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Update Your Ethereum Client if You are Using Geth

20, Aug 2015

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Ethereum has multiple options for clients that you can run in order to have your wallet and operate with Ether (ETH) coins as well as to have access to the network. This allows users to choose what client works best for them and what they prefer to stick with and can also help with issues like with the fork of the network earlier today. There was a consensus issue that occurred on the Frontier network at block 116522, mined on 2015-08-20 at 14:59:16+02:00 that has affected geth implementations up to and including versions 1.0.1, 1.1.0 and develop (“unstable 1.1.0”), while eth (C++) and pyethereum (Python) were unaffected. There was a fix released for the affected Ethereum clients released shortly after and users are required to update their geth client (source) if they are running it .

Since geth is our preferred Ethereum client software and we have been using it for our guides as well, if you also rely on geth you should update it with the fixed version of geth 1.0.2. We have provided a fixed Windows binary in our mining package below that you can download and update on your system. All you have to do is to stop the old client, replace the old geth.exe with the new one provided and run the new geth client software and you should be just fine. After the update it is Ok for you to see an error message like the one marked in red on the screenshot above, this is normal and the error message should disappear after a while when all clients update to fixed version of geth. You are seeing the error message as you are getting connected to a peer with an older version of geth, so once there are no more peers with the older non fixed version the message alert which will resolve itself. Exchanges and pools should update very soon if they have not yet updated to the fixed clients and should resume their normal operation, though there could be some delays in transactions and some issues with transactions sent during the problem with the network.

– Download the fixed version of the geth client compiled for Windows and ready to be used…

List of Useful Resources for People New to Ethereum

20, Aug 2015

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In the last few days things about Ethereum were moving pretty quick and we have posted a lot of information, so we have decided to summarize things to make that information easily accessible to people that are new the Ethereum or are just starting with ETH. Our focus was mostly on the mining and trading Ether (ETH), but there is much more to Ethereum than that, so if you still haven’t looked into it, then you probably should as it is much more than just another altcoin.

Mining Ethereum’s Ether (ETH):
– Quick Guide on How to Mine Ethereum on Windows
– Quick Guide on Solo GPU Mining Ethereum on Windows
– ETH Nanopool, One More New Ethereum Mining Pool
– Ethereumpool, Yet Another New Mining Pool for Ethereum
– Pooleum, a New Ethereum Pool In Pre-Alpha Phase

Useful information regarding Ethereum:
– Ethereum Mining Profitability Calculator
– Where You Can Buy and Trade Ethereum’s Ether (ETH) Coins
– Track Ethereum (ETH) Prices with Ethereum Wisdom
– Blockchain Explorers for the Ethereum Network

Other useful information about Ethereum:
– How to Backup Your Ethereum Wallet and the Blockchain
– Use Ether Wallet To Generate Online and Paper Wallet for Ethereum

It seems that Ethereum has managed to bring back a lot of GPU mining hardware that was taken offline and has managed to sparkle the interest of miners that were fed up with all the different altcoins. It is good to see that the project is finally moving forward and we are expecting to see a lot of good things in the future as well coming from the decentralized apps built on top of the Ethereum network such as Augur for example.

Ethereumpool, Yet Another New Mining Pool for Ethereum

19, Aug 2015

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There is yet another new mining pool for Ethereum’s Ether (ETH) coins that you can try, this is what seems to be the fourth one we know about and the third alternative to ethpool. Ethereumpool is with very simple web interface for the moment, but the pool itself does seem to be working pretty well and it comes with user control over difficulty, so it is suitable even for low hashrate CPU mining users. Like with other new mining pools for Ethereum this one is also in beta with a pool fee of 3% while the pool is under development, but the fee should be lowered. The payout method is proportional, though for the moment the pool stats does not report the number of shares submitted by the user as well as the total number of shares for the current block being solved. We do recommend you give the pool a try as although the web interface part is simple as we’ve said the pools seems to work really good for the moment, if you are new to pool mining you can try with our Quick Guide on How to Mine Ethereum on Windows to get started with this new pool.

Getting started with Ethereumpool:
ethminer -F http://ethereumpool.co/?miner=20@0x683feddafc2a8542744a4587de0c45626d7b8e68 -G

The above command line is an example you can use to get started mining with ethminer at Ethereumpool, you just need to replace the wallet address with your own Ethereum wallet and the default hashrate value of 20 (suitable for a single high-end GPU such as Radeon 280X) to the respective hashrate of your mining rig and you are ready to go. The above line is for mining using the OpenCL version of ethminer, for using the CUDA fork you need to replace the parameter -G with -U and you should be ready to go.

– To check out the new Ethereum mining pool Ethereumpool (in development stage)…


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