Gridcoin (GRC) - first coin utilizing BOINC - Official Thread

[Sparood]

LOL Is anyone seeing this, 7 mil credits in 1 day? WOW

Not taking that big spike in account, credits have doubled in a matter of days, maybe 10 million will be broken next week. Would be a great milestone...

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[TribalBob]

Gridcoin Pool Instructions:

- Note: The pool is in alpha so I recommend pointing an extra instance of cgminer at it
until we have it debugged.
- The main difference between a traditional pool and the gridcoin pool is this pool requires the gridcoin-qt
client to authenticate to the pool (in order to send boinc information over SSL) before you can mine.
Gridcoin QT will do this on every re-start and once every 30 minutes, and also when you push the "re-authenticate"
button.  You can also go to mining | pools and push that button (going to be used for a future purpose when more pools
exist).
- This pool does not require a block to be found before you start accruing payments.
- Once every 30 minutes we will repopulate the leaderboard to show progress of all miners.
- Once per day, the pool does a currency sweep; it sends all of the payments earned to the individual accounts.
 Withdrawals are done by the user.
- You can see your progress by going to Account and refresh the page.
- Modify CGMiner with the following settings to connect to the pool:
{
  "pools" : [
      {
          "url" : "http://pool.gridcoin.us/Getwork.aspx?user=yourweb_miner_usernamehere&pass=your_miner_password",
      "user":"thisdoesnotmatterbutneedstobehere", "pass":"lol"
     }
],
"api-listen" : true,
"api-port" : "4001",
"api-allow" : "W:127.0.0.1",
"intensity" : "17",
...

- Add 3 lines to your gridcoin config:
pooluser=your_web_username **Note: This is the master web account in the pool, NOT the miner account name!
poolpassword=your_web_password
poolurl=http://pool.gridcoin.us  
To test these settings, go into gridcoin to mining | Pools and click Authenticate, it should show success or fail.

Best of Luck Mining!

Rob H.

Questions:

1) How do we configure cgminer if we launch via .bat or command line...? Do we need all the api-listen, api-port, api-allow stuff, because I have no idea what flags to use from the command line for that.

2) Are web_miner_username and pooluser the same thing...? If not, Do I choose my own web_miner_username and pooluser name or are there specific ones I should be using...?

3) Is the miner_password the same as the web_password...? If not, do I choose my own passwords for each one or are there specific nes I should use...?


Thanks!

Hey TribalBob,

I found this in Cryptocointalk, this was posted from another user there:

I use an external cgminer (with cgwatcher in fact) and it is working correctly.  I know when scrypt sleep start I will have to "play" with the integrated cgminer or find a way to make it sleep, but so far I used this.  

 

I do not have a cgminer.conf, I have all this in the command line

 

Here is my command line without the new pool, no need to specify an API (this is for a R9 270 and a 6950)

--scrypt -o http://127.0.0.1:9339 -u xxx -p xxx --auto-fan --gpu-memclock 1325,1375 --gpu-engine 840,1050 --thread-concurrency 8192,16000  -I 19,18 -g 1 -w 256,256 -d 0,1

 

Here is the command line for my PC using the new pool (this is for a 7950)

--scrypt -o http://pool.gridcoin...=falha&pass=xxx -u falha -p xxx --shaders 1024 --auto-fan --gpu-memclock 1375 --gpu-engine 1140 --thread-concurrency 8192 --api-listen true --api-port 4001 --api-allow W:127.0.0.1 -I 19 -g 1 -w 256

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As for the web_miner_username I think it's the name you give when you create your worker and pooluser it's the name you open account in the pool.

As for the Miner_password it's the password you select when creating your worker and the web_password it's the password you selected when you created account in the pool.

I have try this but without success, I think it's because I was using CGminer version 3.7.2, I had to edit cgm0 and cgm1 on roaming folder and it worked for me this way.

Hope this helps  

Thanks for the response m8, will give this a try!

[traderman]

I was browsing the boincstats site and I came across this page. They are accepting bitcoin donation for now, I think it would be cool if they also accepted gridcoin donations as well.

I started a thread with a suggestion on their official forum here: http://boincstats.com/en/forum/4/9117,1#130115

[uzer23]

Hello,

I am following the mining instructions pdf on the front page, and in step 9 it says:

"Launch Gridcoin-qt. Click on the mining console menu. Click register mining module." 

But there is no button or anything like that "register mining module" ?

Also I could not install Boinc 6.x and instead installed Boinc 7.x. Should not be a problem?

