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

[miningfool]

Thanks for all the helpful info, I was not aware you could pick up fpga's so cheap...  Programming doesn't scare me, I'm used to programming multiwii/arduino type stuff, can't be harder than that ;-)  I'll have to plug it into a spreadsheet with the power consumption and see.  I had been leaning towards a couple of R290's or R280's in a dedicated rig.  I burned out my existing ATI card mining scrypt coins during the mania end of last year.  I already have a big external power supply I was using to run block eruptor cubes, which are unprofitable and basically paper weights right now, presumably I could run a handful of fpga's off of it.

Why would blake pools be getting ddos?  Seems to be kind of flying under the radar right now, so what's the point of attacking it?

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[BlueDragon747]

Thanks for all the helpful info, I was not aware you could pick up fpga's so cheap...  Programming doesn't scare me, I'm used to programming multiwii/arduino type stuff, can't be harder than that ;-)  I'll have to plug it into a spreadsheet with the power consumption and see.  I had been leaning towards a couple of R290's or R280's in a dedicated rig.  I burned out my existing ATI card mining scrypt coins during the mania end of last year.  I already have a big external power supply I was using to run block eruptor cubes, which are unprofitable and basically paper weights right now, presumably I could run a handful of fpga's off of it.

Why would blake pools be getting ddos?  Seems to be kind of flying under the radar right now, so what's the point of attacking it?

For GPU 7990 probably better $/GH vs 290/280 as its basically same type of architecture (memory speed is not needed for blake its all mostly on GPU core)

290 is about 3.1GH/s
280 is about 2.4GH/s
x versions with more shaders = higher GH/s
7990 is about 5GH/s

for FPGA Lancelot/Icarus are best due to the tri core bitstream I released some time ago

Lancelot/Icarus dual spartan-6 LX150 = 960MH/s ~ 17W each
Ztex 1.15y quad spartan-6 LX150 = 1.6GH/s ~ 35W each

so imho its just easier to setup and get larger hashrate with GPU quickly but you will need cheap electric!, FPGA are a bit hard to get and might take time to setup and acquire a decent hashrate but long term running costs will be lower which is great if your electric is expensive like here in UK

if you got some electronics experience and dont mind programming boards then FPGA might be the way to go, can always ask here for help if you get stuck

worth a note is the Ztex boards send the bitstream to the board from cgminer thus dont need a separate program cable but are harder to find  

not sure why people attack the pools maybe trying to exploit or steal from the pools its not that abnormal often get a few attacks per day but its just every few hours atm  

most of the attacks are mitigated and pools will 90% of the time auto heal but even so some crashes are not recoverable and needs me to do manual maintenance so if you notice them not working right just let me know

I do appreciate the users reporting issues as I can be quite busy at times

Edit:
looked up the watts used and 7990 looks better  
http://www.hwcompare.com/17667/radeon-hd-7990-vs-radeon-r9-280/
http://www.hwcompare.com/16198/radeon-hd-7990-vs-radeon-r9-290/

but if buying any of these 2nd hand still need to be careful you dont get one thats been hammered by Scrypt mining  

[Chugumoto]

used fpgas are preferable if you can find them. they are a bit harder to set up and require a programming cable. there are cheap clones of the programming cables, some work fine but your mileage may vary.

you are wrong
for example my Ztex 1.15y does not require any special cables. normal usb-miniusb

[BlueDragon747]

worth a note is the Ztex boards send the bitstream to the board from cgminer thus dont need a separate program cable but are harder to find  

yes I said about the Ztex boards above which include the Ztex 1.15y for which I have a few running here, they are good but also hard to find 2nd hand

they do need the newer dummy bitstream to work 100% with kramble's cgminer but it can all be done without any extra cables

if you do get an older version of the 1.15y you can update the dummy bitstream with the newer one using the Ztex java miner

here are the commands from my notes
java -cp ZtexBTCMiner-121126.jar BTCMiner -m p -ps 01-02-01 -f ztex_ufm1_15y1.ihx
java -cp ZtexBTCMiner-121126.jar BTCMiner -m p -f ztex_ufm1_15y1.ihx -s 01-02-01
java -cp ZtexBTCMiner-121126.jar BTCMiner -m p -pt ztex_ufm1_15y1 -f ztex_ufm1_15y1.ihx

*also need to switch the libusb driver for the board to use the java miner

Side Note:
I have tried a number of times to get a high fmax tri core for both cm1 and the ztex 1.15y but so far no build has been as successful and also not got a better dual core version with a higher fmax than what kramble did!

