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Check this guide for extremely easiest guide! :  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=381072.0


So finally after 3.5 weeks of solo mining we have the first pool! The pool is a chinese one and its not yet complete. Its experimental but it has already paid me so it seems legit. But as i said its experimental so do everything at your own risk! Also i am not the best guy when it comes to computers. I am a physics guy. So if there are problems i am not really sure how to fix everything. For me what i will say works just fine. So again do everything at your own risk ;)

But first what is Datacoin?

Datacoin is intended to be reliable censorship-free data storage and a currency to pay for this storage. Money transfer isn't the first purpose of Datacoin.

Data is stored in the blockchain "forever" (as long as blockchain exists) and can be retrieved with tx hash as an identifier. I consider this as a platform to be used by applications (and not directly by users): torrent trackers, encrypted messaging services etc.. I don't consider blockchain as a place to store heavy data like video files: this should be too expensive. Instead I propose to store in Datacoin torrent files, certificates, possibly some HTML pages and other kinds of metainformation.

You can read more here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345190.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=325735.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=370922.0

The guide (We use primeminer as Datacoin is a fork of Primecoin):

Ok so you go to digital ocean through my referral link to: https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=9d68ca19e204 :) and pay 10 dollars with paypal or credit card. I think you can use HOLIDAYSSD promo code for 5 or 10 dollars more free.
If you dont want to you can always send me some donations :)

First you create a droplet.Put a name like Miner1 and you can choose whatever size you want except the smaller one because it has really small memory. I think the most cost effective is the one with 8 CPU really. But do your math and decide ;) I highly recommend to  choose New York 1 or 2 for Region because sometimes Linux wont connect to the repositories. Choose Ubuntu 13.10 x64 as the OS. Create the droplet!

Now an email will come with your password and your username for the droplet while after like 1 minute it will get created.

Press console access and after a minute you will put username: root and your password .
*You can always download putty from here http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html with which you can access your droplet from your PC so you can do everything else faster but it isnt needed.

now put the next strings:

sudo apt-get update        (and press enter)

When it finishes

sudo apt-get install yasm -y git make g++ build-essential libminiupnpc-dev     (and press enter)

When it finishes

sudo apt-get install -y libboost-all-dev libdb++-dev libgmp-dev libssl-dev dos2unix (and press enter)

When it finishes

git clone https://github.com/thbaumbach/primecoin      (and press enter)

When it finishes

cd primecoin/src      (and press enter)

and then

make -f makefile.unix   (and press enter.This will take a few minutes)

When it finishes everything is installed. Now you only have to run the primeminer so write and enter :

./primeminer -pooluser=username -poolpassword=0 -poolip=162.243.41.59 -poolport=8336 -poolshare=6 -genproclimit=X

Where username is you wallet address. You can use x1, x2 like D62LDKvmBboJZ8jVBfkukDFeW65zf73hUL.x1 for each droplet or any other pc you have.
0 is your password. Now i dont really know if you need to change this. However personally i chaned it and pu something else. The same for every droplet and seems to work fine.
X is the number of threads of CPU to run. I personally try either 15 or 31 and choose the one with most primes/sec after a few minutes. I think would recommend 31 but experiment. (Those numbers are for the 8 CPU chose)

When you do this primeminer must start and like 1 minute after you must start seeing Shares. Here you can check your balance: http://dtc.gpool.net/balance
As i said the pool is experimental and may close without warning. keep this in your mind.

Now some more things:
Ddigital ocean seems to only let 60% of their CPU capicity every time. You may see that on the charts of CPU usage.
I have noticed that some droplets may be faster while others may be slower. I personally make 5 and then i destroy the one with the smaller primes/s and create a new one hoping that will be faster. And so on...
Everytime you destroy and create a droplet i think you pay the 24cents so be careful.
1 8cpu droplet will deliver about 5 Datacoins(Better than though before) per day or around 5 dollars with the current price. (Thats really an estimate since pool started just a few hours ago!) I personally believe datacoin is highly under valued and that price will be 5 dollars in a few days or weeks. See protoshares or primecoin for example. Have in mind that Datacoin has a really valuable purpose. But anyway do your research ;)
If problems and errors occure and you have entered everything right maybe a restart command will fix the problem. At worst scenario destroy droplet and start again.
A nice primes/s is above 3000 in my opinion. I currently have droplets with 3500-4000 primes/s
If sudo apt-get update doesnt work try to change region but actually us.archive.ubuntu.com fails.

