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

[matt4054]

35 hours+ with PC mining i5 CPU @ 400 - 600 PPS (no block for 35+ hours)

4 Linux servers (AVG PPS BELOW)
10 cores at 2500 PPS - NO BLOCK
1 CPU @ 500 PPS - NO BLOCK
1 CPU @ 700 PPS - NO BLOCK
12 CORE CPU @ 1500 - 2500 PPS NO BLOCK.

hm.. I'd be happy to even see a return on my hardware/resources,
but it doesn't look like that will be happening anytime soon.

I think you are just being unlucky. I am mining with less pps than you overall and I got 2 maturing and 1 orphan block in the last 12 hours. So I would suggest you to just keep hashing priming and the returns should arrive eventually

[usahero]

35 hours+ with PC mining i5 CPU @ 400 - 600 PPS (no block for 35+ hours)

4 Linux servers (AVG PPS BELOW)
10 cores at 2500 PPS - NO BLOCK
1 CPU @ 500 PPS - NO BLOCK
1 CPU @ 700 PPS - NO BLOCK
12 CORE CPU @ 1500 - 2500 PPS NO BLOCK.

hm.. I'd be happy to even see a return on my hardware/resources,
but it doesn't look like that will be happening anytime soon.

LoL..

my lame a3 3300 has found 3 blocks so far - 1 just today (250-350 pps). I think there is a problem with the client you are using.

Btw, I had more luck mining with default client than any new clients so far, ... but that could be attributed to difficulty rise.

[ManBearPig]

I started using release 12 and I'd found 2 blocks within minutes. 2 more found overnight but not accepted (first time for this) and I woke up to find it had crashed.

Just under 1,000 PPS on 7 of 8 i7-3770K cores.

[eule]

Why do all the wallet lag on the block chain i have to stop and restart them all

Yep, my official windows 0.1.1 client hung on 22171.

[nullbitspectre1848]

I'm running the 0.1.1 client and had no hang issue on that block, or any other for that matter.  Maybe a fluke?

[ribal]

Installed the latest official qt and it crashed.

Program: primexoin-qt.exe
File: src/main.cpp
Line: 1719

Expression: pfork!= NULL



Whats wrong? Already re-installed.

[fabrizziop]

I'd like to know if I'm the only one having this problem:

The primecoin client appears to be working normally, it says up to date and everything, but when you restart it then it tells you it's about 6 hours behind and you have orphan blocks. As I try with UPNP and non-upnp builds my ports are forwarded directly at the router (pfsense) and I see normally around 20 connections.

[Carra23]

Not getting anything. Will run for a day more and shut off if I get nothing.

[OnlyC]

Installed the latest official qt and it crashed.

Program: primexoin-qt.exe
File: src/main.cpp
Line: 1719

Expression: pfork!= NULL



Whats wrong? Already re-installed.

Where did you download it from? look at the file name, primexoin?

[mustyoshi]

My connected nodes has been steadily dropping, was at 100+ last night, currently at 83, are people leaving the network in light of the people getting 5k+ pps?

[bitwarrior]

How do you increase the number of connections? any nodes to be added? I have only 8 connections at the moment.
thanks

[mustyoshi]

How do you increase the number of connections? any nodes to be added? I have only 8 connections at the moment.
thanks

In your primecoin.conf add

Code:

maxconnections=#

I limited mine to 256.

Go ahead and

Code:

addnode 68.61.164.76 add

in your console.

[rahlquist]

35 hours+ with PC mining i5 CPU @ 400 - 600 PPS (no block for 35+ hours)


hm.. I'd be happy to even see a return on my hardware/resources,
but it doesn't look like that will be happening anytime soon.

It's not just you. I have friends I convinced to try this coin and they are getting blocks and I have been mining it for over 24 hours on 5 machines with about a 2800 combined rate and not one block yet.

[cryptohunter]

35 hours+ with PC mining i5 CPU @ 400 - 600 PPS (no block for 35+ hours)


hm.. I'd be happy to even see a return on my hardware/resources,
but it doesn't look like that will be happening anytime soon.

