I ported a GPU miner to X11 this morning, it compiles and works! But it's just making a bunch of rejected shares. Anyone want to look at it? I'm sure it's really close to working https://github.com/evan82/xcoin-sgminer |
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I made an EC2-AMI with roughly my settings for mining DarkCoin. This is the cheapest and easiest way I've found to mine, and it's pretty easy. Here's a short walkthrough of how to get up and running: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=440455 |
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DarkCoin (DRK) How to launch EC2 instances to mine Darkcoin
I made an EC2-AMI with roughly my settings for mining DarkCoin. This is the cheapest and easiest way I've found to mine, and it's pretty easy. Here's a short walkthrough of how to get up and running:
1.) Open an EC2 account 2.) Go to aws.amazon.com, click EC2, then "Spot Requests", click "Request Spot Instance" 3.) Change region to N. Virginia at the top right corner 4.) On the left side, click "Community AMIs" and search for "ami-afebd5c6" 5.) It should say Darkcoin-Public-Miner, Click "Select" 6.) Click "Compute Optimized", then find c1.xlarge, then "Configure Instance Details" 7.) Maximum price should be set to something about $0.10, "Review and Launch" 8.) "Launch" 9.) Wait for the instance to bootup, and ssh into it with ubuntu:PSM93zOtj6 10.) Edit crontab, find the minerd entry and replace my username with yours (signup with a pool if needed) 11.) Change the password, with passwd 12.) Right click the instance and click "Create Image" to make a new image that will use your password and username 13.) Boot a few instances up and it should just work What is DarkCoin?: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615 |
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...an 8 CPU is only doing 200KH/s which is around $160 a month.
Where do you obtain these numbers from? There aren't still any websites where you can trade XCO / DRK so, what is the value you are assuming for this coin? Hey I was just doing some math with VPS costs to mine it. https://www.digitalocean.com/pricingHere's the current cost $640 $0.941 64GB 20 Cores 640GB SSD 9TB Running 7 of these is netting about 3,327KH/s = 1,820.340 DRK 7 x $.0941 = $6.58 an hour $6.58 x 24hours = $157.92 per day Should give a base value of $.0867 per coin So, using a c1.xlarge spot instance on EC2, I was getting these stats: Currently the network is producing 68,640 DRK per day (143 per block * 20 blocks an hour * 24 hours) 1 instance runs at 140Kh/s , for $0.07/hr There for you can calculate the coins per day to from the Kh, (140/35000.0)*68640 Coins per day = 274.56 Daily cost is 0.07*24, or $1.68 per instance. Which brings the coin cost to... (0.07*24)/274.56 $0.0061 Cool thanks for the heads up. I'll have to try amazon out. Also there's a huge difference in the estimates form the other pools vs darkcoin.io's what's going on there? I thought they were all running the same mining software its just a setting somewhere... dont worry about it Bigal pointed out a problem in my config that was making the estimates incorrect. It should be fine now! |
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...an 8 CPU is only doing 200KH/s which is around $160 a month.
Where do you obtain these numbers from? There aren't still any websites where you can trade XCO / DRK so, what is the value you are assuming for this coin? Hey I was just doing some math with VPS costs to mine it. https://www.digitalocean.com/pricingHere's the current cost $640 $0.941 64GB 20 Cores 640GB SSD 9TB Running 7 of these is netting about 3,327KH/s = 1,820.340 DRK 7 x $.0941 = $6.58 an hour $6.58 x 24hours = $157.92 per day Should give a base value of $.0867 per coin So, using a c1.xlarge spot instance on EC2, I was getting these stats: Currently the network is producing 68,640 DRK per day (143 per block * 20 blocks an hour * 24 hours) 1 instance runs at 140Kh/s , for $0.07/hr There for you can calculate the coins per day to from the Kh, (140/35000.0)*68640 Coins per day = 274.56 Daily cost is 0.07*24, or $1.68 per instance. Which brings the coin cost to... (0.07*24)/274.56 $0.0061 |
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I reached out to that guy yesterday thinking the coin was dead, he got back to me this morning and is interested in helping out around here. So I guess the 2 coin communities are merging. Should be interesting. |
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Alright, everything has been changed over to darkcoin! The client source/images have been updated and can be found at: https://github.com/evan82/darkcoin Everything is compatible, just make sure to copy over your wallet from ~/.xcoin to ~/.darkcoin, and remember the clients will change from xcoin-qt to darkcoin-qt. Thanks Do we need to recompile the mac version? I'm assuming you changed the address generation to dark with D now? Yeah, I'll reach out to the mac+windows guys to get those recompiled. Oddly enough, that beginning X isn't just decorative, it's actually part of the address, so it's not possible to change what the address starts with after everyone has wallets. Yeah that's why i was asking if you changed it  good stuff keep us posted. How many developers are working on this with you? Let's see. I'm the main programmer, then we have a Linux admin, a windows guy and a mac guy. Plus there's 3 other pool operators in the mix. |
