Is anyone else having issues with the 'auto adjust' stratum difficulty feature for Ethereum just plain not working?  I've tried multiple miners and settings.  It's stuck at 12884.  I also tried putting in d=.1 and d=.05 and so on and d=0.5 you get the idea.  Nothing seems to work.  Tried both the miner .bat file and the login stuff on the mining pool hub website.

I'm quite baffled.  I can confirm GMiner 2.44 works with MHP now but, still, difficulty adjustment is not working.  I did try both the US East stratum and then European stratum.  Tried Phoenix Miner, Gminer, TRex, and NBMiner.

At this point it's looking like it's an issue on the pool side.

Anyoen know the specifics to the formula used for finding the block rewards?  The hash rate was roughly 1.1 mhs and the difficulty back then was roughly 25.  The block reward was 50 back then.  I'm trying to figure out how far it would've gotten in ten hours of running, roughly. Perhaps it didn't even find a block, it was solo mining not pool.

I've tried using google and everything is aimed at the idea of USD profits and pool mining rather than what I'm doing.

I know.  I'll take it into consideration if the amount in there is worth pursuing.  I did look up the hash speed from the archives, next I have to figure out the earnings, I've seen charts that show the network difficulty back then.  Kind of ironic, if I had known a way to look it up before all of this I would've done it that way, then investigated what would be involved in recovering the wallet based on that information.  Other complications, I don't know that the wallet isn't over written, and or that the oxide on the platters hasn't degraded and flaked away over the years.  So, even if I sent it into a forensics lab that had a clean room and could perform various recovery services, I don't know definitively that they could recover it.  Thank you for the suggestion though.

Thank you HCP and others that have helped on this.

A lingering question in my mind through all of this. What wallets were there back then?  I can say I used what the mining software came with   The changelogs only go back so far.

Other question.  Is there an archive of CPU hash rates somewhere that I can look at?  I'm still curious how much BTC it mined.  I've only found stuff on GPUs.

I should mention, by accident, inadvertant, I never used a web based wallet hosting service.  It was all local storage, not using any web/internet based hosting system.  I didn't even know they existed when I mined it all those years ago.

Wish I knew how to do quoting on here.  It seems I've run into a plethora of misinformation out there.

Okay so here is the a link to the post that inferred the idea that I could get a copy of my wallet.dat file from the bitcoin blockchain itself.  Scroll all the way down, it's posted by HCP.  Post is June 24th 2017 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1976001.0 Wallet ID is mentioned, however there is nothing stating that it's a commercial website not affiliated with bitcoin itself.  Again I had literally assumed that it was and that the wallet ID mechanism is thusly part of the bitcoin blockchain.  I saw there are timestamps on there.  I know when I mined it and how many transactions were going in and out of the wallet, so I had assumed I could narrow down what wallet was mine, along with the IP address assigned by the ISP and thus a rough geographical location.  So in a sense, using metadata about the wallet.  Look for a wallet matching those metadata criteria, download it, try recovering it.

This page at https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/commit/ce1862ac6bcffa1dd20aad858380e51e66e949ea#diff-f01f2760502eccb8cb2ede8981e31b82 gave me the idea that if I could remember enough of the passphrase/list of words that I could quasi bruteforce guessing what it is, as long as some of it is already known.  It would be known as a salted word list lookup at that point, also a non bruteforce password attack.  At this point I had assumed the list of characters that I know I saw but can't remember what they were, was the 12 word, fixed word private key or seed.  Unbeknownst to me that it's not possible because the wallet version was too early.  So then I wondered that it was a wallet ID.

The UUID was in the directions to something but I'm not sure what, I suspect the directions to using btcrecovery.py.  That, a wallet transaction number and some other things were required criteria to find and download the wallet.dat file, probably from blockchain.info.  Again this one I don't have eividence of the misinformation.

This thread has no information at all on what versions of the wallet it applies to, so I thought and assumed it meant all of them.  There is no indication otherwise https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4959742.0  BIP39 I had no idea what version of the wallet it applied to.

On the aspect of the drive platters, yes I know the only way I could get data off the drive is sending it to a forensics lab and hoping the file wasn't over written.  There's also the potential issue that the oxide is failing/failed and flaked off, compromising the signal strength and so on.

