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

[BlueDragon747]

Information also available here:
https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/1357-blakecoin-blc-information/

Main Site:
https://www.blakecoin.org

Main Chat:
Telegram Blake_Community

Introduction to Blakecoin by Bzyzny:
https://blakecoin.org/Blakecoin_Introduction.pdf

Blakecoin is now Merged Mined with Photon, Other coins due to join the merge in the future

What is Merged Mining? Familiarize yourself now: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/273/how-does-merged-mining-work


Blakecoin Wallet is on Github
https://github.com/BlueDragon747/Blakecoin

Blake-256(optimized) is faster than Scrypt, SHA-256D, Keccak, Groestl  

The algorithm was written as a candidate for SHA-3, Based on round one candidate code from the Sphlib 2.1 library and reduced the round function to 8 rounds.

"Advantages
Design
• simplicity of the algorithm
• interface for hashing with a salt

Performance
• fast in both software and hardware
• parallelism and throughput/area trade-off for hardware implementation
• simple speed/confidence trade-off with the tunable number of rounds

Security
• based on an intensively analyzed component (ChaCha)
• resistant to generic second-preimage attacks
• resistant to side-channel attacks
• resistant to length-extension"  
https://131002.net/blake/blake.pdf

Why Blakecoin beats other coins in the long run:

• The Blake-256 algorithm hash rate is just under 3x faster on the GPU and just over 2x on the FPGA compared with Bitcoin
• Blakecoin uses a custom asymmetrical difficulty re-target algorithm since it was released which has worked well
• The reward for mining Blakecoin does Not decrease over time it only increases with block height and difficulty
• No restriction on any platform as Blakecoin does not include artificial *Security* or *Resistance* that reduce mining hash rate and power efficiency
• Already has planned use for Blakecoin as a currency storage between MMO systems with prototypes in development
• Designed to be Merge Mine Friendly

• Block reward is 25 coin + inflation (square root of (difficulty * block height))
• No reduction of block reward
• Cap in place to reduce the difficulty jumps upwards
• Block target time is 3 minutes and retargets every 20 blocks
• Total of 7 Billion coins
• Block maturity 120 (+20 buffer, 140 total)

Forked from Bitcoin reference wallet 0.8.6

8 round Blake-256 is the fastest!

Asic's

• 168.5GH/s on a Baikal Giant B (BK-B) ~250W at wall 93% efficient PSU

FPGA's

• 1.6GH/s on a ZTEX USB-FPGA 1.15y Quad Spartan-6 LX150 Development Board
• 1.5GH/s on a Enterpoint Cairnsmore 1 Quad Spartan-6 LX150 Development Board
• 960MH/s on a Lancelot Dual Spartan-6 LX150 Development Board
• 360MH/s on a ZTEX USB-FPGA 1.15x Spartan-6 LX150 Development Board

GPU's

• 8GH/s on a NVIDIA GeForce 1080Ti
• 2.5GH/s on a NVIDIA GeForce 1060
• 4.1GH/s on a NVIDIA GeForce 980ti
• 3.05GH/s on a NVIDIA GeForce 980
• 2.63GH/s on a NVIDIA GeForce 970
• 1.71GH/s on a NVIDIA GeForce 960
• 930MH/s on a NVIDIA GeForce 750ti
• 3.3GH/s - 3.8GH/s on a AMD Radeon R9 390X
• 6.4GH/s - 6.9GH/s on a AMD Radeon R9 295X2
• 3.3GH/s - 3.5GH/s on a AMD Radeon R9 290X
• 2.9GH/s - 3.1GH/s on a AMD Radeon R9 290
• 2.6GH/s - 2.8GH/s on a AMD Radeon R9 280X
• 2.2GH/s - 2.4GH/s on a AMD Radeon R9 280
• 1.2GH/s - 1.5GH/s on a AMD Radeon R9 270
• 4.8GH/s - 5.1GH/s on a AMD ATI Radeon 7990
• 2.2GH/s - 2.8GH/s on a AMD ATI Radeon 7970
• 2.1GH/s - 2.4GH/s on a AMD ATI Radeon 7950
• 2.6GH/s - 2.9GH/s on a AMD ATI Radeon 6990
• 1.4GH/s - 1.5GH/s on a AMD ATI Radeon 6970
• 1.4GH/s on a AMD ATI Radeon 6950
• 900MH/s on a AMD ATI Radeon 6870
• 800MH/s on a AMD ATI Radeon 6850
• 2.0GH/s - 2.3GH/s on a AMD ATI Radeon 5970
• 1.3GH/s on a AMD ATI Radeon 5870
• 1.1GH/s on a AMD ATI Radeon 5850

