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

[bzyzny]

I realize that my statement may have appeared negative towards bittrex, but that was not my intention. I realize and appreciate that bittrex has been one of the few exchanges to support the Blake based coins. If/when I have some spare btc I would be happy to purchase blc from there to keep it listed.

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[cinnamon_carter]

well i would too but since this is a long term project if it gets de listed it gets delisted

it will not effect me

i realize a lot of people consider a coin not on several exchanges useless however if you look at the coin age of blake coin

and others in the blake 256 system most people are not moving thier coins so I think most people are in for the long haul.


It took bitcoin 5+ years to get any sustained value and I feel the blake 256 system is superior in many ways,

I guess time will tell , I am willing to gamble,  I am holding all blake 256 coins !!


thanks for your support of the project !!

I realize that my statement may have appeared negative towards bittrex, but that was not my intention. I realize and appreciate that bittrex has been one of the few exchanges to support the Blake based coins. If/when I have some spare btc I would be happy to purchase blc from there to keep it listed.

[xen0s]

just tested new cl

with 13.12 drivers no gain at all
with 14.7 driver - tons of HW with 280x card

This is the version I am testing with no HW errors(14.4 driver win 7 x64) I see about 1%-2% gain with new optimized cl kernel
http://www.blakecoin.org/cgminer_3.7.2_pools.7z

no hw for now, just config error...used -k blake256 = produce invalid nonce and hw, --blake256 ok

btw, what is current easiest way to setup not merged pool for any blake256 coin? I tried eloipool from your git, a little complicated thing

eloipool is the best way and running the mmp for merged is not much more than just running eloipool on its own, setting up MPOS or NOMP to run on top of eloipool is the hard bit but just running eloipool as a private pool is not hard

maybe you will help me a bit with it?
I setup all the things on Ubuntu, here what I got in eloipool log

2014-08-13 05:48:36,377 merkleMaker     CRITICAL        Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/qwe/eloipool_Blakecoin/merklemaker.py", line 708, in run
    self.merkleMaker_I()
  File "/home/qwe/eloipool_Blakecoin/merklemaker.py", line 698, in merkleMaker_I
    self.merkleMaker_II()
  File "/home/qwe/eloipool_Blakecoin/merklemaker.py", line 664, in merkleMaker_II
    return self._updateMerkleTree()
  File "/home/qwe/eloipool_Blakecoin/merklemaker.py", line 564, in _updateMerkleTree
    self._updateMerkleTree_I()
  File "/home/qwe/eloipool_Blakecoin/merklemaker.py", line 528, in _updateMerkleTree_I
    r = self._updateMerkleTree_fromTS(TS)
  File "/home/qwe/eloipool_Blakecoin/merklemaker.py", line 493, in _updateMerkleTree_fromTS
    MP = self._CallGBT(TS)
  File "/home/qwe/eloipool_Blakecoin/merklemaker.py", line 343, in _CallGBT
    MP = access.getblocktemplate(self.GBTReq)
  File "/home/qwe/eloipool_Blakecoin/jsonrpc/authproxy.py", line 98, in __call__
    'Content-type' : 'application/json' })
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 1065, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 1103, in _send_request
    self.endheaders(body)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 1061, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 906, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 841, in send
    self.connect()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 819, in connect
    self.timeout, self.source_address)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/socket.py", line 499, in create_connection
    sock.bind(source_address)
TypeError: getsockaddrarg: AF_INET address must be tuple, not int


dunno what the problem is...I did commit  bitcoinrpc as recommended coz of bug, but looks like problem is in other place

[xen0s]

finally, eloipool works

need some adjustment in authproxy.py if using python 3.4 because of class http.client.HTTPConnection change

last question - do I need some manipulation with coinbasercmd for auto payouts? or I can comment this line out and get some default reward distribution ?

[BlueDragon747]

finally, eloipool works

need some adjustment in authproxy.py if using python 3.4 because of class http.client.HTTPConnection change

last question - do I need some manipulation with coinbasercmd for auto payouts? or I can comment this line out and get some default reward distribution ?

Thanks to Ignatius a private merged pool setup guide is here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=306894.msg6663084#msg6663084 (also linked in OP if you not seen it yet)

just comment out coinbasercmd its not needed

[xen0s]

finally, eloipool works

need some adjustment in authproxy.py if using python 3.4 because of class http.client.HTTPConnection change

last question - do I need some manipulation with coinbasercmd for auto payouts? or I can comment this line out and get some default reward distribution ?

Thanks to Ignatius a private merged pool setup guide is here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=306894.msg6663084#msg6663084 (also linked in OP if you not seen it yet)

just comment out coinbasercmd its not needed

yes, all works fine now

but I didnt get about payouts - are they automatic? if yes - how often they happened, if no - do I need run some script for payout?

[BlueDragon747]

finally, eloipool works

need some adjustment in authproxy.py if using python 3.4 because of class http.client.HTTPConnection change

last question - do I need some manipulation with coinbasercmd for auto payouts? or I can comment this line out and get some default reward distribution ?

Thanks to Ignatius a private merged pool setup guide is here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=306894.msg6663084#msg6663084 (also linked in OP if you not seen it yet)

just comment out coinbasercmd its not needed

yes, all works fine now

but I didnt get about payouts - are they automatic? if yes - how often they happened, if no - do I need run some script for payout?