I did more reconstructing of various life events during that time period and indeed it was at roughly version .3.12 or so, but definitely before version .4 came out.  Also it flagged the lack of SSE2 and fell back to SSE when I mined it.

I've been mining alt coins for the last two and a half years as a side hobby.  So I know the importance of making a backup of the wallet.dat file and not just one but two or more, depending on how much you value the coins.  Whomever owns the private keys, owns the coins.

Anyone have ideas how else i could retrieve the wallet?  I know less about it than probably everyone on here.  I've mined the 'forks' but never the original bitcoin except for way back on this wallet.  So I do know there is lots of room for various parameters and rules to have changed due them being forks of the original BitCoin project.  A different POW algo is one thing that could be changed.

Does anyone know how to calculate how much whatever it mined would be worth?  It ran for about 10 hours on an AthlonXP 2800+, well before GPU mining.  So for all I know perhaps .0005 bitcoin.  I was never expecting to find a million dollars in bitcoin, I've just wondered how much was in there with the assumption it wasn't hacked or broken into.  I don't remember the hashrate nor difficulty.  I've been reluctant to post this info but it seems currently there is no way to get it back and there is nothing to lose.

So let's say it was before version .4, how did the security work back then?  Though I am aware of the possibility that someone already hacked into it and stole the coins that were in it.  So it could be that I go through the trouble but only get to glean an education in bitcoin and how the BitCoin implementation of blockchain works.  I'm not easily finding documentation from that long ago.  There are more details I can think of but I'm not sure how much I should post.

Reading through the link to what looks like a change log that ends at .4 thank you for the link Going to look through it and check for some varoius things that may help narrow the time frame down.  I remember lots of various details about mining it but the really important stuff, not so much.

Yeah I'm trying to get more mental mnemonics going.  What I remember doing, is running it for a while and then succumbing to peer pressure that it would never go anywhere and the questionable legality aspects to it also dissuaded me further.  If it was considered something of value, were exchanges legit and so on.  The potential it had for facilitating criminal activity.  Also the idea of leaving ports open to host the blockchain database wasn't very appealing as hackers could get in that way or so I was told.  I had extremely little understanding of any of it.

Went and did research and educated myself from some of the replies.  The actual HD it was on I think crashed.  It was a PATA drive 200 GB. Mechanical failure roughly, the voice coil went bad and the spindle motor couldn't sync anymore and get the platters to speed.  I 'might' still have the drive but I'm not sure.  So the idea of retrieving the wallet.dat file is most likely impossible going that route and method.  I had deleted it too but I know if a file is not overwritten it can be recovered.  But hence the issue with the spindle motor.

So I kept reading and researching.  From what I read, I need the UUID/wallet ID number, from that I can retrieve a copy of the wallet.dat file from the blockchain itself.  From there I need at least some of the 12 or 24 word passphrase(?).  I found out about  btcrecovery.py,may work if I can get enough of the word passphrase.

It's kind of ironic, I remember the circumstances and alot of the details of when I mined, the one password and other bits but other stuff, not at all.  I know what I did what is now known as solo mining, so it was before pools, or maybe I just didn't know of pools yet.  There was no GUI, it was all in a MSDOS promtp/command shell.  Text only etc...

I've discovered the blockchain explorer at blockchain.info which is now apparently blockchain.com.  Is there a way I can identify a wallet by when it was mined to and or where it was mined at by IP address?  I do know who my ISP was back then, where I was, how long I mined and when and so on.  I could narrow down the wallet from the blockchain that way.  Metadata from the transactions.  I'm realizing that without the wallet.dat file I'm dead in the water.

I do remember there was a long string of words that to me seemed random, I was puzzled how it was a password or passphrase.  I do remember setting up a password for an account though, and I remember what that one is.  THere was a bunch of things I didn't understand, what a UUID or wallet ID was one of them.

I do wonder that it was somehow version .4 or another, but it was definitely early in the development and history of BitCoin.

This is becoming something of an adventure

Hmm.  Maybe it was later then.  I had seen the slashdot.org post and tried it out, dabbled with it.  I didn't take any of it seriously.  I'm fairly certain that there was a seed phrase but I can't be absolutely certain.  A bunch of random words then?

