[ANN][AR2] Argon2Coin new PoW algo, CPU friendly

[Vorksholk]

Argon2 optimized miner (x10+ faster):
https://www.bitteaser.com/press-releases/?title=1

Works wonderfully, getting about 3.7x the speed of the previous miner. Donation address?

Also, for anyone curious, I ran wireshark for five minutes in the background with nothing but the miner running, and nothing looked suspicious. That being said, that's no guarantee that it's safe--maybe it didn't find what it was looking for, maybe it waits for a longer time, who knows. But based on 5 minutes of network recording, everything looks vanilla. As always, VMs are a great way to protect yourself.

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[trader19]

Original miner (https://github.com/Encel-US/cpuminer-multi/releases) works at same systems?
Did you run like: cpuminer.exe -q -a argon2 -o stratum+tcp://ar2.suprnova.cc:7095 -u user.x -p x -t 8

Anyone get it working?

PS: I test at few xeon's and i7's all works fine.

yes works here   i am getting aprox 6x more hashrate

[TillKoeln]

about the opitmized miner
on my two vps it works fine both  4-5kh/s  . Single CPU, Windows Server 2012

on my Home PC Win7 x64 the optimized miner doesnt work.
|-> Virtual Box, Windows Server 2012. doesnt work too.

i think this has something to do with the cpu.
the Basic miner works fine and without Problems.

[testz]

Argon2 optimized miner (x10+ faster):
https://www.bitteaser.com/press-releases/?title=argon2-optimized-miner

Works wonderfully, getting about 3.7x the speed of the previous miner. Donation address?

Also, for anyone curious, I ran wireshark for five minutes in the background with nothing but the miner running, and nothing looked suspicious. That being said, that's no guarantee that it's safe--maybe it didn't find what it was looking for, maybe it waits for a longer time, who knows. But based on 5 minutes of network recording, everything looks vanilla.

Excellent! 3.7x it's not too much, maybe your get more if you run miner longer.
Donation address you can find here https://www.bitteaser.com/press-releases/?title=argon2-optimized-miner
Thanks in advance.

Thanks for checking with wireshark. I value my reputation, so it's not in my interest publishing crap for community.
PS: Sure I will publish the sources in few days after some cleanup.

[JJ12880]

Original miner (https://github.com/Encel-US/cpuminer-multi/releases) works at same systems?
Did you run like: cpuminer.exe -q -a argon2 -o stratum+tcp://ar2.suprnova.cc:7095 -u user.x -p x -t 8

Anyone get it working?

PS: I test at few xeon's and i7's all works fine.

yea, same config, and the original miner does work for me

[testz]

about the opitmized miner
on my two vps it works fine both  4-5kh/s  . Single CPU, Windows Server 2012

on my Home PC Win7 x64 the optimized miner doesnt work.
|-> Virtual Box, Windows Server 2012. doesnt work too.

i think this has something to do with the cpu.
the Basic miner works fine and without Problems.

yea, same config, and the original miner does work for me

Miner crashed without any message? Can you post message from Windows event log.

[Vorksholk]

Argon2 optimized miner (x10+ faster):
https://www.bitteaser.com/press-releases/?title=1

Works wonderfully, getting about 3.7x the speed of the previous miner. Donation address?

Also, for anyone curious, I ran wireshark for five minutes in the background with nothing but the miner running, and nothing looked suspicious. That being said, that's no guarantee that it's safe--maybe it didn't find what it was looking for, maybe it waits for a longer time, who knows. But based on 5 minutes of network recording, everything looks vanilla.

Excellent! 3.7x it's not too much, maybe your get more if you run miner longer.
Donation address you can find here https://www.bitteaser.com/press-releases/?title=1
Thanks in advance.

Thanks for checking with wireshark. I value my reputation, so it's not in my interest publishing crap for community.
PS: Sure I will publish the sources in few days after some cleanup.

Thanks! Sent some coins

Didn't notice your post count/activity when I first commented, hence a bit more paranoia. Miner's working extremely well!

[testz]

Thanks! Sent some coins

Didn't notice your post count/activity when I first commented, hence a bit more paranoia. Miner's working extremely well!

Thanks for donation.
Some paranoia always good in crypto world. 