Just using the eloipool as a private pool is like solo mining and block found will be in the wallets you are mining

all payout methods, accounts and other stuff is done by the front end

[gaalx]

BD, going on vacation?

[BlueDragon747]

BD, going on vacation?

lol no I wish, just working on game dev stuff atm

[terrapinflyer]

How come this coin has such low volume? Bittrex is about to drop it...

" This market is in danger of de-listing due to low trade volume and lack of user interest. It may be removed on Aug 15th unless the average trade volume for the last 7 days exceeds 0.1 BTC"

[bzyzny]

How come this coin has such low volume? Bittrex is about to drop it...

" This market is in danger of de-listing due to low trade volume and lack of user interest. It may be removed on Aug 15th unless the average trade volume for the last 7 days exceeds 0.1 BTC"

pls read previous comments. few trade blc on bittrex. why? who knows? maybe atomic-trade is just better, or maybe the blc community just prefers it. regardless, it is not "low volume" if you look at AT. average volume has been around $1,500 a day lately. yeah its not litecoin level volume (yet) but theres solid support. in past 6 months the price has not fluctuated much, but trade volume and network hashrate has gradually stabilized/increased. another thing to point out is that after bittrex mentioned they would delist blc, trading volume there went from about 0.1btc/day to about 1btc/day within 24hr. sure, it may may not have sticked but thats because, like i said, blc traders seem to currently prefer atomic trade, for whatever reason. we are in this for the long haul. the facts are their, blakecoin has potential. its up to people like you wether you want to believe in it. the blake community tries not to do the whole hype, pump and dump thing. look at the code and the community and decide for yourself if you see potential in the blake ecosystem

[mogrith]

Most trade on Atomic it has all the merged coins.

[BlueDragon747]

EU3 just went offline checking why and resetting should be back online shortly

[mogrith]

If you are merge mining you may want to update PHO wallet
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=478136.msg8377799#msg8377799

The source code to Photon has been updated with one minor correction and updated checkpoint

The new wallet now with openssl 1.0.1h support / You may or may not need the single dll file with the wallet depending on which version of windows you run. 

All rpc console commands are working properly, some prior wallet releases had a few problems with getblocktempate, getwork and getwork2

These issues appear to have been corrected with this build on the machines I had available for testing. 

Development of new features is ongoing for most of the current 6 members of the blake 256 family of coins you can merge mine is moving right along.

I am working with chiguireitor on a few things and we will tell you all more about it when we have things coded up and tested.

Thanks to all supporters of Photon and in particular Byron at Atomic for support. Special thanks to all miners.

Until I can get the op updated you can get the lastest build of the windows wallet here

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz8503hoyr74TERvT2tRbENYRWM/edit?usp=sharing

[cinnamon_carter]

note, i discovered in looking for a fix to the getblocktemplate and getwork commands crashing the rpc console that if you are running the client in windows with server=1 in your conf file it is not an issue,  that is not a fix but i think anyone who would want to access those commands would be of the skillset to run the client with this in a conf file.

in passing i mentioned before that other coins not just those in the blake family had this little bug, i notice the fix of running the client in server mode does not work on all coins ,oh well.....  for now I am going to consider this a non issue and work on some other things..... 

[cinnamon_carter]

While Bluedragon747 is busy with game development he gave me permission to update Blake Coin

 

This is a non mandatory update.

 

I forked his repo on github and added a recent checkpoint and also fixed the error that would cause the rpc console to crash with the getwork and getblocktemplate commands.   I compiled a new windows binary to match my fork with open ssl 1.0.1h and qr code support.

 

When Blue has time he said he would merge the changes.  Until then I decided to fork the repo's so if anyone wants to build from them it is easier than if I just did a gitpull to his repository.

 

Here is my repository of Blake Coin

https://github.com/photonproject/Blakecoin



Here are the changes to the code on github line by line

https://github.com/photonproject/Blakecoin/commit/7c574903c015fb0aa828ecb3d122eb2caa99d51b


Finally here is a link to the windows qt wallet with the changes (open ssl 1.0.1h /full qr code support)

(Note you may or may not need the single dll file with the wallet depending on what version of windows you are running)

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bz8503hoyr74RkJVR2dzQjg2SjA/edit?pli=1



I spent a lot of time testing this but welcome any feedback.   Thanks to all who support the Blake 256 family.

 

[BlueDragon747]

Cinnamon is part of the core dev team for Blake-256 and is helping out while I am busy with the game dev work

I will merge these changes when I get the time

Thanks Cinnamon 

[ocminer]

Cinnamon is part of the core dev team for Blake-256 and is helping out while I am busy with the game dev work

I will merge these changes when I get the time

Thanks Cinnamon 

What game are you dev'ing? Sounds interesting

[BlueDragon747]

What game are you dev'ing? Sounds interesting

The MMO FPS which is the first game based on our MMO framework, the currencies in game are all blake based coins and have unique uses. (Blakecoin was made for our MMO Games!)

Site, more images, videos due towards end of month we hope to start closed beta some time in September

Here is a sneak peek at a zone 1 boss and mob

[Zeke_Vermillion]

Finally a screenshot! Very exciting. I look forward to a playable release...

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