What buyer pays for is me, a programmer with 25 years of programming experience in Pascal/Delphi.

Now unless you can re-program PascalCoin to make it do your bidding, you better just shut up ! HAHAHAHAHA LOL.

All your posts are amuzing as hell ! =D

PascalCoin is valued at 1 million USD.

So take 10 procent of that and then you know what this is worth.

I believe with better marketing and better GUI it could even be more valuable but that's not part of the deal for now.

So would you like to earn $100.000 dollars pretty much garantueed for an investment of $10.000 dollars ?! And make a ROI of 90K.

Subtract hardware costs from that and you know your profit.

Hello,

I am going to give this a shot for you.

For 1 BTC you can purchase an entire blockchain project/code/coin system and I will customize it for you.

What I need from you is this:

1. Name for the blockchain.
2. Any colors you want for app or graphics.
3. A windows computer/server + internet + harddisk space. Very maybe linux based by windows is to be preferred. Linux will cost extra 0.5 BTC extra.

The blockchain will be based on PascalCoin technology.

The deal is as follows on down payment of 50% of BTC so that's 0.5 BTC the project/software will be created for you.

After delivery of software/source codes binaries etc, you pay 0.5 BTC to me. If not that's ok at least I got 0.5 BTC.

Perhaps there is a third party we can use to do the final part of the deal or entire deal.

So if you ever dreamed of having your own blockchain now is your chance.

Plus you can mine your own coins on your own blockchain while nobody joins it yet.

Plus 10% of all coins mined will go to your account.

You will receive support for 3 weeks after payment. After three weeks you are on your own.

Ofcourse the coin will be made such that it will work flawlessly during those 3 weeks, I can give no garantuees after those 3 seeks, however mostly likely software will continue to work, no backdoors, no limitations, full open source.

In case updates have to be applied then another 0.25 BTC will have to be payed per desired update. An update means up to the most recent pascal coin version.

Interested parties can write to:

skybuck2000@hotmail.com

So in short:

1. I deliver the software for 0.5 to 1 BTC
2. You deliver the hardware/internet/DNS name/hosting/etc.
3. You get at least 10% of all coins, plus 90% of coins if you mine them too, or otherwise the users of the blockchain.

Bye for now,
  Skybuck.

Hey bob it works like this:

1. Download RHminer package, find the RHminer.exe extract it somewhere... this is all you need.

2. Click start button then either enter cmd.exe on white bar or find command prompt black icon with c:\ in it.

3. type cd\somefolder where rhminer.exe was extracted.

4. try run it rhminer.exe this will show command line options.

Eventually you will have to put the following line in a text file somewhere:

"C:\Tools\PascalCoin\version 4.01\PolyMiner\CPU\rhminer.exe" -v 2 -r 20 -s http://127.0.0.1:4009 -cpu 0 -cputhreads 2 -extrapayload Bob

^ This uses the cpu option of rhminer.

GPU will look like:

"C:\Tools\PascalCoin\version 4.01\PolyMiner\CPU\rhminer.exe" -v 2 -r 20 -s http://127.0.0.1:4009 -gpu 0 -gputhreads 32 -extrapayload Bob

Save this text file as run.txt then rename it to run.bat

You must make sure it's not run.txt.bat otherwise it won't work.

Find tools->folder options in  windows explorer and go to view  then uncheck hide extensions for known file types.

Also checkmark "show hidden folder and folders" this may help you later to find the app dir and data folders of pascalcoin easier if you want to copy your wallet to somewhere safe or so or mess with blockchain.

Once down you can click run.bat next time to start the miner, this is handy.

This bat file can also be added to task schedular to run it from a certain time, not going to explain how to do that now but it's a nice option... but probably not necessary if you just want to run it straight away.

Try the steps above and let us know at which step you had problems.

In short what you just did above was:

1. Download and extract a release/binary distribution... source code is included too... this is a bit messy of polyminer1... I can agree with you there. the github/zip contains different releases for gpu... these are cuda architecture... if you want to run this miner on your nvidia graphics card then you must match the cuda architecture yourself manually and use the correct rhminer... rhminer will not work on amd/ati graphics cards I think.

2. Open a ms-dos command prompt and run an exe that way to test it out and via command line options.

3. Create a batchfile and run the batchfile.

Batch files work with command line options which look something like:

-s sometext

-s is to indicate it's a command line option/switch

sometext is the input for the option.

Now you have some terms to google and learn more about this.

I agree with you a little bit, that for younger people you should not have to know about old ms-dos commands... this was way before your time

Creating a nice GUI app/front-end for rhminer would not be too difficult... somebody could do it... including me...

Probably would take about 1 hour or so to create a nice gui front end...

But me tired and have to go to sleep.

I'll make you guys a deal... for 10 pascal coins I will make a nice gui front end for RHminer ! =D

LOL.

Yeah I kinda noticed this. I will therefore not cut back on the Fs when I feel like it, unless you cut back too LOL.

Something weird just happened with RHMiner... after 54 minutes it said:

end of dev mode...

Thank you, you an awesome person...

For a moment there I thought my laptop found a block ?

Maybe it did or maybe it didn't and it was just time related ? At that very time I was starting up second laptop... so many it wasn't fast enough to send the block to the blockchain maybe it was not accepted cause there was already a new one.. not sure... in the log it said nothing.

