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

[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.

[pgbit]

~570 primespersec with Release 12! :O

Release 12? Is this release from the windows zip file at the start? Any link appreciated 

[jpmi1]

~570 primespersec with Release 12! :O

Release 12? Is this release from the windows zip file at the start? Any link appreciated  

Here you go page 86

Zalfrin
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

[ivanlabrie]

~570 primespersec with Release 12! :O

Release 12? Is this release from the windows zip file at the start? Any link appreciated 

Use this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ol7z6bt7hhml2v5/release17_generic.zip

[maka]

Some of my observations:

The average block generating speed for the first 1000 blocks was about 44s;
The average block generating speed right now (around block 21400) is about 8.8s;
Considering difficulty and other factor, I calculated the total mining power increases 72 times.  If we assume the algorithm optimizing provide 7 fold improvement, then I guess the miner base increased by a factor of 10 since start.

[oroqen]

Some of my observations:

The average block generating speed for the first 1000 blocks was about 44s;
The average block generating speed right now (around block 21400) is about 8.8s;
Considering difficulty and other factor, I calculated the total mining power increases 72 times.  If we assume the algorithm optimizing provide 7 fold improvement, then I guess the miner base increased by a factor of 10 since start.

Just redownloaded the block chain and watched the logs fly by, lots of orphans started too show up since this morning. Must be someone out there figured out an external miner? or people using DigitalOcean(VPS)

[maka]

Some of my observations:

The average block generating speed for the first 1000 blocks was about 44s;
The average block generating speed right now (around block 21400) is about 8.8s;
Considering difficulty and other factor, I calculated the total mining power increases 72 times.  If we assume the algorithm optimizing provide 7 fold improvement, then I guess the miner base increased by a factor of 10 since start.

Just redownloaded the block chain and watched the logs fly by, lots of orphans started too show up since this morning. Must be someone out there figured out an external miner? or people using DigitalOcean(VPS)

I myself also jumped on the wrong chains three times already.  Because the block generating is so fast now collisions are much more likely.  My personal experience with the new "released" version has a 10fold pps than before.  If that's the case for everyone then 7 times more CPUs are running, which makes sense to me.

The publicity for PrimeCoin is really good.  Only 5 days into mining there are already like 4 or 5 reports on the internet, including 2 headline articles from Bitcoin Magazine.  So it is not so surprising a lot more people try to enbark the adventure.:-)

[cosurgi]

I myself also jumped on the wrong chains three times already.  Because the block generating is so fast now collisions are much more likely. 

Block generation should be slower. 60 seconds is just too fast.

[Lauda]

~570 primespersec with Release 12! :O

Release 12? Is this release from the windows zip file at the start? Any link appreciated  

Here you go page 86

Zalfrin
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

+1 I've used the 2nd one.
Very good 

[maka]

I myself also jumped on the wrong chains three times already.  Because the block generating is so fast now collisions are much more likely. 

Block generation should be slower. 60 seconds is just too fast.

people are complaining not get blocks   If it was set slower many miners would quit.

[donut]

Anyone working on a GPU miner yet? Here's some help: http://www.macs-site.net/CudaPrimes.htm

[oroqen]

I myself also jumped on the wrong chains three times already.  Because the block generating is so fast now collisions are much more likely. 

Block generation should be slower. 60 seconds is just too fast.

people are complaining not get blocks   If it was set slower many miners would quit.

You can only please some people, some of the time, and all people, none of the time.

[Plazma]

how do you know if you are on the wrong block chain, also witch files do you delete to re-download the blockchain.

[mik3]

Is anyone who's tech savvy enough making a pool? You can make a shit ton of coins since everyone would hop right on.

[maka]

how do you know if you are on the wrong block chain, also witch files do you delete to re-download the blockchain.

If you find your "current number of blocks" stay the same for a long time, then you are in trouble.  To be sure, you may check http://www2.crypto-expert.com/primecoin/index.php to see what is the correct number right now.

Just restart the software and it will automatically reconnect to the network and update the block chain(most probably the correct one...).

[AgentME]

Anyone working on a GPU miner yet? Here's some help: http://www.macs-site.net/CudaPrimes.htm

This was a good test to learn the basics of Cuda, however, it is not really practical. Although it proved to be significantly faster than anything I could write to run on my CPU, it is limited to 64bit integers which for practical prime number finding are useless. The largest prime number known is 12,978,189 digits long (http://primes.utm.edu/largest.html) and I certainly do not have the math background to compete with that.

Granted, the primes Primecoin deals with are only around a hundred digits long, but that's still much too long for that code to work with.

[jlspartz]

Just installed the 0.1.1 client released not even an hour ago for windows. Was the 1st downloader of it on sourceforge. I'm getting 3 PPS. This is a i7 3940xm cpu. What's wrong?