http://etcwiki.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=BFGminer_sectionsBFGminer sections - Revision history2026-05-31T20:11:03ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.1http://etcwiki.org/index.php?title=BFGminer_sections&diff=3258&oldid=prevDdxfish at 16:22, 26 September 20132013-09-26T16:22:51Z<p></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>BFGminer is my program of choice for mining Bitcoins. It took me a while to understand all of the different lines of output and what they meant in the BFGminer console window. I figured I would share what I have learned about what BFGminer is displaying in its stats.<br />
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[[File:Bfgminer.jpg]]<br />
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==Line 1 - Version and Date==<br />
*Name of program (BFGminer)<br />
*Version number (3.2.0)<br />
*Date program started<br />
*Total Time Mining<br />
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==Line 2 - Admin Stuff==<br />
*M - Manage Devices<br />
*P - Pool Management<br />
*S - Settings<br />
*D - Display Options<br />
*H - Help<br />
*Q - Quit<br />
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==Line 3 - Pool Info==<br />
*Pool URL<br />
*Difficulty given by pool<br />
*Protocol (stratum or other)<br />
*Username on pool<br />
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==Line 4 - Network Info==<br />
*Part of the blocks hash value (...1235ABCD)<br />
*Block number on pool<br />
*Current Block difficulty (149M = 149,000,000)<br />
*Current network speed (1.07 Ph/s = 1,070,000 Gh/s)<br />
*Date/time of current blocks start<br />
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==Line 5 - Overall Stats==<br />
*ST: Work in queue<br />
*F: Network Failures<br />
*NB: New blocks detected<br />
*AS: Shares in submission process<br />
*BW: Bandwidth (up / down)<br />
*E: # of shares * difficulty / 2kB of bandwidth<br />
*U: Shares per minute<br />
*BS: Best Share (highest difficulty block solved)<br />
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==Line 6 - Combined Device Info==<br />
*Number of active mining devices (2 in this picture)<br />
*3 Speed numbers in Mh/s <br />
**First speed is last 5s avg speed<br />
**Second speed is All Time Average (for this program run)<br />
**Third speed is Effective Average (actual performance taking into account failures etc)<br />
*A: Accepted Shares<br />
*R:0+0: Rejected Shares + Discarded shares (and percent of total)<br />
*HW: Hardware errors (total number / percent of total)<br />
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==Each devices line==<br />
*Name of device<br />
*3 Speed numbers in Mh/s <br />
**First speed is last 5s avg speed<br />
**Second speed is All Time Average (for this program run)<br />
**Third speed is Effective Average (actual performance taking into account failures etc)<br />
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==Message Area==<br />
Each line here gives a current status of the connection to the mining pool, and what your client is saying to the pool. Some of the common lines you see when bitcoin mining are:<br />
'''[2013-09-25 12:06:17] Accepted 7b71d2c8 ICA 0 Diff 2/2'''<br />
*First is the date and time of the event<br />
*"Accepted 7b71d2c8 means that the block 7b71d2c8 has been computed, submitted, and accepted by the pool<br />
* ICA 0 is the device used for this calculation<br />
*Diff 2/2 is the actual difficulty of the block you solved, a slash, and the requested difficulty of your client<br />
**Diff X/2 means I am requesting difficulty level 2 problems, and X is the difficulty of the problem I solved-- the higher the number the more shares, and the higher the number the more BTC payout. The largest X value is displayed in the BS: statistic<br />
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'''[2013-09-25 12:06:27] Stratum from pool 0 requested work update'''<br />
*This line is just saying the pool is asking you how your calculations are going<br />
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==External Links==<br />
*[http://bfgminer.org/ BFGminer Homepage]<br />
*[https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer BFGminer Github] - repository on Git of BFGminer<br />
*[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=168174.0 Bitcointalk Forums] - Using BFGminer, changelog, compatibility<br />
*[https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BFGMiner Bitcoin.it] - BFGminer description (very good one)<br />
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