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

[A L I E N]

Regarding pool mining Alien, yes you can pool mine with that setting and it is for GPU only use; no cpu calculations at all.  There is a thread Aysyr started on cryptocointalk with a lot of poolmining posts.

Did you say the gpu/cpu part backwards?

[aysyr]

I just looked at my rig, and it said that I have "Found Block on pool 0" Pic related: http://sdrv.ms/1ffanah
Does this mean I have found a block? It's not showing up in my wallet.

From what I read that doesn't particularly mean you found a block. It's confusing I know. If you find a block it would probably say accepted under your summary in guiminer as below

http://i42.tinypic.com/257n91v.jpg

Are you pool mining btw?

[Dalekmun2010]

I just looked at my rig, and it said that I have "Found Block on pool 0" Pic related: http://sdrv.ms/1ffanah
Does this mean I have found a block? It's not showing up in my wallet.

From what I read that doesn't particularly mean you found a block. It's confusing I know. If you find a block it would probably say accepted under your summary in guiminer as below

http://i42.tinypic.com/257n91v.jpg

Are you pool mining btw?

Not pool mining, none accepted. How long does it usually take for you to find a block at your speed?

[Gridcoin]

Regarding pool mining Alien, yes you can pool mine with that setting and it is for GPU only use; no cpu calculations at all.  There is a thread Aysyr started on cryptocointalk with a lot of poolmining posts.

Did you say the gpu/cpu part backwards?

Hi,

No-- its for GPU users.  

 Rob H.

TribalBob-- Excellent.  I had similar results after I sent my coins out to my other node and cleared the wallet.  Thinking that wallets bigger than 1 meg are a problem, but will be testing that further.

[aysyr]

Dalekmun,

To find out approx. how long it'll take you to find a block do this. First look at either explorer.gridcoin.us or type getmininginfo in your Debug console to get the total network hashrate. Currently it's 28,000 kh/s (or 28 mh/s). Then, divide your hashrate by the network hashrate and just convert it to a fraction that's 1/x

Let's say your hashrate is 300kh/s. So 300/28,000 = 1/93.3 so you'll find approx 1 block out of ever 94. Each block is 2.5 min so 94 * 2.5 = 235 min = 3 hour 55 min.

[Dalekmun2010]

Dalekmun,

To find out approx. how long it'll take you to find a block do this. First look at either explorer.gridcoin.us or type getmininginfo in your Debug console to get the total network hashrate. Currently it's 28,000 kh/s (or 28 mh/s). Then, divide your hashrate by the network hashrate and just convert it to a fraction that's 1/x

Let's say your hashrate is 300kh/s. So 300/28,000 = 1/93.3 so you'll find approx 1 block out of ever 94. Each block is 2.5 min so 94 * 2.5 = 235 min = 3 hour 55 min.

Ah, Thanks! That's really helpful!

[Dalekmun2010]

Dalekmun,

To find out approx. how long it'll take you to find a block do this. First look at either explorer.gridcoin.us or type getmininginfo in your Debug console to get the total network hashrate. Currently it's 28,000 kh/s (or 28 mh/s). Then, divide your hashrate by the network hashrate and just convert it to a fraction that's 1/x

Let's say your hashrate is 300kh/s. So 300/28,000 = 1/93.3 so you'll find approx 1 block out of ever 94. Each block is 2.5 min so 94 * 2.5 = 235 min = 3 hour 55 min.

Wait, it said my other 2 shares (Or whatever they're called) where stale. Anything I can do about this? http://sdrv.ms/1byJLQK
I'm guessing it means I solved the block, but someone beat me to it, or my network connection was too slow.

[C. Bergmann]

Hi,

I write the blog for bitcoin.de. About a month ago I mentioned gridcoin and received great interest. Does some dev want to give me a short interview via pm about inspiration, technical problems and actual progess?

[traderman]

I guess Gridcoin himself would be the only person qualified for that one. Or maybe Aysyr.