It's not just you. I have friends I convinced to try this coin and they are getting blocks and I have been mining it for over 24 hours on 5 machines with about a 2800 combined rate and not one block yet.

Yeah it's harder to mine now for sure, i wouldn't convince so many people. Then again some people have over 100,000 pps each so doesn't really matter. The easy coins for the average miner are gone. Just leave your pcs running and forget about it and check in a weeks time, maybe a few blocks by then.

[alexxy]

Yeah it's harder to mine now for sure, i wouldn't convince so many people. Then again some people have over 100,000 pps each so doesn't really matter. The easy coins for the average miner are gone. Just leave your pcs running and forget about it and check in a weeks time, maybe a few blocks by then.

You're wrong. I get 8 blocks today using only 4 pc

[cryptohunter]

Yeah it's harder to mine now for sure, i wouldn't convince so many people. Then again some people have over 100,000 pps each so doesn't really matter. The easy coins for the average miner are gone. Just leave your pcs running and forget about it and check in a weeks time, maybe a few blocks by then.

You're wrong. I get 8 blocks today using only 4 pc

If that happens everyday then i'm wrong. You may not get a block for 24 hours or more now. At the start you could expect a block every few hours from each pc. The diff has gone up right?? I see a lot of people with 3000pps saying nothing for hours or days.

[matt4054]

Yeah it's harder to mine now for sure, i wouldn't convince so many people. Then again some people have over 100,000 pps each so doesn't really matter. The easy coins for the average miner are gone. Just leave your pcs running and forget about it and check in a weeks time, maybe a few blocks by then.

This is one of the only new alt-coins that actually has a value IMHO, I wouldn't like to see it dead because of a massive sell-off from some botnet operators or the like... I'm a little bit worried since it has already made its way to Vircurex, Cryptsy and MCXNow. Back in the pre-cryptocoin days, I had given more than $300 worth of electricity / CPU power for the GIMPS project, and there was no reward for it (unless you "won the lottery" by finding a new highest Mersenne prime).

The scientific value of PrimeCoin is not as much, but still, it has one.

[LZ]

How do you increase the number of connections? any nodes to be added? I have only 8 connections at the moment.

Add these lines to your primecoin.conf file:

Code:

dns=1
addnode=primecoin.cloudapp.net
addnode=primecoins0.cloudapp.net
addnode=primecoins1.cloudapp.net
addnode=primecoins2.cloudapp.net
addnode=primecoins3.cloudapp.net
addnode=primecoins4.cloudapp.net
addnode=primecoins5.cloudapp.net
addnode=primecoins6.cloudapp.net
addnode=primecoins7.cloudapp.net
addnode=primecoins8.cloudapp.net
addnode=primecoins9.cloudapp.net
addnode=primecoins10.cloudapp.net
addnode=primecoins11.cloudapp.net
addnode=primecoins12.cloudapp.net
addnode=primecoins13.cloudapp.net
addnode=primecoins14.cloudapp.net

Also you have to open TCP port 9911. Check it.

[mhps]

35 hours+ with PC mining i5 CPU @ 400 - 600 PPS (no block for 35+ hours)

4 Linux servers (AVG PPS BELOW)
10 cores at 2500 PPS - NO BLOCK
1 CPU @ 500 PPS - NO BLOCK
1 CPU @ 700 PPS - NO BLOCK
12 CORE CPU @ 1500 - 2500 PPS NO BLOCK.

hm.. I'd be happy to even see a return on my hardware/resources,
but it doesn't look like that will be happening anytime soon.

I think the PPS number is partly an illusion. I suggest the official 0.1.1 client. I use it to find a block in about 12 hours but nothing with the optimized ones (except early version of 0710 and first release from Zalfrin).
I also suggest you restart your client once a few hours. I just wasted about 6 hours a few hours ago because it was mining on the wrong chain -- found out after I restarted one client and it started redownloading blockchain from 6 hours before.

[altsay]

It seems the prices on exchanges will skyrocket eventually as even higher pps rates does not yield that much of blocks.