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Title: [XPM] Miner Development thread Post by: shinkicker on July 12, 2013, 09:09:29 AM To keep things consolidated and tidy I have started this thread as a focal point on what needs to be done to get other miners (namely bfgminer and cgminer) supporting primecoin.
So far it has been established that there is no API active in primecoind and consensus is saying the best one to use is GetBlockTemplate (which replaced the former GetWork). Sunny King has kindly asked which API we want, so that shows he is willing to work with us on this! Tasks we need to address / work on (with only bfgminer played with so far) * Difficulty reporting. * PPS stats (per core perhaps). * Difficulty reporting. * GetBlockTemplate API. Here is the repo: https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/tree/prime I will keep updating this post as new info is found. Please lets try to keep in on topic, so as to benefit all by having a thread that is easy to follow and keep track of. Title: Re: [XPM] Miner Development thread Post by: Tgspring on July 12, 2013, 12:56:11 PM any new progress? :)
Title: Re: [XPM] Miner Development thread Post by: shinkicker on July 12, 2013, 12:57:15 PM any new progress? :) Not back from work yet, but going to look in a few hours. Also when Sunny gets online shortly, we can see what he says / can do. Title: Re: [XPM] Miner Development thread Post by: Sunny King on July 12, 2013, 01:48:22 PM Sure, getblocktemplate API needs to be proposed, mainly how to submit block with the additional proof-of-work certificate (bnPrimeChainMultiplier) when block is found.
Title: Re: [XPM] Miner Development thread Post by: super3 on July 12, 2013, 02:24:23 PM Looks very promising.
Title: Re: [XPM] Miner Development thread Post by: ivanlabrie on July 12, 2013, 02:27:04 PM I'll keep an eye on this...once this is out, BOOM. There goes litecoin :p
Title: Re: [XPM] Miner Development thread Post by: Schleicher on July 12, 2013, 02:42:38 PM What does a Primecoin block look like?
A Bitcoin block header looks like this: Code: 4 bytes version Title: Re: [XPM] Miner Development thread Post by: Sunny King on July 12, 2013, 03:15:10 PM No. nonce is still there. The certificate is a serialized CBigNum type (bnPrimeChainMultiplier) following nonce.
Title: Re: [XPM] Miner Development thread Post by: gateway on July 12, 2013, 03:15:33 PM Ya so it looks like first we need to get the primecoin API working before any minging software can use it efficiently ..
Title: Re: [XPM] Miner Development thread Post by: TheSwede75 on July 12, 2013, 03:29:26 PM Would love to see good old Guiminer dev. Take a stab at this as well. Mainstream adoption comes with simplicity.
Title: Re: [XPM] Miner Development thread Post by: gateway on July 12, 2013, 06:27:24 PM btw some of us are hanging out on #eligius-prime to work though some bfg stuff if you want to join, trolls need not apply
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