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Alright, everything has been changed over to darkcoin! The client source/images have been updated and can be found at: https://github.com/evan82/darkcoin Everything is compatible, just make sure to copy over your wallet from ~/.xcoin to ~/.darkcoin, and remember the clients will change from xcoin-qt to darkcoin-qt. Thanks Do we need to recompile the mac version? I'm assuming you changed the address generation to dark with D now? Yeah, I'll reach out to the mac+windows guys to get those recompiled. Oddly enough, that beginning X isn't just decorative, it's actually part of the address, so it's not possible to change what the address starts with after everyone has wallets. |
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Alright, everything has been changed over to darkcoin! The client source/images have been updated and can be found at: https://github.com/evan82/darkcoin Everything is compatible, just make sure to copy over your wallet from ~/.xcoin to ~/.darkcoin, and remember the clients will change from xcoin-qt to darkcoin-qt. Thanks |
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Why not just DARK or DRK?  EDIT: well DCO could turn into "d-coin" in the mouths of the laymen, so that's nice as well. DRK is fine with me. I guess that makes more sense. DRK it is. |
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From now on XCoin is officially known as DarkCoin (DRK)! I think it reflects the projects goals perfectly and I guess the other project is dead. I'll change over everything in a bit.
Why the change? There's actually another company named XCoin (xcoin.com), that was a payment network and had awful reputation. So we settled on DarkCoin because it represents the goals of the project pretty well (Anonymous block transactions + encrypted transaction network)
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Any word on a GPU miner?
Not that I'm aware of This is going to be far more expensive to operate than GPU mining. Some of these guys are getting 10,000KH/s + I'm running a few diffe[Suspicious link removed] instances and an 8 CPU is only doing 200KH/s which is around $160 a month. To get 10,000KH/s it would seem that it would cost like $8000 a month (50x$160) which doesn't make much sense economically. I understand the reasoning for going with the algo you went with but this only benefits people with large pockets in the same way the ASIC does so it kind of defeats the purpose lol. If you went with something that was GPU friendly it would benefit the coin as well as the network. The algorithm is very GPU friendly, it's just no one has done the work to implement it -- or they haven't told us and are reaping the rewards. X11 consists of the 11 SHA3 finalists, of which all are hardware optimized. So it'll be very efficient on that front. |
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Any word on a GPU miner?
Not that I'm aware of |
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I really like the name Darkcoin, but there's another coin that hasn't launched yet. I wonder if we could take it?
Blackcoin? That's not bad. I still like darkcoin better: So we have Darkcoin, Blackcoin, X-11 (x11coin) +1 on darkcoin Bought darkcoin.io, I really like it and it suits the coin's goals. |
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Darkcoin is very nice. But that name also obligates it to implement full anonymous transfers.  Well, that's the goal of XCoin  |
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I really like the name Darkcoin, but there's another coin that hasn't launched yet. I wonder if we could take it?
Blackcoin? That's not bad. I still like darkcoin better: So we have Darkcoin, Blackcoin, X-11 (x11coin) |
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I really like the name Darkcoin, but there's another coin that hasn't launched yet. I wonder if we could take it?
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How about X11coin, it refers to the 11 algorithms and it's unique. It could still be called X-11 for short
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I say we just call it X-11. Sounds like a top secret project or something. Or we could just call it CPUcoin  Great idea! You win the 1000XCO prize. I bought X11coin.com and I'll point everything over later. What's your X-11 address? Isn't this even worse in terms of google ability? X11 is the name for OSX & Linux's window management system. Give a go searching for X11 in google, you'll see what i mean. Why use the same number? might as well say X-12 or X13 at least. Hmm, shoot, that's a good point. Ok, maybe I spoke too soon. Let's keep the competition open. |
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