A: Binaries are a hassle to maintain. On Linux, they should be provided
by your distribution's package manager anyway. Runnning an unoptimised
binary gives a minor performance penalty. Running binaries from
untrusted providers is a security risk. There has not been sufficient
community interest to provide distributed determininstic builds.
Q: Why is the network difficulty wrong?
A: It is not wrong. Sharediff of 1 (historically) corresponds to a
network difficulty of 1/65536. Throughout the inteface, share difficulty
@ -9,6 +16,14 @@ using true network difficulty to display share difficulty, there is no
@@ -9,6 +16,14 @@ using true network difficulty to display share difficulty, there is no
reason to display difficulty differently. This is a vicious cycle and a
remnant of Bitcoin mining on GPUs.
Q: Can you modify the display to include more of one thing in the output
and less of another, or can you change the quiet mode or can you add
yet another output mode?
A: Everyone will always have their own view of what's important to
monitor. The shipped NCurses TUI is intentionally ascetic, and is only
provided as a fallback. It is recomended to use an API client if you
want to customise the display.
Q: Can I mine on servers from different networks (eg litecoin and
dogecoin) at the same time?
A: No. `sgminer` keeps a database of the block it's working on to ensure
@ -17,7 +32,7 @@ networks would make it invalidate the work from each other.
@@ -17,7 +32,7 @@ networks would make it invalidate the work from each other.
Q: Can I configure sgminer to mine with different login credentials or
pools for each separate device?
A: No.
A: No. Run separate instances with `-d`.
Q: Can I put multiple pools in the config file?
A: Yes, check the `example.conf` file. Alternatively, set up everything
@ -47,14 +62,6 @@ being the actual virus, rather than whatever it is being packaged with.
@@ -47,14 +62,6 @@ being the actual virus, rather than whatever it is being packaged with.
If you had built sgminer yourself, then you do not have a virus on your
computer. Complain to your antivirus software company..
Q: Can you modify the display to include more of one thing in the output
and less of another, or can you change the quiet mode or can you add
yet another output mode?
A: Everyone will always have their own view of what's important to
monitor. The shipped NCurses TUI is intentionally ascetic, and is only
provided as a fallback. It is recomended to use an API client if you
want to customise the display.
Q: GUI version?
A: No. The API makes it possible for someone else to write one though.
@ -71,16 +78,9 @@ A: No. Consider using [cpuminer](https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer).
@@ -71,16 +78,9 @@ A: No. Consider using [cpuminer](https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer).
Q: I'm having an issue. What debugging information should I provide in
the bug report?
A: See `doc/BUGS.md` in your source distribution directory, or
Noel Maersk
11 years ago