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921  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Iridium - People are Power - PoW - No Premine - Community Built on: March 21, 2018, 10:42:41 AM
The original dev was a thief and not a dev : now I know exactly his identity and his skill development level witch were around 0 : I discover it last week by simply reading the messages on iridiumdev account, I never through reading this ! He stole about 0.2BTC. This can show his level and ambitions. I prefer you call him now motherf***r or whatever you want but not dev. Best is not call him anymore... subject closed.

Huh, well, I didn't know that part of the story, and I guess you didn't either until last week.


But how can you say "I don't seem to care" ? you don't know me.

That comment was specific to your earlier comment that you didn't see the problem with CryptoNight ASICs and even went so far as to say if we were to block ASICs why not block GPUs? Why not, indeed? Let's go full reductio ad absurdum and even block CPUs so that we have to use a calculator to work out the hashes by hand!?!


I'm listening and also have my position, live discussions are on discord, you can follow. Now I'm currently reading all documentation I can find to make IRD asic proof if we decide it's the priority but 50% of the IRD will be mined in September, this mean we (the community) hold 27% yet and when "big monsters" were distributed, we should be at almost 35%. Remember : IRD has a fast emission. So I don't think asic will crash our party, I think it's already late (ROI) but it's a personal view. And yes, not getting listed was finally good !  

Okay, I don't do Slack and I avoid Discord unless absolutely necessary so any information disseminated on those two platforms but not here is effectively non-existent to me (and many others, I suspect). That said, I am very happy to see your opinion on ASICs has evolved; I was halfway tempted to buy one just to show you the error of your ways which would have almost certainly been more expensive for me than you...  Grin
922  Other / Meta / Re: Merit & new rank requirements on: March 20, 2018, 08:31:00 PM
i am new in this forum. and what is it that makes the rank increase so desperately needed? I am here only to monitor some ico that I may be able to follow

The ability to promote scam coins and dodgy bounty programmes through improved signatures. You get higher rates for higher ranks.

It's because of this that many believe that signature campaigns should be banned.

Hey now, you're enjoying one of the benefits of a higher rank that I sorely miss: an avatar. Otherwise, I have near-zero interest in bounties, airdrops, sig campaigns and other assorted forms of panhandling/slave labor*.



* - e.g., one campaign by a /reputable/ campaign manager paid 0.00125 BTC for 25 posts in a 1 week period. At 5 minutes per post that works out to around $5/hr.

923  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: PoW not ecological. I'm writing a new algorithm. on: March 20, 2018, 04:17:25 PM
He is area 51'ning it people. Stay tuned.

Can't tune in; wearing my tin foil hat...  Tongue

924  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Iridium - People are Power - PoW - No Premine - Community Built on: March 20, 2018, 02:52:36 PM
I don't understand this fear of asic : it's the same difference with cpu/gpu. Why, if I make IRD asic proof, I do not have to make it gpu proof ? it will be fair too. Personally I do not have any rig, nor a correct GPU for mining.

...And of course, software aside, current IRD miners (with CPUs/GPUs) would be completely wiped out by anyone with access to just a couple of those 200kH/s ASICs. The blockchain and coin issuance certainly won't care because IRD has probably the best difficulty adjustment algorithm now, but remaining on CryptoNightV1 will mean a huge extinction event in the base of miners. It's not something that will happen gradually, but over night. Which means a huge impact on the general user base, which for young coins is always dominated by people who mine.

I am sure there are many more arguments pro and contra a change to CryptoNightV2. I think it should be discussed, because the first CryptoNight ASICs will ship soon.
The Baikal one (probably FPGA, not ASIC) is weak in terms of hashing power and a few units of that one won't make a dent. But once those >200kH/s monsters are being shipped, we should know which path we want to go.


Well put, @nanona, except I think it might be too late for IRD. Other CN coins are also taking a "wait-and-see" approach (DERO and ITNS, for two examples) but IRD is in a much more precarious place with just ~500kH/s on its entire network; if a single Bitmain X10 with 220kH/s decides to mine IRD it will basically increase network hashrate by 50%!

Ironically, there would have been some defense against ASICs by not getting listed on an exchange, as ASIC miners tend to be relentless and implacable sellers of whatever they mine so any coin not on an exchange would likely be avoided by them, but of course that obstacle has just been removed.