[dreamwatcher]

I have made a small quality of life change to CCE. Post links have been changed to get links on most pages.

This means that information in the explorer is now linkable:

Example:

http://blc.cryptocoinexplorer.com/block?block=161265

[Phantas]

How's it going with the game development ?
I look forward to the beta version.

[BlueDragon747]

How's it going with the game development ?
I look forward to the beta version.

working on site and video's we need to agree on a couple of things to finish it before I can post the link to the site

the closed beta client is taking a bit longer we added some stuff which took some time and we also moved to unity 4.5.3 which needed some what we thought were minor changes to the ui but it has create a number of bugs we are still working on

The alpha started with unity 3.5.x and was updated to using unity 4.2.1 which worked fine as it supported some of the calls we had been using but have now become deprecated in the newer versions  

overall it is worth the move with unity 4.6 and 5 due soon ish we have been trying to write something that will make these upgrades less of an issue(we hope) as most of the code should work fine, on good note unity 4.5.3 looks awesome and most of the video's have been done in it although a couple of area's the framerate needs tweaking and we also have the day/night cycle disabled while we work on fixing the current issues  

Note: the closed beta client does already have a working multi platform updater as we will be releasing content/features/bug fixes as soon as they are finished which mean you wont need to keep downloading the client as it will auto update    

[bzyzny]

BlueDragon, thanks for the update, sounds good. so when you said "multi platform updater" does that mean the game will run on Windoze/Mac/Linux?

[mogrith]

BlueDragon, thanks for the update, sounds good. so when you said "multi platform updater" does that mean the game will run on Windoze/Mac/Linux?

The unity engine is very multi-platform. All the above plus Android/IOS/PS3/XBOX,etc. Now that dosen't mean all will be supported by BD each platform can be built from the same source but need it's own tweaks.

[BlueDragon747]

BlueDragon, thanks for the update, sounds good. so when you said "multi platform updater" does that mean the game will run on Windoze/Mac/Linux?

The unity engine is very multi-platform. All the above plus Android/IOS/PS3/XBOX,etc. Now that dosen't mean all will be supported by BD each platform can be built from the same source but need it's own tweaks.

main target will be Windows/Linux/Mac and the auto updater supports these, closed beta might just be Windows/Linux due to time constraints as we are only a very small team but if demand is high for a Mac closed beta client will try to find time somewhere

I dont currently have the licence for XBOX or PS3 as it would need to be approved by the vendor (Sony/Microsoft) plus the fee for the licence but yes it is possible  

Android/IOS I do have a pro licence the main issue with those platforms is size of storage, screen size, control input and graphics power but with some work it is also possible but not any plans for them in closed beta

we can build to the web player which works on most platforms assuming it has the graphics power to drive the game at a decent framerate as our games are going to be AAA 3D rather than retro or 2D maybe in the future when we grow into a studio might have time/resources to do other types of game projects but atm focus is on our Apocalyptic MMO FPS then the Fantasy MMO RPG we do have a couple of other titles documented but not in production just not enough hours in a day to fit it all in

Unity 5 looks good hence why we have been cleaning the code to make sure an upgrade does not break too much, things like WebGL, Global Illumination, Physically-based shaders and a 64bit editor are welcomed and as soon as a stable Unity 5 Pro is available we will be trying to port to it at some point, the current Unity 5 beta is not suitable for production and we would most likely move to Unity 4.6 first

Realistically I think Unity 5 is most likely a feature of the open beta client some time in 2015 for info on what that will bring go here: http://unity3d.com/5

[jmanak]

I see the other coins are transacting again.  My t

Hi, looks like mining transactions for coins other than BLC stopped yesterday.  I'm mining at CG1.  Is there an issue?

ok will take a look could be an issue with mmp normally dont get much issue with cg1 

I see the other coins are transacting again.  Thanks for such a quick response!

no problem I did not notice been bit busy with things, if you notice any other issues please report I will try and fix them asap

I will and thanks again.