[DreadLord]

Tomorrow will open http://www.allcrypt.com/ let's see if this will help GRC to be more valuable, because c-cex problems took down the price very hard  

[uzer23]

Hello,

I am following the mining instructions pdf on the front page, and in step 9 it says:

"Launch Gridcoin-qt. Click on the mining console menu. Click register mining module."  

But there is no button or anything like that "register mining module" ?

Also I could not install Boinc 6.x and instead installed Boinc 7.x. Should not be a problem?

ok it seems the registering part is not necessary, cause I got a boinc utilization of 50 shown in gridcoin-qt in the down left corner. But the gridcoin mining module says "boinc utilization low". Is that normal? Is 50 a good value for i7 cpu?

And cgminer is only for GPU mining? So i would be finished now if I only want CPU mining for now? I will get coins? It says "Average daily credit: 0" ?

[uzer23]

is there any up to date documentation so I get to know what I am doing? I got cpu and gpu now running... but no idea whats going on. I cannot read 215 pages in this thread to get the knowledge...

PS. and does solo mining with gpu still make sense? since there is a pool now? Should I use the pool? Can I just switch by changing the 127.0.0.1 address to pool hostname? questions over questions ....

[traderman]

those instructions are outdated and need to be replaced.

here are the updated one: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=403734.0

Hello,

I am following the mining instructions pdf on the front page, and in step 9 it says:

"Launch Gridcoin-qt. Click on the mining console menu. Click register mining module." 

But there is no button or anything like that "register mining module" ?

Also I could not install Boinc 6.x and instead installed Boinc 7.x. Should not be a problem?

[uzer23]

ok thats much better. I also found the cpu tutorial on cryptocointalk.

But I still have that red message saying "Boinc utilization low", what am I doing wrong? is Boinc v7.x my problem?

I also read on cryptocointalk that you need to get 1 GRC to send an initial beacon out? is that still the case? Not reading anything about that here?

[Robert Lewandowski]

No Mac Os X?

[johnatx]

I tried out the new pool. Simple to use and reliable so far. Much better than the old poolmining option as you can see the block/balance details.
Thanks Rob for the great work.

[dbt1033]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=491588.msg5418475#msg5418475

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[traderman]

I just cast my vote, looks like it was the first one!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=491588.msg5418475#msg5418475

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[drehb]

ok thats much better. I also found the cpu tutorial on cryptocointalk.

But I still have that red message saying "Boinc utilization low", what am I doing wrong? is Boinc v7.x my problem?

I also read on cryptocointalk that you need to get 1 GRC to send an initial beacon out? is that still the case? Not reading anything about that here?

Yes, you need some GRC to send out beacons for CPU mining.  Beacons are ~0.08 GRC each.
You said you have it showing 50% utilization right?  That's normal...you need some time running BOINC for it to gradually build up credits.  When you get to 1000 average daily credits you'll get to 100% utilization.

[drehb]

small issue to report:  when you have sync issues the wallet will go into a 'safe mode'.  The issue is that the debug console seems to not let you do commands when it is in this state.  When I type 'upgrade' in the console it gives a safe mode error message code -2 and doesn't execute the upgrade.  I think you should still be able to execute the upgrade command at least, even in the 'safe mode'.

[Sparood]

I just cast my vote, looks like it was the first one!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=491588.msg5418475#msg5418475

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Voted!

[Paul95]

where I can download the latest wallet for windows?

[asdlolciterquit]

I just cast my vote, looks like it was the first one!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=491588.msg5418475#msg5418475

Be sure to vote for Gridcoin!  Decide on the next coin to be offered at Atomic-Trade.com

voted!

P.S: darkcoin is everywhere!

[DreadLord]

where I can download the latest wallet for windows?

You can download it in Gridcoin site > http://www.gridcoin.us/

[uzer23]

ok thats much better. I also found the cpu tutorial on cryptocointalk.

But I still have that red message saying "Boinc utilization low", what am I doing wrong? is Boinc v7.x my problem?

I also read on cryptocointalk that you need to get 1 GRC to send an initial beacon out? is that still the case? Not reading anything about that here?

Yes, you need some GRC to send out beacons for CPU mining.  Beacons are ~0.08 GRC each.
You said you have it showing 50% utilization right?  That's normal...you need some time running BOINC for it to gradually build up credits.  When you get to 1000 average daily credits you'll get to 100% utilization.

Ok, I got one accepted share from GPU mining and got some grc for that so I could send the beacon this night.

My avg. daily payout just changed to 42, thats better than zero. But for GPU mining I still only have 1 accepted share over 12 hours, should I change to pool mining?

And is BOINC also using my GPU beside CGMINER when working on Milkyway project? What is cgminer actually working on?