[ANN][BLC] Blakecoin Blake-256 for GPU/FPGA With Merged Mined Pools Stable Net

[bzyzny]

I keep on seeing BlakeCoin touted as Bitcoin 2.0 in some places. But why? It has been out for quite some time and would the average investor understand whats better? Could someone please explain to me what advantages it has and why it could be a darkhorse to rival bitcoin soon.

No cudaminer yet, but if you look at the thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=167229.0 youll see the dev is considering adding blake support. you could msg the dev to show your support for this.

[XbladeX]

I keep on seeing BlakeCoin touted as Bitcoin 2.0 in some places. But why? It has been out for quite some time and would the average investor understand whats better? Could someone please explain to me what advantages it has and why it could be a darkhorse to rival bitcoin soon.

No cudaminer yet, but if you look at the thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=167229.0 youll see the dev is considering adding blake support. you could msg the dev to show your support for this.

No no i am using cuda miner for BLC.
I can upload you miner if you dont affraid virus

what is goin on www.blakecoinpool.org ? My payment stuck.

[BlueDragon747]

I keep on seeing BlakeCoin touted as Bitcoin 2.0 in some places. But why? It has been out for quite some time and would the average investor understand whats better? Could someone please explain to me what advantages it has and why it could be a darkhorse to rival bitcoin soon.

No cudaminer yet, but if you look at the thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=167229.0 youll see the dev is considering adding blake support. you could msg the dev to show your support for this.

No no i am using cuda miner for BLC.
I can upload you miner if you dont affraid virus

what is goin on www.blakecoinpool.org ? My payment stuck.

pm kr105 he runs that pool
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=12229

[Mek]

I keep on seeing BlakeCoin touted as Bitcoin 2.0 in some places. But why? It has been out for quite some time and would the average investor understand whats better? Could someone please explain to me what advantages it has and why it could be a darkhorse to rival bitcoin soon.

No cudaminer yet, but if you look at the thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=167229.0 youll see the dev is considering adding blake support. you could msg the dev to show your support for this.

No no i am using cuda miner for BLC.
I can upload you miner if you dont affraid virus

what is goin on www.blakecoinpool.org ? My payment stuck.

Where did you get the cudaminer from? And why do you want to send me an infected file?

[loaded101]

Hi,

I am trying to mine blakecoin using a Lancelot board. Am I correct in thinking I need to do the following:

1. Use impact utility to flash the Lancelot board - this requires a JTAG programmer.
2. Mine with modified cgminer

Am I missing anything here? Can anyone point me in the direction of instructions to build the Jtag Cable?

I have managed to successfully mine using my 7950 rig.

Thanks.

[CompostingToliet]

Hi,

I am trying to mine blakecoin using a Lancelot board. Am I correct in thinking I need to do the following:

1. Use impact utility to flash the Lancelot board - this requires a JTAG programmer.
2. Mine with modified cgminer

Am I missing anything here? Can anyone point me in the direction of instructions to build the Jtag Cable?

I have managed to successfully mine using my 7950 rig.

Thanks.

I have a few lancelots I would like to use with blakecoin.
Should I use blakefourbufce-2core-ucf146-fmax154.bit?
Do I just flash in iMPACT as usual?
And which software should I use to mine?

Yes that's the one. You have a choice of two miners:

A python miner from https://github.com/kramble/FPGA-Blakecoin-Miner/tree/master/MiningSoftware (just follow the README instructions).

A customised cgminer 3.1.1 from https://github.com/kramble/FPGA-Blakecoin-Miner/tree/master/cgminer/cgminer-3.1.1 - you will need the Lancelot version (see link at the bottom of the README), or if compiling from source on linux, you need to uncomment LANCELOT_52 at the top of driver-icarus.c

Good luck with it

(EC with Blue, sorry)

Can't help with the cable building but, I did find one for cheap.  Page #84 in this thread talks about the FPGA options.  Cheers!