The time frame though was from when slashdot.org had posted about it being the worlds first crypto currency and it was before pool mining.  So I'm thinking mid summer.  I don't actually know what version things were at back then.  The wallet file I deleted along with the rest of it.  So, I do wonder that restoring it is even possible.  Is there a way without the wallet.dat file?  I keep thinking I'll hit a technical wall, maybe this it.  If I found the drive, I don't know that I could recover the wallet.dat file from it.

Hello.  I have learned a bit about crypto currency over the last few years and have become a bit of an enthusiast.  Something I keep wondering though is if I can recover my old wallet from years ago.  Well back before the various bips were passed.  Almost back as far as when bitcoin launched.

I'm wondering what's involved and or if the old wallets are even accessible anymore.  It was the original wallet version from the first year of bitcoins launch.  Seed phrase and then the other password and so on.  Is there an FAQ or other documentation that I could read that covers the various upgrades that might further compound the complexities of recovering the wallet?  Wondering what's involved assuming it's possible.  I imagine there have been many upgrade forks that I'm not aware of.

I didn't mine it for a long time but dabbled with it.  I wonder that I can retrieve and restore the wallet.

Thank you for your time.

I'm a miner and interested in AE.  However, I'm not easily locating alot of information.

1.  Was there an ICO?
2.  Was there a premine?
3.  How much VRAM is needed to mine it?
I don't actually know that I can mine this coin, haven't seen a statement on what hardware is needed.  Only that it will run under Ubuntu currently.

Wanted to point out according to the pool stats page posted elsewhere that one single pool has over %90 of the hashrate.  Don't want to call this thing a ****coin because I don't like use profanity but this mainnet launch is looking kinda rough so far.

I'm rather intrigued by the Cuckoo algorithm.  The only implementation I know of is in GrinCoin and it's supposedly needing over 6 GB of VRAM.  Is this using a fork or modded version of it by chance that will take less than 6 GB of VRAM?  I haven't seen any GPU requirements.  Is it a safe assumption it will run on a Quadro or Titan V?  I have seen on Discord that Cuckoo runs horribly on AMD cards but on another project unrelated to this one.

Ahh yeah I'm having a similar issue.  I'm running the only existing GPU miner on a system with updated drivers to work with CUDA 9.2 and it seems to be running and so forth.  I'm seeing payouts stack up on the mining pool I'm using.

however....I can't get the windows wallet client to connect to anything.  There are others mining and there's a nethash, so obviously it is working but.  I don't know what I'm doing wrong.  It's not working 'out of the box' so to speak.

I hope this project goes well and things pick up.  I hope it's contributes and establishes healthy competition as an ASIC resistant coin and such but, this is a really rough launch.

It's stating 'no source block available'.  It's not connecting and accessing the blockchain.  I don't know why though.

Update:  I went to the debug window.  In the Information tab.  The connection area (Name: main) I assume is implying connections to the mainnet as opposed to a testnet.  Number of conncetions keeps flashing from 0 (in 0/ out 0) to 1 really quick and then back to all 0.  It's like iet's trying to connect but can't.

Wondering the availability of a CPU miner.  To my knowledge this project can only currently be mined on a CUDA 9.2 video card.  No OpenCL nor CUDA 9.1.  So, if you went with a CPU miner there'd be no problems.  Obviously a massive speed hit/loss but, it would be mineable to just about everyone, as all computers come with a CPU.

Someone mentioned in an earlier post that when RavenCoin launched it took them 3 months to get a GPU miner going.  Which to me is not that relevant, because they had a GPU independent and agnostic miner already going, it was a CPU miner.  Yes it runs arguably slower than a GPU but, it allows anyone to mine it, regardless of what GPU their system does or doesn't have.

IMO this project launched too early.  No CPU miner, I'm also noticing the wallet is still in beta.  Nice to see an exchange listing, progress and good step in the right direction.

I like the approach to ASIC resistance and the lack of an ICO.  Can't do ICO fraud if there's no ICO 

Is there a CUDA 9.1 miner?  Or a CPU miner?  Haven't seen a post replying about an AMD miner.  I don't like being the bearer of criticism but, you're looking like you launched so early and rushed it so much that ahh......you're kind of not actually ready.

There literally is no way for me to mine this coin.  You have 1 miner and it's coded for CUDA 9.2.  I'd really like to mine it as the difficulty is at almost nothing and I'd like to see where the coin goes within the market.