Wallet Binaries:

Windows


Linux
Compile from source on Github

MAC *Thanks to MystPhysX
[url=https://blakecoin.org/BlakeCoin-Qt.dmg]BlakeCoin-Qt.dmg

blakecoin.conf example:

[/list][/list][/list][/list][/list]

Code:

listen=1
gen=0
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=password
rpcport=8772
server=1
daemon=1
addnode=146.185.135.24
addnode=104.238.177.36
addnode=104.238.133.35 
addnode=107.191.58.189
addnode=108.61.242.204
addnode=107.170.178.92 

Market Tools

Blakecoin is listed on Crypto-Currency Market Capitalizations
http://coinmarketcap.com

Blakecoin is listed on CoinGecko
www.coingecko.com

Blakecoin is listed on WorldCoinIndex
www.worldcoinindex.com

Blakecoin is listed on Bitscreener
https://bitscreener.com


Exchanges

Xeggex allows trading of Blakecoin *Thanks to The Team the Whole Blake ecosystem of coins is supported
https://xeggex.com/post/new_listing_blakecoin_blc

Cryptoradar allows trading of Blakecoin *Thanks to The Team the Whole Blake ecosystem of coins is supported
https://cryptoradar.exchange/crx/markets?b=blc




Pools:
Thanks to everyone who has waited or helped, Blakecoin official pools  
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=408794

Merged Mining Pools *Currently BLC+PHO+Ƀ+ELT+UMO+LIT

Blakecoin EU3 Merged Pool (run by BlueDragon747) *Located in Frankfurt
http://eu3.blakecoin.com
 
Blakecoin NY2/AT1 Merged Pool (run by BlueDragon747) *Located in Atlanta
http://ny2.blakecoin.com or http://at1.blakecoin.com
 
Blakecoin LA1 Merged Pool (run by BlueDragon747) *Located in Los Angeles
http://la1.blakecoin.com


Block Explorer

Full Featured Explorer 1
Cryptoid.info BLC Explorer


Thanks to the efforts of knorrly, Blakecoin has been successfully ported to Abe
https://github.com/knorrly/blakecoin-abe
 

Recommended Mining Software

cgminer for pools or use one of kramble's miners for FPGA's
https://github.com/kR105/cgminer-alt

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

Linux (Mint x64):
http://www.blakecoin.org/cgminer-3.7-blake256.tar.gz

Windows Nvidia Cuda: (tested working Gtx 1060: algo blakecoin)
https://github.com/tpruvot/ccminer/releases

refer to the pool "Getting Started" page for specific information

Thanks to the efforts of kr105, Blakecoin has been successfully ported to eloipool
https://github.com/BlueDragon747/eloipool_Blakecoin

Thanks to Ignatius a private merged pool setup guide is Here


FPGA:

Thanks to the efforts of kramble, Blakecoin has been successfully ported to the FPGA (early development)

FPGA-Blakecoin-Miner by kramble
https://github.com/kramble/FPGA-Blakecoin-Miner

For information an FPGA is not a SHA-256D Asic it is a re-programmable hardware device used for hardware development and high speed custom logic.


GPU:

Thanks to the efforts of sp_/sp-hash we have a new better hashrate ccminer

Free gpu miner for NVIDIA cards:

release 77++ (git)

980ti: 4.1GHASH
980:  3.05GHASH
970: 2,63MHASH
960:  1,71MHASH
750ti: 930MHASH

ccminer -a blakecoin

1.5.79(sp-MOD) is available here:
https://github.com/sp-hash/ccminer/releases/

The sourcecode is available here:
https://github.com/sp-hash/ccminer

Thanks to the efforts of alexis78, Blakecoin has an optimized port of ccMiner for use with Nvidia based GPU cards
https://github.com/alexis78/ccminer

Thanks to the efforts of Epsylon3/tpruvot, Blakecoin has been ported to ccMiner for use with Nvidia based GPU cards
https://github.com/tpruvot/ccminer

Thanks to the efforts of cbuchner1, Blakecoin has been ported to cudaMiner for use with Nvidia based GPU cards
https://github.com/cbuchner1/CudaMiner

