One has to laugh at the 50M buy order at 1 SAT - there less than 4000 coins in existence right now.

We are hoping the damped sine-wave algo used for difficulty combined with the somewhat lower confirmation times (now targeted at 25 hours) will improve the outlook for this coin.  Although the full sine-wave algo was fun, it wasn't as practical as we had hoped - thus the adjustments.

Cassey

Well dang.  Guess I got so use to seeing that come in from him I took it for granted.  Sorry.

Let me see if I can find out what the story is with his pool.

Update:  E-mail sent and trying to hunt him down on IRC

Yeah its working, I get payments all the time, but remember that there is a huge confirmation time for 1CR (one of the things we changed at the 4000 block mark, but that is active now for those that have upgraded).

Feel free to try Jamies pool (the mining pool one), you should start to get payments every hour after the first blocks confirm for you.

Cheers!

Cassey

ps.  Come visit us on http://asic.usertalk.com

The website (http://www.1creditcoin.org) SHOULD be listing the current pools, I'll need to go take a look.

Off the top of my head, I know that

http://www.multicoinpool.org supports it as an Exploratory coin (e.g. you can assign your miner to solo on it or switch between in and other exploratory coins),

and

https://mining.theminingpools.com supports it - there you just mine via your deposit address

I will need to check with the sysop over at the digital mint and see if he is coming back online.  He is hosted out of England, and they have some new laws coming into force that he was concerned about.  Pretty wild, like as a sysop he would be financially responsible if you lost money mining your coin??!?!

Cassey

ps.  Please make sure your running the latest wallet release.  At block 4000 all the old wallets are going to stop working, and the bridge I have up between the old world and new will go away.  MOST have upgraded, but we are seeing something like 15% of connects still using old code.

Thanks all.  I'm the Dev and yes, we have tweaked the coin.

The block time remains at a target of 512 seconds, but we have decreased the COINBASE_MATURITY from 256 to 156 in the current build.  That will take effect immediately for you if you upgrade.  Since wallets add 20 confirms to the base setting, that means new block confirms will now happen in 176 blocks instead of 276.

As also mentioned above, the sine-wave like custom difficulty algo has been "dampened" to hopefully prevent the higher than expected occasional block times the coin has experienced.  That change kicks in at block 4000.

Because of that difficulty adjustment, any wallet that has not been upgraded prior to block 4000 will be incompatible with those that have.  Until then, they should continue to run.

We have received all of TWO reports of folks having minor difficulty, both of which were instantly resolved by upgrading the wallet and restarting.  One guy did a cold sync just to be safe - its unknown if that was actually required.  Coin block-chains are complex little beasties... so we suppose its possible, but don't have a ready explanation for why it would be required.

Happy mining and thanks for your support!

Cassey

No it doesn't.  Many are rebooting the underlying PI with a normal PI OS and running cgminer 3.1.1 for their GAWminers and trying a second instance of a miner to control their Gridseeds.  To be honest, this has been a real problem, with the Fury's dropping if the Gridseeds are enabled and the Gridseeds not responding if the Fury is enabled.  However, this morning, we just got one report of success by specifically calling out the USB ports of the gridseeds instead of auto-discovery of them.

Please come over to the unofficial GAWminer forum and we will try and help!

http://gawforum.usertalk.info

Cassey

An unofficial user run forum has opened for discussion of GAW Mining products and services.

GAW mining produces a number of custom ASIC based products that apparently use the same chips as the Zeus miners, presumably using different board and configuration designs.  As such, Zeus customers and anyone using zenminer fucntionality are also welcome to join in, since we are likely to have similar issues.

Please come join us at http://gawforum.usertalk.info and enjoy the benefits of being in a community of miners with similar equipment.

The forum runs under normal rules:  be polite not abusive, and state facts not fantasy (unless you in the "anything goes" forum of course! <smile>).  Moderation is expected to be minimal and mostly used just to clean things up once the content is obsolete.

Spammers and trolls, please enjoy life elsewhere.

Thanks!

Cassey

Anybody else have security concerns with zenminer?  I just get the shivers thinking about a web ap that can reach out to hardware on my net and modify it - and what that means if they get hacked...

Just curious if I'm being more paranoid than usual?

