[ANN] [SKC] Skeincoin 0.9.3.1 | Skein-SHA2

[gielbier]

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It's still a Beta since it's public Alpha would be before you posted it :-P just busting your balls

That's it! *pushes against the desk, flips the chair* i'm outta here *leaves furiously the room*....



Btw ByronP, is there going to be an auto trading option sometime on AT? i would like to provide an option for the developers to receive payout in BTC/LTC, sometime in the near future) integrating some of the coins you support that almost no-one else supports (Blake eco and SKC) and also i would really like to use AT.

The windows version got a false positive on google drive. I mirrored it on my dropbox.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27041159/HumansMustPrevail-Beta4-Cryptos.exe

Virustotal:
1/56. False positive on clamav.
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/fef7f4607c93db92e17ea431e6ee2dc2dfa0543c2d0fa04c4bb676a6a32833fa/analysis/1403993784/

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[ByronP]

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It's still a Beta since it's public Alpha would be before you posted it :-P just busting your balls

That's it! *pushes against the desk, flips the chair* i'm outta here *leaves furiously the room*....



Btw ByronP, is there going to be an auto trading option sometime on AT? i would like to provide an option for the developers to receive payout in BTC/LTC, sometime in the near future) integrating some of the coins you support that almost no-one else supports (Blake eco and SKC) and also i would really like to use AT.

The windows version got a false positive on google drive. I mirrored it on my dropbox.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27041159/HumansMustPrevail-Beta4-Cryptos.exe

Virustotal:
1/56. False positive on clamav.
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/fef7f4607c93db92e17ea431e6ee2dc2dfa0543c2d0fa04c4bb676a6a32833fa/analysis/1403993784/

I can confirm the same findings file is clean. although the game sits on the main screen "Authenticating". EDIT: Lowered res and switched to windowed and worked ok.

[gielbier]

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It's still a Beta since it's public Alpha would be before you posted it :-P just busting your balls

That's it! *pushes against the desk, flips the chair* i'm outta here *leaves furiously the room*....



Btw ByronP, is there going to be an auto trading option sometime on AT? i would like to provide an option for the developers to receive payout in BTC/LTC, sometime in the near future) integrating some of the coins you support that almost no-one else supports (Blake eco and SKC) and also i would really like to use AT.

The windows version got a false positive on google drive. I mirrored it on my dropbox.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27041159/HumansMustPrevail-Beta4-Cryptos.exe

Virustotal:
1/56. False positive on clamav.
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/fef7f4607c93db92e17ea431e6ee2dc2dfa0543c2d0fa04c4bb676a6a32833fa/analysis/1403993784/

I can confirm the same findings file is clean. although the game sits on the main screen "Authenticating".

it works the second time. Had that on first run also.

[ByronP]

ahh maybe thats why it worked now :-)

[ByronP]

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It's still a Beta since it's public Alpha would be before you posted it :-P just busting your balls

That's it! *pushes against the desk, flips the chair* i'm outta here *leaves furiously the room*....



Btw ByronP, is there going to be an auto trading option sometime on AT? i would like to provide an option for the developers to receive payout in BTC/LTC, sometime in the near future) integrating some of the coins you support that almost no-one else supports (Blake eco and SKC) and also i would really like to use AT.

 You can use the api to do anything... "SOON"™ :-)

[chiguireitor]

"Win.Adware.Agent-6810" roflol.... maybe that's because the software i added for android ads (that i never used)... going to remove it now

[sheepman]

Just a quick heads up on the explorer, it will be on the temporary address until probably Thursday (new server won't be provisioned until then!)

For now its on:

http://87.242.230.99/

** UPDATE **

Won't be until Monday now

[glamorgoblin]

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I'm offering a 10k skc bounty on an opensource FPGA implementation of the skein algo.

HW Testing shows that I can get about 2.5MH/s (for the sha256/skein algo) out of a Cyclone IV E115.  Not impressive.  That's only burning about 1W though, so that's 2.5MH/s/W which is kinda "cool" if you're gonna make a large rig of dozens of FPGAs.  With my rig, once I get the stratum proxy working, I'm expecting around 180MH/s for myr-skein.  That's about what you'd expect from a single modern GPU ... meh.

Disappointment.

This still will yield about 5x what my rig is yielding today running the scrypt algo though.  ASICs are starting to kick my ass in the Scrypt realm.  Todays cryptocurrency landscape doesn't appear to have much room left for FPGAs.  The algo's are a whole generation newer (and more complex) than they were in BitCoin days and those damned GPUs are REALLY REALLY fast now!  Even though GPUs are not running algo steps in parallel (like an FPGA can) they're running their core at some insane GHz speed that more than makes up for it.  If I really work at timing issues I can get logic steps in the FPGA to run up to 100MHz.  That's roughly the theoretical max for how fast a single fully unrolled instance of an algo machine can run in this FPGA.  The SHA3 generation of algos though are so much more complex than SHA2 that you'd never fit an entire fully unrolled instance in a single IC.  You have to start making trade offs to shrink the logic into something that will fit and this means increasing the number of clocks per hash.  I've run out of steam at 64 clocks per hash for Skein.

