[ANN][YAC][HOWTO] Howto mine yacoin

[Vycid]

Someone can explain to me how it is possible that there are people mining Yacoins at hashrates of more than 120,000 Kh/s when I with 8-core opteron have only got about 300 kh/s?

Proportionally would need about 400 8-core opteron cpus to reach that rate.

It is cost-effective to rent a cpu processing infrastructure (cluster) of those huge sizes to mine Yacoins?

Or is there some other way today (no gpu mining yet) to mine Yacoins?

Thanks.

Yes. I ran a 30 MH/s cluster for 48 hours myself. There's a few other users on here who have come out and said the same. I made a step-by-step guide so other could do it too: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=201918.0

The people mining now likely own the infrastructure, have botnets, or have access to serious power (like graduate students at universities, probably)

[pantehicon]

So no-one has ported the OpenCL kernels yet, or they're just keeping quiet about it?

[bitdwarf]

So no-one has ported the OpenCL kernels yet, or they're just keeping quiet about it?

[J_Andante]

Someone can explain to me how it is possible that there are people mining Yacoins at hashrates of more than 120,000 Kh/s when I with 8-core opteron have only got about 300 kh/s?

Proportionally would need about 400 8-core opteron cpus to reach that rate.

It is cost-effective to rent a cpu processing infrastructure (cluster) of those huge sizes to mine Yacoins?

Or is there some other way today (no gpu mining yet) to mine Yacoins?

Thanks.

Yes. I ran a 30 MH/s cluster for 48 hours myself. There's a few other users on here who have come out and said the same. I made a step-by-step guide so other could do it too: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=201918.0

The people mining now likely own the infrastructure, have botnets, or have access to serious power (like graduate students at universities, probably)

I ran one cc2.8xlarge for two hours, just for try, and got 750kh/s.

You got 30Mh/s? How many instances launch? 40? $2.70*40*48h = $5184? --> Are you crazy? or I'm wrong?

[J_Andante]

I ran one cc2.8xlarge for two hours, just for try, and got 750kh/s.

You got 30Mh/s? How many instances launch? 40? $2.70*40*48h = $5184? --> Are you crazy? or I'm wrong?

Does any of those services accept BTC or LTC?

Nop. I only know amazon ec2 service. I mined with one instance of cc2.8xlarge for $2.7/hour.

[dragon2nd]

still profitable mining YAC using EC2?

[Joe_Bauers]

No. I recommend buying them on bter while they're still cheap.

[WindMaster]

still profitable mining YAC using EC2?

Negative, it stopped being profitable mining with Amazon EC2 several days ago.  That's when everyone opened up and dumped all their info on how to set up Amazon-hosted YAC mining clusters, after it was no longer possible to do so.  Vycid went as far as posting a tutorial on how to do it.

Currently, I think prices are teetering at the point where mining with clusters of (owned, not rented) Xeon servers is break-even to marginally profitable if you have cheap power.  I intermittently still run between 20 and 30 servers with 2x Xeon E5450's as needed to test solo mining while I work on testing and improving the YACoin client.  I have to throw quite a bit of hash power at it to solve blocks in a reasonable time for testing any changes to the code that might impact solo mining.  For example, right now I have a bunch of servers running to test whether cpuminer correctly continues mining (solo, connecting to yacoind rather than a pool) across the scheduled changes in N without a restart.

[dragon2nd]

still profitable mining YAC using EC2?

Negative, it stopped being profitable mining with Amazon EC2 several days ago.  That's when everyone opened up and dumped all their info on how to set up Amazon-hosted YAC mining clusters, after it was no longer possible to do so.  Vycid went as far as posting a tutorial on how to do it.

Currently, I think prices are teetering at the point where mining with clusters of (owned, not rented) Xeon servers is break-even to marginally profitable if you have cheap power.  I intermittently still run between 20 and 30 servers with 2x Xeon E5450's as needed to test solo mining while I work on testing and improving the YACoin client.  I have to throw quite a bit of hash power at it to solve blocks in a reasonable time for testing any changes to the code that might impact solo mining.  For example, right now I have a bunch of servers running to test whether cpuminer correctly continues mining (solo, connecting to yacoind rather than a pool) across the scheduled changes in N without a restart.

Nice~
So I guess we'll only have publicly announced GPU miners for YAC after they are no longer profitable.

[leadnor]

Hey Dragon2nd.

Once again thanks for the donation. I will send the donation you made through to one of the admins of the yacointalk forum.

[dragon2nd]

Hey Dragon2nd.

Once again thanks for the donation. I will send the donation you made through to one of the admins of the yacointalk forum.

Pleasure. I hope YAC will succeed to some extent.

[feeling2011]

yacoin-qt.exe -server -gen -addnode=82.211.30.212 -addnode=76.115.8.101 -addnode=192.168.1.237 -addnode=54.217.249.235 -addnode=54.217.249.230 -addnode=54.217.249.229 -addnode=54.217.249.139 -addnode=54.217.249.230

conf file:

addnode=82.211.30.212
rpcuser=blahblah
rpcpassword=blahblah
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rcpallowip=192.168.0.16
rcpallowip=192.168.0.10
rpcport=8108
port=7688
daemon=1
server=1
gen=1

why can't i mine from my laptop to this?

help please or sell rope + bridge for 0.5btc



edit: solo mining with client is fine.. i want to add my laptop

solo mining with client is fine

[Scratch]

Havent touched Yac in a while, got my rig running it again today.