I did see some access violation higher up in log read of address 20 or so...

Anybody know if devmode is turned off automatically after 54 minutes or is there another trigger ?! hmmm...

WOW !!!!

Perhaps my toshiba laptop did find a block but pascalcoin issued a warning:

"Cannot AddNewBlockChain due blocking lock operations node"

This was two minutes after this message of rhminer came about... assuming that time display is actually wall clock time and not time since miner started hmmmm.

Perhaps there is a bug in pascal coin preventing new found blocks from being added properly...

Not sure what rhminer or pascalcoin would normally display if a block was found and about to be added ?


(I am going to dive into pascalcoin source code to see where this error message happens).

function TNode.AddNewBlockChain(SenderConnection: TNetConnection; NewBlockOperations: TPCOperationsComp;
  var newBlockAccount: TBlockAccount; var errors: AnsiString): Boolean;

in TNode.pas

Not sure when this function is called.... maybe when new block is found ? maybe not ?


    If Not TPCThread.TryProtectEnterCriticalSection(Self,2000,FLockNodeOperations) then begin
      If NewBlockOperations.OperationBlock.block<>Bank.BlocksCount then exit;
      s := 'Cannot AddNewBlockChain due blocking lock operations node';
      TLog.NewLog(lterror,Classname,s);
      if TThread.CurrentThread.ThreadID=MainThreadID then raise Exception.Create(s) else exit;
    end;

My best guess for now what happened might be the following:

The earlier access violation might have occured during such a critical section, then the critical section was not leaved correctly, leading to this lock still being locked.

If true this could mean that pascalcoin is seriously bugged and has to be restarted to correct this lock, otherwise found blocks will never be added properly.

So this could be a very serious bug if true.

Kinda doubt this is true... then again this locking function might be cause:

class function TPCThread.TryProtectEnterCriticalSection(const Sender: TObject;
  MaxWaitMilliseconds: Cardinal; var Lock: TPCCriticalSection): Boolean;
Var tc : TTickCount;
  {$IFDEF HIGHLOG}
  tc2,tc3,lockStartedTimestamp : TTickCount;
  lockCurrThread : TThreadID;
  lockWatingForCounter : Cardinal;
  s : String;
  {$ENDIF}
begin
  tc := TPlatform.GetTickCount;
  if MaxWaitMilliseconds>60000 then MaxWaitMilliseconds := 60000;
  {$IFDEF HIGHLOG}
  lockWatingForCounter := Lock.WaitingForCounter;
  lockStartedTimestamp := Lock.StartedTickCount;
  lockCurrThread := Lock.CurrentThread;
  {$ENDIF}
  Repeat
    Result := Lock.TryEnter;
    if Not Result then sleep(1);
  Until (Result) Or (TPlatform.GetElapsedMilliseconds(tc)>MaxWaitMilliseconds);
  {$IFDEF HIGHLOG}
  if Not Result then begin
    tc2 := TPlatform.GetTickCount;
    if lockStartedTimestamp=0 then lockStartedTimestamp := Lock.StartedTickCount;
    if lockStartedTimestamp=0 then tc3 := 0
    else tc3 := tc2-lockStartedTimestamp;
    s := Format('Cannot Protect a critical section %s %s class %s after %d milis locked by %s waiting %d-%d elapsed milis: %d',
      [IntToHex(PtrInt(Lock),8),Lock.Name,
      Sender.ClassName,tc2-tc,
      IntToHex(lockCurrThread,8)+'-'+IntToHex(Lock.CurrentThread,8),
      lockWatingForCounter,Lock.WaitingForCounter,
      tc3
      ]);
    TLog.NewLog(ltdebug,Classname,s);
  end;
  {$ENDIF}
end;

Then again... perhaps same lock/critical section is used somewhere else and other pieces of code would have to be checked.

I am kinda against the "fault tolerant design of pascalcoin" it hides serious issues like this.

It might be better to let pascalcoin crash, so users can restart it or simply fix these issues.

Now these issues might be unreported/unnoticed for a long time... leading to very unfair mining if true.

One possible solution/remedy is to remove this fault tolerant design and/or implement a pascalcoin crash detection, and on crash restart the pascalcoin client, this might be a better/safer option.

Will have to look into this tomorrow

(Re-typing this bitcoin talk seemed to log me out hmm):

Secondary solution could be two run two pascalcoins, either on different systems, or in different folders/ports, code would need to be adjusted for the later.

First pascalcoin system would be mined on, then after some time, miners switch to second pascalcoin system.

Then first pascalcoin system is shutdown... while mining continues on second pascalcoin system.

Then first pascalcoin system is restarted/reloaded safebox and such.

Then miners switch to first one again. Then second one is restarted and so forth.

So to always have a good as possible running pascalcoin... not sure if this would actually help and fix the problem whatever it might be causing this lock to fail and other serious access violations.

Best solution would simply be to fix the damn problems in the first place !

Also perhaps collecting/uploading these logs automatically may also help. Bad situation this... loosing a bit of faith in this... crashing might be better to make people realise this software has some serious issues that need to be fixed... perhaps it will lead to more people actually trying to debug this code... instead of praying and hoping for the best...

Not sure if this software can recover at all from locking issues... probably not if a thread keeps the lock or something like that...