Hope this helps. And i hope our first pool remains legit :)  I am off to sleep!!!

P.S. You can download the datacoin-qt from here http://datacoin.info/ and currently our best exchange is Bter.

 

That's strange thing about cores/threads.   ???  I have a little bit more primes/s(100-150) using 6-8 threads on i3-3220 instead of 4.
The cpu load is 100% on all cores in both cases.

If we have 2 pcs running and we want to getpaid to the same address you said that we have to append .x1 or .x2 to the username?? like primeminer D96H3q4s4UarVo1FdmFsgbNYNuUtwfLfes.x1 in one pc and  D96H3q4s4UarVo1FdmFsgbNYNuUtwfLfes.x2 in the other??

Thanks!Great guide

What is the payment period??

Thank you GreekBitcoin, it will be much easier for newcomers to start at this point!

Ardolafat, primespersec is not good measure - I had to increase it many times, but it really didn't give me more blocks.
By the way, really, what is payment period? :)

If primespersec is not a good measure, what is the indicator of block find probability??

chainsperday is better
check http://datacoin.info/calc.htm
(there is one issue to be fixed soon - you need to refresh page each time before you enter chainsperday)

i think 0.3DTC... i seen here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=371155.msg3973748#msg3973748

i hope it's correct :)

Any new feedbacks? Is this pool more profitable than rpool ?

i didn't try rpool, only this. It's okay, payment from 0.3. i'm update tonight :)

update: 4hour - :3,4DTC (linux 3 i3770, 1 i4770, 1xeon 1230v, 1 amd opteron (8core), 1 xeon E5-2420 (double processor))... not good, but... (this machines make 0,8-1PTS/24h...)

...so in 24 hours it can be 20 DTC ~= 0.022 BTC. The same as PTS ;) But Datacoin can grow and grow - remember that its price is near 0.001 since last weeks and growing slowly. It can easily go to 2x-3x after pool creating and some more promo after weekend! (yes, we're preparing one more big promo, also DTC services are in active development)

nice :) thank you :)

Guys i am not sure how this pool pays. But actually with 16 cores in my one setting i get about 1 Datacoin per hour! So my previous estimations were very low. Although it stops for some hous to be that fast. But anyway i gain a lot more than 4 per day on 8 cores.

Someone else must also post stats but i think its highly profitable right now!

I am trying it! thanks!

If you an got error at make

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_chrono
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [primeminer] Error 1


/ubuntu (12.04 or 13.10)/, try:

sudo apt-get install libboost1.48-dev libboost-signals1.48-dev libboost-thread1.48-dev libboost-system1.48-dev libboost-filesystem1.48.0-dev libboost-chrono1.48-dev libboost-program-options1.48-dev

:) cheers

Wow thanks! This happened to me yesterday!

ps.: crontab -e (and press enter)
chose -> 2 (and press enter)

@reboot /root/primecoin/src/primeminer -pooluser=ADDRESS.x8 -poolpassword=0 -poolip=162.243.41.59 -poolport=8336 -poolshare=6 -genproclimit=24

ctrl+x to quit and press y to save


*/root/primecoin/src/ path to prime miner
shutdown -r now :) and it's run automatically after reboot:) :) :)

So if we do this and take snapshots of the droplets the new droplets will start automatically without doing anything or i am wrong?

