The interesting role GPU miners will play in this coin is that, since PrimeCoin (like PPCoin) reward varies inversely with difficulty (higher difficulty = lower reward per block), original zero-day cpu miners will get a bit of a boost when GPUs come in and make the block reward fairly low.  |
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For anyone interested, digitalOcean's $0.007 (7/10ths of a cent) per hour server slice gets around 15-22 PPS. However, their 8-core $0.23 gets around 2.  |
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Man, if PrimeCoin managed to punish for using cloud instances and server-class CPUs, that's an incredible feat, must have obfuscated it quite well! Curious to see how this develops. |
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keep in mind theres some degree of luck when mining. Even a crap pc has a slight chance of stumbling on the correct number and completing the correct calculation. A faster pc will go through more of those calculations, thus increasing its odds of finding the correct one.
my faster PC has been mining for several hours with no luck, my slower pc has already clinched two rewards. go figure.
Same!! My crappy $300-$400 Toshiba laptop has gotten two blocks with a dual-core AMD processor, my i5-2500k has gotten one block, and my 8350 has gotten zero.  As well, I have two Large elastic instances from digitalocean. Each scores >10000 on Geekbench, yet and each one reports somewhere between 0 and 2 primes per second. :sig: |
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keep in mind theres some degree of luck when mining. Even a crap pc has a slight chance of stumbling on the correct number and completing the correct calculation. A faster pc will go through more of those calculations, thus increasing its odds of finding the correct one.
my faster PC has been mining for several hours with no luck, my slower pc has already clinched two rewards. go figure.
Same!! My crappy $300-$400 Toshiba laptop has gotten two blocks with a dual-core AMD processor, my i5-2500k has gotten one block, and my 8350 has gotten zero. |
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Is there a time frame on making a "Open Source JavaScript Client-Side Primecoin (v0.3+) Wallet Generator"?
sounds like someone wants to use surfers browsers to mine this!! No, he wants a program to generate wallet addresses, essentially. (: |
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It must have been asked before, but so many pages.. so here goes; how would I (solo)mine this? Can I just use cgminer?
click help -> debug window. then on the console tab, type 'setgenerate true'. it wont tell you you are mining, but if you check your process explorer, you will see all of your cores maxed. Was confused, but now I see this. I also see the CPU is maxed, so I'm mining now? Only way to know is find a block, righht? Hmm.. You can run "getmininginfo" or "getprimespersec" in the console (Help>Debug Console). |
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Hello! I got a $0.50/hour high-CPU EC2 instance (XL, which supposedly has 8 cores, all of Intel Xeon E5-2650 style. The max PPS I have seen is 30. It has been running over an hour. My desktop i5-2500k is doing much better. Any ideas? Read the source of the coin to see why. Meh.... |
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i7-3770: 157
i5-2500k: 122
Amazon EC2 XL HCPU (8 Core E5-2650): 24
8350: 83
A6-4400M: 14
What did you do to pull 83 primespersec on that fx 8350? mine is only giving 10 Did you make sure you are using all 8 cores? Did you give it half an hour to warm up to the right speed? |
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Hello! I got a $0.50/hour high-CPU EC2 instance (XL, which supposedly has 8 cores, all of Intel Xeon E5-2650 style. The max PPS I have seen is 30. It has been running over an hour. My desktop i5-2500k is doing much better. Any ideas? |
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i7-3770: 157
i5-2500k: 122
Amazon EC2 XL HCPU (8 Core E5-2650): 24
8350: 83
A6-4400M: 14
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Will primecoin use similar protocols for getWork and other miner functions, or will a program like cgminer have to be rebuilt from the ground up to support PrimeCoin? |
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22 hours  |
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Would people be interested in a coin that tries to balance CPU mining and GPU mining? Basically, if a $300 CPU can get x kH/s, then a $300 GPU should get x kH/s too. This coin would have some inherent flaws, namely the different development speeds of Graphics Cards and CPUs, as well as future optimizations in either direction. As well, it would be cheaper to build a GPU rig than a CPU rig, simply as more GPUs can fit in one system, however a rig can be "maxed out" (awesome processor + great graphics), and gaming computers would take a gain over generic scrypt miners. This is not a new idea, but it's an idea that has yet to be implemented. Thoughts? |
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I am doing research for a site that highlights some of the various prices of pre-built rigs. Do you have a site you would like me to look at? What is your price range in $ / mh/s? Any good reviews? Horror stories? Thanks.
I sell pre-built GPU rigs for Litecoin, if that counts http://www.vorksholkms.com |
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cgminer version to come soon |
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In response to questions about people able to cheat with the primes... maybe the coin would, for it's 'target', select a ever-decreasing numeric range for the search, placed at some arbitrary, very-high location. Of course, it's possible there would be no prime in that group, so perhaps after x amount of time a new target would be selected? This does seem like a tricky proof-of-work implementation to create.. |
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Might want to add CopperLark, looks somewhat interesting, minus the premine....
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I'm very interested to see how pool mining will work. Maybe sending a list of tried values? Seems that could be abused...
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My antivirus tells me there is some kind of suspicious activity when I try to download a wallet of this type of coin, so I don't get involved in this type of coin. ppcoin and bitgem both have wallets that had viruses
Uhh, where to start... Download for this wallet isn't even out yet, PPCoin didn't have a virus, neither did bitgem. If you did get a virus from either wallet, you should record where you downloaded the wallet from, and alert the devs so they can take appropriate action. |
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