Other info here for Cudaminer
http://cryptomining-blog.com/2003-quick-guide-on-how-to-compile-cudaminer-for-windows-from-the-source-code/
http://cryptomining-blog.com/1998-download-the-latest-build-from-source-of-cudaminer-for-windows/
http://cryptomining-blog.com/3450-new-ccminer-fork-with-blake-256-algorithm-support-now-available/


Thanks to the efforts of kr105, Blakecoin has been ported to cgminer 3.1.1 and 3.7 with fixes for stratum on Blakecoin

3.1.1
https://github.com/kR105/cgminer-alt

Thanks to Calhil a build guide to cgminer on ubuntu is Here

Windows: *This is the default version for use solo or on pools
http://www.blakecoin.org/cgminer-alt-pool.7z

3.7 (GPU only)
https://github.com/kR105/cgminer

Linux (Mint x64):
http://www.blakecoin.org/cgminer-3.7-blake256.tar.gz


Thanks to the efforts of Vorksholk and smolen, Blakecoin has been successfully ported to Reaper with OpenCL on the GPU

http://blakecoinmining.com

http://www.blakecoinmining.com/Reaper_Blakecoin_Beta.zip


Thanks to the efforts of melnikalex, Blakecoin has been successfully ported to cgminer with OpenCL on the GPU

cgminer for Blakecoin *Please use the kr105 version above
http://blakecoin.org/cgminer-blake256.7z
cgminer for Blakecoin source code
http://blakecoin.org/cgminer-blake256-src.7z


Linux:
 
Ubuntu 12.04 dependencies used for the wallet on Linux build machine
git-core build-essential libssl-dev libboost-all-dev libdb5.1-dev libdb5.1++-dev libgtk2.0-dev libminiupnpc-dev qt4-qmake mingw32 synaptic qt-sdk qt4-dev-tools libqt4-dev libqt4-core libqt4-gui libdb++-dev


Games

Here is a sneak peek at a zone 1 boss and mob of the official MMO FPS




Thanks to the efforts of Ignatius Blakecoin has a couple of Games to play while the work is done on the official MMO FPS and RPG  

Blakecoin based Counter-Strike 1.6 server ("The traditional CS currency system has been replaced" with Blakecoin)
Main Thread Here:  Server: 207.210.117.83:27015



 

Renting Rigs *3rd Party Hosting

www.MiningRigRentals.com

www.NiceHash.com *use their sgminer version here

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[sgrunger]

[2013-10-06 23:26:36] 8 miner threads started, using 'blake' algorithm.
[2013-10-06 23:27:06] HTTP request failed: Operation timed out after 30420 milliseconds with 0 out of -1 bytes received
[2013-10-06 23:27:06] json_rpc_call failed, retry after 30 seconds

I set it up on 6 PCs I have at home but I get this error message, can only mine on 4.
I added maxconnections=32 to the conf file and still no dice.

As for benchmarks I get ~14250 khash/s on my corei7 3930K
11200khash/s on my AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
7022khash/s on my corei7-920s

My receiving address is BkMwy7zF9LTg7KoV37SQcJWWQGerE4Vmje

[maxsolnc]

Small bug found: when block is shown in "Transactions", it says [Confirmed: 40 (30, 50, 10) confirmations], but block maturity number is 120.

[BlueDragon747]

[2013-10-06 23:26:36] 8 miner threads started, using 'blake' algorithm.
[2013-10-06 23:27:06] HTTP request failed: Operation timed out after 30420 milliseconds with 0 out of -1 bytes received
[2013-10-06 23:27:06] json_rpc_call failed, retry after 30 seconds

I set it up on 6 PCs I have at home but I get this error message, can only mine on 4.
I added maxconnections=32 to the conf file and still no dice.

As for benchmarks I get ~14250 khash/s on my corei7 3930K
11200khash/s on my AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
7022khash/s on my corei7-920s

My receiving address is BkMwy7zF9LTg7KoV37SQcJWWQGerE4Vmje

try changing the rpcport in the conf file and double checking all setting, failing that add the machine's ip to the wallet conf of one that is working and mine over your network but let me know.

will add your benchmark results and send you a few Blakecoin as thanks

Small bug found: when block is shown in "Transactions", it says [Confirmed: 40 (30, 50, 10) confirmations], but block maturity number is 120.

might just be a display issue but can you give me a few more details so that I can replicate, Blakecoind or Blakecoin-qt and windows/linux.

Thanks for reporting these issue I will send some Blakecoin, maxsolnc send/post a receiving address and I send some Blakecoin  

I will try my best to find a quick solution to any bugs found so please report them if you find them  

[loveys]

fpga can mine? if can,where is the mining pro?

