[ANN] [QRK] Quark | Core 0.10 upgrade

[cryptohunter]

Quarkcoin dev

start pushing your coin to be used by other devs on their projects if possible. I see new things coming out like prepaid cards etc that are even accepting coins like orbit and kruger, i mean come on if they will use orbit ffs quark should get on there.

Also casinos and other things.

I'm not sure how these other devs are getting their coins used in different projects but i think quark needs get a bit more attention than just this thread.

[alexrussel1980]

P2Pool seems working fine
got 1012 quarks today  on my single core cpu lol !!

[aikklond]

P2Pool seems working fine
got 1012 quarks today  on my single core cpu lol !!

how do you mine on a p2pool, is there a special minerd version?

[victzhang]

P2Pool seems working fine
got 1012 quarks today  on my single core cpu lol !!

how do you mine on a p2pool, is there a special minerd version?

Yes, see
http://forum.quarkcoin.org/Thread-ANN-poolers-cpuminer-with-quarkcoin-support

Pool: http://176.221.46.81:8372/

Usage:
minerd_xyz.exe -a quark -t <numthreads> -o http://176.221.46.81:8372 -u <youquarkaddress>

[trinsic]

Got it compiled on FreeBSD with AVX on an i5-3570S however I'm not sure what kind of khash/s I should expect, running the modified minerd with three of four threads mining.

Code:

[2013-08-19 15:27:46] Stratum detected new block
[2013-08-19 15:27:46] thread 1: 77325 hashes, 22.36 khash/s
[2013-08-19 15:27:46] thread 2: 80053 hashes, 23.14 khash/s
[2013-08-19 15:27:46] thread 0: 78033 hashes, 22.59 khash/s
[2013-08-19 15:28:00] Stratum detected new block
[2013-08-19 15:28:00] thread 1: 316161 hashes, 22.81 khash/s
[2013-08-19 15:28:00] thread 0: 309976 hashes, 22.38 khash/s
[2013-08-19 15:28:00] thread 2: 312851 hashes, 22.58 khash/s

[eule]

Maybe an announcement thread for the CPU miner (which works great) would be useful to draw even more miners to this coin (if you want that, hurting your income, possibly rising the price though)...

[Neisklar]

@Neisklar: still waiting for a true p2pool src are you working on it or is this no goal?

Have cloned the source git, but not worked on it. But will come.

I have updated the git repo https://github.com/Neisklar/p2pool-quarkcoin with the modified sources from the pool.
After removing all that debug lines, it aren't so much changed, but it took time to understand it.

During that preparation i have seen that some values of the pool are at my opinion not at the optimal level, and there is a bug in the difficulty calculations (so that is it wrong displayed in the stats page). Additionally there was this thing that since a certain time the stats paged displayed the wrong hashes of found blocks. That thing i have workarounded (still haven't found teh real issue) and therefore needed to restart the pool.
So don't be irrated by some weird message in you looks.
Additionally there are currently two addressesd which submit en mass shares above the target. I just can guess, and don't know if it's causes by the p2pool restart, or some broken client which reports back whatever he has calculated...

Also as said there aren't some values at the optimal level, which i would like to tweak a little bit. But that needs afaik a reset of the database.
But thats a thing i will announce. Maybe i also setup the pool fresh on a 64bit Box, so the IP will likely change, but thats all future things and depend on my workload and time.

Edit:
QVWJza7gDoexqzB11puaY6bYTebmE2DkEg and QYqSAjv9oQBRaNx8UFoi2qgtmXVMGBFeHJ please send me a personal message over the forums

[ig0tik3d]

anyone had problem with big transactions? i have 3 transactions without confirmations in my wallet(((

[altsay]

1 core 2 thread CPU does 46 kh. What does it get in one day?

[Neisklar]

1 core 2 thread CPU does 46 kh. What does it get in one day?

