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Is there any slot still available? Also, please post the current stats and user activity.

crypto-games username: stelee68

Don't forget to activate the desired CPU threads.
Default setting is only 1 Thread.

can you share a tutor because i already open the app and folding for more than 5 hours and my account still not actived

The Folding@home team know about the work unit shortage.
It's happening because of an approximately 20x increase in demand.
The Folding@home team are working on it and hope to have a solution very soon.
Keep your machines running, they will eventually fold on their own.

Any minimum CPU/ GPU requirements? 100K seems pretty steep and I wish my laptop could handle the load.

CG: HungryCrypto ; FH: HungryCrypto  ; Coin: Litecoin

CG: Pant495; FH: xkerri/xkerri2/xkerri3 ; Coin: TRTL if possible, BTC otherwise.

CG: HazEPL ; FH: HazEPL ; Coin: ETH

Quoting from their support forum landing page....


I have the same issue with the GPu, but CPU got work assigned since the moment I launched the app. I guess all we can do is wait

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Edit: I went out for lunch and when coming back the GPU had started working. If you see a yellow/orange circle, it means it's ready to be used and it will only need some time to receive the Work Unit.

I've also found this reddit thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/foldingathome/comments/6hs1dn/anyway_to_set_x_amount_of_cpu_threads_per_folding/) explaining how the hardware options (slidebar) work.

The maximum CPU threads you can use (slidebar on full) is the Max it has -1 per each GPU.
The medium setup is the Full -1
The light setup is half the CPU threads

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/6971-how-do-i-get-foldinghome-beta-wu-i-want-to-be-able-to-use-gpu-core-17/

Do you have an alternative source for this information? linustechtips.com seems to be down at the moment... I'm getting cloudflare errors :-\

And that is specific to the GPU slot only? Does it make any difference adding that to the CPU slot as well? ???

To anyone, my gpu is always on ready, disconects from server whilst cpu receive Wu ad folds with no problems?!

all day here in 4 days gave 1800 points only, so it is bad for those who have only one notebook, in 30 days I will make 27 thousand points only

yes, I'm even discouraged, my computer is an i7 notebook with a geforce video card I don't know how to set up someone could show prints?

("CG: lostsock77 ; FH: lost_sock ; Coin: BTC")

there is no risk of burning my pc like that?

Your notebook will probably thermal throttle like a mofo... but it'll shut itself down before it catches on fire! :P

These sorts of programs were not really designed for laptops... and laptops[1] were not really designed for these sorts of programs. :-\

Also, if you're doing this simply to make a few BTC, then do the math... you need 100,000 credits to get 0.0001 BTC... which is currently worth about $0.67 USD... now calculate how much $$$ worth of electricity you're going to burn gaining those credits. You'd be better off just buying some BTC from someone.

This is pretty much the most inefficient way to "mine" BTC :P




[1] "Gaming" laptops would be an exception

Obviously, it isn't designed to be a way to get "free" BTC... it's to incentivise people to help with the Folding@Home project to help combat Covid-19.

You should be doing it to help the effort... not to make BTC.

the theory is beautiful, but if it burns I won't be able to buy another one

Know your hardware, know your limitations. 

You could set it up on "Light" so that it doesn't burn the computer but still folds. You won't get much reward, but as stated earlier, this is not about money, it's about sience

On a laptop, you could also undervolt your CPU and GPU so that there's less power draw. A good CPU undervolt generally gives better performance too, due to less thermal throttling. ThrottleStop is a good tool for CPU undervolting and MSI Afterburner is good for GPU undervolting.

Even on a desktop, I'm personally folding with a 1080Ti set at 70% power target for better thermals and efficiency at a small performance loss.

CG: Initscri ; FH: Initscri ; Coin: BTC

I should preface this by saying I'm doing this to support medical research, but I am just wondering, for outgoing payments, which address will be used, or is that TBD later?

We will provide a total of 0.50 BTC as a prize pool for this event, all prizes will be dealt via the tipping feature on Crypto.Games (https://www.crypto-games.net/), so if you do not have an account yet, sign up for one.