Hi, looks like the mmp on cg1 may have failed again.  At least I only see BLC transactions.

[BlueDragon747]

I see the other coins are transacting again.  My t

Hi, looks like mining transactions for coins other than BLC stopped yesterday.  I'm mining at CG1.  Is there an issue?

ok will take a look could be an issue with mmp normally dont get much issue with cg1 

I see the other coins are transacting again.  Thanks for such a quick response!

no problem I did not notice been bit busy with things, if you notice any other issues please report I will try and fix them asap

I will and thanks again.

Hi, looks like the mmp on cg1 may have failed again.  At least I only see BLC transactions.

should be ok again now

[electron-coin]

Sorry for the spam, but I am happy to announce that blaketrader is ready for open beta.  

Please check out http://www.blaketrader.com to see how you can trade blake family of coins directly with each other.  

For example, trade blakecoins directly with electron, photon, blakebitcoin, and universalmolecule.

Thanks!

[BlueDragon747]

Sorry for the spam, but I am happy to announce that blaketrader is ready for open beta.  

Please check out http://www.blaketrader.com to see how you can trade blake family of coins directly with each other.  

For example, trade blakecoins directly with electron, photon, blakebitcoin, and universalmolecule.

Thanks!

I updated OP's and site with BlakeTrader 

[electron-coin]

Sorry for the spam, but I am happy to announce that blaketrader is ready for open beta.  

Please check out http://www.blaketrader.com to see how you can trade blake family of coins directly with each other.  

For example, trade blakecoins directly with electron, photon, blakebitcoin, and universalmolecule.

Thanks!

I updated OP's and site with BlakeTrader 

Thanks!

To launch the open beta, I am doing a giveaway.  See https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/17922-blaketradercom-blake-256-coins-giveaway/

[BlueDragon747]

just finished adding Lithium to the pools

all pools should now be merge mining BLC+PHO+BBTC+XDQ+ELT+UMO+LIT

any problems let me know

[LionOfNarnia]

Hi Blue

Figured this was best place to catch your attention.

Amongst the problems I think I CAN solve myself, I have one big one that I can't - and it's already cost me coins

NY2 refuses to update my new wallet addies, or even turning autopayouts to '0', just says

"Failed to update your account: Unable to connect to RPC server for coin address validation".

I've been trying periodically since yesterday.

The other 3 updated OK.

For info, 3 of the QTs will not sync 'out of the box'

- BlakeBitCoin, Dirac & Photon.

Says "No block source available" - but I'll check their pages for updated .conf files before I start bitching

Congrats on 'BlakeTrader', looks useful, will register & do giveaway entry once I've solved everything else

[BlueDragon747]

Hi Blue

Figured this was best place to catch your attention.

Amongst the problems I think I CAN solve myself, I have one big one that I can't - and it's already cost me coins

NY2 refuses to update my new wallet addies, or even turning autopayouts to '0', just says

"Failed to update your account: Unable to connect to RPC server for coin address validation".

I've been trying periodically since yesterday.

The other 3 updated OK.

For info, 3 of the QTs will not sync 'out of the box'

- BlakeBitCoin, Dirac & Photon.

Says "No block source available" - but I'll check their pages for updated .conf files before I start bitching

Congrats on 'BlakeTrader', looks useful, will register & do giveaway entry once I've solved everything else

working on ny2 now

for the qt add
addnode=146.185.135.24
addnode=107.170.132.68
addnode=66.172.12.77
addnode=108.61.242.204
addnode=178.62.44.147

Edit:
should not be any issues on ny2 try again and let me know

[LionOfNarnia]

Cheers, Blue

NY2 updated OK.

Already got all the other wallets sync'd, I just used the .conf on the OPs.

I did lose a few coins to now-unreachable wallets, but not too many as EU3 is my default pool & it only goes to NY2 when EU3 goes down - which still happens a bit too often, unfortunately.

The 'share-rate stability' kinda still sucks too, but I bet you're working your ass off to solve that too

Now I have time to sign up to BlakeTrader

[electron-coin]

Now I have time to sign up to BlakeTrader

Please let me know if you have any questions or run into any issues.

Cheers!