I don't think we will become another bitcoin clone with cool advertising.
As new features are launched, maybe not as revolutionary but unique none the less you will see slowly see Globe break apart from the competition and excel. One small feature and another and another slowly you will see Globe get ahead the competition.
I know change is hard but I think we need it.
So why exactly would Globe be more capable or likely to include new features than any other altcoin? Hi, Ok so, normally you are dependent on a single developer maybe a group of developers if your lucky to maintain and add new features. The alt-coin community expects them to simply donate time with no real incentive. Even if they pre-mined it is not an on-going incentive. Well Globe their is an incentive ( ongoing tax) . We can convert GLB to BTC or offer GLB to developers to develop features and maintain the crypto. Over the long run you could hire full-time people solely working on the project. No other crypto will be effectively able to do this. Even Bitcoin a crypto with nearly $10 billion market cap relies on a bunch of contributes donating their spare time, who don't evolve it and add features for it to succeed. Lets not forget the transaction malleability issue. It took them a very long time to fix it. If you where paying a group of devs to prevent things like this it would be much less likely to happen and if it did happen with money you could employ people to work round the clock to fix it. I guess what I am trying to say is asking devs to donate time will not get new features built and bugs fixed as well as when you have a full paid team. Don't get me wrong the best we can do ATM is just offer a couple bounties for some features but maybe someday we could have a full time employed Globe dev team building features maybe even a decentralized reserve or price stabilizer. Thanks Sphere Ok, you've got a point there. There still is the problem that if GLB ever becomes valuable, you will get the taxes anyway, so you would have to be very transparent how they are spent (so we can verify you are actually buying devs, and not expensive holidays  ). But where does that leave us now? I think we should come up with some sort of 'marketing plan'. We could spend some money on bounties, but only if they are really adding something. I also think this should be paid from the 'other 10%', and that for now at least the reserve should stay, with the funds from the price stabilization moved to the reserve as well. I think, however, that marketing should start with some basic (free) things. It should be made sure we are on sites like coinmarketcap, it should be made sure that whenever there is a poll about 'which crypto will be big in 2014' or whatever, it is at least possible to vote for GLB. We should make sure that if there is a new exchange on which users can vote which crypto they want to have added, GLB is at least on the list. These are really basic thing, that are lacking at the moment. |
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5-chip, dus 300kH/s?
Ja, inderdaad. Gewoon zo een van lightningasic. |
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I don't really see the cause-and-effect connection between the dev giving away the coins and the cryptocommunity growing stronger.
Imagine somebody gave you some weird, difficult to use and not very useful to you technological device - for example, a ham radio. Would you try to understand how it works and become a hobbyist radioamateur, or just pawn it for $500 at the local thrift store or something?
Yes, I would plug it in, read about it, make it work, then have it taken apart before midnight.... But that's just me. Well, I first had to look up the term 'ham radio' but yes, I would probably do the same  |
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I don't think we will become another bitcoin clone with cool advertising.
As new features are launched, maybe not as revolutionary but unique none the less you will see slowly see Globe break apart from the competition and excel. One small feature and another and another slowly you will see Globe get ahead the competition.
I know change is hard but I think we need it.
So why exactly would Globe be more capable or likely to include new features than any other altcoin? |
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Yeah, I think you should implement a more sophisticated switching mechanism. The sudden drops in hashpower are not only annoying, but also a waste of power. You should try to at least still accept the shares submitted for the coin you just switched from. I think it would actually be best to wait until a new block is found on the network, before switching.
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I have to agree with nerioseole that by removing the stabilization and reserve, you essentially remove the unique features of GLB. This just makes it another BTC clone, with just a bit different marketing.
I think removing the price stabilization is probably a good move, since is is quite hard to have objective criteria for how and when to use this money. So I would vote for removing the stabilization part, and transferring all funds to the reserve. I would thus keep the reserve, but it has to be made very clear what the purpose of this reserve is, and when and how it will be used.
Maybe we could implement the traditional system of a backed currency, where people can actually claim what belongs to them. So, it would be made possible to exchange GLB for a proportional part of the BTC reserve. For example, if the reserve is 1 BTC, and I want to exchange 50 GLB at the moment that the total amount mined is 1000 GLB, I would get 0.05 BTC. After this transaction, the exchanged GLB should be destroyed (sent to an address which doesn't have a private key).
It could be implemented otherwise as well, but my opinion is that the reserve should stay, and it should be worked out how this reserve will be used.