Tipped to your Crypto-Games account.

https://www.crypto-games.net/images/cryptogames_big.png (https://www.crypto-games.net)

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It currently looks like most of us will be stuck inside or at home for another month, or at the very least until after the Easter Holidays.

We at Crypto.Games (https://www.crypto-games.net/) have decided to start a Folding@home team (https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/247983), and we'd like to run a little competition with it. Firstly, let me explain what Folding@home (https://foldingathome.org/) is:

F@H has been in the news a lot recently and seen huge increases in contributions, so if you already know what it is or are even folding yourself already, that's great.
If not, let me quickly describe what it is about: Folding@home uses your hardware while it is idle to perform scientific computations. Hardware in this regard includes CPUs and GPUs (eg an altcoin mining rig or your gaming PC, but also regular office PCs and workstations).
Among the top priorities for those projects right now is also one addressing covid-19. A more detailed explanation can be found here (https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/15/coronavirus-what-were-doing-and-how-you-can-help-in-simple-terms/).
But to put it in dangerously brief terms: If you run folding@home right now, you help fight covid-19.

If you want to join our team and contribute, here's how you set everything up:
First off, download the Folding@home client, you can find all links to do so here (https://foldingathome.org/alternative-downloads/) (make sure you select the right OS).
Once you start folding for the first time, choose to set up your alias, and select a nickname (best one that is similar to your CryptoGames or Bitcointalk nickname, as you will use it to identify yourself).
Then select "247983" as your team number. This is very important, as only this way we can track your process. Make sure you enter the correct number here.
After that, tweak the settings for intensity and when to fold depending on your personal preferences, if you're not sure, try a few settings and see how they impact your browsing/regular use of the PC.

Now that we've covered the basics, let us explain the current event:
Starting right now and until the end of April OR until we run out of rewards, we'll be running a team competition for most Credits completed within our Folding@home team.
We will provide a total of 0.50 BTC as a prize pool for this event, all prizes will be dealt via the tipping feature on Crypto.Games (https://www.crypto-games.net/), so if you do not have an account yet, sign up for one.
If we do make it to the top 100 on the monthly leaderboard for folding@home, we will double that 0.5BTC to 1.0BTC.

Briefly explained, this is how it'll work:
 

• 3 Groups: 1) Red Squad, 2) Green Squad, and 3) Blue Squad.
  You'll be assigned to one of the three squads at random after posting both your Crypto-Games username and F@H username in this thread. If you have an altcoin preference, please tell us when you sign up, else BTC is the default.
  Please use the following format: ("CG: #name# ; FH: #name# ; Coin: #ABC#")
  If you want to donate your rewards (eg to DirectRelief), let us know and you will be assigned to the Rainbow Squad.
• For every 100k credits you complete while folding, you will get 0.0001 BTC or an altcoin equivalent. The maximum reward for one user is at 0.01 BTC, which can be reached with 10 Million credits.
  Continuing after that will however still contribute to your group's total.
• In addition to the individual rewards, you and your squad will compete against the other groups for the most combined Credits. For this, we will sum the credits of all members of a squad.
  The first placed squad gets 0.06 BTC, the second gets 0.03 BTC, and the last gets 0.01 BTC. Rewards are distributed evenly for each and every member of the group, assuming they did complete 5 or more Work Units.
  Those that can't get many credits because they don't have the hardware to compete; don't worry. We're reserving 0.05 BTC for these cases and you'll be rewarded with lottery tickets at our own discretion.

All rewards will be sent after the event ends. We will provide an overview with currently earned rewards in regular intervals, check the first reply to see updated statistics and current team members.
Also please note that it is possible that the event ends earlier if we run out of rewards for credits!

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This competition is ran on both Bitcointalk and the Crypto.Games Discord server (https://discordapp.com/invite/xassxQr). We will do our best to sync data between both places.
Please only sign up once, as there is just one competition running, signing up in both places only increases our work when keeping track of everyone.

