"Start Mining" Page - Need Contributors!
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Okay guys, I decided to go ahead and start the contents of what would be on this “Start Mining” page. This will be the number one resource for new miners, which we are all trying to bring in. This way, all the resources they need are in one place, and they can easily get started without having to go anywhere else, since they can also ask their questions here in the forums.
Also, once the page is running, we should be able to share it on Facebook and have the “share preview” highlight that “You can make money with your GPU”. That way, we can each share it on our Facebook walls, and have friends share it on their walls as well. Then it will catch people’s attention when they read that they can make money with their GPU’s, and when the click on it, all the resources they need to start mining and their questions on how it makes them money is answered right on the “Start Mining” page.
If we did this, I’m hopeful that for every person that shares that link on Facebook we’d get at least one person who would try to start mining.
I’ve made a Google Word Document and started the contents of what would be in the Mining page. Feel free to contribute what you’d like to what I’ve added so far :) If possible, use a different color so I can differentiate what content is mine :P or if you like you can just add to the bottom in a comments section and I or someone else can incorporate it if you don’t know where it should go or how it should look.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dztksO1MJyPbKSFM2VP4-iGwqKzJ8P_nfWcrX_t2OAQ/edit?usp=sharing
Also made a quick pool tour video for the page. Unfortunately the audio is a little crappy because my mic doesn’t pic up sound that well :( But if anyone knows how to improve audio on videos, you can download it and clean up the audio for me :)
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxcCulFRYg57WGRCY3RRdHVXUHc/edit?usp=sharing
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1. Windows Guiminer Video -
2. Windows Guiminer Text Tutorial -
3. Windows CGminer Video -
4. Windows CGminer Text Tutorial - sheepson
5. Linux Mining Video -
6. Linux Mining Text Tutorial -
7. Mac OS Mining Video -
8. Mac OS Text Tutorial -
9. Common New Miner FAQ Collection -bushstar, if you started the “Start Mining” page with the material I have so far as well as the calculator format I have shown, that would be awesome! Then once we have any one of the video/tutorial pairs, we can open up the start mining page and have those other tabs as “Coming soon…” until we have guides for those sections.
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+1 on start mining tab, and fb page could also be good
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Yea, and actually the calculator on that page can be something like, you can add what graphics cards you have on the form. Then it’ll get the total minimum and maximum they’d make per day in dollars (after electrical costs, average $0.12 kw/h) if they ran it 24h by calculating adding the minimum and maximum hashrates of the cards they put in. That way they can see exactly how much they’d be making without having to figure out hashrates etc.
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Could we also get an exchange ticker on there for current FTC value?
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Good idea - those things should be visible at the very beginning when you join the site.P.S. about legal stuff - since we will be encouraging people to start mining, we have to presume that some or even most of the gaming rig owners are minors. I’m not sure according to whose laws, but shouldn’t we put a disclaimer somewhere, something like "if you are under the age of (18/21/whatever the law is) and you are not the one paying the electricity bill, you should ask your parents or whoever… Also, excessive usage of your GPU might cause some damage to it, and we will not be held responsible if you don’t follow the manufacturers instructions…
[/quote]That’s somehow making me feel like a retard :P
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Also part of the reason I included MSI Afterburner as part of the download links haha. That way we can let them know that ideally their GPU should run at 85C or less to prevent damage.
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Thats what i was thinking, i already started with ‘Create a Wallet’ and ‘Start Mining’ guide, Feather_lover looked over the guides and they are no ‘textual very good :)’.
Indeed we could use a page where we can add all this together, creating a real “Starter Kit”.Lets make a group of people and get this thing rolling!
I made this topic:
forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?topic=584Please reply there what should be in this starter kit!
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Just want to let you guys know I’ve started a Google Word Document to outline the contents of what would be on this page. Feel free to contribute to what I’ve made so far!
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Added a video touring a Feathercoin pool!
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This is fantastic, thank you for taking charge on this project.