My cgminer stats running under gentoo linux on the Pi:

 (5s):0.000 (avg):1.325Mh/s | A:2153  R:209  HW:119  U:6.5/m  WU:1260.9/m
 ST: 2  SS: 0  NB: 558  LW: 2735  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to mine.multicoinpool.org diff 512 with stratum as user Cassey.PI3
 Block: faabcb57d93d5035...  Diff:31.3K  Started: [20:06:38]  Best share: 434K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [ S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 ICA 0:                | 1.264M/1.325Mh/s | A:2153 R:209 HW:119 U:  6.53/m

Pretty much the 1.32-1.33 I was seeing under zenminer.

Note:  The (5s) time bounces ALL over the place, from 0 to 22k to multi-meg.  I basically ignore it.

Thanks.  Obviously still populating it, since I didn't decide to post about it until a few hours ago.  Don't be surprised if you see recent questions replicated with my answers over there <smile>

Please help!  Ask questions, post answers, whatever!  Forum's live and die on user participation and I can't do it all.  Of course, please Register!  That is really the only way I have of knowing how many are following it.

Ok... about to see if my new bitcointalk signature works!

Wemineltc is popular if you JUST want to mine Litecoins.

There are many profit switching pools available out there which will hunt down the most profitable coin of the hour (or minute!) and mine that for you.  A few of those include:

http://www.multicoinpool.org
http://mine.coinshift.com
http://clevermining.com

and many, many others.

Personally, I use the first, with the second as a backup pool.  ALWAYS have a backup pool!

Cassey
http://gawforum.usertalk.info

If I understand correct:

You buy the hardware, they put it in their data center, and give you portal access to it (e.b. you get to it over the web).

You can mine whatever pools you choose, its your machine, just not in your house.

Cassey
http://gawforum.usertalk.info

Not sure if it will help, but here are the boot messages my Gentoo based linux kernel on my Pi is generating:

[   10.545771] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
[   10.545908] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
[   10.546071] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for generic
[   10.561381] usbcore: registered new interface driver cp210x
[   10.561515] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for cp210x
[   10.561671] cp210x 1-1.3:1.0: cp210x converter detected
[   10.660020] usb 1-1.3: reset full-speed USB device number 5 using dwc_otg
[   10.763275] usb 1-1.3: cp210x converter now attached to ttyUSB0

Cassey
http://gawforum.usertalk.info

Hi all.

We heard a few nights back that GAWminers will be leaving bitcointalk soon, after outgrowing it, and will have its own forum.  From what I've been told, its going to be a nice, proper, commercially supported effort which I heartily support.

Until then, I humbly offer this site:  http://gawforum.usertalk.info

Its nothing fancy, but will hopefully allow us to organize our conversations a bit better than bitcointalk is designed for.

Cheers,

Cassey

The distributed cgminer 3.1.1 does not have curses enabled, so you just great a a stream of text messages instead of the normal "window" most are use to seeing.

Yes...

However I used the recommended cgminer 3.1.1 that GAW posted a link too.  It compiles and runs fine with the "--with-curses" flag at configure time.

Seriously!  The Zeus "Fury" equivalent had something like a $49-$59 shipping charge - outrageous for a ~$150 unit.

Well... for starters:

1)  Is the A2 power usage what is advertised?  (about 7-8 watts/Mh)

2)  Why buy one over the other?  If I did the math right, the cost difference is high between A2 and A1, with something like a year or two ROI based on power cost.

3)  Given a multi-year ROI due to cost difference, were you comfortable with the 3 month warranty of the A2 (I think that is what is was, please correct if I'm not remembering correctly)

Cassey

Isn't free enterprise a wonderful thing?    Get the power problem licked, and drop that War Machine down a bit more... and just maybe...

Actually, I'd like to hear more about the A2 products, since those are suppose to be shipping next week.

There is not a published one.  Really the only reason to have the HDMI connector hooked to anything is to watch it boot.  Zero reason to have a keyboard hooked up.

My guess is that the zenminer website is doing a multicast to find units on the same LAN, and the zencontroller PI is listening for the same and communicating back its ID number and mac address.  Once that is done, communication is established.

Personally not real comfortable from a security perspective with a webpage that does stuff like that.  Kind of an open door for abuse should zenminer get hacked.

Cassey (now running CGminer under a Gentoo PI build)\
 ICA 0:                | 1.322M/1.317Mh/s | A:230 R:10 HW:8 U:  8.24/m  (clk=328)