Small tiny last question please, am wondering roughly how many man hours or months of work it has taken to get this far?
Well I started almost a year ago, litecoin took me about a month or so, the x11 hash functions about 6 months (maybe 2 weeks per module, some a bit less, some a bit more), and then a few months to do integration, handling multiple cores etc. I am still finishing off protocol to handle comms between SPI master (ie rPI) and a chain of chips. A year really?! Thats quite a bit of work involved in a number of specialist areas, Its useful to know, thanks for grounding me with solid facts to work with ! One of our ex Dev's Vertoe was very accurate about it taking 1 year to develop then, how did he know  https://dashtalk.org/threads/x11-pro-miner.3880/#post-41591If you ever want to chip in some comments and help stop us misunderstanding, you would be most welcome  https://dashtalk.org/threads/x11-mining-optimisation-project.2584/and https://dashtalk.org/threads/asic-coming-for-x11.3816A company has appeared in the last few months which is promising deliverance from the CPU-only paradigm. Cleverhash promises three models of miner by the end of the year. However, in the legalese of its documentation, it’s making no firm commitments. The three models range in price from $900 to $7500. For their business model to work, they reportedly have to sell 4,000 units before they produce one.Edit: If this is you, can I have 5 small ones please and can I have them 1 week before anyone else ?  |
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Most important thing. 1 Static IP. Without that, you're going to be in trouble.
When a masternode with Dynamic IP
Could run a hot /cold wallet in 1 machine with a dynamic IP. |
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Like a Raspberry Pi 2 b
:-D
I love this thing :-D
When you get to Gautamala, you will have enough sun to keep it going 24/7 with a little battery backup. Moore's law comes in many forms,  |
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I don't know if it would be worth it to mine on my 2015 15" Macbook Pro. It's got 16GB of RAM, but I think mining uses the CPU or GPU?
Don't bother, it will cost more in machine wear and tear, you will not get any coins. But you could host a masternode on any low spec machine, thats the point. |
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Thanks to everyone who answered my questions, I'm truly glad to be part of this amazing community. Looking forward to the new updates.
Keep up with the good questions! If you consider yourself a miner, this is a lot better option because it is basically ASIC and Moore's law proof, meaning that once you have the Dash, you don't need to worry about upgrading every 5 minutes to keep up with every increasing difficulty due to chip developments and stealth optimizations, the miners do the hashing work and the masternodes do the proof of service masternode work, kind of like a symbiotic relationship really |
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We're not very much different than BTC - we just have a lot more cool features :-D
I'm sure somebody else will fill in my blanks - lol
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When a masternode owner get's paid, are those new Dash locked like the other 1000 Dash or can the masternode owner sell them right away?
The payout is to a different address(the 1k stays the same), either to the same wallet or a different one(via a donation address), it is not locked and can be sent via the enable expert coin features if from same 1k wallet. |
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I'm trying to understand this masternode system correctly. Currently, masternodes get paid less than $2 per day. That's not a lot. It takes 1,000 DASH to buy a Masternode. Where does the money that pays these nodes come from? From the miners?
More Masternodes = Price up initially to buy 1, then its Dash price slowly goes down each time the masternode owner decides to sell some of his earned DASH. So basically want is happening is that the value from the miners get's transfered to masternode owners.
Let's say lots of people want DASH for multiple reasons: anonymous, fast, voting, decentralized, etc. and the price rises a lot. This would mean that it would cost more to buy a Masternode. The higher the price, the more money you need to buy one. That means, that eventually, the growth of masternodes will slow down with price rises. But...the higher the price of 1 masternode, the more the owners get paid per day? So would it be possible to get paid $15 per day for 1 masternode in the future? Would that cause more people to buy masternodes?
Will miners eventually stop mining when there are no more blocks left in the future? In how many years? Would that be the end of DASH? Masternode owners not getting paid.
Oh I totally forgot this essential part: Masternodes get paid to mix coins. Now it all makes sense to me. If you want your coins mixed you got to pay for this service, and I'm sure other services might be added to Masternodes in the future.
