333 -u <<WALLET>> -p x -v 512



Example for Fuguecoin solo-mining with 4 gpu's in your system and a Fuguecoin-wallet running on localhost

ccminer.exe -q -s 1 -t 4 -a fugue256 -o http://localhost:9089 -u <<myusername>> -p <<mypassword>>


Example for Fuguecoin pool mining on dwarfpool.com with all your GPUs

ccminer.exe -q -a fugue256 -o stratum+tcp://erebor.dwarfpool.com:3340 -u YOURWALLETADDRESS.1 -p YOUREMAILADDRESS


Example for Groestlcoin solo mining

ccminer.exe -q -s 1 -a groestl -o http://127.0.0.1:1441 -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD


For solo-mining you typically use -o 127.0.0.1:xxxx where xxxx represents
the RPC portnumber specified in your wallet's .conf file and you have to
pass the same username and password with -O as specified in the wallet's
.conf file. The wallet must also be started with the -server option and
the server flag in the wallet's .conf file set to 1


>>> Additional Notes <<<

This code should be running on nVidia GPUs ranging from compute capability
2.0 up to compute capability 3.5. Just don't expect any hashing miracles
from your old clunkers.

>>> RELEASE HISTORY <<<

  March, 24 2014 fixed Groestl pool support

                 went back to Compute 1.x for cuda_hefty1.cu kernel by
                 default after numerous reports of ccminer v0.2/v0.3
                 not working with HeavyCoin for some people.

  March, 23 2014 added Groestlcoin support. stratum status unknown
                 (the only pool is currently down for fixing issues)

  March, 21 2014 use of shared memory in Fugue256 kernel boosts hash rates
                 on Fermi and Maxwell devices. Kepler may suffer slightly
                 (3-5%)

                 Fixed Stratum for Fuguecoin. Tested on dwarfpool.

  March, 18 2014 initial release.


>>> AUTHORS <<<

Notable contributors to this application are:

Christian Buchner, Christian H. (Germany): CUDA implementation 

and also many thanks to anyone else who contributed to the original
cpuminer application (Jeff Garzik, pooler), it's original HVC-fork
and the HVC-fork available at hvc.1gh.com

Source code is included to satisfy GNU GPL V3 requirements.


With kind regards,

   Christian Buchner ( Christian.Buchner@gmail.com )
   Christian H. ( Chris84 )