Regarding your last comment....
Unfortunately i think the vast majority of miners are now only in the game to turn a quick profit....
Perhaps, the project needs moving along to a different platform / audience, such as "folding@home", or the "boinc" crowds.
I have to say, for me personally much as i love mining rarer algos, overall if i am spending significantly more on power than i am earning (unless the coin is in its infancy) then i struggle to keep mining.
Thing is GAP is not a new coin, and hasn't really taken off (on this forum), so like i say, for it to grow, perhaps it simple needs pushing in other circles.
I hope so, cos whilst i have no issue leaving my wallet open, to act as a node, i can't continue to mine this coin, but also don't want to see it die....
Perhaps it needs aiming at a bunch of students, who might run with it ...

Hi,
Not everyone wants to be popping over to discord for the "latest"news.
Why can't you just post the "seednotes" and main info on here.
After all, if the chain is "stable", shouldn't it just work?

Same here - over 500 coins stuck...

But i have noticed someone is screwing with DTC.

The difficulty was steadily dropping towards 8, and then bam, shot back up to nearly 9 again.
My best guess is that someone is deliberatly letting the diff drop, and then is hitting the pool with massive hash, allowing them to mine many more blocks than normal, then once it slows down, they stop mining, seems to be a pattern to me....totally screwing DTC.

As for me, i was happily mining away with 350 CPD from an underclocked 1030GT wining blocks....then "pow", nothing for last 24 hrs.....

Shame, i think best thing that can happen at the moment is to close the pool, and just make miners use Grahams' wallet with the built-in cpu miner, that way we all might actually get a fair share.....

Because the coin has been designed specifically for Enterprise / datacentre grade equipement.
Because on release of main-net 100TB was already plotted . (march 19th 120 PIB was the starting point - so all ready way too big for home miners) https://www.chiaexplorer.com/charts/netspace

Good for you, $600 (£450) get about 10-14TB in the UK currently, and 20TB currently will take over 2 years to find a block.....hardly a fair coin

WOW, so much mis-information on here.

First, if you want to "Compare HDD mining to GPU mining"

Then fine, but limit it to these coins -

bitcoinhd
burstcoin
litecoinhd
diskcoin
hddcash
xrphd
mass MassMASS

The only one i have found to be sucessful for the "home miner" was BURST, and that was 3 years ago now. Today it too is fairly pointless.

Never found anywhere to sell Diskcoin
Areweave is something else entirely
CHIA...not a traditional POC coin.

The thing is, your trying to compare a type of POW with another type of POW, yet i bet none of you have mined any POC coin for over a year, Most of them bar BURST are even fully estabished yet, and certainly dont have the mining base ETH has.
Back in the day BURST was raining coins. I think most of us has somewhere between 100K and 1 mil BURST, heck we used to give them away, cos they wernt worth anything....
HOWEVER, in terms of a POC coin, it was awesome. You could plot a 8TB extermal SMR HDD with a Ryzen 1700 in a little over a day, and a couple of those drives SOLO mining got you a load of coin.
The pools came very quicky, and their were tons of them. SO anyone could have a go....if you look at the list of POC coins now, unless you have at least 100TB of free storage, pointless....

As for CHIA, it DOES kill SSDs and NVME, in the plotting stage, but NOT in the farming stage, i am still using my 5 years old Seagate External 8TB HDDS (SMR) and 4 or 5 are perfect (the 5th one i dropped down 2 flights of stairs). These drives have been mining BURST for 3 n half years continuously and now are holding my CHIA plots, no issue....
BUT CHIA differs very differently from BURST (i say BURST cos all the other POC coins use BURST plots) in the way the plotting is done. Instead of filling 8TB a day, i can do on a good day 0.8 to 1 TB a day, so complete waste of time. As for the killing DRIVES, for some reason they have chosen a plotting method that entirely favours enterprise level equipment. It doe a huge amount of writes the plotting drives, and therefore eats thru the TBW of the drive incredibly quickly. Don't be fooled most NVME / SSD when run constantly at high temp / high write speeds are luck to last 30-50% of their TBW, thats it the controller doesn't fail first.
The other factor is that consume ssds/nvme have cache, and are generally qlc or tlc. This means that they are great fr copying smallish (>1GB files) every quickly, but take my corsair 510 1TB, it starts writing @ well over 2500 Mbs, but after a short file drops to around 500mps, or lower for over 85% of the plotting.....A Enterprise SSD will acheive the same speed for 100% of plotting time, an Enterprise NVME should do full speed again for 100% of time.