This is my second complaint with this software... Would like it to have only 1 or a max of 2 threads... so that it's less race condition prone and easier to debug.

How for main GUI/VCL and 1 for pascal coin engine...

May have to submit a pip for this... doubt it will be accepted but who knows.

Would require rework of TCP handling and some other stuff...

But where there is a will... there is a way...

Perhaps the lock bug was caused when I closed the laptop and windows logged out...

Anyway I am going to halt mining cause I have lost faith in it because of all these bugs... can't be sure it's actually working correctly.

Could just be a waste of electricity at this point.

You speak thruth ! =D

You number 1 on coin-o-tron:

https://www.coinotron.com/app?action=statistics

funsociety 2.9kh

The estimated coins seems to be disceptive though:

24.67

Perhaps this only considered coin-o-tron being the only one mining ?

Hmmm let's see if this math is correct:

24 hours * 60 / 5 = 288 blocks per day * 40 coins = 11520 coins per day.

About 9 kh/sec for coin-o-tron in total...

Total hash rate seems to be 1.6 m/sec.

So coin-o-trons share of that would be

9000 / 1600000 = 0.005625 * 11520 = 64.8 coins per day in total...

You would get 3 / 9 out that:

64.8 * 1/3 = 21.6

Wow that's pretty close....

Can't believe that with only 3 kh/sec it would result in 21 coins per day... interesting.

My share could be 2 / 90 of that which would be: 1.44 coins per day.

But this does assume that coin-o-tron finds one...

I am seriously starting to wonder if randomhash or rhminer is somehow biased and less fair than sha256.... but 1.44 coins sounds good to me.

Will try tomorrow but by then more miners on coin-o-tron... but even lower fraction of that would be a little bit interesting.

Could probably double this to 2.88 coins.

I have an idea... I have the "shitty" german laptop off right now... I will let that one mine on coin-o-tron...

To see how it goes... one laptop solo... one laptop pooled =D

Hi,

This broken issue could explain why it was missing...

It seems nanopool is just back the last hour.... it already mined 3 blocks.

Those 10 PASC are those from before randomhash ?

Ok didn't notice you wanted me to PM you... just read it in this reply to you... hmm... must be the tiredness and lack of sleep... or maybe you just updated it as I pressed reply... hmm ok.

Hi,

I considered doing this today, but the number of miners was really low, so probably not worth it yet the one block you guys mined was probably luck... the one that mined it could have kept it to himself and be much richer but ok... such is life on the pool I guess.

I might join tomorrow if tonights mining results in nothing.

But here is a question for you:

Suppose my miner joins... and "we" find a block. Suppose there are 20 miners on coin-o-tron by tomorrow. Technically that would be something like 1/20 of 40 coins, so that is about each 2 coins.

Can whatever ammount of coins/shares be immediately payed out from coin-o-tron or are there all kinds of (silly) rules like:

1. Must be in pool for x ammount of days.
2. Shares/account on coin-o-tron must contain at least x ammount of coins/shares before payout.

In other words is it allowed to pay out even the smallest ammount of pascal coin from coin-o-tron say:

0.0001 pascal coins ? Think this was lowest pascal coin will go... in ammounts...

I don't like silly rules... I will take what I can get... even if it's 0.0001... it's better than nothing

Zero blocks so far, had a toshiba laptop running all day, closed it 1 hour ago, I never really used laptops seriously, so I don't really know what exactly happens when a laptop closes, some shutdown, this one seems to log out or something... this caused the miner to fail with some weird header error message.

I just opened it up again and started it again... will try to mine this night just to see if I get lucky or not.

Using a laptop might have some adventage, perhaps it's a little bit more energy efficient than a big rig.

You write you have 9000 raspberry pis ?! Are you joking or what ? If not then a picture will help with convincing me... even better would be a paper with the following text on it: "Eat your heart out Skybuck Flying ! LOL" =D Place that somewhere near the rigs lol.

I was curious if you still mining and how, thanks for the update.

I am a little worried that perhaps RHMiner has a secret piece of code which disables mining... perhaps it's a scam... why would somebody develop this and then give it away for free.... hmmm...

Perhaps we should try original pascal coin miner and see if it mines any better

I am also a bit worried that the number of connections is influencing the mining... kinda notices this early on... though then the mining was super fast... just a few second and boom next block... though for bitcoin it also mattered, read something about that... it has adventages for miners, but disadventages for network as a whole.

Switching to UDP might be a better idea because it could theoretically support all clients, TCP instead might only support 65.000 clients cause each TCP connection needs a new port ?!?

Also another worry is maybe RHMiner is not seeding/using random number generator correctly ?!? Anybody checked this in the code ?

Nanopool was dual-mining pascalcoin and ethereum... with randomhash this might no longer work ? So perhaps nanopool has quite.

One block was just recently mined by nanopool, could be an experiment, or a faker or a new attempt of nanopool

If you are solo mining or directly pool mining to your own PascalCoin client then yes this is normal.

If you trying to join a mining pool then this is probably not normal.

What you should look for in case of solo mining is general text activity on the miner... which seems to be the case and in pascalcoin it will say

Miner Clients: x connected JSON-RPC clients.

