[NEW (4/9/2013) - Please log into the pool and stress test it. The next thing I need to confirm is if payouts will work correctly - the only way we will know this is if we find a block and it gets 520 confirmations. If something breaks terribly, I'll make sure you still get paid.]

NEW (4/9/2013) - Please log into the pool and stress test it. The next thing I need to confirm is if payouts will work correctly - the only way we will know this is if we find a block and it gets 520 confirmations. If something breaks terribly, I'll make sure you still get paid.

Hey folks,
 
I've worked hard the past couple of days to familiarize myself with ppcoind, pushpool, and a pushpool frontend. What I've got now is a decent mining pool running out of the USA for those of us that constantly get dropped from Coinotron.

I am here to announce my new pool at VuxilsPool.com or www.vpool.me - not to be confused with the scam pool vpool.us (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=158267.0).

My pool is currently set to a 2% PPLNS system. This means that you just mine as much as you want, and as blocks are found and confirmed, you will get paid at 520 confirmations per block.

Please let me know if anything comes up or if you run into any difficulties. Thanks!

Best,
Vuxil
VuxilsPool.com and  www.vpool.me

There's a lack of good mining pools for PPC right now, and that sucks. I would be willing to start a round-based (less risky) pool and keep it as a reasonable (i.e. self-sustaining) fee. We would do this right and get a good host that has DDOS protection, because what PPC needs now is a stable pool, not just another mediocre one. This means Amazon EC2 is preferable. Pool interface and functions will be kept basic to reduce costs as much as possible so that maximum number of people can mine. We just want somewhere stable to mine right now. Back-end will be pushpool because that's what is supported by PPC right now.

EC2 promises stability. But alas, it is expensive. I'm still in grad school, and can't fund it. However, I'm technically capable and can build us a pool that all of us can use. So, I am accepting donations in BTC and PPC to fund this project.

Because the pool will be community funded, I will publish weekly financial statements about donations, which would include a list of public addresses that sent me coin, as well as how much they sent. If anyone has an issue, they could just bring it up and we would look into the records to see what happened. After the pool reaches a point of self-sustainability, donations can be cutoff and pool fee's will be adjusted to maintain self-sustainibility.

If you decide you want to help, here are two addresses you can send donations too. I will begun publishing weekly statements one week after the first donation. If we don't hit enough donations for at least 4 months of estimated server costs, I will return all donated coins back to donors (server costs to be determined soon, this idea just spawned from #ppcoin on irc.freenode.net; join us).

BTC: 1BwZJhcVBPt6XvPVFBNXwDiuzAzcgqzwcH
PPC: PXjCWFZfYctgEgnB9yqrVnkmZJ43jFA6At
If you are interested in making a donation in USD, please PM me and we can work out the details.

Thanks,
Vuxil

A few hours ago, with Vircurex exchange offline and PPC just being started up on BTC-E, a bunch of Litecoin trolls (as evidenced by BTC-E chat) pumped up PPC and shorted the crap out of it in attempt to crash it and kill it off. PPC managed to retain it's pre-bubble value after the crash, and ended up actually steadily gaining hours after.

Really sorry to anyone who bought when it was bubbling and lost out. Your best bet is just to hold onto your coins because a lot of trading will happen again when Vircurex comes back online.

Congrats to PPC though, I'm looking forward to the ride that's coming.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=158267.40

Just read the thread on vpool, we are pretty sure it is a scam. If it's not a scam, it's very poorly put together.

Most of the shares you mine end up being called invalid by the pool, and the pool pays you jack crap for hours of mining. All of us running into this invalid share issue do not have issues with it on other pools. We are pretty sure the pool operator is really just skimming off the top of everyone's work (and skimming a lot at that), and just calling it invalid shares as an excuse to pay out so little.

Miner beware.

[I posted this in another subforum but found this one might be more appropriate, so I am reposting here.]

I posted this in another subforum but found this one might be more appropriate, so I am reposting here.

First of all, I'm running 2 Gigabyte AMD Radeon HD 7850 1GB (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009LTUC90/ref=pe_175190_21431760_M3T1_ST1_dp_1)

Rest of my setup is 2GB of RAM, and Xubuntu running off of a flashdrive

I followed the steps at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gw7YPYgMgNNU42skibULbJJUx_suP_CpjSEdSi8_z9U/edit# to get ATI drivers and cgminer set up on an Xubuntu install with no problems.