Considering that IRD doesn't have a special use case (unlike, say, DERO or ITNS), the original dev abandoned it months ago and the new devs don't seem to care whether ASICs crash their party or not I suspect grim days are ahead for this coin. I, for one, have stopped mining it, and though I am in no hurry to sell my IRD, neither am I interested in acquiring more.
925  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] DERO BLOCKCHAIN: CryptoNote Privacy + Smart Contracts on: March 20, 2018, 10:39:32 AM
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I would like know if it possible to mine DERO with a R290 rig ?
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I'm not sure which, if any, of the miners below support this card but the first two programs are easy to try:

AMDXMRMiner 0.65b - https://www.amdxmrminer.com/

XMR-Stak - https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak/releases

The first program is very easy to use; here is an example command line with donations to the software dev set to the minimum of 1% and mining on the official pool:

amdxmrminer -do 1 -p pool.dero.live:3333 --wallet <wallet address>.<fixed difficulty> -psw x

Replace <wallet address> with your address and <fixed difficulty> with a number that is 10-20x your hashrate (but minimum is 5000 on pool.dero.live). E.g. - set to 8000 if your hashrate is 400 H/s. This is not a critical number - and it doesn't technically need to be specified - but I find that earnings are far more consistent when you tell the pool what difficulty shares you want to work on rather than let it choose the difficulty for you (called "vardiff" for "variable difficulty" but it usually pegs at the maximum value, which tends to be >100000).

XMR-Stak is also easy to get working BUT it is much harder to get it working WELL. It will also use your CPU to mine and the default configuration it generates tends to deliver poor hashrate and absolutely cripple your computer for doing anything else (even reading this post!).

To get started with it just right-click on xmr-stak.exe and select "run as administrator" and the program will prompt you to enter the coin you are mining (enter "monero" because DERO uses the same algo, CryptoNight), then the pool:port combination (e.g. - pool.dero.live:3333), your wallet address, whether you are using NiceHash (no), whether to use TSL (no), and maybe a couple other things I can't remember because I haven't run xmr-stak like this in months. Once you've finished answering its questions it will generate three config files - one called config.txt which has the pool/coin and general options, amd.txt which has the key settings for the GPU, and cpu.txt which, you guessed it, has the settings for your CPU. If your GPU and/or CPU is compatible it will then start mining. If you want to use xmr-stak to mine other CN coins then you should make a config.txt for each pool/coin and then use the following command (run as administrator) to select the coin/pool:

xmr-stak -c config.txt --noNVIDIA

If you don't want xmr-stak to use your CPU then add the switch "--noCPU" to the above command line. Change config.txt to the name of the specific file, e.g., I have config-dero1.txt for mining DERO on the official pool.

Two other options which you may have to use due to the age of the card are Gateless Gate at https://github.com/zawawawa/gatelessgate/releases and sgminer-gm at https://github.com/genesismining/sgminer-gm/releases but note that both of these - especially sgminer-gm - are much more difficult to not only optimize, but just to get them to not crash all the time.

926  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] #3 [XUN] UltraNote is READY, Everyone is welcome to mine. on: March 19, 2018, 08:35:14 PM
I resumed mining XUN about 26 hours ago and I am getting lots of disconnects and rejected shares on port 7777; a disconnect every 5-15 minutes, it looks like, so even worse than it was before. I am also seeing significantly lower than expected earnings for the previous 24 hours: 548 vs. a minimum of 650, and more like 750 based on average difficulty and my hashrate of 1900 H/s.

I suspect these issues are related, but a contributing factor I've identified on other pools that had poor earnings are stingy PPLNS/PPLNT settings. I don't know if that applies here, however.
Switch to solo mining.

Solo mining is an interesting option; I haven't done that before, but it does look like I have a reasonable amount of hashrate vs. difficulty and block reward to give it a shot. Otherwise I am going to stop mining XUN unless a fair/trustworthy pool is opened in the US because I never earned anywhere close to the expected amount of XUN given the pool-reported hashrate.

927  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][MUSICOIN]  Coinomi multi-asset mobile wallet supports $MUSIC 💃💃🎸 🎸 👛 on: March 18, 2018, 09:17:03 PM
Never mind, I figured it out. Evidently the moronic thing is downloading the whole blockchain again.