[Vorksholk]

For anyone wanting to run testz's miner on Linux, WINE worked fine for me.

On Ubuntu 14.04:

Code:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.7

Then you can just run the cpuminer:

Code:

wine cpuminer.exe -a argon2 -o stratum+tcp://ar2.suprnova.cc:7095 -u username.worker -p password -t threads

If you have a high-core-count system, I'd recommend running multiple different instances of cpuminer, each restricted to several cores, as I've found I can get 50%+ more performance running several smaller instances each restricetd to a small number of cores:

Code:

sudo apt-get install util-linux

taskset -c 0,1,2,3 wine cpuminer.exe -a argon2 -o stratum+tcp://ar2.suprnova.cc:7095 -u username.worker -p password -t 4
taskset -c 4,5,6,7 wine cpuminer.exe -a argon2 -o stratum+tcp://ar2.suprnova.cc:7095 -u username.worker -p password -t 4

And so-on and so-forth. Screen is useful here.

Also renting mining power for 0.000017 BTC/kH/hour if anyone's interested.

[JJ12880]

Miner crashed without any message? Can you post message from Windows event log.

yup, no messages. it just closed generated 3 events,

http://pastebin.com/epvcYA53

JJ

[JJ12880]

Also renting mining power for 0.000017 BTC/kH/hour if anyone's interested.

send me a pm? hows that work

[stoveeee]

hey friends, just made a subreddit for discussion, help, and news at /r/argon2!! check it out

[Daveeoff]

Not sure if i have this set up right to solo mine .
I have the config for cupminer set TO
cpuminer -a argon2 -o 127.0.0.1:1234 -u 123 -p 1972 -t 32

And my wallet config is set to
server=1
rpcuser=123
rpcpassword=1972
rpcport=1234

I'v hit 30 blocks so far in the last hour with the miner im runing Two Opteron 6380 at 80KH/s  but havent had any coin show up in my wallet yet .
I'm i missing anything I'm not using the miner thats built in to the wallet but the opitmized miner

[Yanakitu Tenatako]

Not sure if i have this set up right to solo mine .
I have the config for cupminer set TO
cpuminer -a argon2 -o 127.0.0.1:1234 -u 123 -p 1972 -t 32

And my wallet config is set to
server=1
rpcuser=123
rpcpassword=1972
rpcport=1234

I'v hit 30 blocks so far in the last hour with the miner im runing Two Opteron 6380 at 80KH/s  but havent had any coin show up in my wallet yet .
I'm i missing anything I'm not using the miner thats built in to the wallet but the opitmized miner

I am hitting 10 blocks/hour with much much much more hashing power, so I believe you are not doing right or you are on fork.

[Dracco]

Same error with new miner, 2 line and AppCrash (

[vhong]

hey friends, just made a subreddit for discussion, help, and news at /r/argon2!! check it out

Good, you need to promote it to attract more users on the subreddit page.

[Daveeoff]

How much time does it take after finding a block for any coin to show up in your wallet when your solo  mining .I'v found more then 30 block's in the last hour but haven't had any coins show up in the wallet yet

[Yanakitu Tenatako]

How much time does it take after finding a block for any coin to show up in your wallet when your solo  mining .I'v found more then 30 block's in the last hour but haven't had any coins show up in the wallet yet

Paste block numbers here, and let us see what is going on.
You are not providing enough information.
Printscreen would also help.

[Vorksholk]

How much time does it take after finding a block for any coin to show up in your wallet when your solo  mining .I'v found more then 30 block's in the last hour but haven't had any coins show up in the wallet yet

30 blocks in an hour is pretty hard to believe--you might not be synced up with the network, which means you're mining at the difficulty of the network at the first block. How many connections do you have?

[Daveeoff]

How much time does it take after finding a block for any coin to show up in your wallet when your solo  mining .I'v found more then 30 block's in the last hour but haven't had any coins show up in the wallet yet

30 blocks in an hour is pretty hard to believe--you might not be synced up with the network, which means you're mining at the difficulty of the network at the first block. How many connections do you have?

Shows 11  connections and shows it up to date at block 10941. im runing 32 cores rig has two Opteron 6380 Abu Dhabi with 16 cores each