blah I found another orphan at height 1369.  Guessing 1378 (which I also "found") is an orphan too.. 3 conf's to go

If the block time is 25s, then the hashrate is 704026/25 = 28161H/s

by my calcs, there are 25KHs on the network already.

(difficulty/25)

I'm guessing someone is powering more than half the network and thus their setup gets to decide everything else is an orphan?

My 1KHs hasn't found a block for almost an hour.

I had the same thing.. 6/6 orphans.  I think maybe keeping the difficulty low might help with faster turnaround?

Also I've had no blocks for 39 mins now?

He was probably using google translate from his native Mandarin   

 

This whole "master node" deal raises some questions for me.

It reads to me like either:

1.  staking isn't going to work if you have less than a Tier 5 amount of CAIx

or

2.  There is bonus extra minting for those mater nodes, issuing an equal number of coins as are associated at that tier level.

If its the second one, does that mean dilution for us smaller holders?  i.e. will our smaller CAIx holdings get devalued by the minting to master nodes?

No no you have it all wrong. 

I want to see QCN around 0.008btc so all the miners bugger off and I get more MRO for my effort

Cannot resolve host sounds like a DNS error with the name of the pool you're trying.  Are you sure you've got the pool url correct?  Try looking up the pool hostname using the command "nslookup qcn.cryptity.com" to make sure your pc has working DNS and can resolve hostnames.

When you just run the daemon with no parameters, and the wallet with no parameters, it should just work, as they'll both be using the default port.  The wrong port or daemon not started message is possibly a firewall problem.

This!

Altho' the public pools don't account for much of the network, hopefully the private pools read this and also do it?  (I'm assuming the serious miners are running their own pools especially now that there's stratum support)

Looking at the Pool Blocks page for both moneropool.com and moneropool.org both seem to have an issue - there's some blocks which haven't reached maturity but which should have paid out by now, going back a few hours.

Might be a problem with the new stratum protocol or new pool software?

Heh, just noticed the QCN network has gone over 1MHs for the first time.  I guess the price is attracting hash from MRO?

If you get the same error, it sounds like you're still trying to run against the wrong binary.

This should work:

1.  Delete the cpuminer stuff you have already, or move it somewhere out the way
2.  Download this file:  https://github.com/LucasJones/cpuminer-multi/releases/download/v1.0.3/cpuminer-multi.zip somewhere like C:\Temp
3.  Unzip the file into a folder of the same name - you should get a folder called: "C:\Temp\cpuminer-multi" with some files in it including minerd.exe
3.  Open a "Command Prompt" using the start menu, or just run "cmd.exe"
4.  then.. in the command window enter these commands:

cd C:\temp\cpuminer-multi
minerd -a cryptonight -o stratum+tcp://qcn.cryptity.com:6666 -u <wallet> -p x -q

That should connect and start working.  (Note:  don't try typing the address by hand - just paste it in using right-click and "Paste" from the menu)

5.  Hit ctrl-C to kill the minerd program, and press the up button on your keyboard so you can see the command you used which worked.
Right-click and choose "Mark" and highlight the whole command, then hit "Enter" once its highligted to copy it to the clipboard.
6.  Type:  "notepad start.bat" and say "Yes" when it asks if you want to create the file.
7.  Paste into the notepad, and you should get the minerd command you just highlighted.
8.  Hit "Save" and go back to the command window.
9.  Type: "start" and hit enter, and it should run.


Note:  Also, you might want to add "-t 2" or some other number to limit the number of threads, depending on which cpu you have.  I get faster hashing on one of my computers (an old i5-650) with 2 threads than 3 or 4 (its dual-core with hyperthreading, so cpuminer tries to make 4 threads by default).

Hi Weret,

You need to get the multi-protocol version of minerd.  The one you need is here:

https://github.com/LucasJones/cpuminer-multi#download

The binaries section has windows binaries and version 1.0.3 includes stratum support.

Awesome, thanks!  I knew I was missing something obvious

Ok, I'm obviosuly missing something.

If I want to send from my wallet to another person, how does the payment ID get generated?  Is there a wallet command I'm just not seeing that generates one?

I know the exchanges make one - I just don't know how/where they get it from, and if I want to move funds between wallets, I need one too it seems.

Excellent, thanks for staying on top of the source!

I just switched 1.5KHs to you.. it'll be good to stop wasting time on those orphan blocks!

Its good to see this in the log from my miners:


I can recommend everyone switching to this protocol on this pool - it'll reduce the load on the pool, and cut the number of orphans down for a better return on mining time.

Minerd tool with stratum support: https://github.com/LucasJones/cpuminer-multi#download
Command line to run it:

Anyone using moneropool.org to mine?

I noticed moneropool.com say they can't accept more miners as they're at capacity (and more than 25% of network hash!), and have moneropool.org at the top of their list of alternatives.

moneropool.org look to be offering a 10% payout bonus?

edit: there's also a new version of cpuminer-multi which doesn't bug out and give all-boooos..  find it here: https://github.com/LucasJones/cpuminer-multi/releases

Lucas updates the source a few hours ago to fix a couple of bugs and add JSON 2 stuff..

binaries on github here:

https://github.com/LucasJones/cpuminer-multi/releases

I just started running the windows one to see if it fixes the "boooo" problem on monero pools.. to early to tell yet if it does.

Have to disagree.  The goal shouldn't be to have an "investment", its a currency for use as a tool.

I'd rather see trade-facilitation stuff built in, and a greater circulation - the value inherent in the coin will be driven by market uptake.  The reason BTC was successful initially is it was used for a large range of commercial transactions.. being able to spend it on goods/services created the demand and built the price.

Artificially limiting the number of coins to preserve the current spot price is just a short-term prop for traders, and ultimately adds no value to the currency.  Without the means to use it to buy actual items, its worthless, just like fiat.

Yes - the owner of that pool has been more pro-active than most and actively improving the pool.  Case in point is a post he made yesterday about fixing the bug in the pool software which gives lots of "boooo" results with cpuminer (there's a bug in the difficulty-switching code in the pool software).

That and the fact that he immediately put a banner on his site saying he was working on a solution makes me trust him much more than most pools, who just keep quiet.