Where X is the number of machines/connections/miners you are running and connecting to it

(I am now pool mining on my own "pool" with 3 computers lol... will probably do this till 14:00 today... another 8 hours of mining to see if it makes any difference, and then this mining experiment is probably over for me... until I find a nice cheat/shortcut in randomhash then I may try again )


* update *:

I am going to stop mining on my main system and also the german shitty laptop (HP)... core i3... Boy does it make a lot of noise lol.

The toshiba laptop seems to be dead quiet though... which probably also was a much more expensive laptop perhaps also newer model.

The quality difference is definetly noticeable/hearable

I think I will keep the toshiba laptop running just for kicks.

Maybe tonight I will give it another try but for now the noise is starting to bother me... cya.

Well after 8 hours of mining with 3 computers I can now safely say RandomHash is a bit fat failure as predicted by me from the very start !.

(No blocks were mined).

The failure so far:

1. It's being "GPU-ed" from day -5 or so.

2. It's still being pool mined, just woke up and low and behold china is back with F2Pool mining pool. All your base now belong to china lol. Hash rate is 1.5 million / sec already.

The only I could have done different maybe is pool the 3 computers together instead of running them individually, though it might not have made much difference.

One last experiment could be to "hack" the algorithm a little bit to see if there is a way to cheat it a bit, may try so later today or tomorrow, if that fails to then I am kinda done with RandomHash.

With 1.5 million hash rate it will become a little bit hard to cheat it with one computer though still doable maybe.

So my hunch that this would only unnecessary complexify PascalCoin has become a reality, it has solved nothing and just unnecessarily made PascalCoin more complex, more bug prone, more risky, these bugs in randomhash have to yet still be found though, that the fun part

Adapters of laptop did run a bit warm... but nothing yet to cause a fire !

(For now the distribution of coins is a little bit better than before though... but this probably won't last long as mining pools become bigger, also where is nanopool ? LOL and Coin-O-Tron ?)

(I also could do one pooling experiment and try to pool mine with 3 computers see if that makes any difference )

I spent all day getting my now 3 computers ready to start mining at block 260.000 for the new randomhash ! =D

First I downloaded safebox/blockchain to my main computer, then used my udp file transfer program to send to shitty german laptop and surprise (!) my new borrowed computer: Mammie's laptop ! =D LOL.

A toshiba core i5, dual core, with hyper threading.

I also managed to get this old linksys router working.... quite cool. For the first time in my live I can now finally properly share internet, without windows internet sharing... but just via shitty router lol.

It's only 50 megabyte/sec router or something... but it will do for now.

This will come in handy for DELLLLLPPPHHIIIINNNNIUMMMCCCCcooooiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn... but first now I am busy with the new almighty beautifull super deluxe brand new passsssscallll coin ! =D

Want to see if it's now possible to mine some blocks with just "standard" "off the shelf" lol... shitty average day consumer hardware ! =D Actually not yet completely done... need to modify one more batch file and one more task schedular task and then I am done for today (for slow dreampc... what the heck might as well add it too as a miner ) ... I would love to have been there in prime time... online whatever... but I have to go sleep. But my miners will start at 23:00 today which is 14/11/2018.

My expectation is that block 260.000 will be reached somewhere around and probably past 23:00 14/11/2018 ! =D

When the block number is below this... the miner will show difficulity 0x0000000000000000 and such zeroes.

I just hope that the miner rhminer from polyminer1 will work when the "magical" switch happens from 259.xxx to 260.000 and beyond... that be sweet. (I also tried to -devfee 0 switch but it was not recgonized, apperently this needs a recompile first... not gonna bother with that for now, fee seems to be only 1% can live with that for now... don't want mining disabled or anything crazy like that cause fee was disabled... that'd be evil... don't want anything to go wrong or jinx it =D... this is alll about execution execution execution baby... like AMD lol. No seriously... just Skybuck testing power... I tested the shit out of everything... nothing left to chance.. the only thing that can f*ck me up now is external sources... like power loss or internet loss... ouch... or possibly overheat... didn't test my mommie's laptop yet... but I am thinking and hoping two threads should be fine... cause this also worked on shitty german laptop hope I dont burn through mommie's laptop lol... think it will be ok... but that the only real part untested... hmm... bit scary but not too much.)

Getting my systems ready took much longer than expected. I wanted to do it completely perfectly and so I did ! =D oh yeah enjoying my setup.

You know what I am gonna make a picture and share it with you ! LOL.

Here some enjoyable media for you:

http://www.skybuck.org/PascalCoin/ReadyForBlock260000/

There is one additional tribute mov video at the end of this folder for your super short enjoyment

Maybe I add more later don't think so, do wanna share my mining setup with you LOL.



(For those that care about picture lol.... mommie's laptop on the far left, shitty german laptop in middle, 12 year old dreampc on the right ! )


Even made a video to celebrate the introduction of randomhash... music was just a coincidence... not my favorite... it happened to be playing.

Youtube video of Skybuck's setup ready for mining block 260.000:

https://youtu.be/AEXtpld-Z3g

In case you can't play mov...

Sorry for the dark lights and shit... but this is how I compute... lol.

At least it gives somewhat of an impression of what I've been up to and busy with today.

Oh yeah before I forget... this new internet sharing setup... could be interesting for me to test and developed "ip/udp multicast" software... like developing a nice udp multicast version of my udp file transfer software and continueing with that... maybe some multi threading... lot's of time required for me to develop it... and only small time gained when actually transferring files... but it will be a lot of fun to do...

