[ANN] #3 [XUN] UltraNote is READY, Everyone is welcome to mine.

[olddarkstar]

Cryptonight ASICS out.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3103990.0

all good cryptonite coins are working on anti asic enhancements.
no monero mining shows that they have problems
https://getmonero.org/2018/02/11/PoW-change-and-key-reuse.html

[Desp]

Gamma is a backup pool, It will be open when needed and we have more miners. Now we have too many pools and few miners.

According to the first post the official pools are Alpha, Beta and Delta.
In the UltraNote Wallet 1.0.4-beta there are Alpha, Beta and Gamma.

According to my knowledge - the Gamma pool is there probably by a mistake - pool does not work and site does not exist.

[Desp]

Thank you or your support. Nice and clean website

listed in the World Coin Index?
https://www.worldcoinindex.com/coin/ultranote

[Desp]

Congrats everyone, We are now officially listed on TrdeOgre https://tradeogre.com/exchange/BTC-XUN
Happy trading!

[anitaraymonds]

Thanks for the information on cryptoknight.cc & sebseb7.github.io to be scam. If not for this information a lot of investors would have grab the fake opportunity they are fraudulently proposing. Keep it up man.

[dreampool]

https://xun.dreampool.info/

pool opened

[Desp]

When we say Nicehash ports is not allowed to be open on XUN pools which part your don't understand people?

 Port: 3883
 Starting Difficulty: 400000
 Description: For Nicehash

https://xun.dreampool.info/

pool opened

[Desp]

Anyone with graphic design background are welcome to participate, We are starting a banner design contest for UltraNote XUN.

Design a banner set of 4 banners in this format ( Square – 250 x 250 ) ( Banner – 468 x 60) (Skyscraper – 120 x 600) and (Leaderboard – 728 x 90).
You can design banners for UltraNote Website, Forum and Marketplace. Rewards by voting  for best 3 banners set: 1st place 2500 XUN coins, 2nd place 1500 coins and 3rd place 1000 XUN coins.

Judges are Shinjuku  farah XpeedyGonz XUNalen and xungover

All banners should be posted on our forum https://forum.ultranote.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=144 Contest starts today and ends in 20th of March 2018. You can design banners for 1 of the websites or all of them. Let us know if you need more info.

Links for ideas:

https://ultranote.org/
https://market.ultranote.org/
https://forum.ultranote.org/

[MagicSmoker]

Am I the only one getting frequent disconnects (socket error: invalid target) and a higher than normal rate of rejected shares (for invalid solution) of around 2.5% on alpha.ultranote.org? I'm using xmr-stak 2.2.0 and don't see any such problems with other CN coins (DERO, ITNS, TRTL and EDL).

Also, the alpha pool doesn't seem to accept pings, but my ping time to beta.ultranote.org is a bit longer than I would like to see at 121ms so I'm assuming it is the same for alpha. Maybe the above issues are due to a longish packet transit time?

[Desp]

Hi,
Please join our Discord and we will try to help you. No, there is no problem with the pools and we don't host pools on same server or same location.

https://discord.gg/xyHw8vE

Am I the only one getting frequent disconnects (socket error: invalid target) and a higher than normal rate of rejected shares (for invalid solution) of around 2.5% on alpha.ultranote.org? I'm using xmr-stak 2.2.0 and don't see any such problems with other CN coins (DERO, ITNS, TRTL and EDL).

Also, the alpha pool doesn't seem to accept pings, but my ping time to beta.ultranote.org is a bit longer than I would like to see at 121ms so I'm assuming it is the same for alpha. Maybe the above issues are due to a longish packet transit time?

[MagicSmoker]

Hi,
Please join our Discord and we will try to help you. No, there is no problem with the pools and we don't host pools on same server or same location.

https://discord.gg/xyHw8vE

I really dislike Discord, but okay... Same username there as here.