I get about 0.3 DTC in 2,5 hours. This is absolute trash, and I have 18 cores...something is wrong with this. Iĺl continue solo mining, I was getting about 20 DTC daily

I think the problem is with the pool. Since its extremely new they have problems. There were hours that i got more than 1 DTC and other that i got 0.2 DTC . i dont really know how it works...

i think wrong, but try this or i'm trying morning :)

I didnt try because i was working and now i have to sleep. But if you try it please tells us! :)

Noob here. I followed the steps, but how do I check if priminer is working? My address doesn't appear on that page, so I would assume it's not working?

you need to wait until pool finds several blocks. If you still don't see your address in that case, please post here one more time

It takes a bit of time to appear. Some times 10 minutes but if pool is slow more than an hour.
If you see it mining then everything is good and worst case scenario is you put your address wrong.
So press Ctrl+C to terminate mining and with up arrow you bring your previous command. So this way you can check if you have your address right.
Generally if other payouts change but yours not then yes you have a problem. Do you see shares?

Log in to your vps:

top (press enter)
and search at the top:
 896 root      20   0  477m  39m 3388 S 399.9  0.5   2938:21 primeminer     (it's running)

press q for quit :)

Cool, thanks. Looks like it's submitting shares now, and appears on the pool. Appears I set an incorrect value for genproclimit

don't use grenproclimit=-1 :)

To THE GreekBitcoin:

Thank you for this amazingly simple tutorial :)  As I posted on DTCT  (is that the proper abbreviation? lol), I followed to the letter, and I now have 4 DigitalOcean machines running...two 8-cores on DTC and a couple 2 cores on other miscellaneous AltCoins. 

I'm probably spending more to mine than I'm getting back at this point (I have them running in terminals on my machine @ home, so console view won't tell me much), but I'm pulling a hell of a lot more than I was when trying to mine solo....using just the wallet app...

As I've said, I'm more than willing and anxious to contribute in any way I can ;)

Long Live DataCoin!!!

Great words! :)

Long Live Datacoin! :P

I was sad to to see it drop today but of course its because of the bitcoin crash. I really believe that in the near future it will stabilize at 0.01 . Its a a nice idea, cpu mined, not premined and only 1 month new :)

If devs continue bringing new tools and upgrades it will be very successful coin :)

Easier way:
 ;)

I would try this and see if it works! If it does its great!

My address appears in the payout.  How long will it take before I start receiving payouts?  I see the addresses have increased a lot in the past few hours.

same here, still didn't get the coins on my wallet

+1 I'm mining on personal machines but I would love to know.

The Balance page is in Chinese, but I believe it says that payouts are sent after reaching 0.3...

After that, you'll still have to wait for the DTC to mature

great work :) can you help me write a srceen srcipt?

When you pass the 0.3 limit they will sent them to your wallet and they will appear there as immature.

Yep, It's been working like clockwork for me. Hopefully it stays that way...
https://i.imgur.com/2tacDc8.png

If i send to Bter directly do i lose fees or something?

It "should" work. A few months back some people were having issues getting deposits to their mcxNow accounts when mining XPM on beeeeer.org. I was sending my XPM directly to Cryptsy and never had any issues.

 It looks like no blocks have been processed in over an hour. Is something wrong?  Only a few addresses are at 0.3.

Indeed. Something is going on with the pool right now...But i think they will pay afterwards everything since mining continues...

As I see, pool is still in development - some kind of testing. So payouts work in most cases, and you shouldn't worry about that I think - it still needs some improvements.

now pool has English main page :)

YAY!!!  Just another tiny step of progress for DTC...very exciting!

Does memory play any role in mining? I have now a VPS acount, other than DO with 2 cores and i only set 1GB memory although i could set more. What do you think?

Hey i tried it just right now and its perfect! Thanks!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=371865


Check this guide for extremely easiest guide!

This pool seems to have been messing around this morning- of 3 machines mining the shares are only showing for 1 of them on the website http://dtc.gpool.net/user/[payout address] and payout was thus correspondingly low. The other 2 are running multi core jobs so am wondering if this might be the issue. Either that or the pool have decided to charge 68% fees ;-)

I dont really know. I am mining in the other pool currently to divert the power to the small one. It isnt good for only 1 pool to have most of the mining power.

What i have noticed though is that sometimes you are getting very slow income while others time i get like 100 times more income. This though happens for a few minutes up to an hour max. i suppose pool pays back what owns or something...dunno.

Datacoin Lives!

See the new thread for all your Datacoin needz :)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2188160.640