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Now Datacoin is at the stage where difficulty is so high that it is hard to solomine even with fast processors. Datacoin is not scrypt-based coin, it is XPM-based, so there are difficulties to create such pool (see http://www.reddit.com/r/primecoin/comments/1q42gz/primecoin_mining_pool_software/ )
Datacoin needs developer for pool (or someone from XPM team to open another pool for DTC even without opening sources to community). It will be rewarded of course (I can donate maybe 1-2K datacoins, and other miners can do thesame), and it needs to be done quickly. I'll bump this post several times - Datacoin needs to grow!  :)

There is only a handfull of pool from primecoin since it's a different PoW.

There is  beeeeer.org,  ypool.net and rpool.net
So we could ask one of those to setup a Datacoin mining pool. Should be easy for them.


If not,  someone could create one.
I think the pool miner of beeeeer is opensource.

http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=485.0
http://www.mediafire.com/download/473rshiav08074t/primeminer_v08_rc1.zip

It should work with Datacoin too. But we need a server

Urgent need of DTC mineral pool, as long as the mineral pools, will soon enter the hundreds.

Yay at the mineral pools  ;D
Yes we indeed need that now!

bump！
indeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed  need Datacoin mining pool

maybe you can ask roje or xoloram for help

for they the authors of rpool and beeeer

Is there any open source mining pool software that we can use to setup a datacoin pool?

http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=485.0
http://www.mediafire.com/download/473rshiav08074t/primeminer_v08_rc1.zip

Talking to ypool developers just now - you can also visit chat and talk to us: http://ypool.net/chat

Looks like you will need to look for a new pool developer.

Main developer and some developers of unofficial DTC team work with that.
Did you mean that you want to help with pool? ;)

While my C++ skills are rusty, I can provide server(s) and run a pool if a DTC pool software is ever released.

I have been trying to get a bunch of miners pointed at 1 remote datacoind to serve out work. I have the latest datacoin and datacoin-hp with getwork(), and an old version of primeminer.

Watching the wire, I can see the work json data object get served to the primeminer, but the primeminer is choking on the object it looks like. Hopefully someone is having better luck than I.   :-\

I think you can point jhProtominer at Datacoin-qt, not sure.

If anyone wants to try:

Help -> Debug console -> Console and type in: setgenerate true 0

Then point the miner at the ip:port.

Will test aswell soon

-mstfck

I mean't that as far as I know that the ypool developer said no. Although if your offering then I wouldn't mind helping out with graphical design and front end website development.

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. After we finish backend... ;)

I tried to point jhProtominer at a local datacoind without luck. I am trying all this stuff on linux CLI, and don't have a QT wallet built yet as I am on a mac.

All the versions of jhProtominer that I found are trying to use the "x.pushthrough(xpt) protocol" , I thought DTC required the getwork method now?

just now - yes, only getwork.

Would that mean that a whole new miner has to be built or....?

No, the first bitcoin pool miners were made with getwork.
But i am pretty sure we can use a x.pushthrough proxy for mining. More efficent, and i am looking into 'getblocktemplate' instead of getwork. It is more easier to use, and provides more information.

I found a jhPrimeminer source that can be used to mine datacoins. https://github.com/hg5fm/jhPrimeminer (https://github.com/hg5fm/jhPrimeminer).

The only changes I had to make were adding transaction.h and transaction.cpp to the project and setting useGetBlockTemplate = false. I compiled using x64-AVX in Visual Studio 2012 Express.

To start mining you need to open the debug console on your server wallet and put "setgenerate true 0". Now you can point your miner at the wallet and start mining.

I tested on testnet with a few PCs and watched the mined blocks roll in. I have been running on mainnet on all my PCs for about 24 hours and I mined one block so far.

Cool!! Do you know who owns this repo?

I believe mumus (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=127442) owns the repo. I also just mined another block so it is definitely working :D.

So many good news! It's wonderful if it's true!

If you need a help with website development - just write me! We would have the best pool! Yeah!

Haha, 10 days of mining on few machines, maybe 40 cores total and no single block. Thats bad bad luck :-/
or there is hidden pool.

Could be bad luck, but I think it's more likely that there's a large amount of computing power behind DTC.

Did anyone happen to find a compatible linux port of the jhPrimeminer source working for datacoin?

Mumus told that he will implement some fixes to current Linux port of jhPrimeminer and release build instructions for it shortly.

Awesome news.

We need a pool asap.

How to compile it on linux?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=344860.msg3895599#msg3895599

did anyone have active testnet node? my wallet in testnet cannot sync...

I just want to check my config is right, so I want test it in testnet.

Hi,
In case you are still interested I have a fully synchronized node on 84.228.200.63 and I'm also connected to 2 additional nodes: 144.76.123.194, 108.61.57.80.

That's very useful, thanks very much!!

Any movement on this? I've had no luck for quite a while now.

Do you use jhPrimeminer from 'external miner released' thread?

I used the one in this guide: https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/1630-guide-how-to-mine-datacoin-using-digital-ocean/ which I believe on git could be found here: https://github.com/foo1inge/datacoin-hp

If you're working with Windows, please use that
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=364205.0
or that
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=347296.0

Any updates on a pool? I've been solomining and found around 6 blocks in the last week, but I haven't gotten in the past 2 days...

try this one:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=371865.0