[spfoo]

Seems like there is a nicehash bombardment going on right now. Hash rate 200khs -> 1.4 Mhs in a few minutes

[MagicSmoker]

@Desp suggested I switch from port 5555 to 7777 and that seems to have greatly reduced the disconnects - so far only 1 in 2 hours, where before I was getting disconnected every 10-30 minutes. I'm still seeing about 2.5% rejected shares, though, but this is likely due to my distance from the server.

That said, I've temporarily stopped mining XUN because of the NiceHash attack. And note that even if the "officially sanctioned" pools agree to not allow NH, all it takes is one pool letting them in to screw up your entire network. The same thing happened to DERO a couple months ago and the dev just gave up on trying to keep NH out (the "if you can't beat them, join them" approach).

EDIT - looks like ITNS is getting pounded by NiceHash, too. Network hashrate for it is now at 20 MH/s when it is normally around 5 MH/s.

[spfoo]

Yes I noticed the ITNS hash rate increase as well today.

[MagicSmoker]

@Desp suggested I switch from port 5555 to 7777 and that seems to have greatly reduced the disconnects - so far only 1 in 2 hours, where before I was getting disconnected every 10-30 minutes. I'm still seeing about 2.5% rejected shares, though, but this is likely due to my distance from the server.
...

I resumed mining XUN about 26 hours ago and I am getting lots of disconnects and rejected shares on port 7777; a disconnect every 5-15 minutes, it looks like, so even worse than it was before. I am also seeing significantly lower than expected earnings for the previous 24 hours: 548 vs. a minimum of 650, and more like 750 based on average difficulty and my hashrate of 1900 H/s.

I suspect these issues are related, but a contributing factor I've identified on other pools that had poor earnings are stingy PPLNS/PPLNT settings. I don't know if that applies here, however.

[eeX]

@Desp suggested I switch from port 5555 to 7777 and that seems to have greatly reduced the disconnects - so far only 1 in 2 hours, where before I was getting disconnected every 10-30 minutes. I'm still seeing about 2.5% rejected shares, though, but this is likely due to my distance from the server.
...

I resumed mining XUN about 26 hours ago and I am getting lots of disconnects and rejected shares on port 7777; a disconnect every 5-15 minutes, it looks like, so even worse than it was before. I am also seeing significantly lower than expected earnings for the previous 24 hours: 548 vs. a minimum of 650, and more like 750 based on average difficulty and my hashrate of 1900 H/s.

I suspect these issues are related, but a contributing factor I've identified on other pools that had poor earnings are stingy PPLNS/PPLNT settings. I don't know if that applies here, however.

Switch to solo mining.

[MagicSmoker]

I resumed mining XUN about 26 hours ago and I am getting lots of disconnects and rejected shares on port 7777; a disconnect every 5-15 minutes, it looks like, so even worse than it was before. I am also seeing significantly lower than expected earnings for the previous 24 hours: 548 vs. a minimum of 650, and more like 750 based on average difficulty and my hashrate of 1900 H/s.

I suspect these issues are related, but a contributing factor I've identified on other pools that had poor earnings are stingy PPLNS/PPLNT settings. I don't know if that applies here, however.

Switch to solo mining.

Solo mining is an interesting option; I haven't done that before, but it does look like I have a reasonable amount of hashrate vs. difficulty and block reward to give it a shot. Otherwise I am going to stop mining XUN unless a fair/trustworthy pool is opened in the US because I never earned anywhere close to the expected amount of XUN given the pool-reported hashrate.

[taku_RedPanda]

Is there an POW algorithm change plan to resist the new asic, antminer x3?

[Desp]

Here you can find a list of official and community pools. http://explorer.ultranote.org/#pools
You can use any pool that works best for you. Sometimes you can be connected to a wrong port or having wrong static difficulty which will lead for disconnections and drop in rewards.

In future release we may integrate GPU mining along side with CPU mining to the GUI wallet so miners don't need additional software to mine XUN using GPU.

[Desp]

Is there an POW algorithm change plan to resist the new asic, antminer x3?

Yes, We will be looking into that in due time when antminers x3 is out.