Generally, mining in a mining pool is still the way to mine Dogecoin for most miners, with a crucial difference in equipment: nowadays, all miners mining Dogecoin and other Scrypt coins profitably do so using specialized hardware called Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), in particular ASIC miners built specifically for Proof of Work cryptocurrencies using the Scrypt algorithm. Since then, miners can mine Litecoin and any other classic Scrypt crypto and contribute also to the Dogecoin network, receiving the mining rewards from multiple blockchains at once for the same amount of work. The most popular cryptocurrency using Scrypt was, at the time, Litecoin. Then, in 2014, Dogecoin was modified to allow merged mining with other cryptocurrencies sharing the same Proof of Work algorithm (called Scrypt). Mining revenues were split with the mining pool and with all the other miners following a set of rules established by the mining pool operators. Soon enough, the total mining hashrate of the network had grown so much that the likelihood of a miner finding a block while mining solo had been reduced drastically.įor this reason, mining pools for Dogecoin miners - the equivalent of those already existing for Bitcoin, Litecoin, and other PoW cryptocurrencies - were created, and people joined them to combine their hashing power with the hashing power of hundreds and then thousands of other miners. A miner only needed a computer with enough disk space and a gaming GPU - and this was enough to mine Dogecoin. Mining Dogecoin used to be much simpler in the early days. Check these Dogepedia articles to understand what miners do, how they interact with nodes, and why mining pools come into play when it comes to mining: Still, that's way bizarre so i am gonna send Samsung a message, maybe they can help or maybe this type of SSD is not suitable for crypto in general, hence the errors.Miners and mining are at the center of Dogecoin’s Proof of Work consensus mechanism. As we all know these drives have an X lifespan and if they're on 24/7 that will get shortened every day. I am gonna live with this, not ideal and again, the reason i am having this on external SSD is that i wanted a drive that does not stay on continuously like my "main" normal SSD where i do other stuff and my work, etc. I have 2 others privacy coins and one of those also experienced same thing, reindex then now fine, the other one instead never had this issue, I am not mining at the moment but was helping the network with open port, etc. Now, yes this happened many times now and i am quite clueless on why, I have never lost data on this ssd on other occasions. Well, it's very hard to say if it's the drive because, i ONLY use this ssd for crypto really, i have nothing else on it and it's also a very fast Samsung T7 SSD (1 gb/sec write and read) with built in encryption etc (which i am not using though). Though there are some altcoins that are VERY bad for any computer drives, so if he's 'mining' any of them, then the whole issue is simply to expect failure and don't dare run something important like a Bitcoin wallet on the same drive. With an SSD, give it a few years at least before smartmon should start mentioning issues. Standard I/O to any disk wont cause errors no matter what you do, unless there's something wrong with the disk or the interface. Make sure to backup the wallet (or that should have been done anyway) then,Īt the very least run smartmon on the disk and check it's history and run a 'long' smartmon check of the disk. Well it keeps sounding like a bad disk, and no comment in the first post about thatīut CHKDSK isn't by default a full check of any disk, and on a SSD even less so. But if you have specific suggestion to test disk thoughtfully, you should mention it. On first post, OP mentioned that he ran disk (looks like with built-in windows tools) and RAM check, so it's unlikely.
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