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I work with Avnet all the time, sadly this is normal. Hardware the backside doesn’t move at consumer pace, very slowly. Also lead times are a few weeks now.
Good to know this is just their standard operating procedure and I am not the only one stuck in limbo. And yeah, I expected a long lead time after I ordered the hardware. I just was not expecting 2+ weeks of lead time to first place the order. |
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... If you are interested in acquiring hardware, contact jason.harvey@avnet.com for the VCU1525, or Christian Robichaud of Bittware, for the Bittware XUPP3R-VU9P ( crobichaud@bittware.com). Tell them you were referred by Zetheron Technology and you want the cards for crypto-mining and they can expedite the lead time, which is currently around 4 weeks. The intro price (at Avnet) on the VCU1525 is $3995 USD, but it will be going up to around $5K in July. ... Does anyone know where else I can get the VCU1525 kit from shipped to the US? Initially I tried contacting avnet to order a board or two to play with but am getting nowhere. I signed their export agreement and every couple of days ask what I need to do to order the hardware but never get an answer to the question. Yesterday I decided to just grab one from Digikey as I have ordered a lot of parts from them in the past but as someone else mentioned they disappeared from there too. Also thank you whitefire990 for this post, I had been interested in playing with FPGAs for a long time and this was the kick I needed. |
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Just though some would find it interesting to hear what happened from one of the lurking miners that was around early. There is too much noise trying to distort the truth, I see they even are trying to twist what I said. Probably get some more direct attacks next. At least they are predictable.
Thank you for sharing your history with us. You provided facts to back up your story. Much appreciated! funny how he started saying this after i posted that Evan first mentioned masternodes in Feb 21, 2014 up thread... Statements like this are why I pointed out you just twist what I am saying. In my original post I indicated I had masternodes for a while, it was not a response to you. Stop giving yourself so much credit. Nothing I originally posted was intended for you or any others that spin a fairy tale of demons and dark wizards. It was meant as a reflection for those interested in truth. Pretty sure you're feeling that knife in your stomach for not holding onto any of that right now and probably for the next few days (pretty sure you've been crying yourself to sleep lol).
Good luck being a masternode, it'll just set you back around $44k at current prices.
Nope, not at all, my post was not for a pity party or sympathy. As I mentioned I am happy with my choices. I sold coins to cover initial bills, sold some for profit and kept some for well past when masternodes started before selling that for some profit. I am not going to live in the past, just look forward towards what to do next. Just though some would find it interesting to hear what happened from one of the lurking miners that was around early. There is too much noise trying to distort the truth, I see they even are trying to twist what I said. Probably get some more direct attacks next. At least they are predictable. all i did was highlight what you said...i don't see any twisting of words here like saying that "it was easy to mine, anyone can do it" but you also said that people are complaining about your hashrate....so it was not easy and not anyone can do it. so any screen shot of the exchange records that shows your sell of DASH (masternodes amount) with the dates. You have shown there is no point in engaging you further, as I shown above you already twisted and lied about what I initially posted. You have no interest in the truth so we remain at an impasse. |
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Pretty sure you're feeling that knife in your stomach for not holding onto any of that right now and probably for the next few days (pretty sure you've been crying yourself to sleep lol).
Good luck being a masternode, it'll just set you back around $44k at current prices.