I personally would love to see a POC coin, much more like the original BURST, it was easy to plot, and easy to mine. You genuinely could do it on an old desktop, or modern-ish laptop, add an external HDD when u could afford t, and it really took me back to mining BTC in the day (with my cpu). If POC coins  can come away from Hpool and its crazy mortgaging, or CHIA enterprise only coin, then i think i would more than compete with GPU mining.

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Hi,

Just downloaded your latest wallet...

If the project is re-started, why is it syncing right back to Oct 2020?

Thought you were re-starting?

OK...synced
wallet version is "v0.18.0.0-930617485-dirty", "/Xazab Core:0.18.0/"
Current number of blocks = 280972

So please explain, if you have re-started, how have 280,000 blocks already been mined?

Confusing

No worries Graham, i set dbcache=4096 and maxmempool to 4096 and it seems to be re-indexing quite  quickly

Thanks for the offer though

Looking at your figures, they are indisputable...but...by the look of it, you jump in the pool sometimes, and hit it with a load of hash, get fantastic returns then leave (my guess)

The block time for DTC IS 1 minute, so 60 blocks per hour * 24 hours = 1440 blocks per day
BUT
I cannot find the diff retarget time, i know the confirms was 3200, so i am guessing that the diff retarget is also very substantial, so i am guessing that what you are seeing is a fairly static mining situation, then you hit it with huge hash, becuase the diff takes say 3200 blocks to re adjust, you manage to mine blocks way too quick, then 24 hours later, when you stop mining, it is still waiting for to get to the next adjustment point, but since the overall hash has dropped again, it doesn't add much diff, then over next few days, it slowly drops diff back down, then whoop you swoop in again and over power it....

That is only my guess, perhaps Graham or someone else has the retarget figures?

Some coins retarget every single block, bitcoin and litecoin every 2016 blocks, other coins every 50 or 100 blocks.

My guess is if you mine consistently with 12500 cpd (upto 23000 cpd) then we would see the diff rise well over 9. it might take a while but the diff always adjusts......

I could be entirely wrong, but about 3 years ago i had a similar experience, i mined a cpu only coin....its block time was every 2 minutes, but literally no-one was mining it, so the global hash was 1KH/s, i could acheive 65KH/s with just 1 core....so i would solo mine it with 12 threads for approx 3-4 hours, mining a block about every 1-4 seconds, within that 3-4 hours i had mined over 100,000 coins, and then the diff would jump 10 fold, so i would stop, and come back 1-2 weeks later.....when i would find the blocks were coming 1 every 2 mins, and the diff was down at 0.00002414, so i'd repeat.....worked great for about 1 month or 2, then the other miners left, i broke the chain, and couldn't send coins to the 1 and only exchange. The coin still exists, it still has only 1 connection, but no explorer and no exchanges, and still exhibits the exact same behaviour.....

Any way thats my guess.....hopefully someone can find the whitepaper and that should have the diff retarget details in it.


For my part thou, i'd love everyone to mine this coin even less, cos with my 1 x 1060 3GB running @ 50% power, i cannot come even close to covering its power costs, however, if the diff were to drop below 8, then a single 1030GT (25 watt) would easily win blocks, and then if the diff dropped down to 7 and below, then the coin could be easily mined using a 6 or 8 core pc using grahams' wallet with built in miner.
TBH if we all stopped gpu mining, and only used the in wallet miner, once the diff dropped enough, we would get the same coins for literally no cpu power....then the coin might me worth mining. Lets face it, its never going to be more than a 1 sat coin, so the quicker we can lower the diff, and therefore lower the overall hash and cost to mine, the better. Then we can all fill our bags, then in about 6months to a year, it needs a real good pump, and we can all retire

LOL

Then you have broken the coin, and should be mining 140 DTC per minute = 8400 DTC per day.
Good luck to you...in 4 years, some of which i was the only miner mining this chain, i have never managed more than 6000 DTC a day....so i take my hat off to you....you must be mining approx $37 a day...if that is the case then there is ZERO point anyone else mining as you must be winning 99.9% of all blocks.......