Code:

18:56:42

getinfo


18:56:42

{
"version" : "v0.4.0.0-g2nd-yac-wm-alpha",
"protocolversion" : 60005,
"walletversion" : 60000,
"balance" : 20.99000000,
"newmint" : 0.00000000,
"stake" : 0.00000000,
"blocks" : 277509,
"moneysupply" : 9621139.47666200,
"connections" : 12,
"proxy" : "",
"ip" : "REDACTED",
"difficulty" : 0.01780825,
"testnet" : false,
"keypoololdest" : 1368228908,
"keypoolsize" : 104,
"paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
"errors" : ""
}


18:57:03

gethashespersec


18:57:03

[u]0[/u]

18:57:27

getmininginfo


18:57:27

{
"blocks" : 277511,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 0.01779631,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 3,
[u]"hashespersec" : 149,[/u]
"networkhashps" : 1362065,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false,
"Nfactor" : 13,
"N" : 16384,
"powreward" : 48.93000000
}


18:57:51

getmininginfo


18:57:51

{
"blocks" : 277511,
"currentblocksize" : 1641,
"currentblocktx" : 1,
"difficulty" : 0.01779631,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 3,
[u]"hashespersec" : 0,[/u]
"networkhashps" : 1362065,
"pooledtx" : 1,
"testnet" : false,
"Nfactor" : 13,
"N" : 16384,
"powreward" : 48.93000000
}


18:58:00

getmininginfo


18:58:00

{
"blocks" : 277511,
"currentblocksize" : 1641,
"currentblocktx" : 1,
"difficulty" : 0.01779631,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 3,
[u]"hashespersec" : 0,[/u]
"networkhashps" : 1362065,
"pooledtx" : 1,
"testnet" : false,
"Nfactor" : 13,
"N" : 16384,
"powreward" : 48.93000000
}


18:58:09

getmininginfo


18:58:09

{
"blocks" : 277511,
"currentblocksize" : 1641,
"currentblocktx" : 1,
"difficulty" : 0.01779631,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 3,
[u]"hashespersec" : 0,[/u]
"networkhashps" : 1362065,
"pooledtx" : 1,
"testnet" : false,
"Nfactor" : 13,
"N" : 16384,
"powreward" : 48.93000000
}


18:58:18

getmininginfo


18:58:18

{
"blocks" : 277511,
"currentblocksize" : 1641,
"currentblocktx" : 1,
"difficulty" : 0.01779631,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 3,
[u]"hashespersec" : 0,[/u]
"networkhashps" : 1362065,
"pooledtx" : 1,
"testnet" : false,
"Nfactor" : 13,
"N" : 16384,
"powreward" : 48.93000000
}


18:58:24

getmininginfo


18:58:24

{
"blocks" : 277511,
"currentblocksize" : 1641,
"currentblocktx" : 1,
"difficulty" : 0.01779631,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 3,
[u]"hashespersec" : 0,[/u]
"networkhashps" : 1362065,
"pooledtx" : 1,
"testnet" : false,
"Nfactor" : 13,
"N" : 16384,
"powreward" : 48.93000000
}


18:59:23

getmininginfo


18:59:23

{
"blocks" : 277515,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 0.01780503,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 3,
[u]"hashespersec" : 700,[/u]
"networkhashps" : 1377874,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false,
"Nfactor" : 13,
"N" : 16384,
"powreward" : 48.92000000
}


19:18:01

getmininginfo


19:18:01

{
"blocks" : 277524,
"currentblocksize" : 1766,
"currentblocktx" : 1,
"difficulty" : 0.01778417,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 3,
[u]"hashespersec" : 0,[/u]
"networkhashps" : 1284637,
"pooledtx" : 1,
"testnet" : false,
"Nfactor" : 13,
"N" : 16384,
"powreward" : 48.93000000
}


19:22:38

getmininginfo


19:22:38

{
"blocks" : 277528,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 0.01777407,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 3,
[u]"hashespersec" : 0,[/u]
"networkhashps" : 1273555,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false,
"Nfactor" : 13,
"N" : 16384,
"powreward" : 48.94000000
}


19:25:24

getmininginfo


19:25:24

{
"blocks" : 277529,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 0.01777595,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 3,
[u]"hashespersec" : 0,[/u]
"networkhashps" : 1236390,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false,
"Nfactor" : 13,
"N" : 16384,
"powreward" : 48.93000000
}


19:25:32

getmininginfo


19:25:32

{
"blocks" : 277529,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 0.01777595,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 3,
[u]"hashespersec" : 0,[/u]
"networkhashps" : 1236390,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false,
"Nfactor" : 13,
"N" : 16384,
"powreward" : 48.93000000
}


19:25:35

getmininginfo


19:25:35

{
"blocks" : 277529,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 0.01777595,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 3,
[u]"hashespersec" : 0,[/u]
"networkhashps" : 1236390,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false,
"Nfactor" : 13,
"N" : 16384,
"powreward" : 48.93000000
}


19:28:03

getmininginfo


19:28:03

{
"blocks" : 277533,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 0.01776844,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 3,
[u]"hashespersec" : 0,[/u]
"networkhashps" : 1240892,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false,
"Nfactor" : 13,
"N" : 16384,
"powreward" : 48.94000000
}


19:31:06

getmininginfo


19:31:06

{
"blocks" : 277536,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 0.01776927,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 3,
[u]"hashespersec" : 0,[/u]
"networkhashps" : 1284101,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false,
"Nfactor" : 13,
"N" : 16384,
"powreward" : 48.94000000
}

Most of the time it reads 0 h/s? How do I get an accurate read on how its actually doing?

[indiamikezulu]

Hey, guys!!

November now. Is anyone in austrslia mining yacoin?

I don't want this lovely little coin to crash.
mail me a m.j.blair.60@gmail.com. I will buy your yacoin in aus dollsts.

(Or 0439958791)

Mark blair (IndisMikeZulu)

[Steinbeisser]

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