Nope, not at all, my post was not for a pity party or sympathy. As I mentioned I am happy with my choices. I sold coins to cover initial bills, sold some for profit and kept some for well past when masternodes started before selling that for some profit. I am not going to live in the past, just look forward towards what to do next. Just though some would find it interesting to hear what happened from one of the lurking miners that was around early. There is too much noise trying to distort the truth, I see they even are trying to twist what I said. Probably get some more direct attacks next. At least they are predictable. |
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Congratulations to the Dash community, over the past 3 years there has great progress. I check in on Dash periodically and it is one of the few communities that has delivered. While the price is exciting, of real interest is the technology that is being built. Sadly there seems to still be people that try to twist what happened at the beginning. So like someone else that recently posted I thought I would admit to my early involvement with Dash. I recently stumbled upon one of my old empty Xcoin wallets so it seemed like a good time to show what it was like in the beginning. Dash was easy to mine and anyone could have picked up a lot at the beginning, I know because I did. Though because my obsession was with mining I let this long term opportunity pass me by. I sold a lot to cover my Amazon bills, kept some for a bit and even had some masternodes for a while. So while this coin looked very promising the mining bug hit me again so I sold the rest a while back. I happily profited in the end but of course it is hard to not look back at what I could have had. So yes, I was one of those Amazon miners that people complained about early on. Here are my January and February 2014 bills:   That buys a lot of hours of mining time, here is how many hours I racked up in January:  My peak was over 2000 hours of EC2 time across various instances on February 8th. That included various smaller instance types, not just the large cc2.8xlarge's. It fluctuated day by day because I was using Spot instances and sometimes was getting out bid so my instances would get terminated. I could not find my original solo mining wallets as I moved those coins and deleted them but I did find one of my early ones. So for those wondering what mining got you back in the beginning here are a few snapshots of what I was getting:   So for those of you who bought coins from me early on, you’re welcome. It was fun. For those of you wondering about any truth to what the trolls say just remember their strongest tool is to mix a little bit of truth with a lot of speculation and lies. Good luck to Dash, I hope to see many great things come from it and hopefully will be a masternode holder again in the future. |
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It has been fun but at least temporarily hodl.blockquarry.com will be shutting down mining during this fork. We may start back up after we investigate a few options but in the meantime I recommend using Suprnova.cc for mining, ocminer has been great to work with.
We are on the new wallet and will be leaving it running so people can still get their mined coins transferred.
Thanks
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Sorry, we probably chose the wrong words, the diff / 8388608 marked some valid shares invalid (block candidates) on our side which was not happening with / 65536 so you should simply find more block candidates with the mod.
Best thing is probably to just try the miner without the mod and with the mod, for example point two comparable machines one to block quarry and one to our pool and you should notice a difference in speed, recognized shares, shorter rounds and lastly also the payouts.
Thank you for the clarification, that explains some of it. Then there is no need for me to compare anything, the miner is not faster just incompatible. Most likely the errors you encountered is because MPOS is not configured properly. My guess is that you have your pool set to Scrypt so it is using a target bits of 16. Whereas for this coin and miner we are using 9 because of the much lower difficulty. The other differences you talk about are merely share rates configurable within NOMP (or whatever stratum you use). Yes, you can make the results look more consistent by increasing rounds etc but it still averages out the same. There is no hashing speed increase. I assume Suprnova also uses different settings for that as well, but again, no speed increase will result. You could have just asked us or suprnova, we would have tried to help you get past that problem. No need for ridiculous claims. |
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We've started a pool for HODL too: https://hodl.maxminers.netHowever, we're not compatible with the original CPU Miner as we did some modifications to get some more performance out of it, please use our own miner when mining on our pool, you can find the source here: https://hodl.maxminers.net/hodlminer-maxminers.tar.gzWe've already found a block, so the Pool is good to go, please spread some hash over. Good job getting a pool going. Now there are 3 for people to choose from; us, Suprnova and you. I am really curious about your performance modifications. I did a diff of your posted code compared to what we did and I can only find one line changed in cpu-miner.c: 1064c1064
< diff_to_target(work->target, sctx->job.diff / 8388608.0 );
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> diff_to_target(work->target, sctx->job.diff / 65536 );
This does indeed make the miner incompatible with us and Suprnova but does not increase any hashing speed. At best it does mess with the stats within MPOS. So I have to assume I missed something, where should I look for the modifications that get more performance? |
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pinwc4 - question for you, does this require any custom pool software, or custom modifications to pool software. Can anybody set up a pool, or do you have proprietary software running on the back end?