I transferred 1 gigabyte twice today... zipped pascalcoin distribution/blockchain etc... so this inspired me to try and do it better.. just one time instead of two times !

ip/udp multicast could also be interesting for blockchains and pascalcoin in future... hope to see this ip/udp multicast working someday over the internet.

Been a long time since I last tested it... not sure if it would work today... probably not... also this linksys router has an option to filter out multicast... so I would have to disable that first to test and use it I guess... hmm also interesting test...

Very glad everything worked out... especially since I can't enter cable modem menu... cause it's dead/stuck... but router has it's own menu and did work... and had no issues.

I did have to power off/power on the cable modem... cause it remembers the first device it sees... and this has to be the new router instead of the pc... otherwise it would never have worked... this router required zero setup... just plug in and do the power cycle... wish I had known this before though cause I wasted some time with messing around with settings and such but that was somewhat of a nice excercise seeing ip's release/renew it does work if giving this command in windows... I even tried "cloning" the mac address... that did seem to work public ip address was in status of router but eventually didn't work.. but eventually wasn't necessary to make it work..

Settings are simply default factory settings, dhcp server enabled, gateway mode.

Cable modem is connected to ethernet/internet port of router... and the other 3 PCs connected to the lan ports.

What was kinda weird/interesting is if cable modem was connected to lan port instead.. one of the PCs could still internet lol.. but not the other ones... so that was kinda weird...

But now everything is working very nicely... disabled the wireless access of it... Not gonna tell you the exact model... cause I think it can be hacked lol, it's very old.. but here is a hint it was one of the most popular linksys routers ever sold lol... got it for free from somebody... couldn't believe it... it's a very iconic model... with here another hint... two pointy devil horns =D black purple and green router colors oops... too much hints... anyway =D:

I really hope you guys totally fuck up and under estimate or get surprised by the setup time to get this working so that you are not ready in time so I can solo mine block 260.000 lol... and beyond ! LOL.

But you have my respects if you motherf*ckers are on time ! LOL.

SEEEEEEEEEECCCCCUUUUUUU OOOOOOONNNNNNN TTTTHHHEEEE BLOOOOCCCCKKCCCHHHAAAAIIIINNNn////...and safeeeebbboooxxx hopefully ! =D

Hell if I fail to mine I can still run delphiniumcoin later on ! LOL. Will probably do that anyway for fun/kicks

Euhm and that's about it... had a nice little trick to get task schedular working gonna keep it to myself... but I am sure you'll figure it out in relation to batch files... file paths hint hint

I shutdown plenty of services... so the computers are running as efficiently as possible... it's interesting how "resource monitor" has a special "services graph"... where you can see how much cpu the services
on windows are taking up/consuming of cpu time and such.... you may want to look at this if you have never disabled or stopped any services and may want to experiment with that !

Do not shutdown or stop any services called "terminal" or "theme" this will f*ck you in the *ss

Also in resource monitor there is something funny... you can choose "suspend process"... do not suspend the "system process" ! LOL or you PC will completely freeze up ! LOL. God why did I do that again ?! Oh yeah world of warships installed was pissing me off and taking too long lol.

Anyway I had a lot of fun/joy setting this stuff up... I hope you do as well... if not you out of luck... and I am ready to be disappointed... but I am hoping for the best and keeping my fingers crossed ! =D

Skybuck over and out with this very interesting (and possibly revolutionary) (randomhash) experiment... Skybuck drops the mic ! =D

P.S.: I do expect GPU mining pools to still dominate though... cause of polyminer1 randomhash... but the playing field between cpus and gpus is levelled and also weak vs strong is also a bit levelled... so interesting indeed.

This is a big fat lie or misbelieve.

Bitcoin is carefully modified to only work in:

C++
Boost
Latest GNU C++ compiler.

Any other development environment will fail miserable with all kinds of compiler errors. (For the clueless: The reason for these compiler errors is bitcoin uses latest c++ features as well as latest boost which again uses latest c++ features and even specific gnu c++ compiler features, other compilers simply don't support these c++ features and are lagging behind or have other differences).

These delibrate code modifications have resulted in a tight coupling of bitcoin to "open source/linux/gnu" stuff.

This is an insult to Satoshi who used Windows/Visual Studio in first versions and could be a reason why he left the project.

Ask yourself the following question if you are a Visual Studio developer or any other IDE developer ?!

Would you quite the project you are working on if IDE changed to something you have no experience with and ditch years of IDE experience ?

Getting to learn an IDE the ins and outs takes a lot of time.

Hmm shitty german laptop just found a block haha !

Then rhminer said: "end of devmode"... "you an awesome person" !

I wonder what this means exactly.

Perhaps the 1% fee is only for 1 block or something ? and then it's disabled or it's because testnet... not sure...

Hmm I wonder how this fee is applied.

Doesn't seem implemented... see no transactions in operations explorer ? Hmmm...

Maybe that devmode is ment for stratum/mining pools ?

* little update note to consider *:

This time the shitty german laptop is running the rhminer cpu version.... with two threads... and it's hash rate is higher than pascalcoinminer.

However CPU utilization not that much 56% or so... I am kinda amazed that laptop hasn't shutdown yet...

