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We've launched Snowblossom.   Clean, Original Code. Custom POW.  UTXO Built into Blocks Headers. Truly ASIC, Miner Centralization, and Quantum Resistant.   No Premining.  We're looking for legitimate involvement and interest. 

https://snowblossom.org/

https://github.com/snowblossomcoin/snowblossom

The features we enable include:

1. Aggressive IO based PoW with large deterministic files should be very hard to ASIC in any sort of cost effective way
2. Quantum Resistance - Large RSA key support
3. UTXO root hash in block header to be able to give provable results to light clients

It has the usual features as well:
Child-pays-for-parent (CPFP)
Transaction immutability
Resilient peer-to-peer network
Decentralized design
Halfing-block reward over time
First Seen First Added FSFA (double-spend protection)

Thanks for your time.  Spin up a node a check it out.  There are still some rough edges, but everything is working.

When you mean rough edges, do you include the website? Because it's like I timetraveled back to 2000.

res

You weren't the only one  ;D

Yeah, our team has a lot more backend programming talent that web design skills.  Also didn't want to do the standard glowing circuits over black obelisks with lightning storms in the background.

Fun fact, we load tested over 1.6 million transactions in testnet.

you can just use the free templates out there. you know, simple but sleek designs. there are a lot already that you can found in google. no need of hard core programming skills.

When launching node.bat on my test rig :

juin 05, 2018 1:20:14 PM snowblossom.db.rocksdb.JRocksDB <init>
INFOS: Loadng RocksDB with path snowdb
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
        at org.rocksdb.RocksDB.loadLibrary(RocksDB.java:64)
        at org.rocksdb.RocksDB.<clinit>(RocksDB.java:35)
        at snowblossom.db.rocksdb.JRocksDB.<init>(JRocksDB.java:43)
        at snowblossom.SnowBlossomNode.loadDB(SnowBlossomNode.java:130)
        at snowblossom.SnowBlossomNode.<init>(SnowBlossomNode.java:64)
        at snowblossom.SnowBlossomNode.main(SnowBlossomNode.java:35)
Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Cannot determine JNI library name for ARCH='x86' OS='windows 10' name='rocksdb'
        at org.rocksdb.util.Environment.getJniLibraryName(Environment.java:72)
        at org.rocksdb.NativeLibraryLoader.<clinit>(NativeLibraryLoader.java:19)
        ... 6 more
juin 05, 2018 1:20:14 PM snowblossom.db.rocksdb.JRocksDB close
INFOS: RocksDB flush started
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.rocksdb.RocksDB
        at org.rocksdb.FlushOptions.<clinit>(FlushOptions.java:9)
        at snowblossom.db.rocksdb.JRocksDB.close(JRocksDB.java:85)
        at snowblossom.db.DB.dbShutdownHandler(DB.java:108)
        at snowblossom.db.DB$DBShutdownThread.run(DB.java:137)

W10, java updated, rig rebooted

Try setting in your node.conf:

db_type=lobstack

This is a known issue.  We had more notes about it, but might have been lost in a wiki fire.

Hmm yeah I'm getting this:

Jun 05, 2018 6:24:35 PM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFO: Work block load error: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to select a field of at least 3.  Availible: [0, 1]
Jun 05, 2018 6:24:37 PM snowblossom.SnowFall <init>
INFO: Initial write complete
Jun 05, 2018 6:24:42 PM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFO: Got block template: height:3050 transactions:1
Jun 05, 2018 6:24:42 PM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFO: Required field: 3 - ocelot
Jun 05, 2018 6:24:42 PM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFO: Work block load error: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to select a field of at least 3.  Availible: [0, 1]
Jun 05, 2018 6:24:50 PM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner printStats
INFO: Mining rate: 0.0/sec
Jun 05, 2018 6:24:50 PM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner printStats
INFO: we seem to be stalled, reconnecting to node
Jun 05, 2018 6:24:50 PM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner subscribe
INFO: Subscribed to blocks
Jun 05, 2018 6:24:50 PM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFO: Got block template: height:3050 transactions:1
Jun 05, 2018 6:24:50 PM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFO: Required field: 3 - ocelot
Jun 05, 2018 6:24:50 PM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFO: Work block load error: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to select a field of at least 3.  Availible: [0, 1]

So you need to either enable auto_snow in miner.conf to make field 3 or download it from here: https://snowblossom.org/snowfields/index.html

Ah, auto_snow is running: INFO: Initial write complete

Just give it time.  We are making the output more clear on that in the next release (already fixed in code).

Ah ok, thanks for the quick response.