We are using NOMP and MPOS for the pool but it did require some minor customization. Most coins use an 80 byte header but this one is using an 88 byte header. If you look in cpu-miner.c you can see he had to alter what is sent in stratum to accommodate the 88 byte header so the extra two fields of extranonce2 and ntime are included in what is sent to the miner. Maybe other stratum servers would send across the larger header without any changes, I do not know, we mostly stick with NOMP for stratum which does not. Other than that it is standard stuff for getting it into NOMP like other new coins, add in the hash algorithm to multi-hashing so NOMP can use pattern_verify to verify incoming hashes. Thank you for the additional details. Again I appreciate your efforts and consider this to fulfill all the requirements of the bounty. Could you publish the 2 addresses you'd like to receive the bounty at on the website - just so I can be sure I'm sending it to the correct person. Note: As per the bounty terms, 50% of the Hodl will be immediately available and 50% will be placed in a 1 yr term deposit - you can supply 2 addresses if you'd like them separately. Glad to help. I posted the addresses on the pools main page, https://hodl.blockquarry.comBoth portions of Hodl can go to the 1 address, no need to separate. Probably will put the other half into a long term deposit anyways as well but not quite sure yet on the time frame. |
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pinwc4 - question for you, does this require any custom pool software, or custom modifications to pool software. Can anybody set up a pool, or do you have proprietary software running on the back end?
We are using NOMP and MPOS for the pool but it did require some minor customization. Most coins use an 80 byte header but this one is using an 88 byte header. If you look in cpu-miner.c you can see he had to alter what is sent in stratum to accommodate the 88 byte header so the extra two fields of extranonce2 and ntime are included in what is sent to the miner. Maybe other stratum servers would send across the larger header without any changes, I do not know, we mostly stick with NOMP for stratum which does not. Other than that it is standard stuff for getting it into NOMP like other new coins, add in the hash algorithm to multi-hashing so NOMP can use pattern_verify to verify incoming hashes. |
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./autogen.sh
./configure
make
If you are just compiling for yourself I would recommend a small change ./configure CFLAGS="-O3 -march=native" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=native" This will optimize the binary as much as possible for your particular processor. If the miner uses openssl for sha and aes, like the wallet miner, it doesn't make a difference. BTW -Ofast usually brings a little improvement over -O3. Yep, that can be worth trying, though it can create problems as well as it breaks standards compliance. In this case I did not see any noticeable performance difference so I did not bother. I have uploaded a new Windows binary for the poor souls still stuck with it, https://hodl.blockquarry.com/downloads/hodlminer.zipIt should be much faster, though we welcome other people optimizing things. Make sure you compile with some sort of optimization otherwise your miner will be slower than the wallet. miner.bat: hodlminer.exe -a hodl -o http://172.0.0.1:8332 -u xxx -p xxx Should work, right? Maybe it is because when I installed I set the data directory to a different hard disk? It is 127, not 172. Something like this is what you are looking for: hodlminer.exe -a hodl -o http://127.0.0.1:8332 -u xxx -p xxx --no-getwork --coinbase-addr=HM8kWC4G3q5dy3UjffAgTbJkJPFigEM53Z |
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./autogen.sh
./configure
make
If you are just compiling for yourself I would recommend a small change ./configure CFLAGS="-O3 -march=native" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=native" This will optimize the binary as much as possible for your particular processor. |
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All,
We were aware of the certificate issues at darkcointalk.org on Chrome Mobile (a bug in the app itself), but it seems there is also an issue with Macs on all browsers on at least two versions of OSX. Propulsion, site admin at darkcointalk.org, is working on a fix now. Thanks to pinwc4 for bringing it to our attention.