Also, and this is very important, please don't try to cheat. We're trying to support an important cause here and we hope everyone can appreciate that and doesn't look to abuse the current situation.
We do reserve the right to disqualify users if we believe they act maliciously and are trying to abuse the competition.

I have a chromebook. is there any way I can use this OS to join in on the folding fun? I found an old APK which allows me to fold with my android, but it doesn't provide an option to join a team. I'll continue to use my phone, as that's my only option, but I'd like to contribute to the team stats if possible. does anyone have any ideas?

CG: busminer ; FH: busminer ; Coin: BTC

This seems very cool. Unfortunately, I am unable to sign up for Crypto games since I am in the US. I am however still going to keep doing this a little to help support the cause under my username desertfox470. Thanks again guys for doing something so great!

I've assigned you to the Rainbow Group. Rewards for those users are still calculated and will be donated at the end of the project, I hope you're good with that.

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I've assigned all users so far their teams and added you to the group table. Let me know if I've missed someone, or missed the coin preference for someone.

I have also updated the list of currently earned rewards, as credit collection has picked up for a lot of you (after doing the initial 10 WUs).

my F@H client always showing READY, no matter if I "While working" or "Idle".

nope i don't see any Log Tab.

I see a CPU:7 (0.00%) and there's a GPU:0 (also 0.00%)

any idea?

nope i don't see any Log Tab.

I see a CPU:7 (0.00%) and there's a GPU:0 (also 0.00%)

any idea?

https://www.crypto-games.net/images/cryptogames_big.png (https://www.crypto-games.net)

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It currently looks like most of us will be stuck inside or at home for another month, or at the very least until after the Easter Holidays.

We at Crypto.Games (https://www.crypto-games.net/) have decided to start a Folding@home team (https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/247983), and we'd like to run a little competition with it. Firstly, let me explain what Folding@home (https://foldingathome.org/) is:

F@H has been in the news a lot recently and seen huge increases in contributions, so if you already know what it is or are even folding yourself already, that's great.
If not, let me quickly describe what it is about: Folding@home uses your hardware while it is idle to perform scientific computations. Hardware in this regard includes CPUs and GPUs (eg an altcoin mining rig or your gaming PC, but also regular office PCs and workstations).
Among the top priorities for those projects right now is also one addressing covid-19. A more detailed explanation can be found here (https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/15/coronavirus-what-were-doing-and-how-you-can-help-in-simple-terms/).
But to put it in dangerously brief terms: If you run folding@home right now, you help fight covid-19.

If you want to join our team and contribute, here's how you set everything up:
First off, download the Folding@home client, you can find all links to do so here (https://foldingathome.org/alternative-downloads/) (make sure you select the right OS).
Once you start folding for the first time, choose to set up your alias, and select a nickname (best one that is similar to your CryptoGames or Bitcointalk nickname, as you will use it to identify yourself).
Then select "247983" as your team number. This is very important, as only this way we can track your process. Make sure you enter the correct number here.
After that, tweak the settings for intensity and when to fold depending on your personal preferences, if you're not sure, try a few settings and see how they impact your browsing/regular use of the PC.

Now that we've covered the basics, let us explain the current event:
Starting right now and until the end of April OR until we run out of rewards, we'll be running a team competition for most Credits completed within our Folding@home team.
We will provide a total of 0.50 BTC as a prize pool for this event, all prizes will be dealt via the tipping feature on Crypto.Games (https://www.crypto-games.net/), so if you do not have an account yet, sign up for one.
If we do make it to the top 100 on the monthly leaderboard for folding@home, we will double that 0.5BTC to 1.0BTC.