Another explanation might be that the block explorer (if visible) in pascalcoin deadlocks and might make the laptop crash.

But for now I will assume the laptop only crashes/shutsdown if it gets to hot... I could try running more threads... to see if I can force it to overheat again... without showing the block explorer... just to make sure it's not some windows nt kernel dll deadlock that makes this laptop intel cpu crash... but for now I am pooped and almost time for bed so this will have to wait till tomorrow.

See you ! =D

Hi,

I see you tasklow on the blockchain lol... with new rhminer... and some other peeps too.

Tried a few settings.

First rhminer complained about error error no credentials given or something but this was probably the windows firewall still blocking, this was a bit difficult to notice since the entire system went slow cause I tried default string which used 4 threads, only dual core system. After shutting rhminer down the firewall question remained and I answered it... to allow it.

Then re-running rhminer finally worked for cpu setup, example below:

C:\test>rhminer.exe -v 2 -r 20 -s http://127.0.0.1:4109 -cpu 0 -cputhreads 1 -e
xtrapayload HelloWorld

  rhminer v0.9 beta for CPU and NVIDIA GPUs by polyminer1 (http://github.com/pol
yminer1)
  NVIDIA CUDA SDK 9.2

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Log   06:16:16   Selecting CPU (GPU1) AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3
800+ to mine on 2 cores with 1 threads
Net   06:16:16   Solomining on deamon 127.0.0.1:4109
Log   06:16:16   MiniWeb: Webserver started on port 7111
Net   06:16:16   Received new Work #1. Work target 0x000136df (diff 0.00001257)
Miner 06:16:26   Shares: Accepted 0  Rejected 0  Failed 0 Up for 00:00:10
Miner 06:16:26   Total: CPU XXXXXXXXX H/S. AVG XXXXXXX.00 (X = censored LOL)

The webserver at 7111 is a bit concerning though, but ok

Then I also tried gpu... actually tried this first I think, but unfortunately eventually it gave this error:

C:\test>rhminer.exe -v 2 -r 20 -s http://127.0.0.1:4109 -gpu 0 -gputhreads 32 -
extrapayload HelloWorld

  rhminer v0.9 beta for CPU and NVIDIA GPUs by polyminer1 (http://github.com/pol
yminer1)
  NVIDIA CUDA SDK 9.2

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Log   06:11:54   Selecting GPU0 GeForce GT 520 to mine with 32 threads
Net   06:11:54   Solomining on deamon 127.0.0.1:4109
Log   06:11:54   MiniWeb: Webserver started on port 7111
Net   06:11:54   Received new Work #1. Work target 0x000165e2 (diff 0.00001091)
GPU0  06:11:54   CUDA call error in cudaSetDevice(m_deviceID) : CUDA driver vers
ion is insufficient for CUDA runtime version.

A quick google learns this is because cuda 9 does not support fermi anymore, last version was cuda 8.

The nice thing is rhminer is a bit more efficient then the pascalcoinminer... something like two or three or four times faster on my system... so that's a nice software upgrade to start with

I tried the kepler version which is lowest/closest to fermi as can be seen here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA

Perhaps it's possible to re-compile rhminer with cuda 8 so it can still run on fermi... not sure if rhminer uses cuda 9 features or something... hmmm...

Bye,
  Skybuck.

The link to polyminer is right there... except there is a 1 behind it... polyminer1... seems to be what you looking for.

I see lots of C/C++ code... some of it is related to randomhash, some of that could be avoided with a delphi to cuda interface library which I have but no others are on the internet as far as I know... so some unneccessary work was done, then again all that c/c++ code will benefit somewhat from c/c++ compiler optimizations perhaps not a lot though. Then there is additional c/c++ source code not really related to random hash only but also stratum and pool mining and such...

Overall it's somewhat interesting... I have GT 520 with only 48 cuda cores... I think this is a fermi based cuda card. I might purchase a GT 720/730 or something like that... which will have 384 cuda cores but still passively cooled and even cooler than GT 520 Not sure what architecture GT 720/730 is or something like that... the asus manufacturer version with blue heatsink. Will look into this later, might also give a nice boost to world of warships Will have to order it online though... cause like PC shops probably don't have it.

I will still try this polyminer/rhminer on this cuda fermi architecture to see if it can work on that as well, if not might require some recompiles here and there and maybe adjustments... older cuda architectures seems supported to... so not sure if rhminer use special cuda 9 features or something... it might though... problem for my machine is visual studio 2017 community edition completely fucked up the installation and deinstallation and probably won't ever work on this system, though this reminds me I do have a windows 10 virtual machine with visual studio 2017 community edition installed, this could probably be used to test/compile this c/c++ source code... that's a little bit interesting... it would be a bit slow to run this vm but doable... could even install additional software... old vmware 8 software though, 32 bit even... but enough to run this... though no cuda support probably... I wonder if newer virtual machine software can "pass through cuda..." like "pass-through graphics drivers" hmmm...

