Thanks for the replies buddy!bad_brain wrote:@mab
well, there is no central organization that gives out the money, like a central bank does for a country. the money is produced by every user, by making transfers and the rewards for the resulting blocks being solved.
@cats
yeah, it IS a bit confusing, but for me it slowly clears up...
1. when mining for a pool your reward goes into an account there, and when you have reached a specific limit (usually you can set that limit yourself as long as it's not too low) you can transfer it to your wallet. when mining alone you would surely connect your account somehow, but mining alone is totally pointless anyway as long as you don't have your whole basement filled with quad-GPU killer systems, because you would only get the reward (25 BTC) when solving a block all alone....I am not sure though how THAT works, because I doubt you can say "that's my block now, I will solve it alone!".
2. as said in 1., your reward is not transferred directly to your wallet. even if it would, or someone sends you some BTC while you aren't online, it wouldn't matter, because every client is synchronized in context with the transfers when starting...so when you log in you would get the block that contains your transfer too, and then it's added to your wallet.
I have no experience at all with that .py script, maybe mab can add something about that...
I have read about this all day now xD
And I finally got it sorted out (It's basically as I guessed in my previous post).
I will write a tutorial on how I did it on Linux with the python miner, put it on my wiki and then link it here
I also found a neat miner written in C that seems to be very powerful, so I will see if I can get that one to work as well.
For now I will make a bunch of tests on this machine and see how much BTC I can mine before I return to Sweden ^^
Currently it looks like this, after running for a few minutes
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api.bitcoin.cz:8332 [28.659 MH/s (~52 MH/s)] [Rej: 0/17 (0.00%)]