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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…
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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.
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- Related tags: Augur, decentralized applications, ETH information, ETH mining, ETH trading, Ether information, Ether mining, Ether trading, Ethereum, Ethereum information, Ethereum mining, Ethereum trading
Genoil, the developer of the Ethminer fork with Nvidia CUDA support (source) has implemented some updates to the code of the project contributed by SP and tpruvot that reduce the load on the CPU when the miner is running. Also the default worksize has been increased form 64 to 128, but other than that there should be no changes affecting the performance of the miner. The reduction of CPU usage may come at the cost of slight hashrate drop, but there is a command line parameter now that you can use to stick with the higher CPU load and get the slightly higher performance --high-cpu-load, so it is up to you to decide. We have updated our package with Geth and Ethminer for OpenCL and CUDA with the latest version of the Ethminer CUDA binary for Windows (requires 64-bit Windows), so you can download and try it. The Ethminer CUDA fork should work on Compute 2.0 or newer GPUs, we have tested it with a Compute 2.1 and it is working fine, but don’t forget that you can run Ethminer in OpenCL mode as well on Nvidia-based video cards and not only on AMD if you are having trouble with the CUDA support or the hashrate you get is lower as compared to OpenCL.
– Download the updated Ethminer CUDA fork compiled for Windows and ready to be used…