Where can I get help with mining steem?

in #steem • 8 years ago (edited)

I tried to start mining steem yesterday. Followed the Mining for dummies instructions but the cmake fails for steem on linux. It seems to be either unable to find or is looking for the wrong version of boost. Tried the windows version and it would just crash if I had the miner-threads = in the config file. It's running without it in there but it still crashes occasionally. I tried on a second machine and the same exact thing. Then I read in the How to mine page

You must not specify a witness with the same account name, your-account-name, on more than one steemd instance that has the necessary private key. If this happens then both instances of steemd will produce a block at the same time. Other nodes on the network will see this double-signing and submit a proof to the network that will allow them to claim your entire account balance.

UPDATE: By comparing the 2 guides, messing around, and with some help from @soulthug and @royaltiffany I may have got it working on both windows and linux. I'll update with the changed steps when I'm sure. Still no idea on using multiple machines to mine just going to use one for now.

So I immediately killed it on my second machine. There do not seem to be any instructions for a non witness mining node so no idea how to mine from 2 computers.

Is there any place to get help for this stuff. The slack support that is on the help page seems to be limited to steem team members only.

Update 2: After several hours it appears to be working but keeps crashing. Windows just crashes linux goes back to the command prompt. Both end up in corrupted database have to delete and restart from scratch.

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     8 years ago (edited)

    @tuck-fheman posted a good guide here .

    Also you might want to try @bitcube's new v0.11.0 miner for Windows :
    https://github.com/btscube/steem/releases/download/v0.11.0/steem-win-x64-011.zip

    Source: https://github.com/btscube/steem/releases

    Remember to use your active private key when setting up the miner and pay attention to this part:

    Other Options & Help

    from @tuck-fheman's guide.

    Go into config.ini and comment out (#) the mining-threads section like this ...
    # mining-threads = 2
    Restart steemd.exe and once you have synced back up to the blockchain, you should see something like this ...
    2194613ms th_a application.cpp:438 handle_block ] Got 1 transactions from network on block 1878671

    Now exit the program with CTRL-C, go back into config.ini and uncomment (remove the #) the mining-threads line you commented out earlier.

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    Please help! how to set up mining on multiple computers?

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       8 years ago 

      This question is important for me too!

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      good luck

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         8 years ago 

        Thanks for the info. Seems to be very close to the other instructions.

        I think I manged to get one machine mining. No idea how I just uncommented the miner-threads = line and it worked today. Only thing that changed was it downloaded some of the blockchain without that but did not try to mine. It also may be that it just didn't like trying to be started from remote for some reason. I started it at the actual machine today.

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