Then, how to proceed? Well, the tax is 20%. Half of that went to the reserve/stabilization, the other half went to a development/advertising fund. Why can't this part of the tax be used to, well, advertise? Or has this part been spent already? Currently there is around 2.1 BTC and 65000 GLB in the reserve+stabilization together. A similar amount should be in the dev/advertising fund right? That should be enough to buy some blog posts, tweets, fb posts and poloniex trollbox spam. Maybe busoni is even in for some small scale advertising (small banner between markets and trollbox would be great...)?
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The 30k sell order is gone on Poloniex  weird, still wonder who has bought so much Yeah, in general the size of sell orders seems to go down slowly. At this moment there are only two sell orders of >1000PMC, one for 1100, and one for 3700. I think this is a good thing. It means PMC is getting distributed more evenly, and the big holders that are left don't seem to be dumpers. So far that seems to be the case. Hopefully it stays the same as the price increases. Well I am not going to dump a lot at once for sure. Actually, dumping huge amounts actually is quite stupid, since it will probably give you less profit compared to selling bits over a longer period. Especially with a coin like this, that doesn't have new coins coming to the market daily. |
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The 30k sell order is gone on Poloniex weird, still wonder who has bought so much Yeah, in general the size of sell orders seems to go down slowly. At this moment there are only two sell orders of >1000PMC, one for 1100, and one for 3700. I think this is a good thing. It means PMC is getting distributed more evenly, and the big holders that are left don't seem to be dumpers. |
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Thanks for the BTC! I'm sorry about the language, but my windows is in Dutch, so I can't really do anything about it. Is there anything I can do to make it more clear? I tried to be clear in my description, and use the terms from the english windows there. |
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Ok, so you have 20 miners, which require around 10W each (in scrypt only mode), so 200W on 12V line, which is 16A. Every powersupply should be capable of delivering that, especially if it has 4x pci-e connector.
If the cables have been made correct (there are three +12V lines in a sata connector, I don't know if it works when only 1 or 2 are connected), they should work. The same for molex. I have my miners running of a molex connector.
Please remember this when troubleshooting:
- There have been multiple cases in which the controller couldn't handle the full 20 miners
- The controllers have a tendency to not hash at all, if something is wrong with one of the miners
So, I would say you need to try each miner separately, at a frequency of 600 to start with, and check if they all work. Then you need to check with a known working miner whether all USB and power cables work. If everything works, try adding miners one at a time, and see when they stop working.
I have 10 miners per controller, 10 a USB hub. x2 Except for 2 that are troublesome, they all hash seperately for a while. So, they appear to work. (No idea if there is another test) If i connect them miner after miner, it will hash and speedup.. Until the controller reboots and it never really picks up after that. It still also seems the USB hub is at fault: i get only one YAY when connected from Windows. Tried my W8.1 desktop and my wifes W7 laptop. Both hubs the same result. I might buy a new hub thats tested.. Orico or the Sipolar that's shipped with it usually. I'm getting a gridseed kit soon for a friend, i'll try those hubs and controllers.. Hopefully Jack releases the final firmware today as promised, i'm told the reboots are gone, hashing speeds higher and overall stability. Even if it hashes at lower speed as advertised, i would be OK.. The reboots, i don't like. This really takes the profits down.. It sounds like testing the another hub/firmware could be a good start. I noticed today that my controller is not displaying the hashrate (it says 0 khash/s), but it does register shares, and the pool also registers them. I hadn't had that before... |
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My config looks like this: config dropbear
option enable 'on'
option PasswordAuth 'on'
option RootPasswordAuth 'on'
option Port '22'
# option BannerFile '/etc/banner'
You could add the 'option enable' line, but I don't think it is necessary. You're right, it worked! Tried on one controller first, and it still works and SSH as well. I think you used the previous firmware? Anyway, hopefully someone knows what options we could change to prevent resets, etc.. My firmware is the one it came with from lightningasic. I received RC1 from a tech, don't know what was on the units. Did notice a drop in hashspeed, but i didn't find a copy of the older FW elsewhere. That's a new update? Could you upload it somewhere? I'm interested |
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So what steps go wrong? Cpuminer tries to send work to the miners?