Sheesh.


Yeah, this fooled me, too, and now I don't feel so bad about it!  Tongue

928  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] #3 [XUN] UltraNote is READY, Everyone is welcome to mine. on: March 18, 2018, 07:24:13 PM
@Desp suggested I switch from port 5555 to 7777 and that seems to have greatly reduced the disconnects - so far only 1 in 2 hours, where before I was getting disconnected every 10-30 minutes. I'm still seeing about 2.5% rejected shares, though, but this is likely due to my distance from the server.
...

I resumed mining XUN about 26 hours ago and I am getting lots of disconnects and rejected shares on port 7777; a disconnect every 5-15 minutes, it looks like, so even worse than it was before. I am also seeing significantly lower than expected earnings for the previous 24 hours: 548 vs. a minimum of 650, and more like 750 based on average difficulty and my hashrate of 1900 H/s.

I suspect these issues are related, but a contributing factor I've identified on other pools that had poor earnings are stingy PPLNS/PPLNT settings. I don't know if that applies here, however.

929  Other / Meta / Re: Patrol: "Great Project". Cleanup request/discussion for Mods. on: March 18, 2018, 03:28:48 PM
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There needs to be some sort of restriction in the altcoin section, but I'm not entirely sure what that could be.
The altcoin section is some sort of free-for-all Wild West at the moment, almost any post is only there to earn money, from selling scamtokens to spamming for bounties.

Note that the mining subforum under altcoins is generally free from this kind of idiocy*; it's just the announcements and, especially, the discussion subforums that are wastelands of cluelessness and bots.


* - plenty of other kinds of idiocy to be sure, though.
930  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] INTENSE COIN - Blockchain backed decentralized VPN - Hybrid PoW on: March 18, 2018, 10:24:24 AM

I will come over to Discord if what I am currently trying doesn't work: installing 1.4.2 on a different computer and resyncing the blockchain from the beginning.


In addition to "reset wallet" you probably need to also delete blockchain folder (but leave wallet files that are in there) and start from scratch  Cry What I had to do whenever happened to me

Yep, that's basically what I am doing now. I installed the latest version of the wallet software (I was running 1.4.1) on a totally different computer and had it download the blockchain from the very beginning. The only thing I kept from the previous installation is the .dat file for my existing wallet.


The new wallet installation finally synced up overnight and all my coins are back. So this does appear to be a case of blockchain corruption from Windows crashing that is not noticed, much less fixed, by the wallet executable.
931  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] INTENSE COIN - Blockchain backed decentralized VPN - Hybrid PoW on: March 17, 2018, 04:35:59 PM

I will come over to Discord if what I am currently trying doesn't work: installing 1.4.2 on a different computer and resyncing the blockchain from the beginning.


In addition to "reset wallet" you probably need to also delete blockchain folder (but leave wallet files that are in there) and start from scratch  Cry What I had to do whenever happened to me

Yep, that's basically what I am doing now. I installed the latest version of the wallet software (I was running 1.4.1) on a totally different computer and had it download the blockchain from the very beginning. The only thing I kept from the previous installation is the .dat file for my existing wallet.
932  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] INTENSE COIN - Blockchain backed decentralized VPN - Hybrid PoW on: March 17, 2018, 04:19:40 PM
Something really f'ed up happened with my wallet: after Windows 10 BSODed (system service exception) I seem to have lost some 3000+ ITNS and restoring a backup of the wallet file doesn't change that. There are no outgoing transactions from my wallet, only incoming - I've only mined ITNS and bought some on stocks.exchange.

Needless to say, this is most disconcerting. Wallet version is 1.4.1, blockchain is current/synced and my address is:

iz5RiHxkdeM4eKpdWbv6xrhe6gbb4bQXoYZivvrJL4V2iBqFKwpYn8L89P787HF3gbgUXHt96m9oYY4 P18533Txr1xaFc59jc

Any help figuring out what happened would be most appreciated!

UPDATE - so I tried "reset wallet" and now I've lost another 2700 ITNS; down to 245.99. This is retarded.



Please come over to our Discord so we can troubleshoot this issue with you.

I will come over to Discord if what I am currently trying doesn't work: installing 1.4.2 on a different computer and resyncing the blockchain from the beginning.

