You're talking about CPU mining and not GPU mining right? The link below has instructions on getting started on it.

https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/1922-cpu-mining-tutorialtopic/

If that's what you were talking about then you can ignore/close the "Mining Console" window. You need at least 0.5 GRC to get started though so if you don't have any GRC yet post your address and hopefully someone here will send you a couple.

1. How long were you running Gridcoin before you took a break for a few days? The 100% is made up of two things - 50% utilization which you probably have and 50% is total average daily credits which builds up 2-4 weeks. So maybe that few days break brought your average daily credits down.

2. Rob answered this question previously.

3. Try putting closeconhost=false into your gridcoin.con file to prevent it from hiding cmd prompts.

I had messaged Cryptsy the other day per Rob's request and received a rely today.


I gave them a long detailed message so hopefully they add consider the topics I talked about when reviewing it. Cross our fingers haha

I feel for you - all of us have lost coins. I've lost probably over 50k since I joined in on it. But that's the thing, Gridcoin isn't supposed to be a "get rich" coin. Most of the community that it has right now sticks with it not because yes, it may be worth something (and hopefully will) but because of its purpose. Most of us understand that it's still a work in progress. That's part of the reason I personally haven't gone out promoting (although I've gotten some friends I know personally to join) it is because I don't want to say "hey, mine this" and have people complain about things like this. If people see our threads and take a look at the coin and decide they want to participate, that's great! Yea it might not be the most reliable coin at the moment, but I have high hopes that it'll be able to get the average user to join in on BOINC through Gridcoin in the months to come.

Rob you should start calling it BOINC mining instead of CPU mining - it confuses people lol.

Anyways GreekBitcoin, it's not CPU Mining per say. Gridcoin's "CPU mining" is basically rewarding the people using their CPU for contributing to BOINC by calculating and comparing credits among all the people donating to BOINC.

I've been with it every since I found it - fills my need for coins AND helping a cause. It had a rough start since it's a work in progress but the bad bumps are pass and it's been progressing well lately with the features the dev's been working on for it

Long term? I would suggest Gridcoin. You can find out more information about it here at an info site I made for it www.gridcoinnetwork.com

It's a coin that aims to help beneficial research via BOINC by requiring BOINC to be running while mining for optimal rewards. Also the dev is going to implement a "scrypt-sleep" where you can opt to have your GPU mine only half the time and the other half run BOINC projects - needless to say that those who opt to run scrypt-sleep are better rewarded.

Yea the difficulty your mining software uses is usually different than the difficulty you see on your Gridcoin client/explorer. And gratz on the 290x! I'm about to buy 3 290's once they go in stock at this one site (only $420 per!) to use in my main computer I'm remaking Trying to customize the case and everything haha

It's hard to tell you exactly how many you'll get a day. The pool is based on an algorithm that's dynamically related to the difficulty. As the difficulty goes up, the longer you'll stay in the pool. For example, when difficulty was less than 1 you would stay in the pool for about 1-2 days without finding a block. If you do listminers in the debug console of your Gridcoin client, you'll see a list of all the miners in the pool. Under where it says TimeSpan: is the time in seconds I think that account has left in the pool until he finds another block. As for when you find a block, you still get paid the entire amount I'm pretty sure. So if you found a block and then stopped mining right after you found it for example, your first payment would by tiny, but for the next two days you'll get increasing payments each time the pool finds a block, then it'll peak and decrease down to 0 the next two days and you'll end up with 150 GRC if you're BOINC was 100% when you found the block. At least this is how I understand it.

Saw that you added Gridcoin, nice! Looking forward to seeing some trading volume there as well as an updated interface when you're finished polishing it Good luck!

Yea just look it up, it's the only Gridcoin there haha. Not many updates as of late though since Rob's been working on backend stuff mostly so none of the "anticipated" features have come out yet.

I did a giveaway for a good few weeks with coins I mined haha, so it's not that there was no giveaway. I decided to stop it because it wasn't getting the reaction I'd hoped for. Now I'm saving some of the coins I mine for a later date once we've gotten everything squared away with all the BOINC-related projects (BOINC mining, scrypt-sleep, etc).

Hey Bob! Mind if I use this on www.gridcoinnetwork.org? I'm remaking it to look better and be a little more organized/updated so it's currently inoperable. I'll give credit to you in the article

Can't wait to see scrypt-sleep in action where half the time our GPU's will be BOINCing - THEN we'll see those stats take off

The design proposal looks really nice already, can't wait to see how the final model looks... what's the ETA on launch now with the whole mess that happened?

This is also just for the moment. Rob, the dev, is coming up with an algo to make CGminer sleep half the time and then the rest of the time run in BOINC. Those who decide to run BOINC during the "sleep" time as opposed to mining something else get rewarded more than those who don't.

I'm not sure of the formula exactly, but basically the higher the difficulty the higher the look-back period is. 100 blocks is only about 4 hours's time and I know before when the difficulty was lower you only had to find a block once a day or so to stay in the pool. I think now it's more like one block every 2-4 days.

You'll have to wait for Rob to comment on the exact formula but basically unless you stop mining you shouldn't have to worry about staying in the pool once you're in and the pool also accounts for all the shares you submit while trying to get your first block. So for example it takes you 5 days to find a block and then you stop mining. You'll get small payments each time a pool miner finds a block for approximately the next 5 days and the total it adds up to should be about 150 GRC. At least that's how I understand it.

It happened to me where it went down to 50% the next morning after upgrading to the latest version... never got it fixed. I've just been letting it go back up to 100% slowly - it's at 65% for me now. Well I guess this bug will just make Gridcoin rarer since there'll be less coins per block for a time

Are all the fields filled out? GPU Thread Concurrency, Worksize, Intensity, and Lookup Gap all have a number? Chances are you left Lookup Gap blank right? Haha you can put either 2 or 1 in that... Not exactly sure the difference but I have 2 for the CGminers I have running on a 5970 or 7970.




And sucks to hear it didn't work TribabBob =\ wish I could help more - hopefully Rob comes back on soon. I had an issue with BOINC where I dropped from 100% to 50% but that was because of me changing accounts on my project I think lol, and it didn't drop as much as yours did down to 10%.

Jacquette, is it getting stuck at like a few hours behind? Have you tried doing gridcoin-qt.exe -rescan on the cmd?

Might be a naive suggestion, but have you tried rebooting your computer since it happened? I know for example my one computer, if I stop cgminer in order to let a friend play games on it, when I try to start it up again it only runs at 30kh/s instead of it's usual 300 kh's. Nothing running in the background or anything. But rebooting it brings it back. Makes me think something got "stuck" and just needed to refreshed to relink everything. Wouldn't hurt to try if you haven't already.