Jun 06, 2018 12:37:01 AM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner <init>
INFO: Starting 4 threads
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:01 AM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFO: Unable to load snowblossom.0, error: java.io.FileNotFoundException: snow\snowblossom.0\snowblossom.0.deck.a (The system cannot find the file specified)
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:01 AM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFO: Not loading 1 snowblossom.1 (shrew), directory not present: snow\snowblossom.1
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:01 AM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFO: Not loading 2 snowblossom.2 (stoat), directory not present: snow\snowblossom.2
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:01 AM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFO: Not loading 3 snowblossom.3 (ocelot), directory not present: snow\snowblossom.3
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:01 AM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFO: Not loading 4 snowblossom.4 (pudu), directory not present: snow\snowblossom.4
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:01 AM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFO: Not loading 5 snowblossom.5 (badger), directory not present: snow\snowblossom.5
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:01 AM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFO: Not loading 6 snowblossom.6 (capybara), directory not present: snow\snowblossom.6
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:01 AM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFO: Not loading 7 snowblossom.7 (llama), directory not present: snow\snowblossom.7
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:01 AM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFO: Not loading 8 snowblossom.8 (bugbear), directory not present: snow\snowblossom.8
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:01 AM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFO: Not loading 9 snowblossom.9 (hippo), directory not present: snow\snowblossom.9
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:01 AM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFO: Not loading 10 snowblossom.10 (shai-hulud), directory not present: snow\snowblossom.10
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:01 AM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFO: Not loading 11 snowblossom.11 (avanc), directory not present: snow\snowblossom.11
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:02 AM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner subscribe
INFO: Subscribed to blocks
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:02 AM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFO: Got block template: height:0 transactions:1
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:02 AM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFO: Required field: 0 - cricket
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:02 AM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFO: Work block load error: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to select a field of at least 0.  Availible: []
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:02 AM snowblossom.miner.AutoSnowFall run
INFO: Started automatic snowfall of field 0 - cricket
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:02 AM snowblossom.SnowFall <init>
INFO: Starting snowfall on snow\snowblossom.0\snowblossom.0.snow with seed 'snowblossom.0' size 1073741824, MULTIPLICITY 128
Exception in thread "Thread-6" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
        at java.nio.HeapByteBuffer.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at java.nio.ByteBuffer.allocate(Unknown Source)
        at snowblossom.SnowFall.fillSnowMonster(SnowFall.java:230)
        at snowblossom.SnowFall.<init>(SnowFall.java:86)
        at snowblossom.miner.AutoSnowFall.run(AutoSnowFall.java:49)
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:17 AM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner printStats
INFO: Mining rate: 0.0/sec
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:28 AM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFO: Got block template: height:0 transactions:1
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:54 AM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner printStats
INFO: we seem to be stalled, reconnecting to node
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:54 AM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFO: Required field: 0 - cricket
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:54 AM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFO: Work block load error: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to select a field of at least 0.  Availible: []
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:54 AM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner subscribe
INFO: Subscribed to blocks
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:54 AM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFO: Got block template: height:0 transactions:1
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:54 AM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFO: Required field: 0 - cricket
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:54 AM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFO: Work block load error: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to select a field of at least 0.  Availible: []
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:58 AM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFO: Got block template: height:0 transactions:1
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:58 AM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFO: Required field: 0 - cricket
Jun 06, 2018 12:37:58 AM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFO: Work block load error: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to select a field of at least 0.  Availible: []
Jun 06, 2018 12:38:09 AM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner printStats
INFO: Mining rate: 0.0/sec
Jun 06, 2018 12:38:09 AM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner printStats
INFO: we seem to be stalled, reconnecting to node
Jun 06, 2018 12:38:09 AM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner subscribe
INFO: Subscribed to blocks
Jun 06, 2018 12:38:09 AM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFO: Got block template: height:0 transactions:1
Jun 06, 2018 12:38:09 AM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFO: Required field: 0 - cricket
Jun 06, 2018 12:38:09 AM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFO: Work block load error: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to select a field of at least 0.  Availible: []





why mining rate 0? this work?

Any chance we could get binaries?

edit: scratch that, not having fancy website made me forget how to browse the web.

So what is happening here is that it is trying to create the snow fields that you need to mine and then running out of RAM.  I'm guessing this is a pretty small VM?
I haven't done much testing with systems small than 2gb in RAM.

How many time takes .0 and .1 files generation ?

Those should generate pretty quick, maybe a minute or two.  However, those aren't the current files. The current one is field 3.  You should stop the miner and wait for the node to sync up and then start the miner again.

Opened issue on this:
https://github.com/snowblossomcoin/snowblossom/issues/52

nice project. i wish you good luck!
how to mine on windows?

Reserved for pool Umine.org

This page has windows instructions:
https://github.com/snowblossomcoin/snowblossom/wiki/6.-Quickstart

Any discord or telegram?

We are pretty happy with slack.  So, no.

What file is field 3? I want to help seed this.

It gives me an error when running node bat.. It says Java is not recognized as a command. I installed that Java which is on github for windows.

Restart your PC after installing Java.

The torrent is here:
https://snowblossom.org/snowfields/snowblossom.3.torrent

They are all listed here:
https://snowblossom.org/snowfields/index.html

that worked, thanks. :D

Question: Is it using cpu only or my gpus as well?