933  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Baikal Giant N - Cryptonight, Cryptonight-lite FPGA/ASIC miner on: March 17, 2018, 01:41:02 PM
Monero (among others) are planning to change the POW algo used to calculate each block, thus there can't be a 51% attack or whatever by ASICs running the obsolete POW algo. They won't find blocks and they won't earn coins, period.

This is not the same as a chain split situation where everyone is using the same algo but someone got out of sync.

POW algo change = useless ASIC

You miss the point, obviously. Some people like to say stupid and obvious things for the sake of talking I guess.

You know, it is possible to disagree with someone on an opinion, or even point out a factual error (if made), without being an asshat.

Monero's existing network isn't going anywhere, the existing chain is going to keep existing. Ofc if you keep mining you'll keep finding coins, the chain doesn't magically stop existing because some "leaders" decided to fork. If people try to call some new chain with no hashrate Monero, they are liers.  Monero mining has been backed by trojaned machines for years, and many of those machines will NOT be updated to the PoW change.  They'll keep mining the existing change.

I'm failing to see the point of Monero changing algos if mining the old algo still generates valid coins...

This is absolutely a chain split scenario. Absolutely no chance it's a clean split
This thread is full of noobs who can't see why these miners are an interested gamble.  PoW changes don't work, monero is about to prove that.

...which I guess is your point, that it's pointless to change algos. We shall see shortly, I suppose.


934  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] INTENSE COIN - Blockchain backed decentralized VPN - Hybrid PoW on: March 17, 2018, 12:33:47 PM
Something really f'ed up happened with my wallet: after Windows 10 BSODed (system service exception) I seem to have lost some 3000+ ITNS and restoring a backup of the wallet file doesn't change that. There are no outgoing transactions from my wallet, only incoming - I've only mined ITNS and bought some on stocks.exchange.

Needless to say, this is most disconcerting. Wallet version is 1.4.1, blockchain is current/synced and my address is:

iz5RiHxkdeM4eKpdWbv6xrhe6gbb4bQXoYZivvrJL4V2iBqFKwpYn8L89P787HF3gbgUXHt96m9oYY4 P18533Txr1xaFc59jc

Any help figuring out what happened would be most appreciated!

UPDATE - so I tried "reset wallet" and now I've lost another 2700 ITNS; down to 245.99. This is retarded.

935  Other / Meta / Re: Merit & new rank requirements on: March 16, 2018, 11:14:53 PM
I still dont get it. What is merit used for? How can I get merit?

How about reading the first post, ya blithering idiot.  Roll Eyes

936  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Baikal Giant N - Cryptonight, Cryptonight-lite FPGA/ASIC miner on: March 16, 2018, 11:12:56 PM
New disclaimer when buying these 3k and 1.9k models from bitmain...

3. One major cryptocurrency which is using CryptoNight hash function is about to change their PoW algothrim, and according to their public statement, it is purposely to brick ASIC mining rigs including X3. When you buying it, you are betting that they are wrong.

loooooooooool Grin

Not the worst bet ever anyway.  Will be interesting to see which network has more hashrate after Monero forks - the original chain, or the new fork.  Will the new fork really be Monero if it has little hashrate or, gasp, gets 51% attacked into can't-trust-confirmations oblivion?

Monero (among others) are planning to change the POW algo used to calculate each block, thus there can't be a 51% attack or whatever by ASICs running the obsolete POW algo. They won't find blocks and they won't earn coins, period.

This is not the same as a chain split situation where everyone is using the same algo but someone got out of sync.

POW algo change = useless ASIC

937  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Baikal Giant N - Cryptonight, Cryptonight-lite FPGA/ASIC miner on: March 16, 2018, 12:05:39 PM
All this is not even taking into account the fact that almost every single CryptoNight coin has already said they will fork.

