BitcoinPool.com
A mining pool server which offers shared block payouts. This pool gives you the most statistics and believes in keeping everything as transparent as possible. This pool also shows you the efficiency of your bitcoin miner, which is very unique feature that no other mining pools have. The pool operates on the fact that more efficient miners reduce the amount of resources used by server, and with fewer resources being wasted, the server can handle a large number of users.
The pool operators also released poclbm-mod which is a modified version of m0mchill's poclbm miner that is 5x more efficient. What this means is that poclbm-mod searches through the entire work it receives from the pool server before asking for more work, which reduces the amount of wasted resources. Currently, no other miners are as efficient as poclbm-mod. In general, all other bitcoin mining programs, including poclbm, ignore the concept of efficiency altogether which have caused an unnecessary amount of strain on the various mining pools.
Getwork or Share Efficiency is defined as:
(The # of getwork requested) / (The number of submitted shares) * 100
The service was first available for Beta testing starting March 08, 2011[1].
Only shares from the current block in the current round are accepted.
How to run various miners
BitcoinPool Miner (Windows):
poclbm-mod.exe -d 0 -v -w 128 -f 60 -user=USERNAME --pass=PASSWORD
BitcoinPool Miner (*nix OS):
python poclbm-mod.py -d 0 -v -w 128 -f 60 --user=USERNAME --pass=PASSWORD
m0mchil's GPU miner (*nix OS):
python poclbm -d 0 -v -w 128 -f 60 -user=USERNAME --pass=PASSWORD
m0mchil's GPU miner (Windows):
poclbm.exe -d 0 -v -w 128 -f 60 -user=USERNAME --pass=PASSWORD
DiabloMiner (*nix):
DiabloMiner-YourOS.sh -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD -o bitcoinpool.com -r 8334 -g 10
DiabloMiner (Windows):
java -cp target\libs\*;target\DiabloMiner-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar -Djava.library.path=target\libs\natives\windows com.diablominer.DiabloMiner.DiabloMiner -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD -o bitcoinpool.com -r 8334 -g 10
puddinpop's RPC miner (*nix OS):
rpcminer-[PLATFORM] -url=http://bitcoinpool.com:8334 -user=USERNAME -password=PASSWORD -workrefreshms=20000 Note: Replace [PLATFORM] with opencl for ATI/AMD cards, or cuda for nVidia cards, and add the -gpu flag if not using cpu.
puddinpop's RPC miner (Windows):
rpcminer-[PLATFORM].exe -url=http://bitcoinpool.com:8334 -user=USERNAME -password=PASSWORD -workrefreshms=20000 Note: Replace [PLATFORM] with opencl for ATI/AMD cards, or cuda for nVidia cards, and add the -gpu flag if not using cpu.
Ufasoft's CPU Miner (Windows):
bitcoin-miner.exe -a 20 -t # -o http://bitcoinpool.com:8334/ -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD Note: The # sign after -t indicates the number of cores in your CPU. i.e an Intel Core 2 Quad would use '-t 4'.
jgarzik's CPU miner (*nix):
minerd -s 20 -t 2 --url http://bitcoinpool.com:8334 --userpass USERNAME:PASSWORD
jgarzik's CPU miner (Windows):
minerd.exe -s 20 -t 2 --url http://bitcoinpool.com:8334 --userpass USERNAME:PASSWORD
See Also
External Links
- Bitcoin Pool web site
- poclbm-mod source code and binary available on the main site.