[ANN] official NovaCoin thread - the original PoS+scrypt coin.

[Balthazar]

Thanks, I'll merge it in the next release.

[ifeltsweet]

Do you know how to compile under mac osx to include all dependencies in the app bundle, thus eliminating need for end user to download dependencies themselves? Much like bitcoin-qt and litecoin-qt do it.

[Balthazar]

Do you know how to compile under mac osx to include all dependencies in the app bundle, thus eliminating need for end user to download dependencies themselves? Much like bitcoin-qt and litecoin-qt do it.

Try this

Code:

qmake "RELEASE=1"

command and then compile as usual. It should help with this. Then you will be able to generate .dmg using MAC deployment script.

P.S. deployment scripts for MAC and debian-based linux distros will be updated soon.

[ifeltsweet]

Then you will be able to generate .dmg using MAC deployment script.

Thanks! macdeployqt was the key. I will post links to .dmg later if anyone needs.

[ifeltsweet]

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Mac OSX (Mountain Lion) Binary:

NovaCoin-Qt.dmg - http://ge.tt/7jfbWWd/v/0

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Spent half a day baking this, hope it's useful to someone. Cheers.

[Balthazar]

Block #15000 solved.

[ocminer]

novacoind does not have getworkex implemented ?

Is there a patch to use it with pushpool somewhere ?

[Balthazar]

There is no getworkex support yet. Maybe I will add it later.. But anyway, additional patches for pushpoold are required because transactions format is different from BTC clones. I'll try to analyze pushpoold sources now.

[Balthazar]

Maybe I will add it later..

 

https://github.com/CryptoManiac/novacoin/commit/82afa858be3517ba477b4448809d3f7a3355ec01

+

https://github.com/CryptoManiac/pushpool

Not tested quite well, but works in testnet:

[
    {
        "account" : "",
        "category" : "immature",
        "amount" : 87.64000000,
        "confirmations" : 2,
        "blockhash" : "0000014ef99e0dcd9741f397bae52d8457201a9a6c1119dae2e4ff3b5ed9c2b9",
        "blockindex" : 0,
        "txid" : "a14476430418b7bdb81082eb750273533adb69c2fa2ae27bab74a366eee61519",
        "time" : 1365546547
    },
    {
        "account" : "",
        "category" : "immature",
        "amount" : 88.28000000,
        "confirmations" : 1,
        "blockhash" : "0000034d1c21dbcc3ebf5edf9dba7071dacb46076fa249b368d132afc58aa688",
        "blockindex" : 0,
        "txid" : "cee5b8da69b09c92239e20a577f57ddc5b8b951376aef72b01b4be4a25180766",
        "time" : 1365546629
    }
]

[kha0S]

Already deployed new versions at khore pool.
After around 30 minutes runing:

- Decrease in Load Avg (from 0.5 to  ~ 0.25)
- Decrese in used memory (from 21 to 15%)
- And the best part: novacoind is now much more responsive when abusing from RPC calls 

Will leave it under surveillance a couple of hours more, but from what I've seen: great work!

khaos

[Balthazar]

Working on 0.4 release currently, it will merge almost all current bitcoin features. More information will be available few days later, because it still requires a little debugging.

[VforVictory]

Working on 0.4 release currently, it will merge almost all current bitcoin features. More information will be available few days later, because it still requires a little debugging.

What features would those be? O_o

[Balthazar]

Multithreaded RPC server, rawtransactions, debugging tools, etc. And it will no longer be a direct PPC fork.

[ocminer]

Maybe I will add it later..

 

https://github.com/CryptoManiac/novacoin/commit/82afa858be3517ba477b4448809d3f7a3355ec01

+

https://github.com/CryptoManiac/pushpool

Not tested quite well, but works in testnet:

