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

[BlueDragon747]

No Rush on my part.

If I see too many errors on pool I'll go back solo. But so far it's not too bad on pool with the kramble miner

I'm losing perhaps 25% of shares (from the stats I checked earlier today, not sure how its going right now). I'll take a look at what's been changed later (Sunday most likely). It may be best if I fork kr105's code, add in my driver changes and git-pull them back to kr105 so as to keep a single consistent code base. Anyway I'll look into it as soon as I find time. Gotta go now. Bye.

thanks kramble no rush 

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[BlueDragon747]

Patches accepted Or point me in the right direction to fix it

Awesome work so far thanks for helping 

your pool seems quite stable now ~22GH/s maybe we can get it upto 50GH/s 

[kramble]

I've reviewed kr105's recent change and implemented it in my version of cgminer 3.1.1. It seems to be OK but will need a longer test to be sure the (H-not-zero) errors have stopped. EDIT looking good after 45 minutes on raspi (ztex) and 30 mins on windows (CM1).

The windows exe is at https://www.dropbox.com/s/f34zwu3oek0rj4m/cgminer.exe

I'll update my github (link) in the next few minutes (DONE). The git-pull changes to kr105's version of cgminer 3.1.1 will have to wait until tomorrow as there is quite a lot to do there (need to update the drivers and add in the clock switches).

[awais3344]

is it ever coming to an exchange?

[mogrith]

Krambel's new Miner loaded and pointed at pool.

we now have at least one pool, several miners a Block explorer would be a good Idea. I don't see one listed on OP
a standalone Website would be a nice addition also.

These are thing that show exchanges that a coin is mature stable and enough of a following that should add it.

[kramble]

Krambel's new Miner loaded and pointed at pool.

we now have at least one pool, several miners a Block explorer would be a good Idea. I don't see one listed on OP
a standalone Website would be a nice addition also.

It seems to be working OK on raspi (6 hours now 4660 accepted and only 6 rejects, just stales (unknown-work)). I only ran it for an hour or so on windows (CM1) but that seemed OK. Let me know if there are any issues with it.

There is an unofficial block explorer at http://blakexplorer.dyndns.org:2750/ (the announcement is somewhere upthread), though it could do with an official home.

I'll be offline now until tomorrow.

[hendo420]

is it ever coming to an exchange?

I would like to know this as well.

[SpeedDemon13]

is it ever coming to an exchange?

I would like to know this as well.

Same here. Electricity isn't exactly free for most of us.

[BlueDragon747]

I am sure Blakecoin will be picked up by the exchanges in time, Openex is going to support BLC once they launch

selling all your coins once it hits the exchange is a poor method of investing and is unlikely to work well on Blakecoin as it did not give stupid high block rewards in the first few days and has not had 90% - 98% of all coins mined already and the block reward does not drop to 1 coin after a few months !

The time and electric spent mining Blakecoin is an investment and you should think like that, I am sure someone is getting rich from pump and dump of these other alt coins that hit the exchange fast but I doubt it is the miner  

just ask yourself this: if you had known about Bitcoin back in the early days would you have also been asking to get to the exchange asap to sell at sub 1$ per Bitcoin or would you have had the brains to hold it until it is worth what you want to sell it at?

From what I have seen on this forum is that most sold and are kicking themselves now    

The only thing I can say for sure it that Blakecoin is built to last even longer than Bitcoin and is also faster than Bitcoin

[SpeedDemon13]

I am sure Blakecoin will be picked up by the exchanges in time, Openex is going to support BLC once they launch

selling all your coins once it hits the exchange is a poor method of investing and is unlikely to work well on Blakecoin as it did not give stupid high block rewards in the first few days and has not had 90% - 98% of all coins mined already and the block reward does not drop to 1 coins after a few months !