[sgrunger]

try changing the rpcport in the conf file and double checking all setting, failing that add the machine's ip to the wallet conf of one that is working and mine over your network but let me know.

will add your benchmark results and send you a few Blakecoin as thanks

Thanks for the tip.
Changed rpcport to 32123 for example, same problem. I setup another wallet on another PC and pointed my remaining PCs torwards that IP for solo.
Allowip set to my LAN 192.168.1.*

[BlueDragon747]

fpga can mine? if can,where is the mining pro?

GPU and FPGA are in the works I have asked kramble if he will help with fpga's as I will be working on opencl next, I have both examples of opencl blake-256 and verilog for fpga but that's not the same as a working miner/kernel, I also need some time for hunting bugs so maybe ready for new year if I am doing it all alone 

but plan is for opencl before xmas 

all solo mining atm with difficulty so low (only released yesterday) I will try to fit time in to do p2pool maybe I can tempt a pool operator to help with adding a few pools for Blakecoin 

[derpcoin]

So Ive started the miner and the only message I see is "4 miner threads started, using blake algorithum". My cpus are maxed out so am i mining because I dont see any other info like block found on network etc.

[dr_chen]

So Ive started the miner and the only message I see is "4 miner threads started, using blake algorithum". My cpus are maxed out so am i mining because I dont see any other info like block found on network etc.

delete -q

if you use -q, no mininginfo will give you unless you got a block

[sgrunger]

So Ive started the miner and the only message I see is "4 miner threads started, using blake algorithum". My cpus are maxed out so am i mining because I dont see any other info like block found on network etc.

Yes you are - you should see "[2013-10-07 03:28:28] accepted: 1/1 (100.00%), 13948 khash/s (yay!!!)" or something of the like eventually.

[derpcoin]

Thanks for the quick answer.

[hope2907]

fpga can mine? if can,where is the mining pro?

GPU and FPGA are in the works I have asked kramble if he will help with fpga's as I will be working on opencl next, I have both examples of opencl blake-256 and verilog for fpga but that's not the same as a working miner/kernel, I also need some time for hunting bugs so maybe ready for new year if I am doing it all alone 

but plan is for opencl before xmas 

all solo mining atm with difficulty so low (only released yesterday) I will try to fit time in to do p2pool maybe I can tempt a pool operator to help with adding a few pools for Blakecoin 

low dif with low speed too ^^

[dr_chen]

{
"blocks" : 1405,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 1224.45247904,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : false,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"hashespersec" : 0,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}

The difficulty is more than 1000 now

[derpcoin]

No blocks for me even with this low diff  please share some coins XD BbTvdStAPorhUStyJ1WVJMsGDxJgjHSp9H

[FiniteRed]

CPU Miner Binaries:
Windows Intel compiled for core2+
http://blakecoin.org/Blakecoin_Minerd.7z

AVD Detection

Threat: Trojan Horse Generic33.BQKR
c:\Users\<username>\Desktop\Blakecoin_Minerd\libcurl-4.dll

Please explain?

[dr_chen]

No blocks for me even with this low diff  please share some coins XD BbTvdStAPorhUStyJ1WVJMsGDxJgjHSp9H

Has send you some

[derpcoin]

ty

[dr_chen]

minerd -o 127.0.0.1:8772 -O username:password -a blake -q -s 2 --no-longpoll --no-stratum

what's the meaning of -s use here

[BlueDragon747]

minerd -o 127.0.0.1:8772 -O username:password -a blake -q -s 2 --no-longpoll --no-stratum

what's the meaning of -s use here

-s is for scantime default=5 units are in seconds

[maxsolnc]

Small bug found: when block is shown in "Transactions", it says [Confirmed: 40 (30, 50, 10) confirmations], but block maturity number is 120.

might just be a display issue but can you give me a few more details so that I can replicate, Blakecoind or Blakecoin-qt and windows/linux.

Thanks for reporting these issue I will send some Blakecoin, maxsolnc send/post a receiving address and I send some Blakecoin  

I will try my best to find a quick solution to any bugs found so please report them if you find them  

Yes, it is display issue. Windows build, gui wallet. I cannot make screenshot, this 'hint' with "Confirmed, N confirmations" doesn't appear on screenshot for some reason. Just check - mine a block in wallet, wait for ~10 blocks and go into 'transactions tab'

my BLC address is BWT8oU4eQRzoJNDwTAqksP42EWMKeE5et6