Briefly explained, this is how it'll work:
 

• 3 Groups: 1) Red Squad, 2) Green Squad, and 3) Blue Squad.
  You'll be assigned to one of the three squads at random after posting both your Crypto-Games username and F@H username in this thread. If you have an altcoin preference, please tell us when you sign up, else BTC is the default.
  Please use the following format: ("CG: #name# ; FH: #name# ; Coin: #ABC#")
  If you want to donate your rewards (eg to DirectRelief), let us know and you will be assigned to the Rainbow Squad.
• For every 100k credits you complete while folding, you will get 0.0001 BTC or an altcoin equivalent. The maximum reward for one user is at 0.01 BTC, which can be reached with 10 Million credits.
  Continuing after that will however still contribute to your group's total.
• In addition to the individual rewards, you and your squad will compete against the other groups for the most combined Credits. For this, we will sum the credits of all members of a squad.
  The first placed squad gets 0.06 BTC, the second gets 0.03 BTC, and the last gets 0.01 BTC. Rewards are distributed evenly for each and every member of the group, assuming they did complete 5 or more Work Units.
  Those that can't get many credits because they don't have the hardware to compete; don't worry. We're reserving 0.05 BTC for these cases and you'll be rewarded with lottery tickets at our own discretion.

All rewards will be sent after the event ends. We will provide an overview with currently earned rewards in regular intervals, check the first reply to see updated statistics and current team members.
Also please note that it is possible that the event ends earlier if we run out of rewards for credits!

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This competition is ran on both Bitcointalk and the Crypto.Games Discord server (https://discordapp.com/invite/xassxQr). We will do our best to sync data between both places.
Please only sign up once, as there is just one competition running, signing up in both places only increases our work when keeping track of everyone.

Also, and this is very important, please don't try to cheat. We're trying to support an important cause here and we hope everyone can appreciate that and doesn't look to abuse the current situation.
We do reserve the right to disqualify users if we believe they act maliciously and are trying to abuse the competition.

Updated.

The current group stats as of right now:

1) Green ~ 23,600,000
2) Blue ~ 21,700,000
3) Red ~ 8,900,000

Not all participants have the same names in CG and FH you need to specify both names in the team composition table

in total: ~ 113,300,000 credits
At the same time, the total number of team credits Crypto.Games  141,487,462  outstanding credits: 28, 200,000   you need to adjust the list of team members.

Second names for those that have different usernames are mentioned in parenthesis.

Well, I also have different names in CG and FH, but it is indicated in the table of participants only for CG

You're dal* on both, it's easy enough to assign either to the other and for me to keep track of it without being redundant.

You missed the fourth squad, Rainbow, which amounts to over 25M credits as of right now.
Plus some users joined the team, possibly at random, without signing up via this thread or discord and thus are not assigned to any squad and wont be either.

It's nice to see that the Crypto.Games team is moving :)

https://i.ibb.co/2ScKjPh/2020-04-19-135023.jpg (https://ibb.co/2ScKjPh)

Lutpin can you add me to the rainbow squad?

Hello

I thought I could participate even more by making some nicer team / users / & squad (!) stats interface. It is still a work in progress but I already has some interesting features.
Here is the link : http://play.zfx.fr (http://play.zfx.fr)
Enjoy and if you like it I accept tips :)

And what means "(wip)" instead of points score?

Taking a wild guess, I'd say that Work in progress

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Really nice; altough it's a pitty that it comes at the end of the month :'(

2 quick suggestions if you'll allow me:

   - You could add decimals/points to the huge numbers on the green bars to make them readable  ;)
   - It would be nice to see the "Team Monthly" too, to see if we'll reach the 1BTC incentive or we'll only stay at 0.5BTC

The team monthly info is already here. It is the team rank  (so as you can see we are still far from reaching the top 100)

I made the credit numbers easier to read.

No it's not. The team rank is the overall rank of the team since the beginning of the times (so to speak). The team monthly is the ammount of points the team has made in a month.

We are currently 332 in the team monthly (https://stats.foldingathome.org/teams-monthly), whereas 673 on the team rank

("CG: lostsock77 ; FH: lost_sock ; Coin: BTC")

Which team did I land in?

Fixed Issues
Radeon RX Vega series graphics products may experience a system hang or black screen when running Folding@Home while also running an application using hardware acceleration of video content.

@shantee, users Daltonik, Durel and bobpaw should be in "Green" team, not rainbow; oldminer in "Red". The count on the commands is incorrect, as there are many inconsistencies.

