[Closed] [Bounty] Primecoin Standalone CPU Miner Current: 3.5BTC

[Vorksholk]

Due to a coming GPU miner, this bounty has now been withdrawn!


Hello! I'm offering up 2.5BTC of my own money to the first person who releases a standalone CPU miner for primecoin that performs as well if not better than the primecoin implementation already in the client. Irritant has also pledged 1 BTC.

FAQ: "Why is ypool not getting this bounty?"
A: Does not run native on Linux (requires wine).
Requirements:
Compiled windows binary
Compiled linux binary (or put it in an easy-to-use git repository, we want to make this available to everyone)
Published source code (github preferred!)

If you want to add to the bounty, just respond in this thread. I'm not going to collect for the bounty, we can just send it to the winner when they win.


Reasons for a CPU-standalone miner:
Pooling computing power to leverage against luck
Ability to submit shares to pools, 'guarantees' income (smooths out the bumps, etc.)
Not all miners need a full blockchain and client, etc.

Cheers!

[Vorksholk]

Bump.

[Vorksholk]

2.5 BTC to copy+paste code from the client? I would do it if I didn't think someone else would finish it first.

Basically. As long as it supports shares and would work with pools, that would be golden. And this bounty has been here all night, I thought it'd be done sooner xD.

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

2.5 BTC to copy+paste code from the client? I would do it if I didn't think someone else would finish it first.

Basically. As long as it supports shares and would work with pools, that would be golden. And this bounty has been here all night, I thought it'd be done sooner xD.

Right now, there is no established pooling protocol to follow.

[Lloydimiller4]

Hey guys, I've been using ScryptMiner GUI to solo mine primecoins. It can submit shares and work with pools too.

[paulthetafy]

Hey guys, I've been using ScryptMiner GUI to solo mine primecoins. It can submit shares and work with pools too.

Do you mind sharing how you have managed to do that?

[anonppcoin]

Hey guys, I've been using ScryptMiner GUI to solo mine primecoins. It can submit shares and work with pools too.

How on earth?

[shinkicker]

Hey guys, I've been using ScryptMiner GUI to solo mine primecoins. It can submit shares and work with pools too.

bullshit

[oroqen]

Hey guys, I've been using ScryptMiner GUI to solo mine primecoins. It can submit shares and work with pools too.

bullshit

seconded.

[vingaard]

Hey guys, I've been using ScryptMiner GUI to solo mine primecoins. It can submit shares and work with pools too.

Pools?... 

[mustyoshi]

How would a pool even do shares with a PoW like this?

[Lloydimiller4]

what is bullshit? I simply meant the program was designed to work with pools and submit shares, I didn't realize that primecoin was not designed to use with pools. I still have been solomining using scryptminer which i believed was the initial intent of OP.

[shinkicker]

what is bullshit? I simply meant the program was designed to work with pools and submit shares, I didn't realize that primecoin was not designed to use with pools. I still have been solomining using scryptminer which i believed was the initial intent of OP.

So you're solo mining using scrypt for primecoin?

[Vorksholk]

How would a pool even do shares with a PoW like this?

Yeah, that's the tricky part. Perhaps a proof-of-not-prime of some sort? Seems like a high-bandwidth option...

[fluffypony]

Pool support isn't up to the client/mining software, though, the pool software would need to be modified to support this. Having a standalone cpuminer fork would be a step in the right direction.

[Sunny King]

Pool share can be implemented as lower difficulty prime chains, similar to hashcash proof-of-work I think.

[Lloydimiller4]

what is bullshit? I simply meant the program was designed to work with pools and submit shares, I didn't realize that primecoin was not designed to use with pools. I still have been solomining using scryptminer which i believed was the initial intent of OP.

So you're solo mining using scrypt for primecoin?

I guess so, I didn't even check last night to see if it was scrypt or not(i've had a terrible cold the past week). My primecoin wallet says i've found 5 blocks already, and they are currently being confirmed, only my first block is at halfway to being fully confirmed. I was just in a rush to get mining last night and figured to use scryptminer for my CPU because it was the only standalone CPU miner i have. my cpu usage is at 100% on 6 cores and has mined for the past 12 hours. I found my first block almost instantly when i launched scryptminer using a solo mining config.

So is primecoin a scrypt coin? I am terribly confused by all of this now.

[willphase]

Hello! I'm offering up 2.5BTC of my own money to the first person who releases a standalone CPU miner for primecoin that performs as well if not better than the primecoin implementation already in the client.

Requirements:
Compiled windows binary
Compiled linux binary (or put it in an easy-to-use git repository, we want to make this available to everyone)
Published source code (github preferred!)

If you want to add to the bounty, just respond in this thread. I'm not going to collect for the bounty, we can just send it to the winner when they win.


Reasons for a CPU-standalone miner:
Pooling computing power to leverage against luck
Ability to submit shares to pools, 'guarantees' income (smooths out the bumps, etc.)
Not all miners need a full blockchain and client, etc.

Cheers!

quoting for posterity.

just changing one of the loops to optimise the code a bit, or changing from -O2 to -O3 will satisfy the three requirements specified in your bounty.

Will

[Ethera]

No, primecoin is not a scrypt coin, you are a cunt liar thou.

Welcome to negative reputation baby.

[anonppcoin]

what is bullshit? I simply meant the program was designed to work with pools and submit shares, I didn't realize that primecoin was not designed to use with pools. I still have been solomining using scryptminer which i believed was the initial intent of OP.

So you're solo mining using scrypt for primecoin?

I guess so, I didn't even check last night to see if it was scrypt or not(i've had a terrible cold the past week). My primecoin wallet says i've found 5 blocks already, and they are currently being confirmed, only my first block is at halfway to being fully confirmed. I was just in a rush to get mining last night and figured to use scryptminer for my CPU because it was the only standalone CPU miner i have. my cpu usage is at 100% on 6 cores and has mined for the past 12 hours. I found my first block almost instantly when i launched scryptminer using a solo mining config.

So is primecoin a scrypt coin? I am terribly confused by all of this now.

You have found 5 blocks using a scrypt miner for primecoin?

There are two options here:

1. You are a liar.
2. You are quite literally, and I mean this in the nicest way possible, dumb as rocks.

So which is it?