I'm guessing this is you - https://dtc.graymines.net/index.php?id=account&addr=DDFuWNPHqf9H475n7BTfS4oy8hhgCHWfSF  seems strange if you are getting 100510.967 DTC per day, that you have only mined "PAID EVER - 156001.00 DTC ... something doesn't add up
oh, this is me - https://dtc.graymines.net/index.php?id=account&addr=DGmwKtGuqZsJWtFAKwqVFayvWXSnvbTiYe and so far today with cpd:1695 i have only mined 150 DTC in 2 hours, hmmm, your 12500 / my 1695 = 7.37, so my 150 in 2 hrs = 75 in 1 hr * 7.37 = 552 DTC (you got 600 DTC for 1 hour), so looks like my calculations are not far off.... approx 14,400 DTC per day

My guess is that you are hitting pool with way too much hashrate and that most of your blocks are duplicates....try editing your config to use less cards....say 1 or 2, and see how you go

The block time is 1min, so 60 blocks per hour x 24 hours = 1440 blocks a day max @10 DTC a block = 14,400 DTC a day...so 1 hour = approx 600 coins, which is what you got.

Hi Graham,

Just tried it on
Distributor ID:   Linuxmint
Description:   LMDE 4 (debbie)
Release:   4
Codename:   debbie

Works great.

Any chance of a bootstrap please?
Takes for every to download chain, and my other roaming directories don't work with this version without a full re-index

*** Mined using graymines over last 4 years, can't really say i have noticed any issues ***
What CPD do you have?
What exact issues are you having?

Have you tried contacting MarcusDe @ bitcointalk forum, he can probably help.

Can you please tell me why when i mine in wallet and win a block, i only get 0.04 coins and yet 0.16 coins goes to this address https://explorer.cryptocribs.org/address/CcyQ5N33QN5NeHxQVHUSmX1rrv3VYAk9SD which currently has over 1000 coins !

You can use a PI for farming after doing the plotting

LOL

Hi,
You could always have a look at this project.
I think it makes a great education device.
http://imineblocks.com/micro-miner/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjosic-Rpe0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erzhnGih2bE

If you buy anything from him, please let him know i sent you there. (i'm not on commission, in fact hardly know him, but, he likes to know where his leads come from, and he seems a decent guy)

Oh, also if you google XEON PHI co-processor, and pop over to the VERUS channel on DISCORD, there are people there trying to use that co-processor for mining VERUS. I believe the cards are basically multi threaded cpus rather than gpus.... I think they are quite successful, BUT have a very heavy power draw, and need a server motherboard, but have a look, there plenty of help in discord.

This miner works fine
https://github.com/tpruvot/ccminer/releases/download/2.3.1-tpruvot/ccminer-2.3.1-cuda10.7z

Supports SCRYPT, SCRYPT-JANE and SCRYPT-N

It should work fine with you 1650 (works with my 1030, and 1060's)

If you are using windows 10, try using NVIDIA STANDARD DRIVERS, sometimes the DCH ones are poor for mining
https://www.nvidia.co.uk/download/find.aspx?lang=en-uk
If the link doesnt work in your country, just google "NVIDIA ADVANCED SEARCH"

Good luck

I have a question for you....What are you trying to learn?

Are you trying to learn how to mine DOGE?
Are you trying to learn how to use a GPU to mine any SCRYPT based coin?
Are trying to learn how to mine anything with a 1080?

1) Don't use a GPU for DOGE
2) You already know how to mine SCRYOPT based coins with your 1080. You are using the right type of software, and getting valid hashes.
3) Start by benchmarking all the ALGOS CCminer supports, collate all the hashrates, and then do some research to see if those hashrates make it worth mining any coin.

With regards to simply learning, make sure to download a tool like MSI Afterburner. I tend to find although the hashrate drops slightly that MOST algos can stand POWER LIMIT lowering substantially, and therefore your overall efficiency can be raised considerable. (i won't disclose which algo, but a coin i am mining at the moment only loses 8% hash for a 40% power reduction - so always have a play with settings)

Good luck
J