I really like the name and design is intriguing. Majority are using discord/telegram so please consider to swap

Fixed: https://github.com/snowblossomcoin/snowblossom/compare/f0f24b196c4b...0cc48cd28104

I'll cut a new release soon.

Do I have to download all the Snowblossom 0,1,2,3,4.., files or just the current one?

And is it mining with gpus too?

INFO: Work block load error: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to select a field of at least 3.  Availible: []

What does that mean?

All up and running here.

i7 6700k getting 4700.0/sec give or take. 28 hours estimated to find a block? How many servers you running fireduck?  ;D

No GPU mining yet, but unlikely unless you have a GPU with over 8gb of RAM.

It's downloading the 3rd field, you have to wait for it to finish. Or download the torrent.

Do you have enough ram to run it in memory?  You can try that and get much better numbers.

So having the current one (3) and the next one (4) is a good idea, but you only need the current one.

D:\Mining\snowblossom>java -jar SnowBlossomMiner_deploy.jar miner.conf
juin 05, 2018 2:28:48 PM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner <init>
INFOS: Starting 2 threads
juin 05, 2018 2:28:49 PM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFOS: Unable to load snowblossom.0, error: java.io.FileNotFoundException: snow\snowblossom.0\snowblossom.0.deck.a (Le fichier spÚcifiÚ est introuvable)
juin 05, 2018 2:28:49 PM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFOS: Unable to load snowblossom.1, error: java.io.FileNotFoundException: snow\snowblossom.1\snowblossom.1.deck.a (Le fichier spÚcifiÚ est introuvable)
juin 05, 2018 2:28:49 PM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFOS: Not loading 2 snowblossom.2 (stoat), directory not present: snow\snowblossom.2
juin 05, 2018 2:28:49 PM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFOS: Unable to load snowblossom.3, error: java.io.FileNotFoundException: snow\snowblossom.3\snowblossom.3.deck.a (Le fichier spÚcifiÚ est introuvable)
...
INFOS: Subscribed to blocks
juin 05, 2018 2:28:49 PM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFOS: Got block template: height:3053 transactions:1
juin 05, 2018 2:28:49 PM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFOS: Required field: 3 - ocelot
juin 05, 2018 2:28:49 PM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFOS: Work block load error: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to select a field of at least 3.  Availible: []
juin 05, 2018 2:29:04 PM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner printStats
INFOS: Mining rate: 0,0/sec
juin 05, 2018 2:29:04 PM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner printStats
INFOS: we seem to be stalled, reconnecting to node
juin 05, 2018 2:29:04 PM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner subscribe
INFOS: Subscribed to blocks
juin 05, 2018 2:29:04 PM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFOS: Got block template: height:3053 transactions:1
juin 05, 2018 2:29:04 PM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFOS: Required field: 3 - ocelot
juin 05, 2018 2:29:04 PM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFOS: Work block load error: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to select a field of at least 3.  Availible: []
juin 05, 2018 2:29:05 PM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFOS: Got block template: height:3053 transactions:1
juin 05, 2018 2:29:05 PM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFOS: Required field: 3 - ocelot
juin 05, 2018 2:29:05 PM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner$BlockTemplateEater onNext
INFOS: Work block load error: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to select a field of at least 3.  Availible: []

Node is up, at last block.
Any idea ?

errr wtf?

Okay, so now for me it says periodically Work Block load error and then xxxx writes per second again, is it starting and stopping all the time or am i doing right?

Which was faster for you?

Just to be clear, the options are generating the snowfields locally (which involve 7 random IO passes and then a bunch of hash calculation work).  Those can take a while if not done on an SSD.  The torrent should be pretty fast.

So you need snowfield 3, which you can generate locally by putting "auto_snow=true" in your miner.conf or downloading from:
https://snowblossom.org/snowfields/index.html

Just to clarify, all i need to start mining currently is the snow 3 file, right? the 8gb one

Only have 16GB of Memory  :(

And to answer the above, torrent was much quicker I found. I have a PCI-E SSD too.

It seems to me that there are some failures in this system.
I'm not until the end of assurances that I'm doing everything right, or maybe it's really something wrong with the system.

Is it just warning you that you don't have field 4?  If so, then you are fine and it is working.
That warning just means that once the field flips to the next one (4), you won't be able to mine anymore.

That is enough to run in RAM for now.  If you are on windows, run miner-mem.bat

Windows is a serious hog, and can't get miner-mem working with 16GB.

When I try to start a node, it says unable to access jarfile snowblossomnode. Likewise with the miner. What am I doing wrong?

Yeah same here :(

It seems that mining for now is quite difficult for consumer level hardware. I have a gaming laptop with 16 GB of RAM on Windows and I am getting memory errors. Is this being addressed by the team?

Finally it works.

INFOS: Generating snow field at 101,58 writes per second.  Estimated total runtime is 40,15 hours. 0,00 complete.