I would feel a little embarrassed.  At least you have pools up and running......and one single miner.  I was willing to forgive the lack of a roadmap, white paper, other various documents.

Kind of what it states, literally.  Asset layer is to activate in late October.  Interestingly though, I am noting that not everyone seems to have the same date.  I at first thought it was a typo in another post.  Mine has the 30th of next month (which ironically and humorously happens to be Devils Night in the U.S., preceding Halloween).

The asset layer hasn't been activated yet, is supposed to then.  Yeah 2020 seems to be really late.  Someone else posted October 18, this year.  Mine's set for the 30th(October).  To my knowledge and what I've interpreted, it's when they take the asset layer feature out of beta or testing (or whatever), and switch it on in the 'mainnet', the normal blockchain network that isn't for testing.

It is actually on the roadmap thing on the website(I think, now I wonder where I've seen it).  Now I wonder if everyone has a slightly different date for it.  If all goes well I suspect the value of ravencoin will go up as it now has this new feature added and is working.  Can't say much on the getting rich part   all I can assure you is that the sun will rise the next day.

I do wonder that it's something to be gradually switched on in case something goes wrong and or for load balancing reasons on the network.

Kind of a general reply to some posts I've recently seen here.  IMO ravencoin is doing better than some of the various other cryptos out there.  A few recent ones with a similar approach to being ASIC proof, that don't seem to be doing that well.  They're not really on any significant exchanges and their hash rates aren't so great.

Other things I've noticed is a lack of updates on their blogs and Dev teams that don't seem to be organized.

I like the lack of an ICO because I've read a few times of the ICO raising millions on whatever coin and then it vanishes, aka mega fraud happening.

 I am curious about the aftermath of the %51 attack but I also somewhat assume that the risk of one comes with block chain technology and any crypto in such an early stage of its life.  Starting to wonder that I should create an account and follow things on discord.

There's another crypto attempting ProgPOW but it remains to be seen how legit they are, or how well it will go.  I'm wondering what's next for RavenCoin.  I'd like to see it grow and further fullfill the philosophies of decentralization.  Asset layer launches and the value and popularity goes up drastically perhaps...?

Not saying this is what's definitively happened but, asking you to entertain the idea that it's plausible.  It may just be taking a while to process stuff.  On my wallet it has hung or seemingly hung for more than just a few seconds.  However, it didn't crash.  Even the "(Not Responding)" thingy showed up in Task Manager.  I came back more than ten seconds later and all was fine.

I have had several instances where the synchronization progress bar just sat there for more than a few seconds.  Giving the appearance that it crashed.  But it didn't.  Wallet version 2.0.4  on a 4th gen core i5 based system.  I set the number of script verification threads to 2, rather leaving it at what it defaulted to for me of 4.  I'm not entirely sure what that setting does but, it is something I changed.  I don't want to burn all 4 cores on just the wallet(I've got 4 cores and no hyperthreading).

I do wonder if some of the whackiness I've seen is from being behind a second firewall after a main one.  I swapped the subnet masks out to change the classes and I'm in the realm of 'unsupported' configurations according to the ISP.  But everything seems to work.  I do wonder and imagine that the latency has gone up however.

I 'think' I'm posting in the right place.  This is my second or third post here ever.  Wanted to warn and point out, though I feel there is no way to substantiate.  Had two systems crap out earlier today, DAG file hitting 200 and so forth.  I went to what I'm thinking was github rather than the megashare or googledrive sites.  The 11.8 windows install file on github is questionable.

I kept an eye on it when I fired it up and noticed it was ming more than ethereum on one of my systems that I only mine ethereum on.  Did some troubleshooting.  It seems whatever I downloaded was modified/hacked/tweaked and was dual mining off to some mystery wallet that I never found.  There was a bunch of stuff in red text too about how it couldn't login to a bunch of stratum servers that I hadn't put in the bat file to begin with.  I noticed all this and remembered that I had never went with the googledrive nor megashare URLs.  Nor did I even look for an MD5 file.

maybe there was a DNS routing hack or something when I downloaded it, who knows.  Just wanted to post a warning to others.

What led me to github rather than megashare or googledrive was by doing a google search for the miner.  The github search result was one of the ones listed.  I somehow went with version 11.8, not 11.9.  I upgraded from 10.1