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Bitcoin Mining for SX

18 September, 2011 - 23:15 — Jerbo

Bitcoin mining is the latest craze in utilizing your wasted GPU resources! If you're not familiar with Bitcoins please read up on bitcoin.org and Wikipedia - Bitcoin. Our bitcoin mining account is part of the Deepbit pool. To get started, follow these easy steps:

** If you are running Windows and want a simple package, download, unrar, and run the batch in https://www.soldierx.com/bitcoin/SX-BITCOIN.rar

Step 1 -- Find a client
Find yourself a supported mining client. Supported clients are listed on Deepbit's home page, and command-line arguments are in the help section. I use the Phoenix miner which by default uses poclbm as its kernel, but you can use any supported client.

Step 2 -- Setup your shit
Set yourself up a script for each of your GPUs (I know some of you out there probably have 6 or something ridiculous like that). Here are my two batch files I use for my dual-GPU setup:

@echo off
title Deepbit.net - Phoenix Miner SX
phoenix -u <a href="http://rat@soldierx.com_sx:s0ld13rxb1tc01n@pit.deepbit.net:8332/" title="http://rat@soldierx.com_sx:s0ld13rxb1tc01n@pit.deepbit.net:8332/">http://rat@soldierx.com_sx:s0ld13rxb1tc01n@pit.deepbit.net:8332/</a> -k poclbm DEVICE=0 VECTORS BFI_INT WORKSIZE=128 AGGRESSION=10

@echo off
title Deepbit.net - Phoenix Miner SX
phoenix -u <a href="http://rat@soldierx.com_sx:s0ld13rxb1tc01n@pit.deepbit.net:8332/" title="http://rat@soldierx.com_sx:s0ld13rxb1tc01n@pit.deepbit.net:8332/">http://rat@soldierx.com_sx:s0ld13rxb1tc01n@pit.deepbit.net:8332/</a> -k poclbm DEVICE=1 VECTORS BFI_INT WORKSIZE=128 AGGRESSION=10

Step 3 -- Tweak it
Different clients have different options for tweaking. There are a few options you might need to adjust for Phoenix:

  • VECTORS should be enabled unless you're using old hardware. I'm not really sure what's old and what wouldn't support this, so leave it on unless you have problems.
  • BFI_INT should be enabled with newer AMD/ATI graphics hardware. This probably means HD 5xxx+, or maybe just HD 6xxx+. If it doesn't work, take it out, but this should add some efficiency to your hashing if your card supports it.
  • WORKSIZE is by default the largest your hardware supports. I've only played with this a little, but 128 works fine for me.
  • AGGRESSION will highly affect your hash rate and computer responsiveness. 10 is default. I haven't seen much of a difference for me above 10, except that my computer slows down and I piss off everyone in my SC2 game.

    • Step 4 -- Get personal
    If you'd like a personal worker account so that your shares submitted are separate from everyone else's, contact RaT and he'll provide you with a username/password. This is necessary if you want to participate in any future bitcoin-mining contests.

    Reference: 

    Bitcoin Official Website

    Mining Hardware Comparison

    Phoenix Miner

    PyOpenCL Bitcoin Miner

    DeepBit Mining Pool

    Bitcoin on Wikipedia

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