Just lol ...

Yeah, torrent might be a better idea in that case.

The intention was that people would be mostly SSD mining.  My guess is that in a few weeks, very few will be RAM mining anymore and most will be using SSD or NVME so then the playing field is a bit leveler.

how to create wallet? it says it need client.conf

If you are running the windows release, just run client.bat

Otherwise you can just create a client.conf:
node_host=localhost
wallet_path=wallet

Those are all it needs.

./SnowBlossomMiner miner.conf
giu 05, 2018 10:23:06 PM snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner <init>
INFORMAZIONI: Starting 22 threads
giu 05, 2018 10:23:06 PM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFORMAZIONI: Not loading 0 snowblossom.0 (cricket), directory not present: snow/mainnet/snowblossom.0
giu 05, 2018 10:23:06 PM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFORMAZIONI: Not loading 1 snowblossom.1 (shrew), directory not present: snow/mainnet/snowblossom.1
giu 05, 2018 10:23:06 PM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFORMAZIONI: Not loading 2 snowblossom.2 (stoat), directory not present: snow/mainnet/snowblossom.2
giu 05, 2018 10:23:06 PM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFORMAZIONI: Not loading 3 snowblossom.3 (ocelot), directory not present: snow/mainnet/snowblossom.3
giu 05, 2018 10:23:06 PM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFORMAZIONI: Not loading 4 snowblossom.4 (pudu), directory not present: snow/mainnet/snowblossom.4
giu 05, 2018 10:23:06 PM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFORMAZIONI: Not loading 5 snowblossom.5 (badger), directory not present: snow/mainnet/snowblossom.5
giu 05, 2018 10:23:06 PM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFORMAZIONI: Not loading 6 snowblossom.6 (capybara), directory not present: snow/mainnet/snowblossom.6
giu 05, 2018 10:23:06 PM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFORMAZIONI: Not loading 7 snowblossom.7 (llama), directory not present: snow/mainnet/snowblossom.7
giu 05, 2018 10:23:06 PM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFORMAZIONI: Not loading 8 snowblossom.8 (bugbear), directory not present: snow/mainnet/snowblossom.8
giu 05, 2018 10:23:06 PM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFORMAZIONI: Not loading 9 snowblossom.9 (hippo), directory not present: snow/mainnet/snowblossom.9
giu 05, 2018 10:23:06 PM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFORMAZIONI: Not loading 10 snowblossom.10 (shai-hulud), directory not present: snow/mainnet/snowblossom.10
giu 05, 2018 10:23:06 PM snowblossom.miner.FieldScan scan
INFORMAZIONI: Not loading 11 snowblossom.11 (avanc), directory not present: snow/mainnet/snowblossom.11
Exception in thread "main" java.io.FileNotFoundException: wallets/mainnet/wallet.db (File o directory non esistente)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.open0(Native Method)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.open(FileInputStream.java:195)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:138)
        at snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner.getMineToAddress(SnowBlossomMiner.java:158)
        at snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner.subscribe(SnowBlossomMiner.java:130)
        at snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner.<init>(SnowBlossomMiner.java:104)
        at snowblossom.miner.SnowBlossomMiner.main(SnowBlossomMiner.java:49)

This means you need to run the client first to make a wallet for the miner to send to.

So run client.bat and then try the miner again.

im under linux

edit: i ve done editing the client.conf and adding my address. cannot mine on wallet directly

Great project

Will I even be able to mine without all 11 snowfields? This is like 4TB of data (according to the file sizes in my torrent client)

Interesting project.
Is this some kind of fork?

What is the total supply? Or is there no limit?

You can mine with just field 3 right now, which is 8gb.  As the difficulty increases further fields will be activated.

At the point it gets to the larger fields, I expect that people won't mind buying some multiple TB SSDs to put them on as there will clearly be enough interest and probably enough value.

Blocks of 50, halving after 4 years.  So limited to 17,520,000.

where i can get wallet？

Right as you said that I got a block.  8)

And these fields are added to the snow folder, yes? [EDIT] YES THEY ARE

Do I put the deck a/b files directly in the snow folder, or move the actual snowblossom.x folder into the snow folder? [EDIT] SECOND ONE-

When you move the torrented snowfields, it will go Snow>snowblossom.3>(the deck a/b and snowfield files)

why the miner says to me, "java is not recognized command"  What Java is this that i need?

now it asks file 4

difficulty is unbelievably high, another coin where devs go "no premine" way and pay a server room or a pal with plenty servers to mine most of it. Ryzen 1600(fast SSD) around 10 days estimate to hit a block.

Looks promising. I shall keep an eye on this.

torrent file field 4 can start

Is there anyway to force the java miner to use virtual mem in windows? It's only using my physical memory despite having 32gb of virtual mem on an nvme.

My gaming machine is estimated to get a block every 5-6 hours.  That seems like pretty low difficulty to me.

