[ANN][SIC] Sifcoin - inflation fork

[ig0tik3d]

Number of 1990 blocks reached! Seems like total hashrate slowed down, so generating speed is near to 250 coins per day, maybe a little bit more.

It has - I mined about 6 coin in the first 24 -30 hours, but the next 24 hours I only mined 1 on the same machine/config.  Diff shot up and luck was down  

Now it makes me wish I had sprung for the faster cpu

BTW: does the windows .exe use all available processing extensions available in today's cpus (like SSE3)?  That's more a function of the compiler settings than the source code.  Would a 64-bit version buy much in terms of performance?  If the operations are mostly 32-bit int then probably not (I suppose I could look at the source to get a clue on that)...

source cpu miner http://sourceforge.net/projects/sifcoin/files/cpuminer-1.0.2.zip/download
and modificated wallet http://sourceforge.net/projects/sifcoin/files/sifcoin-code.zip/download

i compiled miner and wallet, but not sure is optimized for x64
minerd http://rghost.ru/47044682
wallet new http://rghost.ru/47044633

sifcoin.conf

Code:

rpcuser=123
rpcpassword=1234567890
server=1
rpcallowip=*

Code:

minerd --url http://127.0.0.1:8372 --userpass 123:1234567890 -t 4

[1714860063]

1714860063

[mill0601]

Number of 1990 blocks reached! Seems like total hashrate slowed down, so generating speed is near to 250 coins per day, maybe a little bit more.

It has - I mined about 6 coin in the first 24 -30 hours, but the next 24 hours I only mined 1 on the same machine/config.  Diff shot up and luck was down  

Now it makes me wish I had sprung for the faster cpu

BTW: does the windows .exe use all available processing extensions available in today's cpus (like SSE3)?  That's more a function of the compiler settings than the source code.  Would a 64-bit version buy much in terms of performance?  If the operations are mostly 32-bit int then probably not (I suppose I could look at the source to get a clue on that)...

source cpu miner http://sourceforge.net/projects/sifcoin/files/cpuminer-1.0.2.zip/download
and modificated wallet http://sourceforge.net/projects/sifcoin/files/sifcoin-code.zip/download

i compiled miner and wallet, but not sure is optimized for x64
minerd http://rghost.ru/47044682
wallet new http://rghost.ru/47044633

sifcoin.conf

Code:

rpcuser=123
rpcpassword=1234567890
server=1
rpcallowip=*

Code:

minerd --url http://127.0.0.1:8372 --userpass 123:1234567890 -t 4

great work  may I suggest you make an official announcement in the forums so people dont miss it

[ig0tik3d]

i only compile source ))
Sources have been posted by creator of this coin
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=240884.msg2588510#msg2588510, he speak, version of cpu miner is not beta is a deep alpha..)) and you can use miner for your own risk))

[SpaceCadet]

i only compile source ))
Sources have been posted by creator of this coin
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=240884.msg2588510#msg2588510, he speak, version of cpu miner is not beta is a deep alpha..)) and you can use miner for your own risk))

Once again my pyccкий is not very good   How does sic_new differ from what is posted on sourceforge (besides being much smaller)?  I noticed some small differences in the gui, but the version info is the same.  Not a complaint, just an observation.  I assume that minerd is included in the sourceforge version, just hidden behind the scenes since coin gets generated with just it running.

I REALLY like the idea behind this coin, and I understand that it takes some time to iron out the wrinkles when you don't just copy and paste to make a 'me-too' coin.  I just wish my pyccкий was better so I could get more from the original link!

Cheers!

[Storan]

Very minor differences from the base version.
lightweight rpc-call getwork2, and checkpoint on the 2000 block number (protection against alternative chain starting from scratch from an attacker).
minerd - modification cpu-miner by Jeff Garzik the modified hash functions and getwork2. The algorithm calculating hashes, really the same as in the qt-client used (C-library) sphlib v3.0

[Storan]

Number of 1990 blocks reached! Seems like total hashrate slowed down, so generating speed is near to 250 coins per day, maybe a little bit more.

It has - I mined about 6 coin in the first 24 -30 hours, but the next 24 hours I only mined 1 on the same machine/config.  Diff shot up and luck was down  

Now it makes me wish I had sprung for the faster cpu

BTW: does the windows .exe use all available processing extensions available in today's cpus (like SSE3)?  That's more a function of the compiler settings than the source code.  Would a 64-bit version buy much in terms of performance?  If the operations are mostly 32-bit int then probably not (I suppose I could look at the source to get a clue on that)...

1. This is my logical mistake. Turning on the total correction blocks found in comparison with the calculated from the start of the system. So the current difficulty is too high - 2100 blocks is the estimated week+, and was a little less than four days.

2. 64-bit should be faster. At least one hash function skein, designed for 64-bit systems. Need a check, but the problem is that mingw32 - a compiler 32-bit exe.

[ig0tik3d]

2. 64-bit should be faster. At least one hash function skein, designed for 64-bit systems. Need a check, but the problem is that mingw32 - a compiler 32-bit exe.

