STEEM Mining Help
I know absolutely nothing about mining or Linux but I'm attempting to learn. I'm hoping maybe someone who knows a bit about it will see this post and help out a total noob and maybe other noobs out there attempting the same as me. I'm using a really crappy old laptop just to learn the basics before I decide to invest in something newer and more powerful. So far I have managed to install Linux in a separate partition and I've followed a couple guides on here on how to setup the miner. As of right now I have no idea whether it's working or not. As far as I can tell, what is going on right now is the miner syncing the blockchain, but it's been stuck on this for a couple hours now. Here's what it says:
167273ms th_a database.cpp:3440 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 1
187533ms th_a database.cpp:3456 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 2
209369ms th_a database.cpp:3462 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 3
279365ms th_a database.cpp:3468 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 4
530176ms th_a database_api.cpp:185 ~database_api_impl ] freeing database api 79982832
1010174ms th_a database.cpp:3474 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 5
1665889ms th_a database.cpp:3479 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 6
1742019ms th_a database.cpp:3486 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 7
1751448ms th_a database.cpp:3491 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 8
2082529ms th_a database.cpp:3497 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 9
2146556ms th_a database.cpp:3519 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 10
2203639ms th_a database.cpp:3525 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 11
3303999ms ntp ntp.cpp:177 read_loop ] ntp_delta_time updated to -16004 us
7742ms ntp ntp.cpp:177 read_loop ] ntp_delta_time updated to -40802 us
8384ms ntp ntp.cpp:177 read_loop ] ntp_delta_time updated to -9819 us
16524ms ntp ntp.cpp:166 read_loop ] received stale ntp reply requested at 2016-08-12T21:00:14, send a new time request
28577ms ntp ntp.cpp:166 read_loop ] received stale ntp reply requested at 2016-08-12T21:00:19, send a new time request
314432ms ntp ntp.cpp:177 read_loop ] ntp_delta_time updated to 6540 us
315339ms ntp ntp.cpp:177 read_loop ] ntp_delta_time updated to -12295 us
317163ms ntp ntp.cpp:177 read_loop ] ntp_delta_time updated to 66619 us
Seems like it ay got stuck downloading the blockchain, you can try restarting steemd.
If you are having trouble with Linux, you can try setting up mining in Windows, should be much easier, I have written a gudie to get you up and running for that here: https://steemit.com/steemit/@cryptos/getting-started-mining-steem-on-windows
OMG! It looks like it's working! Syncing the blockchain now. Thanks so much. I'm following you now and will send upvotes your way. No other guide I read about mining on windows had the part where you remove the # from the witness and miner lines. It looks like that's the only part I was missing.
Glad the guide has helped you :)
Thanks! I will try this today. I was thinking it wasn't working on Windows until the new miner was released and I couldn't find the new one.
I read that Steem mining is NOT possible anymore:
https://steemit.com/faq.html#Can_I_mine_STEEM