Can someone help me? I downloaded 4 files ( from cricket to padu ) to snow directory. I have problems starting mining   ???

Would you mind to share your specs? tster123 such a convincing nickname also your 1st post? Suspicious

guys, please can someone explain to me what is a java miner and how do i get it?  I dont understand how to mine this

hi,dev need a help,node.bat
Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Cannot determine JNI library name for ARCH='x86' OS='windows 10' name='rocksdb'

miner.bat
we seem to be stalled, reconnecting to node

OPENJDK seems not work

now is 4-pudu,  download snowblossom.4 and put it in snow directory, and the miner will go..

The easy way is :

1.download java https://java.com/en/download/
2.reboot
3.download wallet https://snowblossom.org/releases/windows/index.html
4.run node.bat
5.run client.bat
6.run miner.bat

Miner will download snow block. If you don't want to wait, you can download this first  https://snowblossom.org/snowfields/index.html ,and put it in snow dirctory.

The activated_field: 4 pudu https://explorer.snowblossom.org/

I did that same problem   :(

or let the miner download. It will take less than an hour.

E:\snowblossom>java -jar SnowBlossomNode_deploy.jar node.conf
六月 07, 2018 5:14:58 下午 snowblossom.lib.db.rocksdb.JRocksDB <init>
信息: Loadng RocksDB with path snowdb
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
        at org.rocksdb.RocksDB.loadLibrary(RocksDB.java:64)
        at org.rocksdb.RocksDB.<clinit>(RocksDB.java:35)
        at snowblossom.lib.db.rocksdb.JRocksDB.<init>(JRocksDB.java:40)
        at snowblossom.node.SnowBlossomNode.loadDB(SnowBlossomNode.java:130)
        at snowblossom.node.SnowBlossomNode.<init>(SnowBlossomNode.java:63)
        at snowblossom.node.SnowBlossomNode.main(SnowBlossomNode.java:34)
Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Cannot determine JNI library name for ARCH='x86' OS='windows 10' name='rocksdb'
        at org.rocksdb.util.Environment.getJniLibraryName(Environment.java:72)
        at org.rocksdb.NativeLibraryLoader.<clinit>(NativeLibraryLoader.java:19)
        ... 6 more
六月 07, 2018 5:14:58 下午 snowblossom.lib.db.rocksdb.JRocksDB close
信息: RocksDB flush started
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.rocksdb.RocksDB
        at org.rocksdb.FlushOptions.<clinit>(FlushOptions.java:9)
        at snowblossom.lib.db.rocksdb.JRocksDB.close(JRocksDB.java:82)
        at snowblossom.lib.db.DB.dbShutdownHandler(DB.java:95)
        at snowblossom.lib.db.DB$DBShutdownThread.run(DB.java:124)

E:\snowblossom>pause


I already install java

win10 64位+最新版的java跑起来没问题。。32位没试过。。估计是环境问题？

intel i7 6700H w/ 64gb RAM.   Pretty standard setup, although with more RAM that most average people. 

I should note that the network hashrate is way up and I'm down to 1 block every 25 hours.

We are not yet synced, refusing to send block template to miner

i7-8700K at 41534/sec says 422 hours per block. Does that seem right for now?

Also is this planned to be CPU only?

Running an error

I'm having a tough time understanding what the optimal hardware formula is for this project. Seems like RAM plays a big part, but I have a machine with half the RAM outhashing another machine. Is virtual memory applicable? I haven't won a single block and seem pretty confident that I won't at the rate of things... getting the snowfields isn't even an issue for me.

Insight appreciated!

edit:

Can you make a video tutorial?

It's more about RAM throughput.  if you can fit the whole snowfield (note: it is now 64gb) into memory, then you are either going to be capped by CPU (probably) or (less likely) memory throughput.  If you can't fit the whole thing in memory then it will (almost assuredly) be capped by throughput to disk.

BTW, there are now some mining pools set up, so you can get some snowblossoms by mining on there without requiring you finding an entire block!