-Chris
This should be resolved. If anyone experiences any further issues, please contact me or Propulsion directly. Thanks! Tested on Macintosh Safari and Chrome, Windows Chrome & Firefox, Mobile Chrome and Mobile firefox and finally Linux Chromium Browser and Firefox . Sorry for the hassle had some configuration errors. Please contact me directly if any errors persist. (Don't bother Eltito, he has enough on his plate) Thanks. -Prop Thanks for taking care of that problem. Sorry to have bothered eltito about it but I was not sure who was handling the forums and figured he could relay the message to whoever it was. I can get to the forums now from the various systems I had replicated the problem on as well so it looks good. |
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I have - threshold is set at 1SLM, last payment was about 2 hours ago for 0.995439 SLM. We need more hash power at slm.blockquarry.com - we are getting more blocks than slimcoinpool with LESS hash
I just tried to withdraw the remaining 148SLM - did not work. Who runs this shit pool anyway ?
Your mood swings are awesome  It's run by Cheeto, but you could try paging pinwc4My mood swings are caused by fucking scammers.. missing couple hundred SLM, moving hash back to sandors pool.... I remember you called sandors pool like shit a few days ago. Dude how old are you anyway ?  I though people get Alzheimer only after 60 years old ? Btw considering you called blockquarry pool scammers, they have a few others pools as well. I have had some problems with their payment but they are not scammers. Whatever, my payouts are missing, scammers or not i dont care, they are not getting my business. Hash moved to slimcoinpool. Sandors acts like a smartass sometimes but he is ok, we've been working on shinycoin pool, id say he is legit.. EDIT: got the 173SLM payment... It would be nice if you went back to your old posts and got rid of your false accusations against us. Sometimes a little bit of patience for the payment processing jobs to run is all that is needed. It is a cron job that runs automatically every half hour or so. |
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Thanks to the people that have joined us on the slm.blockquarry.com pool, it is good to see the blocks coming in and coins going out to people. As some people have requested it I have compiled an optimized version of the 64 bit Windows Miner. This will only work on fairly new processors and on my test system I only saw 1% performance gain which may have just been random chance. You are welcome to give it a try though, you might get a small bit more performance out of it: https://slm.blockquarry.com/downloads/slmminer-opt.zipIf it does not work for you just stick with the standard binary posted. YMMV |
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Took a little longer than we wanted but Cheeto has a pool running for Slimcoin now at https://slm.blockquarry.com/This works like other MPOS based pools you have encountered, register on the site, create workers and point your workers to tcp://slm.blockquarry.com:3040. There is a getting started page that helps explain the basics here: https://slm.blockquarry.com/index.php?page=gettingstartedI built a windows binary as well that includes a batch file for people. You can download it and just edit the startup.bat file to change the worker name to yours. https://slm.blockquarry.com/downloads/slmminer.zipWe have found and confirmed a few blocks so far, payouts are working correctly so come join us. Thanks for the binary. It solved my issues and saved me from having to compile. I like the pool a lot too! Glad to hear it worked for you. Thanks for joining us. |
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Took a little longer than we wanted but Cheeto has a pool running for Slimcoin now at https://slm.blockquarry.com/This works like other MPOS based pools you have encountered, register on the site, create workers and point your workers to tcp://slm.blockquarry.com:3040. There is a getting started page that helps explain the basics here: https://slm.blockquarry.com/index.php?page=gettingstartedI built a windows binary as well that includes a batch file for people. You can download it and just edit the startup.bat file to change the worker name to yours. https://slm.blockquarry.com/downloads/slmminer.zipWe have found and confirmed a few blocks so far, payouts are working correctly so come join us. |
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Masternode payment start : 66.1 hours left
Do update.
Thanks for the reminder. I have a masternode but still have some questions that I have not been able to find a firm answer for. I want to verify that we must be running 10.8.6 RC2 for masternode payments and not stable 9.4.6, correct? Is there any way to verify from the logs it is processing correctly or do I just have to trust the results of masternode list before the switch Sunday? Lastly when running a masternode with a remote/local setup which wallet do the payments end up in? Do they end up in the empty wallet on the masternode or on the local isolated wallet that has the 1K DRK? Any insight is appreciated. |
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