RS has always mentioned that he wants to have GPU and CPU on the same level, not to ban GPUs completly, it looks like that was reached... sure it also helped promoting SC. It's funny how everybody else jumped on the CPU-train after RS published the idea and published some altchains, which are not far from death now, except maybe LTC  FYI, ArtForz talked in IRC about a CPU-only chain before SC1 was taken down, and way before RS mentioned the CPU-only idea. So don't assume that ArtForz stole his idea. To add to this, scrypt was being discussed as a CPU-friendly hashing algorithm in mid September at: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/931/are-there-algorithms-that-could-have-been-chosen-for-mining-that-balance-cpu-gpu |
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This thread feels like walking in a graveyard under the full moon  |
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"90,000 times more..." while I appreciate your attempt to use math to support your trite ad hominem attack, you are off by a statistically significant amount. 90,000 times 3.4 Khash, would be 306,000 Mhash. Or 306 Ghash, or .306 of a Thash. Truly an epic fail.
Indeed an epic fail. 90,000 x 3,4 Kh/s = 90,000 x 3,400 h/s = 306,000,000 h/s = 306 Mh/s Primary school math, my children are obviously doing better than you. Before deriding someone with such an arrogant attitude, please make sure you do the math. |
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I guess at some point we'll find out how many people really, truly are getting "free electricity".
Yeah, seems like a much larger number than I expected. Unfortunately BTC is still a currency in search of an economy.. -rph Just wait until "extended bank holidays" start happening. |
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Both iopq and 3phase came up with similar results. Although 3phase was first with The best number is given by the strategy of playing 5 throws and then leaving. he later added that any consecutive 5 throws would be a winning strategy (although I can't find that quote in the post anymore, only in the discussion between iopq & 3phase - can you confirm that for me 3phase?) So, contingent on 3phase confirming his "any consecutive 5 throws" statement, I'm awarding iopq the huge 1btc prize! Congratulations iopq, and well done to both iopq and 3phase. I admitted I was wrong in making that statement, and edited my initial post (post #9) just after iopq's comments. See "EDIT" notes in post #13. So I missed the prize for trying to play clever  . Anyway, I did enjoy thinking about it and reading the posts here. Thanks, organofcorti !!! |
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Sent you the latest version. Does Amazon have a CUDA farm?
uh that would be no... But don't sweat it, it's not that hard to put together a small pool of 15-20 for testing. Aren't their GPU instances CUDA compatible? Yes they are. Currently 0.68$/per hour spot instances for 2xM2050 GPUs and, I might add, 2 x X5570 Xeons. Two birds in one shot. |
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I think also libssl-dev.
No, this is only required (along with some other stuff) for compiling the *coin client. |
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SSL certificate issue fixed  over 12,150LTC mined and paid out in our first 48 hours despite some stability issues. pool has been running without issue for over 12 hours - stability is here coming soon Estimated unpaid earnings - a total of your expected earning form immature blocks any features YOU would like to see - let us know A small request is I would like to see lifetime shares for each worker, as I mentioned in private before. Since there are no thorough CPU comparisons and not enough tests done, it is good to be able to compare performance with different switches in the miner, and to compare different CPUs. But, no rush, it is not a big deal. Having a reliable top-tier pool for LTC is much more valuable. Thanks for your continued work. |
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So I tried my hand at compiling the cpu-miner on Ubuntu 11.10 and ran into a little problem. I'm a complete Linux noob however I have libcurl installed curl 7.21.6 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.21.6 OpenSSL/1.0.0e zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.22 librtmp/2.3
And I created Jansson from the source provided on their website. Using ./autogen.sh on the cpuminer returns no errors Using CFLAGS etc works Make throws a few errors: make[2]: Entering directory `/home/darren/Desktop/cpu'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing @LIBCURL_CPPFLAGS@ -O3 -Wall -msse2 -MT minerd-cpu-miner.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/minerd-cpu-miner.Tpo -c -o minerd-cpu-miner.o `test -f 'cpu-miner.c' || echo './'`cpu-miner.c
gcc: error: @LIBCURL_CPPFLAGS@: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [minerd-cpu-miner.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/darren/Desktop/cpu'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/darren/Desktop/cpu'
make: *** [all] Error 2
You need libcurl4-dev (or any of the packages it suggests) I'm not entirely sure what this means, if someone could help I'd appreciate it. You need package libcurl4-dev (or any of the packages it suggests) |
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I'm starting to work on a feature to add the ability to mine from the client. Here's what I plan to add and the order I'm working on:
1) Turn generate on/off in the options and for that option to stick.
2) Show in the UI the mining hashrate and other mining related information
3) Add option to point to a pool instead.
What do you guys think? Would this be useful?