找不到指定的文件。)
六月 10, 2018 9:48:03 上午 snowblossom.miner.PoolMiner subscribe
信息: Subscribed to work
六月 10, 2018 9:48:04 上午 snowblossom.miner.PoolMiner$WorkUnitEater onNext
信息: Work block load error: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to select a field 6 but snowfall is working on it
六月 10, 2018 9:48:04 上午 snowblossom.miner.AutoSnowFall run
信息: Started automatic snowfall of field 6 - capybara
六月 10, 2018 9:48:04 上午 snowblossom.lib.SnowFall <init>
信息: Starting snowfall on snow\snowblossom.6\snowblossom.6.snow with seed 'snowblossom.6' size 68719476736, MULTIPLICITY 128
Exception in thread "Thread-34" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
        at java.nio.HeapByteBuffer.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at java.nio.ByteBuffer.allocate(Unknown Source)
        at snowblossom.lib.SnowFall.fillSnowMonster(SnowFall.java:232)
        at snowblossom.lib.SnowFall.<init>(SnowFall.java:83)
        at snowblossom.miner.AutoSnowFall.run(AutoSnowFall.java:46)
六月 10, 2018 9:48:10 上午 snowblossom.miner.PoolMiner$WorkUnitEater onNext
信息: Work block load error: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to select a field 6 but snowfall is working on it
六月 10, 2018 9:48:18 上午 snowblossom.miner.PoolMiner printStats
信息: Mining rate: 0.000/sec
六月 10, 2018 9:48:18 上午 snowblossom.miner.PoolMiner printStats
信息: we seem to be stalled, reconnecting to node
六月 10, 2018 9:48:18 上午 snowblossom.miner.PoolMiner subscribe
信息: Subscribed to work
六月 10, 2018 9:48:19 上午 snowblossom.miner.PoolMiner$WorkUnitEater onNext
信息: Work block load error: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to select a field 6 but snowfall is working on it
六月 10, 2018 9:48:27 上午 snowblossom.miner.PoolMiner$WorkUnitEater onNext
信息: Work block load error: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to select a field 6 but snowfall is working on it

TOO MUCH PROBLEM
I do  not  wanna mine it anymore
I even bought one 6T HD
............

所以下载的未识别等待软件自己下载就好啦。。就是慢一些。当然那个内存选项需要关掉，除非有90G内存。。

hiya folks!
I feel like a late starter already and we're only like a week in!

I'm having issues with node.bat that I haven't seen anyone else ask about.
I've installed Java, rebooted, and I'm running Windows 10.
I replaced the db_type value in node.conf with db_type=lobstack

Here's what I've got when I run node.bat:

Jun 10, 2018 9:28:46 PM snowblossom.node.SnowBlossomNode <init>
INFO: Starting SnowBlossomNode version 1.0.6
Jun 10, 2018 9:28:46 PM snowblossom.lib.db.lobstack.LobstackDB <init>
INFO: Loadng LobstackDB with path snowdb
snowdb: GB: 0.250
Jun 10, 2018 9:29:09 PM snowblossom.node.Peerage start
INFO: Starting peerage
Exception in thread "main" java.util.ServiceConfigurationError: io.grpc.ServerProvider: Error reading configuration file

        at java.util.ServiceLoader.fail(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.ServiceLoader.parse(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.ServiceLoader.access$200(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.ServiceLoader$LazyIterator.hasNextService(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.ServiceLoader$LazyIterator.hasNext(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.ServiceLoader$1.hasNext(Unknown Source)
        at io.grpc.ServiceProviders.getCandidatesViaServiceLoader(ServiceProviders.java:106)
        at io.grpc.ServiceProviders.loadAll(ServiceProviders.java:64)
        at io.grpc.ServiceProviders.load(ServiceProviders.java:42)
        at io.grpc.ServerProvider.<clinit>(ServerProvider.java:32)
        at io.grpc.ServerBuilder.forPort(ServerBuilder.java:40)
        at snowblossom.node.SnowBlossomNode.startServices(SnowBlossomNode.java:112)
        at snowblossom.node.SnowBlossomNode.<init>(SnowBlossomNode.java:69)
        at snowblossom.node.SnowBlossomNode.main(SnowBlossomNode.java:34)
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Users\NooSH  (The system cannot find the file specified)
        at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
        at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.URLJarFile.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.URLJarFile.getJarFile(Unknown Source)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.JarFileFactory.get(Unknown Source)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.JarURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.JarURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.URL.openStream(Unknown Source)
        ... 13 more

...plus more below that, but that's the next line of the .bat file.

What have I missed?

Thanks!

 - N!

Are there any pools setup?


Also, does it always have to re-write the snowfield when you start the miner? Or am I doing something wrong?

This is one of the best looking projects I've seen lately. Glad I got involved early.

yes if you are mining with mem field it has to load in mem every time. Check out the discord for info on pools in the announcement channel. https://discord.gg/eA24HR

Hiya again folks,

Has anyone else experieced the issue I've been having?  Some assistance would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you lots.

 - N!

Hi, do I need to download "snow fields" and run local node to mine on pool? Or can I just run miner-pool.bat without anything else?

Any news? devs?

invite doesnt work

You can set ”node_host=snowday.fun“ or other pool address instead of running local node.

miner-pool.bat will check the  "snow fields" and download itself.

If you are looking for a pool to mine on, check this out: https://github.com/snowblossomcoin/snowblossom/wiki/Mining-Pools

If you search news on bitcointalk for this project you are gonna be lost , all is happening between github and the slack group, go on the minimalistic website and go check out slack, this project look better each day.

Can't download these torrents: https://snowblossom.org/snowfields/snowblossom.3.torrent

Using uTorrent 1.8.2 and get error message: "Invalid torrent file".

#   name   size   hash                                                   torrent
11   avanc   2T   a2a4076f6cde947935db06e5fc5bbd14   snowblossom.11

This file size is 2 terabytes?  ???