2^24 * <diff> / <yourhashes> = seconds per block
2^23 * 179.95044567 / 46000 = 65631 seconds.
That means statistically 18,23 hours to get a block

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IMPORTANT:

I need to fix an issue in the p2pools implementation. For that i'm in the need of deleteing the share database.
Since the PPLNS setting was relativly tight, it shouldn't change to much of the output after the restart.
But i will change that setting a bit, so that in future payouts will be a little bit smoother, but also will take some time for new slower miners to build up.

You should be able to continue mining till i am finished with fixing, and then the restart should only take about a minute.


EDIT:

After a reboot it worked again. So i should have fixed that bug, and also smoothed the PPLNS a little bit


EDIT2: There are still miners out there which produce erronous results, please check your miners

[SALHERO]

anyone had problem with big transactions? i have 3 transactions without confirmations in my wallet(((

me!!! i only try of sent 5000 and the transaction never be made

[cryptohunter]

what do you mean?? we can't send big transactions at the moment or they fail??

[victzhang]

anyone had problem with big transactions? i have 3 transactions without confirmations in my wallet(((

big transactions should work. Perhaps your wallet is not synchronized or is on a wrong fork.
See http://forum.quarkcoin.org/Thread-Unconfirmed-transactions for a solution.

[sal002]

Just wanted to report back. Left a VPS on for 10 hours mining and got 6 blocks, I mined with the CPU miner for 5 hours and only got 1 block. Interesting thing is that I got some odd debug outputs with -H added but got a higher hash-rate.

Please remember that now the difficulty (200+) is much higher than before (~100)...

Right, however, some of them were when it was high.

Time for coinchoose.com to get a page for CPU-only coins. Would be nice to compare profits generated by Quark, Primecoin and Memorycoin.

ssshhhhh - http://www.coinchoose.com/cpu.php

[smolen]

ssshhhhh - http://www.coinchoose.com/cpu.php

That's great, thank you!

[sal002]

ssshhhhh - http://www.coinchoose.com/cpu.php

That's great, thank you!

well - now if I can figure out the block reward from memorycoin....then I can finish this page.

[K1773R]

Just wanted to report back. Left a VPS on for 10 hours mining and got 6 blocks, I mined with the CPU miner for 5 hours and only got 1 block. Interesting thing is that I got some odd debug outputs with -H added but got a higher hash-rate.

Please remember that now the difficulty (200+) is much higher than before (~100)...

Right, however, some of them were when it was high.

Time for coinchoose.com to get a page for CPU-only coins. Would be nice to compare profits generated by Quark, Primecoin and Memorycoin.

ssshhhhh - http://www.coinchoose.com/cpu.php

well, diff calc is totally wrong as difficulty of primecoin isnt in correlation with difficulty of any ohter coin

[ZirconiumX]

I'm mining at 320kH/s. Is this fast or slow?

Matthew:out

[cryptohunter]

ssshhhhh - http://www.coinchoose.com/cpu.php

That's great, thank you!

well - now if I can figure out the block reward from memorycoin....then I can finish this page.

there is no way that is correct.I'm mining both and i can tell you 100% that you will make a lot more mining quarkcoin selling and buying prime if prime is what you want.

try it on 2 identical machines, quarks roll in primes do not.

[Neisklar]

ssshhhhh - http://www.coinchoose.com/cpu.php

That's great, thank you!

well - now if I can figure out the block reward from memorycoin....then I can finish this page.

there is no way that is correct.I'm mining both and i can tell you 100% that you will make a lot more mining quarkcoin selling and buying prime if prime is what you want.

try it on 2 identical machines, quarks roll in primes do not.

Just to add:
Quarkcoins diff is 256 times off:
this means on bitcoin, litecoin and so on you need at average 2^32 hashes for a diff 1 target, in Quarkcoin you need at average only 2^24 (for diff 1 target)
So if you wan't to compare the diff with other coins, you need to divide the divv by 256.