[ANN] Sia - Decentralized Storage

[robinson5]

I've been unable to get the miner working on a mac has anyone had better luck and can tell me what they did?

I downloaded the wallet (https://github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia-UI/releases/download/v0.3.3-beta/Sia-UI-v0.3.3-beta-darwin.tar.xz) and the miner (https://github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia-GPU-Miner/releases/download/v1.0/sia-gpu-miner-mac64.xz) and the wallet works fine but when I try to extract the miner it says file type not supported.  I downloaded the unarchiver and it was able to extract the files.  Once I extracted the sia-gpu-miner-mac64.xz file I had: Sia-UI-v0.3.3-beta-darwin.tar.xz (it came with the wallet I guess), a "sia-gpu-miner-mac64" file that opens in textedit, and another sia-gpu-miner-mac64.xz file.

Do I need the CLI? I downloaded Sia_CLI_0.3.3-release.beta_darwin_amd64.zip but when I try to run siad I get:

****-MacBook-Pro:~ ****$ /Users/****/Downloads/sia/Sia_CLI_0.3.3-release.beta_darwin_amd64/siad ; exit;
listen tcp :9981: bind: address already in use
logout

[Process completed]


Anyone have any ideas? I really want to be able to mine and sell storage but I can't seem to get it working. Thanks!

[Vorksholk]

I've been unable to get the miner working on a mac has anyone had better luck and can tell me what they did?

I downloaded the wallet (https://github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia-UI/releases/download/v0.3.3-beta/Sia-UI-v0.3.3-beta-darwin.tar.xz) and the miner (https://github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia-GPU-Miner/releases/download/v1.0/sia-gpu-miner-mac64.xz) and the wallet works fine but when I try to extract the miner it says file type not supported.  I downloaded the unarchiver and it was able to extract the files.  Once I extracted the sia-gpu-miner-mac64.xz file I had: Sia-UI-v0.3.3-beta-darwin.tar.xz (it came with the wallet I guess), a "sia-gpu-miner-mac64" file that opens in textedit, and another sia-gpu-miner-mac64.xz file.

Do I need the CLI? I downloaded Sia_CLI_0.3.3-release.beta_darwin_amd64.zip but when I try to run siad I get:

****-MacBook-Pro:~ ****$ /Users/****/Downloads/sia/Sia_CLI_0.3.3-release.beta_darwin_amd64/siad ; exit;
listen tcp :9981: bind: address already in use
logout

[Process completed]


Anyone have any ideas? I really want to be able to mine and sell storage but I can't seem to get it working. Thanks!

Sounds like you have a zombie process of siad running. Try:
killall -9 siad
./siad

[Sebastien256]

The changed gpu-miner.cl from Pastebin crashes my AMD driver but the original has the "failed to set fourth kernel" message.

same here.

[systh]

How do we lower the GPU intensity? Everytime I run "sia-gpu-miner.exe" it reaches about  9.283 MH/s then it gives me this tray message:

"Display driver has stopped responding and has recovered"...

Yes please, is this possible?
My GPU's mining like crazy, but my boxor is absolutely unusable..

One more thing: I've found a couple of blocks already, but they don't show up in my wallet. Is there any manual config needed?
I'm running the GPU miner with Sia-UI-v0.3.3.3-CPU-win64.

Any info/help appreciated!

What argument the gpu miner needs?

No arguments in my case. I have Sia-UI-v0.3.3.3-CPU-win64 opened with GPU miner running. The only thing I changed was the contents of gpu-miner.cl (from the pastebin):

[snip]

All i did was double click sia.exe in the wallet folder, and double click the gpu miner, no conf file, no complication.

You'll need the right cl file .. wolfy shared it in irc so i guess it's public. Seems like he wanted to help the launch out.

I'll put it here on pastebin:

http://pastebin.com/iQavKkEd

should be a-ok after that.

[BitcoinForumator]

Can someone explain how to change the intensity of the gpu mining and or how to get rid of crashing the gpu because it seems that at least 2 3 people now have this problem.

[Sebastien256]

How do we lower the GPU intensity? Everytime I run "sia-gpu-miner.exe" it reaches about  9.283 MH/s then it gives me this tray message:

"Display driver has stopped responding and has recovered"...

Yes please, is this possible?
My GPU's mining like crazy, but my boxor is absolutely unusable..