Today there will probably be an AMD presentation about "next horizon"... probably chiplet design of new processor. I also watched some benchmark results. Zen/Threadripper 2920x processor seems like a nice choice if I were to build a new system... this processor can do it all, be productive and still game... the higher models have gaming issues with infinity fabric... the higher models have memory latency issues cause it most be passed from core to core which kinda sucks. I hope their next design will be many cores around a single memory chip to keep memory latencies consistent... that would be awesome.  Then I may wait till 2019 to buy such a system. There is another somewhat problem with this 2920x (promontory chipset) it probably contains hardware backdoors, but nowadays all hardware is pretty vunerable... so perhaps this is a somewhat mute point, but still a concern...

I was wondering what this rhminer thing was during the testing... so now I know... thx jason for informing us about polyminer1's rhminer for cuda and such... not sure if it also runs on opencl (?) anyway was polyminer1 paid to do this work ? I would guess so ?

https://github.com/PascalCoin/PascalCoin/blob/master/PIP/PIP-0020.md

Perhaps not though, this pip does not mention anyway salary/payment figures

This rhminer does have option to either pay or not pay 1% to polyminer I wonder what happens if it is disabled... will it do something weird then ?

@Jason what are your plans for your coinotron mining pool ?!? Will all your miners upgrade to new randomhash mining software ? How is that proceeding ?

Also does anybody have any idea how this will affect nanopool ?!?!?

I am not sure if polyminer1 read this thread my question for him would be:

1. Did you "profile/benchmark" randomhash with delphi/pascal code first to see where major bottlenecks occur in randomhash ? Or was randomhash simply converted to c/c++ without doing any bottleneck/performance analysis in delphi/pascal code ?

Heya Folks,

Even my DreamPC from 2006 was cable of mining a few blocks/coins. Will keep hash rate secret for now lol.

The fastest core did it, core 2 (2.0 ghz and much slower memory probably then todays machines ).

It is possible to include spaces in the miner name by using -n "Miner name".

So encapsulate it with " " in batch file/prompt commands to do it right.

For the time being all miners stopped maybe later I will do some more testing =D thanks for testing guys ! =D

Bye for now,
  Skybuck.

Hey tlaskow... thx for the pictures... funny to see rig involved.... kinda noticed this on the testnet4... i7... 8 cores or something...

Here is a hint... my dual core AMD x2 3800+ can only do 1/20 th of your machine !  if both cores running.

I will however try and optimize the randomhash code here and there to see how much I can squeeze out of it

I think you wrong about the gpu/asic part though.

The GPU hash algorithm is still present in the pascalcoinminer... but it will become completely useless soon... I tried mining with it... but it gives wrong results for pascalcoin v4.

Mining must be done with the -C option on the testnet v4 as far as I can tell.

And since this code randomhash and such is as far as I know pascal only at the time being there is no real way of running this on a GPU... it would have to be converted to C first... or some "magic" pascal to "intermediate" and then to ptx/opencl/cuda or whatever... don't think such a compiler exists yet though I could be wrong

The sha256 part of randomhash might be executed on gpu... but randomhash uses many many many hashing algorithm... so this would give it a slight boost.... but the source code of the pascalcoinminer would first have to be adjusted a bit...

Here is a question for you:

Did you already try to optimize randomhash while running it on testnet v4 ? Did you change any code yet ?

Oh in regards to your rigs.... Yes they do look fine... their aircooling look fine.... I would still be a bit worried about my own rigs though... they may even have better airflow... but what kind of stress can memory chips truely take ? Hmmm... Well you have been running it a lot... so for now I would guess it's probably alright for now...

The laptop overheat... probably related to CPU just getting to hot... so maybe I got a little scare there.... I have never really hard of a system overheating because of too much RAM activity... so I may be way off... or perhaps this is something new... I am just not sure... and I don't have a real way to tell...

But perhaps in the future hardware will have temperature readings on RAM chips as well... that be nice

Building special machine is probably the way to go for cryptocoin mining.

But this is also why it may fail... the idea of "average joe" mining on his "main rig" is probably an illusion... most people will probably consider their computers to important to do this... especially if it's work related...

So these cryptocoin miners... do provide some service and are running servers... so the idea of "distributing" cryptocoins fairly... is slightly flawed... ofcourse anybody could buy a second computer and just run it on that... (most people probably won't do this though thinking it's a waste of money... so in that sense this distribution idea is flawed...)

* update *

There are still a few days before main net switches over... so this should give some days of more testing on TESTNET v4.

Later today I will leave the laptop on running at 1 core or so... with 1 miner... just to see if "my" laptop can still get some coins VERSUS your BEAST ! LOL.

Pls leave beast running as normal... just to see if """my""" laptop can get some coins "fairly" too

Since I am using internet connection sharing... might as well launch this f*cker now so I can keep an eye on it...

Shitty german laptop here it comes ! =D


*** UPDATE 2 ***:

HAHA !!!!

Success !!! =D LOL.

Shitty German Laptop was able to mine a block on TESTNET v4 !

See block number 146693 on TESTNET v4 safebox/blockchain ! =D

I am starting to like this new hashing method ! LOL =D

*** Update 3 ***:

I can mine on laptop with 1 miner, with two miners the laptop overheats and shuts down ! HAHA. At least that's what I think is happening. It's kinda weird though... it's not even getting that hot... perhaps there is some heat setting somewhere... This time I also "lifted up" the laptop a little bit... to let cold air flow under it... still overheated/shutdown hmm...

Will try my DreamPC next for the fun of it... hopefully it won't get damaged Don't think it will... bit risky but fun. It must update the blockchain first though... hmm..