The time and electric spent mining Blakecoin is an investment and you should think like that, I am sure someone is getting rich from pump and dump of these other alt coins that hit the exchange fast but I doubt it is the miner  

just ask yourself this: if you had known about Bitcoin back in the early days would you have also been asking to get to the exchange asap to sell at sub 1$ per Bitcoin or would you have had the brains to hold it until it is worth what you want to sell it at?

From what I have seen on this forum is that most sold and are kicking themselves now    

The only thing I can say for sure it that Blakecoin is built to last even longer than Bitcoin and is also faster than Bitcoin 

Like I did with PTS, sold half and kept half for investment. The same I'll do with BLC and I am currently doing that with DOGE too. That's my belief in investment; save half and sell half....

[BlueDragon747]

Like I did with PTS, sold half and kept half for investment. The same I'll do with BLC and I am currently doing that with DOGE too. That's my belief in investment; save half and sell half....

makes sense if you are doing a lot of different coins I guess 

[mogrith]

Well I do different coins based on device that is mining.
BLC-> FPGA
BET-> ASIC
KED-> GPU

 do sometimes move the GPU/ASICs around.

[BlueDragon747]

thanks to solokop on litecointalk for finding a missing dll in kr105 cgminer 3.1.1

"the program can't start because libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll is missing from your computer"

this is the missing dll

http://blakecoin.org/libgcc_s_dw2-1.7z

Hope that helps anyone else who has that issue  

Edit:
Note: This is an included dll in the wallet release so you might have it on your system already  

[mogrith]

The latest Kramble cgminer has had no high hash of H not zero errors for me at all.
Since I'm pool mining I'm not seeing disconnects on the wallet. If I did there still would be no orphans just a delay in my seeing them in my wallet.

I will try kr105's version when CM1 support is there as it has the standard display and controls.

Edit typo

[3dcgminer]

thanks to solokop on litecointalk for finding a missing dll in kr105 cgminer 3.1.1

"the program can't start because libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll is missing from your computer"

this is the missing dll

http://blakecoin.org/libgcc_s_dw2-1.7z

Hope that helps anyone else who has that issue  

Edit:
Note: This is an included dll in the wallet release so you might have it on your system already  

Thanks for the tip.

I simply downloaded the cgminer release linked at the pool https://www.blakecoinpool.org in their Getting Started section.
Cgminer just did not start, no error message. Copied the dll mentioned above and now we are hashing away!

So, where are the giveaways and Faucets?

[Adrenalin]

Whats the point to mine BLC if there are no exchanges? BTW i`m selling 282 BLC pm.

[mogrith]

Whats the point to mine BLC if there are no exchanges? BTW i`m selling 282 BLC pm.

To Build up your bank of them for when you can use them in a MMO or to have a large stash onhand when it is on an exchange?

Also to help test a blockchain that is based on a newer hashing than SHA256 help see how it performs as it scales up network is over 100GH/s. need lots of people mining to get the network over 1TH/s

[BlueDragon747]

Whats the point to mine BLC if there are no exchanges? BTW i`m selling 282 BLC pm.

To Build up your bank of them for when you can use them in a MMO or to have a large stash onhand when it is on an exchange?

Also to help test a blockchain that is based on a newer hashing than SHA256 help see how it performs as it scales up network is over 100GH/s. need lots of people mining to get the network over 1TH/s

think we would need a few pools as well to get to 1TH/s 

[mogrith]

Well we were at 20 and you were hoping for 50GH/s well the pool is at 52 and the network is 126GH/s so let's thnk big. 

Huumm need to check ebay for more cheap CM1's

[BlueDragon747]

Well we were at 20 and you were hoping for 50GH/s well the pool is at 52 and the network is 126GH/s so let's thnk big.  

Huumm need to check ebay for more cheap CM1's

yeah you are right guess it could be possible to go into the PH/s within a few months  

Thanks to kramble it does bring a new life to a lot of the FPGA's used for mining Bitcoin  

no need to buy new when you can reuse a device and extend its useful life, hope you find some bargains