One more thing: I've found a couple of blocks already, but they don't show up in my wallet. Is there any manual config needed?
I'm running the GPU miner with Sia-UI-v0.3.3.3-CPU-win64.

Any info/help appreciated!

What argument the gpu miner needs?

No arguments in my case. I have Sia-UI-v0.3.3.3-CPU-win64 opened with GPU miner running. The only thing I changed was the contents of gpu-miner.cl (from the pastebin):

[snip]

All i did was double click sia.exe in the wallet folder, and double click the gpu miner, no conf file, no complication.

You'll need the right cl file .. wolfy shared it in irc so i guess it's public. Seems like he wanted to help the launch out.

I'll put it here on pastebin:

http://pastebin.com/iQavKkEd

should be a-ok after that.

Where did you get Sia-UI-v0.3.3.3-CPU-win64, got only 0.3.0 b365

[BitcoinForumator]

@Sebastien

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1060294.msg11559727#msg11559727

[Sebastien256]

@Sebastien

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1060294.msg11559727#msg11559727

I tried this one but video drivers crash.

[qwep1]

how to mine gpu miner

[xibeijan]

How to siafund holders import their siafund and start collect fees?

[Taek]

How to siafund holders import their siafund and start collect fees?

I'm surprised this hasn't come up yet. We didn't quite get to building the siafund wallet yet.

You have your siafunds, and they are making money, you just can't collect that money or trade your siafunds yet. We hope to have that out in a few days. We're focusing most of our energy on the GPU problems right now though. I hope the siafund holders understand. Friday I believe is the latest that the siafund wallet will be ready.

[pallas]

where are the gpu miner sources related to the "fixed" cl file, the one on pastebin?
it looks like it has different kernel parameters than the one on git.

EDIT: the precompiled win version uses the new cl file and is faster, please provide its sources, otherwise mac and linux users will hash slower than windows ones!

[anatolikostis]

where are the gpu miner sources related to the "fixed" cl file, the one on pastebin?
it looks like it has different kernel parameters than the one on git.

EDIT: the precompiled win version uses the new cl file and is faster, please provide its sources, otherwise mac and linux users will hash slower than windows ones!

r9 290 @1020/875 115mh/s with pastebin *cl

[super3]

Weird, just reinstalled SIA 3.3 beta and my Glasswire picked it up as Electron? connection any ideas? previous installs it showed the connection as SIA

yes taskmanager shows it as electron as well. Really shows the lack of effort put into the release

I agree, it's a bit unprofessional. Fixing this requires modifying the Windows binary with a tool like ResEdit, and we do all our development on Linux (for now). I think it's pretty apparent that going forward, we need to focus on the Windows experience because that's where most of our users are.

However, I think the word you want is polish, not "effort." We have poured many thousands of man-hours into Sia, but first and foremost we have focused on the core technology, not the look and feel of the application. Rest assured, this will be our top priority for the next few weeks.

Doesn't that give the devs a several week head start on everyone else?

[Makezzila]

What final specification this coin? How faster change difficulty?

[Taek]

Doesn't that give the devs a several week head start on everyone else?

Many people have the miners working. Mining isn't our source of profit and never will be.

Additionally, linux is a free OS. If you want to mine Siacoin, it's pretty easy to install linux. Even then, we're not sure that it will work for all card. GPU dev is tricky and we're doing our best. We've got less than 3% of the hashrate right now.

[Makezzila]

where i can see total hashrate?

[starsoccer9]

Doesn't that give the devs a several week head start on everyone else?

Many people have the miners working. Mining isn't our source of profit and never will be.

Additionally, linux is a free OS. If you want to mine Siacoin, it's pretty easy to install linux. Even then, we're not sure that it will work for all card. GPU dev is tricky and we're doing our best. We've got less than 3% of the hashrate right now.

Mining still doesnt work for alot of people or is just incredibly bugged. Should I just assume this is normal? https://imgur.com/8yN3NQQ

[TerraMaster]

Ok, I seem to be mining now and am mining on W7 64. Says 95 MH and found  blocks. How or when will I actually see that in wallet?

MY PC sure is lagging when running the miner.. glitchy

[starsoccer9]

Ok, I seem to be mining now and am mining on W7 64. Says 95 MH and found  blocks. How or when will I actually see that in wallet?

MY PC sure is lagging when running the miner.. glitchy

my PC said I found blocks too, but I wouldnt hold your breath on seeing any coins