I wrote a bash script to start CGIMiner, and it does in the following manner:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
export DISPLAY=:0
export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1
./cgminer -o http://ppcpool.bitparking.com:20098 -u user -p pass --api-listen --api-network -I 14 --auto-fan --gpu-engine 1100 --gpu-memclock 1000

However, I am only getting ~375mh\s? Any ideas?

Here is the CGMiner output. It looks like one of the GPUs is not working that much?:




I have my gpu and memory set to what's suggested in this guide already, and no help. For whatever reason my cards are stuck outputting half each of what they should be according to that guide...and I dont have a spare PC to throw the other card in

If I try to press G and change card settings during mining, it sells me the driver reports success but nothing actually changes. One card is actually running at the proper clock speeds, the other one is essentially off (300 mhz gpu, 150mhz RAM)

Crossfire is not enabled

Just FYI, we have an IRC channel for PPCoin going on irc.freenode.net. Join us!

First of all, I'm running 2 Gigabyte AMD Radeon HD 7850 1GB (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009LTUC90/ref=pe_175190_21431760_M3T1_ST1_dp_1)

Rest of my setup is 2GB of RAM, and Xubuntu running off of a flashdrive

I followed the steps at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gw7YPYgMgNNU42skibULbJJUx_suP_CpjSEdSi8_z9U/edit# to get ATI drivers and cgminer set up on an Xubuntu install with no problems.

I wrote a bash script to start CGIMiner, and it does in the following manner:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
export DISPLAY=:0
export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1
cd /home/moneygenerator/cgminer*
./cgminer -o http://ppcpool.bitparking.com:20098 -u user -p pass --api-listen --api-network -I 14 --auto-fan --temp-target 77 --gpu-engine 1150 --gpu-memclock 800

However, I am only getting ~375mh\s? Any ideas?

Here is the CGMiner output. It looks like one of the GPUs is not working that much?:

What's going on with PPCoin? Trading volume has increased 3-fold and price is starting to briskly climb in just the past few hours (on Vircurex). Did someone just buy up a lot or what happened just now? Seems like both Litecoin and PPCoin are making good gains on Bitcoin lately.

Looking to sell both Bioshock Infinite & Tomb Raider STEAM keys. I just got both a couple of days ago from an AMD promotion.

I will sell both as a package, or each game separately. I will accept both Bitcoin as well as PPCoin. Post what you want and how much you are offering here, if your offer stands as best offer for 24 hours I will sell you it.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009LTUC90/ref=oh_details_o00_s01_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I'm looking to pick up two of these cards to start off mining alt coins. Was just wondering if anyone has had any experience with them, and what the best overclocking configurations for them are (are there any overclocking tables to use as a guide?).

I have enough bitcoins I mined a long time ago that I am OK with checking out some of the more interesting altcoins. I've traditionally used my workstation to mine, but I decided maybe it's better to invest in a dedicated rig.

What is your best advice for someone wanting to get into mining alt coins? Worth it at all? Any hardware recommendations? I know ASICs are coming out on the Bitcoin network, but I wonder if people will use them for altcoins much as well

I first learned about bitcoins back in 2010ish I believe and dived into CPU mining for a bit. I made 3 bitcoins before I wrote Bitcoin off as a nerd hobby and gave up on mining.  Unfortunately I eventually formatted that computer and lost the wallet. Man do I regret that =P

I have to say that I never really participated in Bitcoin since then, but I have always heard about it's developments and such through some of the news feeds I read. So this Cyprus stuff exploded and people are taking Bitcoin a lot more seriously now. I figure this might be a tipping point in its history, and that maybe I should throw my support behind it as well and begin participating. I'm excited

I'm a developer by trade and have had a few year's experience under my belt. I have contributed to open source projects before (Recently involved a bit in Mageia Linux and also developing an open-source Ruby gem for machine learning applications). I'm wanting to build a service or application for Bitcoin users so I can contribute here as well, but I'm not really sure what. I'm hoping maybe some of you more experienced users can point me to what's needed.

I see there are already established third party bitcoin clients, as well as physical currency exchange sites, so I'm not sure another one would really be that great. Particularly, an exchange site looks like it drags the developer into a bunch of legal stuff dealing with money and I don't want anything to do with that =P

Please let me know if you have any ideas. My specialities lie in data mining, text visualization, machine learning, and security informatics if that helps any