You don't need snowblossom-3 anymore, you need .6 now and .7 soon. And yes, the .11 is 2TB, every snowfield is twice the size of the previous one. This is the GPU/ASIC poison-pill: even if someone builds a miner for 128GB files, it will have a hard time once the 256GB snowfield is activated and most likely will be useless at 512GB and higher.

As far as I understand snowblossom, it uses those huge files via memory mapped IO if available on the OS, so it can do random-access operations on 4K blocks in those snowfields as input to its PoW. A general-purpose CPU with a lot of RAM and many threads would have a much higher throughput and therefore lower latency compared to an usual ASIC.

Seems like good project but not enough information available in this thread about this coin specs,algo and roadmap. Let me know how to mine this coin in windows and is it possible to mine with gpu?

Do we got a discord for this coin. I want more info and this thread is lacking quiet a bit. The github has most of the content.

i would like a more transparent mining software for this. im very interested but i cant even see if its actually working anything or its just downloading something or so.

Miners have to download such huge files?
This project looks like HDD mining )))
Unfortunately, I don't even have 128G for snowblossom.7...

Invite expired for discord, anyone can share invite?

If anyone will to sell, let me know.

lots of people asking for a link to discord so here you go.

https://discord.gg/M2DQRfD

Also pool available here.

http://snow.protopool.io/

which are current fields ? node says 7, i download them, but no shares about 2 days in pool miner

[2018-07-04 09:50:11]    INFO snowblossom.miner.PoolMiner printStats Shares: 0 (rejected 0) (blocks 0)

Whats your hashrate?

I suggest joining discord or slack for assistance.

Nice to see another coin with quantum resistance and I might be wrong but it looks like it was built from scratch and it's not a clone, is it GPU resistant also?

@eltigre this is the quant coin I mentioned.

Still mining the llama snowfield! There's a great community on Discord and Slack for questions. AWS is a little cheaper than GCP. Fire up your instance soon so you can still mine in RAM, gets harder with next snowfield.

What is GCP?

interesting,
what are your plans regarding exchange listings?

So is this coin GPU minable? I couldn't find anything explaining the mining aspect of the project.

Could someone link me to this?

Thanks

No, its not. You´d need a GPU with 128GB memory, which does not exist. In the future it will require even more.

Check out the quickstart guide:

https://github.com/snowblossomcoin/snowblossom/wiki/Quickstart

Unironically getting early day Bitcoin vibes from this.

Judging by the order-book now, I'd say others agree.

Can't wait to watch it unfold.

is it joke ? there is no about 128GB GPU memory in guide
i tried that on CPU, miner was working fine, but with 0 hashrate and no warnings that i don't have GPU

Like I said, its not GPU mineable, the reason is its memory requirement. You need a fast (NVME)-SSD to mine this.

so if current snowfield is snowfield.11, for example, i should have 2TB SSD and even larger ?

For snowfield 11, yes, 2TB, or 2x1TB or 4x512GB in one system. Field 11 is far away right now, current one is 7.
Hashrate has to quadruple for each new field, that is 256 times the current hashrate.

Who the hell are the miners with hashrates in the hundreds of millions already...that's thousands of NVMe drives worth of hashrate from single entities. Even conservatively you're looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars of hardware.

you need to download all the torrent file to start mining?

So you say it's GPU resistant because it needs an amount of memory that no GPU has. Have you heard about Radeon Pro SSG (https://www.amd.com/en/products/professional-graphics/radeon-pro-ssg)?

you know AMD is not good at mining, you will pay 6k $ for nothing

AMD may be not very competitive in mining when it's put against other GPUs, but this coin should be CPU-only, so if there exist a GPU that can mine it, it will be EXTREMELY efficient (few orders of magnitude better than the rest of miners - and that may be the explanation of these single entities that have loads of mining power).

It is not suitable for some scripts, but for some it is completely in working condition to mine. The main thing is to be able to set everything up correctly. As a result, for some reason everyone chooses another company-Nvidia whose miners are several times more expensive.

how can I fix this issue please?

I just downloaded v7 to the snow folder.  Poolminer just keeps saying work block load error...java runtime exception...unable to select as field 7 but snow is working on it.

I fixed this by downloading the torrent file

Hashrate is rising .. about to switch to snowfield 8 (256GB)

The invite is expired for discord, someone can share invite?

https://discord.gg/CdWgGU

Any miners in China?  Please contact me.  Have questions and not sure how to mine in the Mainland.  W

Care to share how your Quantum Computing hack proof?  :o

Currently there is no such thing as a quantum proof signature algorithm. We have a lot of "maybe" candidates, but nothing definite.
What snowblossom does is stack 3 candidates with reasonably large key sizes on top of another, to break the coin, all 3 have to be broken. That is a lot more than other quantum resistant coins.

Also the dev is planning to implement more algorithms if new discoveries are made

Following this coin

Very interesting project. I will follow him closely.