XMR - Confirmed POW algo change
ETN - Confirmed POW Algo change
GRFT - Confirmed POW algo change
IPBC - Confirmed POW algo change
XTL - Confirmed POW algo change

Add to the above list:
EDL - says will change POW algo
TRTL - says will change POW algo
XUN - says will change POW algo

However, we got some playing ostrich here:
IRD - doesn't see problem with ASICs; about to get rekt
ITNS - taking the "wait and see" approach
DERO - also taking the "wait and see" approach, but says algo change ready to implement if necessary
938  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Happy New Years! Seventh alt coin thread! on: March 15, 2018, 09:32:05 PM

https://chainradar.com/xmr/chart

In situations like this I think it is helpful to look at this from a purely economic standpoint: what are the incentives to Bitmain/Baikal/etc. using their own miners before selling them vs. the costs. Since these are foreign companies with near-zero liability to, say, customers in the US or EU, they don't have to worry about individuals claiming they were sent a used or defective product; big farms, perhaps, but not individuals. Conversely, stealth mining the shit out of a high value coin like XMR with your hot new ASIC miner would be all but irresistible so there is a huge incentive to do so.

Frankly, the incentives grossly outweigh the costs, and so you are left with trusting companies like Bitmain and Baikal to act ethically. You can take that bet if you want, but I certainly won't.


The "Vega are huge monero miners" news got widespread in November - which is when Vega supply dried up VERY quickly and the hashrate climb started.
Then the "3'd party" cards hit in Febuary or so, likely feeding the second hashrate surge 'till the price spike collapsed and hashrate went flat.

I doubt Bitmain had a LOT of miners running in that timeframe, though I'm sure they had SOME "engineering sample" type miners running to test out.


Yeah, I definitely remember seeing all the Vega pumping, and I just as distinctly recall them disappearing from Newegg's stock in a matter of days... and ever since then they have only been sporadically available, and at ~2x MSRP (Newegg's price, not some janky reseller's).

No doubt some of the increase in hashrate is from the unprecedented success of compromising servers into XMR mining botnets, but come on, average network hashrate just 3 months ago was around 200 MH/s and now it is 1 GH/s. If half of that jump was from Vegas, and each Vega does 2 kH/s, then AMD must have sold ~400000 200000* Vegas in less than 3 months. That doesn't sound realistic to me, as that would normally be a fantastic number of sales for the entire lifecycle (~2 years) of a flagship "gaming" GPU. Then again, I can't say I would be surprised to be proven utterly and totally wrong about this. Crypto kinda defies logic (just like dotcoms did 20 years ago).

* - oops, I forgot to divide the 800 MH/s by 2...  Embarrassed

939  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Happy New Years! Seventh alt coin thread! on: March 15, 2018, 03:17:10 PM
Are you trolling or you just didn't read my message? It's not a matter of naive or not naive, math doesn't lie, hashrate can't be hidden. You repeat yet again that Sia had a "steady rise in hashrate" "months before bitmain...". THAT IS NOT TRUE

From: https://siastats.info/mining

A3s batch 1 sold on Jan 18th. So, tell me, how in hell bimain "mined with them for months before selling them"? The entire Sia network hashrate was equivalent to only a few A3s before end of Jan.

That chart does seem to prove your point w/r/t SIA, but in the case of XMR it really looks like some front-running has been going on:

https://chainradar.com/xmr/chart

In situations like this I think it is helpful to look at this from a purely economic standpoint: what are the incentives to Bitmain/Baikal/etc. using their own miners before selling them vs. the costs. Since these are foreign companies with near-zero liability to, say, customers in the US or EU, they don't have to worry about individuals claiming they were sent a used or defective product; big farms, perhaps, but not individuals. Conversely, stealth mining the shit out of a high value coin like XMR with your hot new ASIC miner would be all but irresistible so there is a huge incentive to do so.

Frankly, the incentives grossly outweigh the costs, and so you are left with trusting companies like Bitmain and Baikal to act ethically. You can take that bet if you want, but I certainly won't.

940  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][Update#7 - 12th March,2018] - Electronic Dollar on: March 15, 2018, 12:47:58 PM
"Baikal:
-ASIC is coming!
Edollar:
-Hard fork is coming!  Cool
So suck it, bitch!"  Cheesy

Anyway, at current network hashrate, if Baikal starts mining with 100 x 20KH ASICS, they can undo the hard fork easy.
how?

Google "51% attack"... And, I think, history records something similar involving Bitmain, Bitcoin Cash and segwit fork...

A 51% attack only works if the same algo is being used by the coin; changing the algo renders any coins produced by the old algo as worthless/invalid.

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