[Ethereum] Starting ethpool / ethermine using ethminer on ubuntu

ethminer

I am trying the below and they don't work for me :

ethminer --farm-recheck 200 -G -F eu1.ethermine.org:4444/0x<Your_Ethereum_Address>.<RigName>

ethminer --farm-recheck 200 -G -F eu1.ethpool.org:3333/0x<Your_Ethereum_Address>.<RigName>

And I am getting JSON RPC Error - Probably cannot connect

Why is that? Also what is the -S argument ( something about Stratum ?? what is that?) This doesn't work as well.

Best Answer

If you're using ethermine, follow their guide for the correct commandline. That is because ethermine is configured as stratum.

ethminer --farm-recheck 200 -G -S eu1.ethermine.org:4444 -FS us1.ethermine.org:4444 -O <Your_Ethereum_Address>.<RigName>

There are quite a number of ethminer builds, what I did was to install cpp-ethereum via PPA and then download the latest binary from https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer and overwrote the existing one.

Works like a charm!