Detailed Windows build instructions, using MinGW (64-bit):
   Install MinGW and the MSYS Developer Tool Kit (http://www.mingw.org/)
      * Choose C, C++ and MSys on install and select to have it update its libraries
      * Install into C:\MinGW
      * Add C:\MinGW\bin and c:\MinGW\msys\1.0 to your path
   Download MinGW64 from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win64/Automated%20Builds/
      * Choose mingw-w64-bin_i686-mingw_20111220.zip
      * Extract ZIP to C:\MinGW64
      * Add C:\MinGW64\bin to your path before C:\MinGW\bin
   Install libcurl devel (http://curl.haxx.se/download.html)
      * download curl-7.30.0.tar.gz from http://curl.haxx.se/download.html and put it in C:\deps\
      * launch an MSYS shell and enter the following commands (the configure step will take a long time!)
         cd /c/deps
         tar -xvzf curl-7.30.0.tar.gz
         cd curl-7.30.0
         ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 –-prefix=/c/mingw64
         make
         make install
         cp /c/deps/curl-7.30.0/docs/libcurl/libcurl.m4 /c/mingw/share/aclocal/libcurl.m4
   Install pthreads
      * download pthreads-20100604.zip from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/External%20binary%20packages%20%28Win64%20hosted%29/pthreads/ and put it in C:\deps\
      * unzip the file to c:\deps\
      * In the mingw64 subdirectory is pthreads-w64.zip - extract the contents to C:\MinGW64
   In the MSYS shell, navigate to the CPUminer source code direcctory
      * You will likely get higher hashrates by forcing the compiler to build the executable for your
        specific CPU architecture.  This is done by adding "-march=<value>" into the CFLAGS.  Those
        values can be found at http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/i386-and-x86_002d64-Options.html
           common choices for intel are : core2, corei7, corei7-avx
           common choices for AMD are : athlon-fx
      * Execute the following (replacing the value of -march with the value for your CPU type)
         ./autogen.sh
         ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 CFLAGS="-O3 -march=core2 -DCPU_X86_FORCE_INTRINSICS"
         make
   Strip minerd.exe
      * In a command prompt, in the compilation directory, execute the following
         x86_64-w64-mingw32-strip minerd.exe
   Combine the executables with the dependencies
      * copy minerd.exe, C:\MinGW64\bin\libcurl-4.dll, and C:\MinGW64\bin\pthreadGC2-w64.dll to the same directory

[maxsolnc]

Any news from developers/big miners/exchanges?

[SpaceCadet]

1. This is my logical mistake. Turning on the total correction blocks found in comparison with the calculated from the start of the system. So the current difficulty is too high - 2100 blocks is the estimated week+, and was a little less than four days.

Any easy way to reduce the diff or to re-scale how it increases?

My luck has been better the last two days though.  Not bad for a cpu-only coin!

Cheers!

Update 2013-7-4:
The diff is down some and my coin gen rate is up.  

The is a lot of activity on the Russian version of this thread. It would be great if someone could post some of the highlights and announcements from there to here (I'm impressed with how many on that thread are fluently multilingual!)

[FuzzyBear]

7iN9tZvkgPmrKD4ddTQrtpr8DaYB8wt6ch

any one fancy sending a miner with 0 coins their first??

many thanks

[testz]

7iN9tZvkgPmrKD4ddTQrtpr8DaYB8wt6ch

any one fancy sending a miner with 0 coins their first??

many thanks

Sent 1 SIC, enjoy 

[mill0601]

we need an exchange

[mill0601]

wow the network is going strong. This is one of those coins that are going to come from behind.

[lsd225]

addnode=68.81.64.95  in case you are one of the few like me fooling with this one

Mining close to two days , note first blocks were 1.0315 now up to 1.0501

Just for thought after reading how difficulty increases
extrapolating the last two days (which is a very small data set on a coin with a
very short history) to see where it can go....

501-315= 186 x 365 then divided by 2 since i am running 48 hours not 24
means this could ramp up really fast,  3.395 . plus the 1 for the block would mean 4.395
is an estimated block award in one year. 

Obviously the difficulty could increase faster or slower and 2 days worth of data is hardly anything
you can make long term predictions on but since this is a cpu only mined coin there are a lot of
cpu's out there. 

Somehow I find it a long shot all those cpu's will find and mine this coin but one never knows.

Obviously the foundation of why we are all here is bitcoin (also litecoin for me and some others) and no one should deny they deserves the focus. 

While we mine those in pools and watch the difficulty shooting up in both it is nice to have a few extras like one and prime coin to run in the background.  In closing I will say reading the Russian thread for this coin in google translate was something that I found very entertaining. 

[SpaceCadet]

Ok - now that I have all these SIC, is there an exchange or other place to use them? 

Hopefully someplace that's not just in Cyrillic

[testz]

How we have a clone? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=260679.0

[com911]

How we have a clone? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=260679.0

Yes, Quark has much better promotion.

[SpaceCadet]

How we have a clone? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=260679.0

Yes, Quark has much better promotion.

It's almost as if the SIC dev wants to keep it a secret!  No exchanges that I can find carry SIC and it's hardly even mentioned any where except in passing.  I finally find a coin that my 'background' machines can mine efficiently, but there is no place to use them!  Maybe it's time to give Quark a try if it's based on SIC...

[mill0601]

How we have a clone? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=260679.0

Yes, Quark has much better promotion.

It's almost as if the SIC dev wants to keep it a secret!  No exchanges that I can find carry SIC and it's hardly even mentioned any where except in passing.  I finally find a coin that my 'background' machines can mine efficiently, but there is no place to use them!  Maybe it's time to give Quark a try if it's based on SIC...

Dont give up on SIC now it's these coins that hide in the background for months that seem to do really well.

[SpaceCadet]

How we have a clone? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=260679.0

Yes, Quark has much better promotion.

It's almost as if the SIC dev wants to keep it a secret!  No exchanges that I can find carry SIC and it's hardly even mentioned any where except in passing.  I finally find a coin that my 'background' machines can mine efficiently, but there is no place to use them!  Maybe it's time to give Quark a try if it's based on SIC...

Dont give up on SIC now it's these coins that hide in the background for months that seem to do really well.

At least the trolls leave it alone