Hi,

I write the blog for bitcoin.de. About a month ago I mentioned gridcoin and received great interest. Does some dev want to give me a short interview via pm about inspiration, technical problems and actual progess?

[Gridcoin]

Hi,

I write the blog for bitcoin.de. About a month ago I mentioned gridcoin and received great interest. Does some dev want to give me a short interview via pm about inspiration, technical problems and actual progess?

I'd be glad to do the article, please send me an e-mail at contact@gridcoin.us or PM me and we'll get started.

Best Regards,
Rob H.

[lmue]

I just set up a chinese chating group (QQ) for GRC supporting up to 500 people. Any chinese friends who love GRC are welcome.

We believe the future of GRC and everybody should contribute to that.

Gridcoin交流群 (GRC) 群号是258951963

[btbat]

Good Grid coin.
I want to get and work for it.

[katsoo]

after figuring every thing out, I stilllll can't get my wallet to sync, and adding the one addnode I found isn't helping..

[lmue]

Hi,

I write the blog for bitcoin.de. About a month ago I mentioned gridcoin and received great interest. Does some dev want to give me a short interview via pm about inspiration, technical problems and actual progess?

I'd be glad to do the article, please send me an e-mail at contact@gridcoin.us or PM me and we'll get started.

Best Regards,
Rob H.

Total coins: Gridcoin is scheduled to produce 84 million currency units.

I disagree on that. Even with 100GRC per block, it should be 168 millioni currency units. Am I right or I misunderstood.

[aysyr]

after figuring every thing out, I stilllll can't get my wallet to sync, and adding the one addnode I found isn't helping..

What's it doing exactly? Is it just getting stuck while syncing, or are the blocks not matching up? Do you have the latest version 1.1.3.9?

[katsoo]

It's showing tiny transactions coming thru, just 0 active connections on my wallet. I have NO idea how i managed to make it work, I suppose it's just really great tutorials!

[aysyr]

So it's working now? That's great! Just make sure that the blocks you have (it'll tell you if you hover your mouse over the green check mark on the bottom right) match up with the blocks on explorer.gridcoin.us

[Inrideo]

I don't think I reported this particular error before, though I've been getting it regularly:

System error: CDB(): can't open database file wallet.dat, error -30974

Even when I use my backup wallet to recover that will pop up again after a bit.

There should be a gridcoin bug bounty program

[Gridcoin]

I don't think I reported this particular error before, though I've been getting it regularly:

System error: CDB(): can't open database file wallet.dat, error -30974

Even when I use my backup wallet to recover that will pop up again after a bit.

There should be a gridcoin bug bounty program

As TribalBob suggested, doing the
gridcoin-qt -salvagewallet
command may work for you.

This bug is affecting about 10% of the wallets and seems to go away when you delete your data folder and start a new wallet.  Im working on diagnosing it.  I certainly believe it has something to do with the wallet file, and/or if something is being stored in there making it bigger (that we are not aware of at this time)!

Rest assured Ill be working on this next.

Grid

[traderman]

Yes, I have that same suspicion. It seems the wallet gets larger and then some kind of synching problem occurs. One the -salvagewallet command is run and a new wallet is made everything seem to run fine.

Could it be something with the boinc hash or any of that stuff?

I don't think I reported this particular error before, though I've been getting it regularly:

System error: CDB(): can't open database file wallet.dat, error -30974

Even when I use my backup wallet to recover that will pop up again after a bit.

There should be a gridcoin bug bounty program

As TribalBob suggested, doing the
gridcoin-qt -salvagewallet
command may work for you.

This bug is affecting about 10% of the wallets and seems to go away when you delete your data folder and start a new wallet.  Im working on diagnosing it.  I certainly believe it has something to do with the wallet file, and/or if something is being stored in there making it bigger (that we are not aware of at this time)!

Rest assured Ill be working on this next.

Grid