Bye,
  Skybuck =D

Heya Folks,

Today is the first time I saw RandomHash in action, it was quite amuzing (why is secret for now). Unfortunately my main CPU is probably a bit too slow to compete with modern CPUs though with a bit of luck maybe some mining can be done, or maybe some parts of the randomhash can be executed on gpu though I am not yet sure if there will be CPU-mining pools I would guess so which might make mining with a single CPU useless anyway.

However that is not the main reason I am writing this.

The main reason is this:

I just tested the new miner on a very shitty german laptop which I got for free from somebody... I ran multiple miners on it... and after only a few minutes the laptop shut off... it probably got to warm.

This is a little bit alarming really ! Cause this laptop was able to game, but somehow it shuts off... I did kinda let the laptop fall while setting it down near a candy carnval shop not sure if that has anything to do with it and it also has driver/IRQ blue screen issues probably cause I stopped some services or maybe there is some other damage... not sure though...

Hover this shutdown seemed different... total black screen and simply power down.

What I am concerned about... even on my main system ! is this:

RandomHash alledgedly uses some "memory algorithm" which is supposedly hard to run on a GPU and it's memory chips, so now instead it will run on CPU/MAIN RAM right ?! (The gpu option of the pascalminer is not to be used... ?! instead cpu option !)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!! SO THE ISSUE/WARNING ALERT IS THIS: !!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RandomHash will make your memory chips RUN HOT !!!!

!!! Probably/maybe much hotter than normal !!!

And at least on my hardware there is no way to check the MEMORY TEMPERATURE OF MAIN RAM ?!?!?!?!?!?!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So as far as I am concerned this is a very bad and dangerous situation.

I can monitor CPU core temperatures fine with CPUID HWMonitor tool/software. I can monitor GPU cores with GPU-z and such.

But here is my point:

Monitoring the temperatures of memory chips is unheard of as far as I know ?!

My hardware is old though.

Can your hardware and software monitor your memory chip temperatures ?!?!??!?!?!??!???!?!!!!?!?!?!?

If so please backup any claims with screenshots as proof !!!!! )

Note:

I have been through the experience of having a RAM memory chip develop 1 single bit error probably due to heat, static discharge can also not completely be ruled out.

This was a very scary experience which lead to file to file copy corruption and zip corruption and cd/dvd burning corruption at the time... very scary.

I would definetly not like to go through something like that again.

So this is a big worry right now.

Nobody really knows what kind of HEAT and STRESS RandomHash will cause on main RAM memory chips.

Perhaps this very shitty german laptop is a very fortunate thing to happen... without it... this potential issue may have remained hidden for some time... until much later... when better ventilated systems might also start showing damage because of this. Now the issue was immediately detected by this shitty german hp laptop with intel hardware/cpu in it.

I have used my current main system for 12 years and I am pretty confident it can handle all kinds of memory stress/loads cause god knows I have stressed the shit out of it with all kinds of softwares lol and test programs.

However RandomHash might be something totally different/something totally new that may tax RAM chips like never before ?! So I am slightly worried about this.

It seems to only use 1 or 2 MB of RAM or so from these chips (according to pip/documents, not evaluated via monitoring tools yet), but this specific section will probably become pretty damn hot !

Now imagine running this for 24 hours non-stop ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!

You may be risking damage to your RAM chip ! So consider yourself warned.

I hope to god that I am wrong... cause it would be cool if I was wrong... but this laptop shutting down might be a sign of things to come...

For your information: This laptop was used to run a pretty hot game: "Master of Orion"...

Hopefully the shutdown is not related to heat... but I am pretty damn sure it was... because the FANS started spinning up like crazy.

First miner: it was like ok... little bit of fan spin.

Second miner: wow... much more fan spin...

Third miner: fans going super load/max for a laptop...  few seconds later... BAM laptop shuts down...

This was an i3 core laptop 2 real cores 2 logical cores.... so this thing has hyper threading...  maybe it was a hyper threading bug but I don't think so... maybe the laptop has special overheat protection software or maybe it's just the CPU inside forcing the shutdown... or perhaps some motherboard sensors near memory chips shutting this thing down. Pretty sure it's heat related though. (So I don't know exactly what happened cause I don't know this fucking laptop that well lol... but it was pretty damn scary ! it rarely or almost never did this during master of orion... not that I can clearly remember... maybe one time or so... maybe two times... but then I shutdown many services... currently it has some services which may not be necessary but nothing to bad... before running the software the system was pretty idle... so I don't think these services are contributing to much to heat... though I could try and shut some down... I don't think it will matter measure... and the overheat/shutdown result will probably be the same. Perhaps because this enclosure is so small... the heat from the memory chips reaches cpu sensors... ofcourse I could be completely off the mark... and perhaps it's the CPU itself that is totally overheating... that could be and would be very funny as well... then intel's/hp products truely crap then again one might consider this some abnormal heat/load detection by advanced software and shutting it down out of precaution... though it more seems like some shitty overheat situation which is simply bad product design... your mileage may vary... very interested in hearing about any other systems shutting down because of overheat ! )

Here is my question for you:

"How the fuck are you going to measure your RAM chips temperatures ?!" Would love it if somebody could actually do this ? =D

Bye for now,
  Skybuck.