[XPM] [ANN] Primecoin Release - First Scientific Computing Cryptocurrency

[altsay]

Odd. No blocks mined in the last ~20 hours, on four machines that were producing nicely before then. Three machines are running the original client, one with an updated client. They are all keeping up with the blockchain. Any explanations?

Me neither in the last 17 hours. I hope it's just bad luck.

[LazyOtto]

What is one tenth of what you were getting a couple of days ago?

That, with variance, is what you should be expecting now.

[oroqen]

Odd. No blocks mined in the last ~20 hours, on four machines that were producing nicely before then. Three machines are running the original client, one with an updated client. They are all keeping up with the blockchain. Any explanations?

25.2 hours since I seen one (not using VPS), blocks are being solved all the same whoever is getting them

[vinne81]

Odd. No blocks mined in the last ~20 hours, on four machines that were producing nicely before then. Three machines are running the original client, one with an updated client. They are all keeping up with the blockchain. Any explanations?

Mostly luck. I have 2 identical machines. One found 5 blocks yesterday, the other 0. Today it's the other way round.

How much PPS in total?

[Jigsaw]

Happy 20,000 blocks.

But seriously, mined three blocks so far in 12 hours at 1100pps.

[vinne81]

Happy 20,000 blocks.

But seriously, mined three blocks so far in 12 hours at 1100pps.

Seems "normal" I think. Even pretty good tbh. I'm mining with perhaps 8000pps, I don't have 20 blocks

[Ethera]

Happy 20,000 blocks.

But seriously, mined three blocks so far in 12 hours at 1100pps.

Seems "normal" I think. Even pretty good tbh. I'm mining with perhaps 8000pps, I don't have 20 blocks

i wish i had his rate, mining at 14k pps and i got nowhere 20 blocks got about 15 in last 24 hours...

[Lauda]

Happy 20,000 blocks.

But seriously, mined three blocks so far in 12 hours at 1100pps.

Seems "normal" I think. Even pretty good tbh. I'm mining with perhaps 8000pps, I don't have 20 blocks

i wish i had his rate, mining at 14k pps and i got nowhere 20 blocks got about 15 in last 24 hours...

Keep wasting money

[robolove]

what is prime calculation good for?

Primes are to mathematics what elements are to chemistry.

You, sir, are awesome for bringing Chemistry into this

Not really. There is a finite number of elements, but an infinite number of primes.

[Jigsaw]

what is prime calculation good for?

For one thing, encryption schemes.

[hak8or]

Please download updated clients, these are using the official code base versus the "optimized" code on my branch which may be causing problems.

These replace my releases 5 and 8 respectively. Let me know if there are any other releases you were using.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/76eij0zcjx091am/release11_sandybridge_i5.zip
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lxm220qqztpgps5/release12_x86-64.zip

FYI, I have a Core i5 2400S and release11 gives me ~350 pps while release12 ~500 pps. Numbers fluctuate though, but I was hoping release11 would be better for me.. Maybe I didn't wait long enough for numbers to improve, heh.

EDIT: I don't understand the hashing algorithm, but why would pps rate fluctuate so much? "getmininginfo" returns anywhere from 400 to 550 pps... I've never seen such hash rate changes.

Sadly release 12 is crashing for me when starting up.
Edit: And release 11.

I5-3570k
Windows 8 64 bit
SSD

[mr_random]

what is prime calculation good for?

Primes are to mathematics what elements are to chemistry.

You, sir, are awesome for bringing Chemistry into this

Not really. There is a finite number of elements, but an infinite number of primes.

He's referring to primes being the building blocks of the integers.

[markm]

what is prime calculation good for?

Primes are to mathematics what elements are to chemistry.

You, sir, are awesome for bringing Chemistry into this

Not really. There is a finite number of elements, but an infinite number of primes.

Are you sure? Neutron stars aren't effectively superheavy atoms, for example? Or do they contain no protons, or something?

I suppose you could maybe claim universes are not infinite therefore there must be some finitely large largest atom in any specific non-infinite universe but even if our universe happens not to be infinite are all others also? Etc... Maybe there are islands of stability of infinite sized universes as well as islands of stability of elements?

-MarkM-

[mustyoshi]

I'm connected to 67 nodes.

Anybody have a higher number?

[E.Sam]

I know some had issues with very low primespersec and that was addressed in the last release. I m using the Mac osx client and used to have around 120 primespersec, know I m around 2-3. Any way to fix that?
Cheers

[Cryptoin]

interesting indeed

[cryptohunter]

I have a ton of blocks saying offline probably wont be accepted?? what is up with that? did this fork or something and all my blocks are lost?

[krusin]

I have a ton of blocks saying offline probably wont be accepted?? what is up with that? did this fork or something and all my blocks are lost?

I came by to post exactly this, last three blocks look like orphans...

[cryptohunter]

Yep, but these are 15 blocks dating back a few days suddenly all turned to question marks saying offline and no other nodes recognise them and probably wont be accepted??  Is this a fork, and i mining on the wrong chain ?? how to solve this?

[cryptohunter]

I have a ton of blocks saying offline probably wont be accepted?? what is up with that? did this fork or something and all my blocks are lost?

I came by to post exactly this, last three blocks look like orphans...

this has forked because i just closed and restarted and the stupid qt is now saying 36 hours behind and all those blocks just vanished. I was mining on the wrong chain and i bet others probably are too. Waste of 2 days.