Quite a learning experience

[teknohog]

HW Testing shows that I can get about 2.5MH/s (for the sha256/skein algo) out of a Cyclone IV E115.  Not impressive.  That's only burning about 1W though, so that's 2.5MH/s/W which is kinda "cool" if you're gonna make a large rig of dozens of FPGAs.

Ouch. It's rather common that FPGAs are slower than GPUs but more power efficient, but this is a bit too far from practical.

Todays cryptocurrency landscape doesn't appear to have much room left for FPGAs.  The algo's are a whole generation newer (and more complex) than they were in BitCoin days and those damned GPUs are REALLY REALLY fast now!  Even though GPUs are not running algo steps in parallel (like an FPGA can) they're running their core at some insane GHz speed that more than makes up for it. 

GPUs run at about 1 GHz, which is way less than current CPUs. They just have so many cores/threads running in parallel. They also have more/faster memory than common FPGA boards. (Though I wonder if the SRAM of DE2-115 could be put to good use...)

If I really work at timing issues I can get logic steps in the FPGA to run up to 100MHz.  That's roughly the theoretical max for how fast a single fully unrolled instance of an algo machine can run in this FPGA.  The SHA3 generation of algos though are so much more complex than SHA2 that you'd never fit an entire fully unrolled instance in a single IC.

When I hacked together my first FPGA code, I didn't really know/care about timing (and I'm not much wiser today ). The suggested speed limit was about 70 MHz, but the Spartan 3E didn't have the flexibility of the Cyclone IV clocking, so I just built 50 and 100 MHz versions, and they were both fine. Sure, you'll get the occasional error, but the overall efficiency is better with a little overclocking. Ztex boards/miners make great use of this idea by dynamic clocking based on error rate.

Offtopic: Keccak is supposed to be really hardware-friendly, so it could be fine even without full unrolling. Opencores has an implementation, but their login systems is having some issues...

[Red Kendra]

Wallet updated.

version 0.8.99.12 - 8 July 2014
Checkpoint, fixes and latest OpenSSL

Download links

Github source
http://github.com/skeincoin/skeincoin

Windows QT wallet
MD5 file hash = 5E707B2E115C4B62436496BB06DA6D55
https://mega.co.nz/#!ApoXUYyR!BuLWuOMri1SEAbrUVAo0eTALhlIZxI11-CvGUh2TOwc
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qmrtquk46kglz7o/skeincoinwin089912.zip
http://www.skeincoin.org/skeincoinwin089912.zip

[chiguireitor]

Wallet updated.

version 0.8.99.12 - 8 July 2014
Checkpoint, fixes and latest OpenSSL

Download links

Github source
http://github.com/skeincoin/skeincoin

Windows QT wallet
MD5 file hash = 5E707B2E115C4B62436496BB06DA6D55
https://mega.co.nz/#!ApoXUYyR!BuLWuOMri1SEAbrUVAo0eTALhlIZxI11-CvGUh2TOwc
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qmrtquk46kglz7o/skeincoinwin089912.zip
http://www.skeincoin.org/skeincoinwin089912.zip

RK IS ALIIIIIVEEEE!!!! 

[sheepman]

We love you RK   

Explorer is back up on new more permanent box:

http://38.93.234.100/

RK can you repoint DNS for explorer.skeincoin.org?

[sheepman]

Looks like RK updated http://explorer.skeincoin.org silently... geez he really is a crypto ninja

[sheepman]

I was concerned about the lack of pools being available for the coin so I decided to start another, its only in testing for now but I would appreciate it if people could point some hashing power at it

http://38.93.234.101/

[gielbier]

I'll point some hashrate to it.

[sheepman]

I'll point some hashrate to it.

Thanks

[sheepman]

180 confirmations required before skc is spendable? is that correct or am I going mad? Seems way too long to me!

EDIT: Figured it, surprisingly never actually knew there was a difference between block maturity and transaction maturity. You learn something everyday

[Skeincoin Foundation]

Hi All,

A change in the meetingdate. It will not be held on the 24th but on the 23th of July. Time and Location are still the same.


#skeincoin @Freenode
06.00 PM London time GMT +1 /07.00 Amsterdam / Caracas 02.30 pm / Moscow 09.00 pm.

Focus of meeting: Software for Skeincoin and bounties for services. Feel free to join us.

The Skeincoin Foundation

[Gunther]

Still holding my coins, mined in november 2013, lol.

[gielbier]

Hi All,

A change in the meetingdate. It will not be held on the 24th but on the 23th of July. Time and Location are still the same.


#skeincoin @Freenode
06.00 PM London time GMT +1 /07.00 Amsterdam / Caracas 02.30 pm / Moscow 09.00 pm.

Focus of meeting: Software for Skeincoin and bounties for services. Feel free to join us.

The Skeincoin Foundation

Ty, Will be there.