Some of those errors might be due to me. I've updated the table in the first reply with a few fixes (and added a link to shantee's tracker, thanks for the effort, regardless of the inconsistencies).

A quick explanation of the formatting of the table:
Users that want to be rewarded with a different coin than BTC have that coin in parenthesis behind (effectively under) their name.
Users that use different names on CG and FAH have their CG name in the table and their folding name in parenthesis behind/under that.

I've also added those names that are reasonably similar (dal52/Daltonik & Durell253/Durel) to the table to make it easier for people other than me to track the teams.
Sorry for not doing that earlier.

also I have got lots of members name like Kei, UselessGuru , 8055Ai etc. which according to FAH are part of our team (crypto.games) but appear nowhere on any list (and I can't find any similarities with other nicknames visually) that's why by default they show up being on the rainbow team

Probably it is Crypto.Games discord server members (https://discordapp.com/invite/xassxQr) where this competition is running also.

Talking about inconsistencies...Some users don't even know their FAH donors name or at least they don't spell it properly (and yes sorry but the character case matters !)..well it's a mess , I did my best to corrected what I could but I am afraid I won't be able to do much more without proper infos.

When is the official end of the competition?

I hope nobody feels blindsided by that decision.

You also should be able to convert every username to lower case from both the list I maintain and the folding stats, and then match them, as neither folding donor names nor Crypto.Games usernames are case sensitive.

I have a quick question about the rewards distribution. I know that the maximum is currently 0.01BTC/person; but does that also include the group rewards, or just the folding? And those group rewards are included in the 0.5BTC, or is it 0.5BTC for individual rewards+group rewards?

Just a suggestion; try using the "transparent" color in the first row so that the white doesn't burn trough people's eyes.

We're currently looking at extending it for a few more days, possibly until the 14th of May.

If possible i would like to change my payout method from ETH to BTC.

Those of you that want to continue folding and get rewarded for it, it might be worth taking a look at Foldingcoin and Curecoin.

And...that's a wrap.

All tips have been sent out by Nu (who organized the discord side of this competition).
The final sheet with rewards sent out by Nu is the same as I've posted earlier, this one (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MwgrXprEacrQEAJgMR12Zzo3e-rhCQDU8yVyaoqEEbY/edit).

I've sent some lottery tickets to tomorrows BTC lottery round to everyone.
We had allocated 0.05BTC for that (equals 500 tickets), they were spread as following:

5 tickets for every participant who either reached 100k credits or submitted 5 WUs (320 total)
10 tickets for every participant who contributed more than 11M credits (100 total)
20 tickets for ILoveLTC for their tracker (thank you very much for the effort)
20 tickets for xandry for being the first on the leaderboard with a huge lead.
20 tickets for CorneliusA for their engagement on discord.
20 tickets for Swizz420 (twiztid) for their engagement and for providing help to others on discord.

As the rainbow squad donations have to be made in fiat (yeah, there's charities that accept crypto, but we're trying to focus on charities that respond to the covid crisis in this instance),
they will take a little longer to be sent out. I'll keep you updated.

Payment received (actually still unconfirmed, but whatever).

I have a couple of doubts regarding fees tough. I had a balance of 0.01250046; and used the minimum fee crypto-games allowed; roughly 20.000 satoshi. But when I check the transaction details at the block explorer; I see that the fee paid is 5046 satoshi, and AFAIK there is no site fee on withdrawals; so.... what is going on?

It'd also be nice to see the fee in satoshi/byte instead of satoshis in the withdrawal window

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It was actually 13 satoshi/byte on a 2 segwit input to 1 segwit output tx. The fee didn't change when the amount to be withdrawn was modified, so my guessing is that the tx size is not taken into account when doing withdrawals. I understand that it's impossible to use a 100% accurate fee when the site is dealing with many deposits and withdrawals and the process is most likely automated, but I also think there's room for improvement.

It's not really fair to pay 4 times the actual tx fee, and even if I understand that doing that many withdrawals with different variables could lead to the site loosing funds on the long run, fees could be a little bit more dynamic...

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