[
    {
        "account" : "",
        "category" : "immature",
        "amount" : 87.64000000,
        "confirmations" : 2,
        "blockhash" : "0000014ef99e0dcd9741f397bae52d8457201a9a6c1119dae2e4ff3b5ed9c2b9",
        "blockindex" : 0,
        "txid" : "a14476430418b7bdb81082eb750273533adb69c2fa2ae27bab74a366eee61519",
        "time" : 1365546547
    },
    {
        "account" : "",
        "category" : "immature",
        "amount" : 88.28000000,
        "confirmations" : 1,
        "blockhash" : "0000034d1c21dbcc3ebf5edf9dba7071dacb46076fa249b368d132afc58aa688",
        "blockindex" : 0,
        "txid" : "cee5b8da69b09c92239e20a577f57ddc5b8b951376aef72b01b4be4a25180766",
        "time" : 1365546629
    }
]

I'm trying to get it running with pushpoold but get:

marcel@ubuntu:~/pushpool$ ./pushpoold -E -F -D 2
[2013-04-11 19:19:51.126285] Debug output enabled
[2013-04-11 19:19:51.126640] Forcing local hostname to localhost.localdomain
[2013-04-11 19:19:51.169932] Listening on host :: port 8336
[2013-04-11 19:19:51.169996] Listening on host :: port 8337
[2013-04-11 19:19:51.171575] initialized
[2013-04-11 19:19:51.171597] Enabling 300s LP keep-alive
[2013-04-11 19:19:51.171612] Enabling fetch_new_work timer
DEBUG: fetch new work
JSON protocol request:
{"method": "getworkex", "params": [], "id":1}

* About to connect() to 127.0.0.1 port 8333 (#0)
*   Trying 127.0.0.1...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* connected
* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 8333 (#0)
* Server auth using Basic with user 'rpcu'
> POST / HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Basic cnBjdTpycGNwNHNzbm92YQ==
Host: 127.0.0.1:8333
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
Content-type: application/json
Content-Length: 47

* additional stuff not fine transfer.c:1037: 0 0
* additional stuff not fine transfer.c:1037: 0 0
* HTTP 1.1 or later with persistent connection, pipelining supported
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:19:51 +0000
< Connection: close
< Content-Length: 623
< Content-Type: application/json
< Server: novacoin-json-rpc/v0.3.5-ppc-6-g82afa85-beta
<
* Closing connection #0
JSON protocol response:
{
   "error": null,
   "result": {
      "data": "00000003f7235300c92e0464048188149116df7d7ea24947c1a63c640c6b411a10e13cd0f33c64b 208d330fe97449eda3260d7a8793c65909dbc46755226b73c1631c78f51670ce51c055b1a000000 0000000080000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000080020000",
      "merkle": [],
      "coinbase": "01000000e50c6751010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000ffffffff0c02e33b010c062f503253482fffffffff010032c80000000000232102b25558a310 529f5b7ee427511183a576d67dfe1524c676b626ff96cd204fb84bac00000000",
      "target": "000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001a5b0500000000"
   },
   "id": 1
}
[2013-04-11 19:19:51.172706] error: using aux chains but getworkex not available


WTF ??!

[Balthazar]

Hm, that's quite strange. I'll investigate this issue soon.

[ocminer]

Maybe a pushpool issue ?

[Balthazar]

Maybe a pushpool issue ?

I've tried to check many possible configurations and it works for me... Khore pool also using this without issues.  

Maybe you are trying to use alexhz/pushpool instead of mine?

P.S. 0.4 will be released tomorrow, if there will be no release-blocking bugs.

[SRoulette]

Maybe a pushpool issue ?

I've tried to check many possible configurations and it works for me... Khore pool also using this without issues.  

Maybe you are trying to use alexhz/pushpool instead of mine?

P.S. 0.4 will be released tomorrow, if there will be no release-blocking bugs.

Can we have a preview of the new features

[Balthazar]

Maybe a pushpool issue ?

I've tried to check many possible configurations and it works for me... Khore pool also using this without issues.  

Maybe you are trying to use alexhz/pushpool instead of mine?

P.S. 0.4 will be released tomorrow, if there will be no release-blocking bugs.

Can we have a preview of the new features

PM.

[ocminer]

Maybe a pushpool issue ?

I've tried to check many possible configurations and it works for me... Khore pool also using this without issues.  

Maybe you are trying to use alexhz/pushpool instead of mine?

P.S. 0.4 will be released tomorrow, if there will be no release-blocking bugs.

Can you send me a link to your pushpool version ?

I can also do a beta test for 0.4 if you like