Yes, the work gets sent.. And that's it.. But, i might be onto something: as i told, i'm using an ATX PSU to power the miners, 20 of them.. It's an old PSU i had laying around, with 4 6 pin PCIE plugs, a few SATA and molex connectors. I have aquired adapter cables from PCIE to 3x miner plug each, so 12 are powered directly by PCIE. For the others i had an extra cable while i wait for a new PSU, from SATA to PCIE, i also have a molex PCIE if needed. I only tested 1 miner directly from PCIE.. That one gets "YAY", the ones on SATA don't.. Is the power insufficiant? The miners do get power, because they run as expected.. (LEDs, fans are on) Just tried the miners connected to PCIE directly: through the USB hub ONLY 1 hashes.. I'll reboot and test again, but it looks like the SATA and MOLEX are underpowered, but the USB hub seems to be no good either.. Sad.. Hopefully LightningAsic releases the new controller FW today (i was told it's ready), that does seem to hash a bit at least.. Speed not that great, but most units do SOMETHING for a while.. Ok, so you have 20 miners, which require around 10W each (in scrypt only mode), so 200W on 12V line, which is 16A. Every powersupply should be capable of delivering that, especially if it has 4x pci-e connector. If the cables have been made correct (there are three +12V lines in a sata connector, I don't know if it works when only 1 or 2 are connected), they should work. The same for molex. I have my miners running of a molex connector. Please remember this when troubleshooting: - There have been multiple cases in which the controller couldn't handle the full 20 miners - The controllers have a tendency to not hash at all, if something is wrong with one of the miners So, I would say you need to try each miner separately, at a frequency of 600 to start with, and check if they all work. Then you need to check with a known working miner whether all USB and power cables work. If everything works, try adding miners one at a time, and see when they stop working. |
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So what steps go wrong? Cpuminer tries to send work to the miners?
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Na de groupbuy heb ik toch nog 1 miner over die ik wil verkopen. Het gaat om een 5 chip model, en hij komt met een usb kabel en een stroomkabel.
Indien gewenst kan ik een molex connector aan de stroomkabel zetten, zodat je hem op een computervoeding kan aansluiten.
Prijs: € 250,- of gelijkwaardig in btc/ltc of evt andere coins op aanvraag.
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this is very nice tutorial up there So many nice photos a lot of work I hope many users will use it as a help to their problems. Cheers I'm glad you like it I like it a lot! I don't have that kind of hardware but if I would have new one not yet connected I would use your tutorial for sure. I hope you will get some bounty for that! You should imo. Kind regards! Glad to hear that! I haven't received any bounty though, but there hasn't been a reply from the TS either. For everyone who wants to mine scrypt only on windows, there is a new compiled version of the cpuminer here, which should dramatically reduce the power usage in scrypt mode. I haven't verified it myself yet though. Hi, I tried my USB hub connected miners on Windows 8.1.. None of them EVER says or call out "YAY".. Is this driver related? Or does the USB hub not work correctly? I don't think ALL my miners are broken.. Whick hub is tested OK? I have seen the Orico and the Sipolar X-300 shipped with the set, any others? Thanks, Andre Is it a powered hub? Otherwise it probably will not work. Also, did you maybe forget to power the miners? I did that once... I forgot to plug in the miners power supply, they responded fine on cpuminer commands, they just didn't start hashing :p |
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Ah, let's see whether this one is finished faster than MinePeon, then I'll have to get another Raspberry Is minepeon working on the gridseeds as well? Couldn't find anything about that? Nope, haven't seen confirmation of that but when it's taking over 30% of the scrypt mining capacity it'll probably be added somewhere. Yeah, you're probably right. But the scripta devs have been working on it for some time already. I would just love to have a single raspi manage everything. Either with minepeon adding scrypt support, or with scripta adding sha support. |
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Ok, I don't want to be to pessimistic, but as it looks now Globe is going to fail. The volume on poloniex is only 0.08 BTC in 24 hours, and the highest current buy is at 1700 satoshi. Don't you think it is time for the price stabilization to kick in?
I think Globe has another chance, if we start spreading the word now. We need to get more active on twitter. We need to spam the poloniex trollbox about Globe. If we coordinate this with the price stabilization, I think we could have another chance. I also think we should really try to get on coinmarketcap. People are looking there, trying to decide what coin to invest in. If we are on coinmarketcap, and we all buy some, together with price stabilization, price will increase tremendously, and it will be on top of the %increase list of coinmarketcap.
Otherwise, I think Globe is doomed to fail.
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Ah, let's see whether this one is finished faster than MinePeon, then I'll have to get another Raspberry Is minepeon working on the gridseeds as well? Couldn't find anything about that? |
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