DX.com - Parallel JTAG $7  http://dx.com/p/xilinx-cpld-fpga-parallel-port-download-cable-grey-236177#.Uw-2ttu3KgY

[BlueDragon747]

Hi,

I am trying to mine blakecoin using a Lancelot board. Am I correct in thinking I need to do the following:

1. Use impact utility to flash the Lancelot board - this requires a JTAG programmer.
2. Mine with modified cgminer

Am I missing anything here? Can anyone point me in the direction of instructions to build the Jtag Cable?

I have managed to successfully mine using my 7950 rig.

Thanks.

I use a cheap version of the official Xilinx USB Cable (DLC9G) and that works flawlessly

looks just like this Image

[Mek]

I have an idea for pool owners: providing a stratum+tcp link to port 80 would be great for those behind restrictive firewalls

[BlueDragon747]

I have an idea for pool owners: providing a stratum+tcp link to port 80 would be great for those behind restrictive firewalls

pool server needs exclusive lock on port can't share it with other apps like the webserver would need a proxy which end user could also do

[arz]

Hi just to share my mining experience:
mining with the CGminer 3.11 mod and a R9 290 GPU . Speed is about 2.8Gh/s. win 8.1 64 bit, 8Gb RAM, CPU (dualcore Celeron G1610) is running 50%
pool is eu1.blakecoin.com where now after many hours(due to the 140 Round Earnings confims needed) about every 3 hours > 10 Blakecoins start to drip into the 0.890 wallet.
so about 90 BLC per day.seems working smooth and GPU cool(due to the low 13 intensity?) .
R9 290 can run with Intensity 20 but CGminer 3.11 mod crasht when setting the intensity above the default 13 (which is more a 7950/7970 setting)

I am also mining with the same GPU and pool as yours but getting all the shares rejected, WU:0 . I am new to mining, Can you please share your cgminer setting. Thanks

[arz]

Hi I am mining with XFX R9 290X and getting around 3ghs with the setting below, But I getting all rejected. And WU is 0 . New to mining, anyone here to help please.

0setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
cgminer.exe --blake256 -o stratum+tcp://eu1.blakecoin.com:3334 -u XXXXX -p XXXX -I 17 -g 1 -w 512 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 16384 --gpu-fan 85 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-powertune 20 --temp-target 80 --temp-overheat 85 --temp-cutoff 92


Thanks

[BlueDragon747]

Hi I am mining with XFX R9 290X and getting around 3ghs with the setting below, But I getting all rejected. And WU is 0 . New to mining, anyone here to help please.

0setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
cgminer.exe --blake256 -o stratum+tcp://eu1.blakecoin.com:3334 -u XXXXX -p XXXX -I 17 -g 1 -w 512 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 16384 --gpu-fan 85 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-powertune 20 --temp-target 80 --temp-overheat 85 --temp-cutoff 92


Thanks

did you use the version from the getting started page for pool?

http://www.blakecoin.org/cgminer-alt-pool-eu.7z

remove these they are not used by the blake-256 kernel

-g 1 -w 512 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 16384

max intensity is 14 beyond that no effect on performance

try this
cgminer.exe --blake256 -o stratum+tcp://eu1.blakecoin.com:3334 -u XXXXX -p XXXX -I 14 -w 256 --gpu-fan 85 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-memclock 600 --gpu-powertune 20 --temp-target 80 --temp-overheat 85 --temp-cutoff 92

Note: Blake-256 does not need high memory speed lower it as far as possible

or just edit cgminer.conf and then just run cgminer.exe (no switches) it will load from the conf

[arz]

Hi I am mining with XFX R9 290X and getting around 3ghs with the setting below, But I getting all rejected. And WU is 0 . New to mining, anyone here to help please.

0setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
cgminer.exe --blake256 -o stratum+tcp://eu1.blakecoin.com:3334 -u XXXXX -p XXXX -I 17 -g 1 -w 512 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 16384 --gpu-fan 85 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-powertune 20 --temp-target 80 --temp-overheat 85 --temp-cutoff 92


Thanks

did you use the version from the getting started page for pool?

http://www.blakecoin.org/cgminer-alt-pool-eu.7z

remove these they are not used by the blake-256 kernel

-g 1 -w 512 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 16384

max intensity is 14 beyond that no effect on performance

try this
cgminer.exe --blake256 -o stratum+tcp://eu1.blakecoin.com:3334 -u XXXXX -p XXXX -I 14 -w 256 --gpu-fan 85 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-memclock 600 --gpu-powertune 20 --temp-target 80 --temp-overheat 85 --temp-cutoff 92

Note: Blake-256 does not need high memory speed lower it as far as possible

or just edit cgminer.conf and then just run cgminer.exe (no switches) it will load from the conf

Thanks a lot, Yea now its working and getting around 3ghs. Cheers

[baneemmi]

can someone please post a .bat setup for r9 280x, and 7950 - i am having hard time to set them up
thanks in advance

[BlueDragon747]

did you use the version from the getting started page for pool?

http://www.blakecoin.org/cgminer-alt-pool-eu.7z

remove these they are not used by the blake-256 kernel

-g 1 -w 512 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 16384

max intensity is 14 beyond that no effect on performance

try this
cgminer.exe --blake256 -o stratum+tcp://eu1.blakecoin.com:3334 -u XXXXX -p XXXX -I 14 -w 256 --gpu-fan 85 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-memclock 600 --gpu-powertune 20 --temp-target 80 --temp-overheat 85 --temp-cutoff 92

Note: Blake-256 does not need high memory speed lower it as far as possible

or just edit cgminer.conf and then just run cgminer.exe (no switches) it will load from the conf

can someone please post a .bat setup for r9 280x, and 7950 - i am having hard time to set them up
thanks in advance

Put the above command into a bat  

or just use the cgminer.conf

if you have issues you might be trying to use scrypt options in your command!

[arz]

can someone please post a .bat setup for r9 280x, and 7950 - i am having hard time to set them up
thanks in advance

cgminer.exe --blake256 -o stratum+tcp://eu1.blakecoin.com:3334 -u XXXXX -p XXXX -I 14 -w 256 --gpu-fan 85 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-memclock 600 --gpu-powertune 20 --temp-target 80 --temp-overheat 85 --temp-cutoff 92

[Calhil]

can someone please post a .bat setup for r9 280x, and 7950 - i am having hard time to set them up
thanks in advance

Just use your old script and make a new config file for blakecoin. In the long run it helps with maintenance. Afaik you only need to change this to get some difference in hashrate:

Code:

"blake256": true,
"intensity": "14",
"gpu-engine": "1150",
"gpu-memclock": "1000",
"gpu-powertune": "20"

And remember, if cgminer is not running properly, add those variables in your start script:

Code:

GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=200
GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1

[loaded101]

Hi,

I have ordered a programming cable on Ebay, but am too impatient to wait on it arriving! Kramble mentions on his Github that it's easy to build one but haven't found any obvious instrcutions after googling.

Hopefully I will have the cable within a few days.

[BlueDragon747]

Hi,

I have ordered a programming cable on Ebay, but am too impatient to wait on it arriving! Kramble mentions on his Github that it's easy to build one but haven't found any obvious instrcutions after googling.

Hopefully I will have the cable within a few days.

the home brew parallel cable I would not recommend especially when your cable is ordered 

the usb cable works out of the box with impact for programming 

[kramble]

I have ordered a programming cable on Ebay, but am too impatient to wait on it arriving! Kramble mentions on his Github that it's easy to build one but haven't found any obvious instrcutions after googling.

Google fu defecit?

https://www.google.com/#q=xilinx+parallel+cable+diy

My attempt was a lot cruder, one 74HC244 chip and a bunch of 100 ohm resistors, built on a breadboard. I later tidied it up by etching a PCB. Actually it was an Altera Byteblaster that I built, but it was easily converted to Xilinx by rewiring the D connector.

Anyway, as Blue said, if you've already got one on order, then it's probably not worth your time in building a homebrew version, though depending on your geekyness level, it may be fun. This is what you need http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/user_guides/xtp029.pdf

PS. Be sure to use the FPGA I/O Aux supply for Vcc (typically 3.3V). The old TTL 5V spec will destroy your FPGA.