Doesn't seem like the Dev had any idea what he's actually doing

Ugh.. so many error in the code... unbelievable

Looks good, maybe try xzc-stratum.suprnova.cc but the other should be fine too

What's your cmdline?

I didn't had a close look at the estimates yet, it's not so easy getting this low hash coin working with MPOS anyway

Just wait approximately 2 mindls after you've started mining and diff should automatically drop if you're submitting too few shares

Should be okay now, if not, restart the worker, someone doesn't like the pool and ddos'd it again

Yes, but it should start in 1-2 minutes after launch

To mitigate a DDoS I've had to increase default diff a bit on the Port, it might need a few seconds to target down after you connect, don't worry, it'll even out in 2-3 minutes after you've started the miner.

Bug in the wallet... I've mentioned this already a few times..

https://github.com/zcoinofficial/zcoin/issues  here

and

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1630687.msg16459863#msg16459863 here

but no one seems to care at all

Well a windows miner binary is here:

https://github.com/ocminer/cpuminer-xzc/releases

some say it works, some say it doesn't

Look in "Statistics-> Round Transactions" and find your username there.

Yes, "Shares" is 0 for some rounds, but you still have reward because difficulty is calculated, not the shares, thats what I've tried to explain you.

Claim here, claim there, claim everywhere My neighbour claims my cat shits in his garden but my cat never shits outside..

Remember the claims when eth launched ?

Just mine with what you have, there will be some GPU miner public at launch, don't worry and then you're good.

I don't see any advantage investing in cloudhashing even before launch as zcash will also have a "slow launch" so the rewards are ramping up slowly and reach full reward after 30 days so the only folks earning money are the cloud hashing operators.

The most important things:

1. Don't panic, we had similar launches before
2. Get your gear ready for mining, test as much as you can to get ready for launch
3. Don't panic, there's still the 30 day slow start
4. Don't buy GPU miners or buy anything before launch, there will still be plenty available after launch
5. Don't panic, do your diligence.

1 share from the miner = 256 shares in the pool, but the important factor is your overall difficulty, not shares.

If possible, please refrain from using this thread as a commercial thread for some cloud hashing providers, personally I don't like them as I don't see anything good they bring to coins / launches neither in short or long-term.


Miners can mine with their own equipment just perfectly.

Thanks

Yes, but those results seem to be the BitcoinMiner Results.. i'm not 100% sure but they look "ok" to me.

Can anyone tell if he's mining with the Miner on windows ? all good ?

Somebody sent me a compiled version of the Miner:

https://github.com/ocminer/cpuminer-xzc/releases

However - Please Virusscan the Miner, I cannot guarantee for the file !

@adaseb:
The good thing about python is, it can use c modules, so yes, I simply copy over the code 1:1 and modify input and output ... Thats about it.
Then you use an input string like "deadcafebabedeadcafebabedeadbeefbeef" and let it run through your hashing function in python which spits something out
like 00abcdef012309aaabbbcc313921aaaaabbbb33232323 - this is the hash which you then compare with your stratum module and if both hashes match - you're basically done and got a new algo ready. (this was a veeery shortened version of whats actually going on.. Sometimes it takes 2-3 days until that stuff is good.. with A LOT trial and error )

Hmm I've tried to get a VM running to compile the miner but hey.. It's freakin' harder to get the build environment going under windows than getting a stratum pool going for zcash

This algo is pure Lyra2 with some crazy values.. Yes I used python for testing and then switched over to C(++) as testing scripts are written in a snap in python.

Whereas Vertcoin uses some special "light" version of Lyra2(RE) it was a chained algo (like X11) were Lyra2 was one of the algos in the chain with quite light values, so it wasn't so hard to mine.

Here, I'm not sure if the devs really know what they were doing, they dropped all the chained algos and cranked the Lyra2 "hardness" waaayy beyond maximum and that makes the algo so slow. As they are also using the block height as a difficulty factor in the algo, it gets harder with every new mined block. At some point blockchain height will reach a value where it will be too hard to mine and the chain will stall - it will probably be forked before that happens.

The last time I did anything @ windows was when Windows 7 came out

I can tell you anyhting or compile anything under Linux but I'm sorry, I can't help for Windows.

Feel free to try https://exp.suprnova.cc as a backu pool.. Claymore etc supported as well