This is a great idea. Even with all the false hype on SC2, Coinhunter had got that right. It will most certainly help to speed up adoption of the currency. The pool is necessary given the increasing difficulty. Just don't artificially inflate hash rates 
One problem I have with the miner built in the client is on a slow download speed and sharing the connection with multiple people in my house to run a miner (currently minerd) on multiple pc's they are all constantly downloading the blocks when I only need it on my main computer thus making the internet even slower for everyone else.
If you've got several machines on the same subnet, use -addnode=<ip> in the command line for starting the daemon, in order to establish connections between all of them. This way, when one of them downloads a block, they all will, most of the time, receive it from that node, thereby reducing the Internet connection load. |
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Open a Command prompt, change to the directory of the file and execute it. It will do nothing.
Open a second Command prompt, change to the same directory and run the same file with the "help" parameter at the end. It will give you the list of possible commands.
I know it can be hard for you initially, but play with it for a while and you will understand how it works.
Good luck
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Wow... just wow that's a new low... Yes, level of dealing 95% correlated with the BTC/USD exchange rate movement. |
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Thanks Graet, Could you please let us know what is the difficulty of the target that the pool provides as work? I understand that you need to put a low target for enough shares to be generated during a block, just wondering what the implied difficulty is. In my eyes, you're ahead of the pack of pool operators . While everybody was debating about merged mining with namecoins (which is old news now), you're taking a bet in a completely uncharted direction. Congrats for this ! |
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I have collected thousands of GG coins as it was fun to mine, but the pricing at BTC does not look too appealing, wonder if the developer has any plan for this coin.
Yeah, no one will ever do a 51% attack on Geist, as there is simply nothing to double-spend on  . Heck, there's nothing to simple-spend on either !!! |
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I run http://bitcoinstatus.rowit.co.uk/. We have no income from it but it takes a Amazon EC2 small instance and a bit of bandwidth to run it. We get the odd donation (thanks very much to those people) http://blockexplorer.com/address/13Tn1QkAcqnQvGA7kBiCBH7NbijNcr6GMs but as you can see a lot less than the few hundred dollars a year it costs to host. Is there anyway we could add to peoples forum signatures a signed link that showed what they had donated too? I think if blockexplorer.com added a new link that was /address/pubkey/forumname/signatureOfUrlUpToLastSlash, then it would check the signature and only display a page if the signature was correct. We would then need some sort of register of donation address, so the page showed who they had donated too. Might encourage people a bit during Bitcoins current voluntary phase. Maybe someone has a better idea to help encourage innovation? I was also offering a service with an EC2 small instance, until I discovered a solution which is 80% cheaper than that, and it was proven even better in performance. You can get a VPS (VM) in many places in Europe. I use Giga-International. The EC2 small instance equivalent is 10 EUR/month with practically unlimited bandwidth included, and excellent connectivity to the rest of the world. I am sure there are many others as well. In other words, I could consider donating as you offer useful information, but if you don't seem to care about costs, I feel that my donation would be wasted, if you see what I am saying. |
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it's a Chocobo. google it. my favorite character of my favorite video game. for a donation address, search a few pages back. EskimoBob posted it. all donations to me will be used to make this coin succeed via bounties/rewards. speaking of that, terrytibbs is helping me to design a logo for Litecoin. I figure I should open it to everyone. If anyone else want to give it a try, post your logo to this thread. I will reward 100 LTC to the designer of the logo I ultimately go with. I realize 100 LTC is not a lot, but having your logo being selected is a good reward by itself. hmm... maybe I should have premined to have coins for bounties. Never mind about the avatar. I never played FF so I can't understand. Here's 1 block for your efforts (and I might add, for your not-premining). Enjoy it: http://blockexplorer.sytes.net/tx/4521486608a18b4cbae3036a823f74f89f9c1c166244d1d763bad6aaf5c04851 |
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Waiting for the pool I am mining now to merge so that I can have Namecoin together, no harm having two why would you wait? you will literally mine 2.5x more money if you mine on a merged pool right now Yeah, why wait, wisdomtool? The party will be over come Sunday night. No beer, no girls and no easy NMC anymore |
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I did another block hash lock at the last difficulty change at block 10080. Please get latest source, compile, and run it. Windows client: https://github.com/downloads/coblee/litecoin/litecoin-windows-client-40104.zipI've asked twobits to help build windows daemon. Coming soon. This should be the last update for a while now. The diff will catch up to the network hashrate and we should be pretty good. The convergence is remarkable. Just 5 difficulty increases and we got a stable network. I have to say congratulations as well, coblee. Whatever happens, you deserve credits for your effort and consistency so far. Don't have much BTC, so do you have an LTC donation address? Just one ancillary note coblee, with all respect to the work you've done so far. Feel free to disregard the following: Your avatar seems to me rather unfitting for an alternative chain promoter. I was fine with the harmless vegetarian insect. Also fine with the greedy carnivorous serpent. But a chicken  Or is it something else judging by its paws? Maybe I am wrong. |
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