RE: Need help mining steemit on multiple PC's????

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Need help mining steemit on multiple PC's????

kodachrome (43) in steemit • 8 years ago (edited)

This has confused me too!
So is the following correct:

Each PC has a different Steemit/SteemD account, all valid and setup (or at least will be setup once start mining)
However they all share the same WIF Private Key but all have unique "miner = NAME..." in each config.ini.
-*So its PC1 has "miner= {kodachrome,SHAREDWIFKEY} and PC2 has "miner= [anotherminername, SHAREDWIFKEY| ?
Only one PC has the "witness= " variable filled in (and its the name of that PCs miner account). The rest have no witness specified but use the shared WIF.
All mining proceeds goto the account associated with the shared WIF Private key.
The main Miner (the one with the most uptime) should be the Witness for your group.. otherwise if its off then you have no witness.

That correct?

Questions:

Can the shared WIF key (used on all accounts) be any of the account's WIF key (assuming its where proceeds go) or does it have to be the Witness accounts WIF (aka primary always on miner) key?
What is this setting for in Config.ini as its not discussed here:

WIF PRIVATE KEY to be used by one or more witnesses or miners

private-key =

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8 years ago by kodachrome (43)

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hms818 (61) · 8 years ago

Thanks for the explanation.
I still could not run mining on my second PC , even after commenting the "witness" part and giving different miner name with same WIF Private key, receiving error as "No witness configured".
Is there anyone who can share exact configuration to be made in config file.

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contentjunkie (73) · 8 years ago

Did you ever figure this out? This seems like a very common problem people have. Everyone wants to mine from multiple computers to the same main steemit account. I can't find a solid guide anywhere.

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cryptos (66) · 8 years ago

The mining rewards get sent to the witness account, not to the miner account(s)... unless you use a single accountfor both of course.

The private-key entry is needed only if you setup a witness node without a miner.

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contentjunkie (73) · 8 years ago

Could you just reuse the same miner name on mulitple PC's or does it have to be a unique name each time. Does that mean I have to register with facebook or reddit for each PC or can I just generate these new miner accounts with the cli?

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