Do Masternode owners get paid if a user does Instasend or Darksend?
Think this is it, (everything to the masternodes?) InstantX = 0.01 Darksend = 0.001 Darksend rounding off extra charge (to make up anonymous denominations 1,.1,.01,.001), depending on the amount you send it can be .1-.000001 I am not sure how many masternodes there were but I think the $15 per day per node has been beaten already when the price was 1 darkcoin= $15 at 0.027 btc last year in June 2014 because there were way less than 1000 masternodes so everyone would have been getting larger payouts on a daily basis, (although the payout was only 10% of mining at the start) (Its not on Crowning's masternode chart, anyone with a node at that time can tell you) |
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http://www.activistpost.com/2015/06/what-chinas-new-facial-recognition-atm.html'' Indeed, it's certainly not only happening at the ATM, but is targeted for general purchases as well. As I highlighted late last year, a new system called Zwipe was developed for imminent rollout in a partnership with Mastercard. It promises the first fully biometric credit card, which will dispense with a PIN and instead use a fingerprint sensor for verification''
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Competition  How confident can you be about blockcypher's confidence rating system? https://medium.com/blockcypher-blog/from-zero-to-hero-bitcoin-transactions-in-8-seconds-7c9edcb3b734'' In other words, if an unconfirmed transaction returns a confidence factor of 99.9%, then our data says there’s a 0.1% chance that an attempted double-spend will succeed. By design, our Confidence Factor is conservative; even when we return 90% confidence, the likelihood of a successful double-spend is significantly lower than 10%.'' |
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That is the one and only answer that I would have expected from a spy.
The Manuel response: ''I know nothing''.[/url]
So deep undercover for so long, have forgotten original purpose for going undercover Anyway, stop off topic-ing me! I off topic very easy |
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Come on Sub-Ether, do you work for GCHQ?
Are you the Fifth Eleventh Man?
If I worked for GCHQ I would know what I'm talking about  |
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very good news indeed and one amazing large update, here is to hoping everything goes smoothly in the internal testing and hopefully we all meet on public Testnet again in two weeks (give or take a few days  ) . See you at the party! |
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As this work was financed, all I can do is provide a sanitized screenshot. This is a simulation of the FPGA version of the design using a UART interface:
Also note that my design has a number of compile time parameters/constants which affect the performance/throughput. The above simulation is for a design with basic settings only and a nominal clock rate, so the time intervals shown do not reflect expected performance.
Thank you very much for your professional input (reminds me of my student days on the altera test boards, lol), Am wishing you all the luck with your project and perhaps it will be brought to fruition one day in the future if the price goes way up and this becomes a viable project to manufacture and sell. Small tiny last question please, am wondering roughly how many man hours or months of work it has taken to get this far? (btw, 'beefdead' is a funny hex number, is kind of like 'boobless' in decimal) ASIC X11 miner simulation for a FPGA |
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If you were to submit a proposal for a Masternode vote (when it becomes available) to release an open-source FPGA or ASIC miner it might be possible to gain the support necessary to achieve funding. I don't have the figures in front of me at the moment but I imagine it would require quite a rally in order to be economically viable.
Its a superb project to undertake, sounds like 'OphanedGland' has done the design work, I would consider building a prototype on a test board but I would need the program he has otherwise all the logic will have to be worked out from scratch(possibly do-able) and also some software to get work for the next hash and port it in and out of the FPGA (this, someone else would have to do) Perhaps a voting proposal to optimize the .bin hashing speed of the miner programs would be more useful and reach more people, (with a number of older chipsets for older graphics cards?) |
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Accidentally sent a test transaction to my mobile Dash wallet from old Darkcoin client I still had on local windows. There were no blocks for a while so I thought I had fucked up. Although instant X didn't work so I'm gonna resend and try again.
My instantX won't work for a few days now. Is it because there is 37% of the network are 0.11.2.22 ? (I sometimes get a MasternodeB ranking is too low/spamming masternode in my debug log) |
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The tx flood stress test was kind of a failure by the looks of the results, only 20 transactions per second cause this!  |
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