Few hype and marketing, a creation that respects the fundamentals. Good ideas for development.

Continue your work!

We now have a GUI client for Snowblossom, named IceLeaf.

Check it out:
https://wiki.snowblossom.org/index.php/Download

thank you, nice job!

Are theer any past projects that you guys implemented? Can you show us links? Any background?

https://wiki.snowblossom.org/index.php/Creators#Fireduck_-_Joseph_Gleason

i can't start mining because wallet file doesn't appear in folder
and question - is mining on 6 cores profitable ?

I'm still seeing so little visible interest on this project! One of the best. There are constant purchases, leases buy orders but nobody talks about it. Really surprising!

In any case, thank you to the developer and the whole team of Snowblossom for the work done! Thanks to the miners for the fantastic support, and long life to this project!

What's the unique feature(s) for Snowblossom?
And the latest updates were July 25,seems not actively developed.

"unique" feature is you must have snowfield
current snowfield is 256 Gb size and i downloaded it about 2 days through torrent
maybe it's my provider's fault but it's "as is"
here are 512Gb and 1Tb and 2Tb snowfields too...
something like BURST project, if someone remembers this

no
comparing BURST and SNOW i meant that HDD is used as mining hardware, not as space for client's data like in STORJ or SIA

hmm,seems got it.

HDD seems become a necessary for many shorter block interval time coins.

What about a request to be added to CMC?

Can be done here: https://support.coinmarketcap.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

I would give it a try, but im lacking most of the data that's needed in the form.

Thx

snowblossom channel  had been up and running for a while.

https://wiki.snowblossom.org/index.php/Channels



"Without going into a great amount of technical detail, the basic concept for Snow Channels is that a content creator creates a channel. The channel can be whatever content they want, like a blog or a instagram style series of pictures or a discussion group. The channel creator controls what goes on the channel completely.

People who want to read the channel subscribe to it. When they do, they become peers and help distribute the channel to others. Think of it like blockchain combined with bittorrent. It is like blockchain in that a bunch of peers that don’t trust each other can use a blockchain to agree on what the current best state is and what all of the history is that lead to that state. It is like bittorrent in that peers share content with each other."

Hi guys,
Wouldn't mind a helping hand please

Windows 10, fully updated. Java Version 8 update 241 installed using snowblossom 1.6

When I run "node" I get

[2020-02-05 13:43:54]    INFO snowblossom.node.StatusLogger setStatus Initializing SnowBlossomNode
[2020-02-05 13:43:54]    INFO snowblossom.node.SnowBlossomNode <init> Starting SnowBlossomNode version 1.6.0-release
[2020-02-05 13:43:54]    INFO snowblossom.lib.db.rocksdb.JRocksDB <init> Loadng RocksDB with path node_db/mainnet
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: C:\Users\miner1\AppData\Local\Temp\librocksdbjni6458562579992253385.dll: Can't find dependent libraries
        at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.System.load(Unknown Source)
        at org.rocksdb.NativeLibraryLoader.loadLibraryFromJar(NativeLibraryLoader.java:78)
        at org.rocksdb.NativeLibraryLoader.loadLibrary(NativeLibraryLoader.java:56)
        at org.rocksdb.RocksDB.loadLibrary(RocksDB.java:64)
        at org.rocksdb.RocksDB.<clinit>(RocksDB.java:35)
        at snowblossom.lib.db.rocksdb.JRocksDB.<init>(JRocksDB.java:47)
        at snowblossom.node.SnowBlossomNode.loadDB(SnowBlossomNode.java:214)
        at snowblossom.node.SnowBlossomNode.<init>(SnowBlossomNode.java:90)
        at snowblossom.node.SnowBlossomNode.<init>(SnowBlossomNode.java:75)
        at snowblossom.node.SnowBlossomNode.main(SnowBlossomNode.java:45)
.
Press any key to continue . . .

Any ideas please?
What the heck is the random .dll it is trying to run?

 @minerja install 64bit java

Thankyou, will try again

I've been away for this project for way too long, i will need to get back into this...

two words for this: hidden gem

it's true, there is not much more to say. Snowblossom is a jewel

watched.

Where can I download snow's wallet? Or how to simply store snow?

wallet:  https://snowblossom.org/jars/ChannelIceLeaf_deploy.jar

Hi,

Just downloaded this , version snowblossom-1.7.1.zip

Have java 64bit, and the client is syncing.
Got a wallet address, but when i run "miner-mem.bat" or "pool-miner.bat" i get these errors

Unable to access jarfile SnowBlossomMiner_deploy.jar, i have checked all folders, the file does not exist

Any ideas?

quote:]
fireduck
:
We aren't including SnowBlossomMiner in the release any more, it is only for solo mining which is increasingly rare
[
12:11 AM
]
fireduck
:
PoolMiner should be included
[
12:12 AM
]
fireduck
:
pool-miner.bat should work