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

[Boiar]

Guys, can somebody tell me what's going on?

My GPU hashing speed: 320 KH/s, CPU utilization = 90 %.

For 15 hours I haven't been rewarded anything (with poolmining). I launched poolmining yesterday 25 hours ago and all I got is 64 GRC (two rewards with ~32 GRC each).
After the last reward (~32 GRC), which was 15 hours ago [2014-01-22 15:53 local time], I found two blocks for pool 0:

2014-01-22 22:31:57: Listener for "Default": [2014-01-22 22:31:56] Found block for pool 0!
2014-01-23 03:37:43: Listener for "Default": [2014-01-23 03:37:43] Found block for pool 0!

Still, no rewards.

UPD: I've read the previous page, as far as I understand, I'm gonna get my earned rewards later/next day?
 

[andrewp]

Guys, is anybody having trouble with poolmining?

My GPU hashing speed: 320 KH/s, CPU utilization = 90 %.

For 15 hours I haven't been rewarded anything (with poolmining). I launched poolmining yesterday 25 hours ago and all I got is 64 GRC (two rewards with ~32 GRC each).
After the last reward (~32 GRC), which was 15 hours ago [2014-01-22 15:53 local time], I found two blocks for pool 0:

2014-01-22 22:31:57: Listener for "Default": [2014-01-22 22:31:56] Found block for pool 0!
2014-01-23 03:37:43: Listener for "Default": [2014-01-23 03:37:43] Found block for pool 0!

Still, no rewards.

Can somebody tell me what's going on?

Hi Boiar,

Rob turned on feature where the payouts in poolmining mode are distributed to each miner when current hour is equal to their wallet hour.
Check that in RPC console.

This feature should help with the problem of large wallets.

Hope this helps,
Andrew.

[Boiar]

Hi Andrew,

Thank you for clarification, will be waiting my hour.


I have one more question  

Regarding reward system: what is it like?
Let's say I pause mining for 2 hours, will it affect my reward greatly or just proportionally to the number of shares submitted within these 2 hours?

Thanks in advance.

[johnatx]

I had similar problems these past few days. Found 5 blocks in the past 36 hours again, but only got rewarded ~100GRC.
I still don't know how this Wallet hour work. If I am not lucky and no other blocks are found during the same wallet hour in the past 36 hrs, will I eventually get the payment of 100~ GRC for each block found (My BOINC utilization is 90% all the time)?

[brianbbad]

Newb here. Can someone tell me how to do CPU mining? Boinc is open and doing work, but nothing's happening in the gridcoin mining console. I read the instructions on the gridcoin website, but I'm still confused. Do I have to integrate/configure a separate mining program even though the gridcoin wallet comes bundled with a mining console now?
Thanks in advance for your help! 

[asdlolciterquit]

look at this link-->https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/1922-cpu-mining-tutorialtopic/

[Antropov]

What's going on with the sync? I lost 20k and about 7k immature transactions!!! Is there any way to recover my coins? What about block explorer? How can I check my blocks?

[traderman]

Looks like you were on a fork. So you didn't loose anything, you were just mining on your own chain.

What's going on with the sync? I lost 20k and about 7k immature transactions!!! Is there any way to recover my coins? What about block explorer? How can I check my blocks?

[Antropov]

Looks like you were on a fork. So you didn't loose anything, you were just mining on your own chain.

What's going on with the sync? I lost 20k and about 7k immature transactions!!! Is there any way to recover my coins? What about block explorer? How can I check my blocks?

Oh really? Damn my luck... (First time hurts!)
Is it possible to check on block explorer by address and not only by block?

[asdlolciterquit]

Looks like you were on a fork. So you didn't loose anything, you were just mining on your own chain.

What's going on with the sync? I lost 20k and about 7k immature transactions!!! Is there any way to recover my coins? What about block explorer? How can I check my blocks?

uhm...but it's not a bad thing be in a fork??

[traderman]

Hey Gridcoin, check your pm.

[asdlolciterquit]

the number near any project (es: rosetta@home) is the number of daily credits of that project, is it correct?

and this lines:
1)"Total Daily CPU Payments to your GRC Address" : "45.0800",
2)"Amount Earned" : "32.1302",

what do they mean?

my opinion:
1)my payout if i keep mining until the end of the day?
2)what i've jet gained?

is it correct?

*

[groten]

Bingo,

I Think I understand why beacons are not sent out for certain CPU miners, since I encrypted my wallet I have this problem.

Rob, can that be the cause? Solutions?

Thx

[Nthuse]

Another Noob here. I've been trying to get CPU mining working all week but have yet to get the client to send out the beacon to get me on the list of CPU miners.  I've followed AndrewP's tutorial (https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/1922-cpu-mining-tutorialtopic/) and read pretty much every post on this and other forums to try to figure this out for myself but seemingly have got nowhere. My Boinc utilization is 60% and Avg daily credits=204.

Gridcoin.conf file is:
server=1
rpcuser=gridcoinrpc
rpcpassword=GG6XHgjJYmzaSxAeRTeRRhC1g3Smgk1QDh
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=9332
cpumining=true
UpdatingLeaderboard=false
UpdatedLeaderboard=23/01/2014 19:54:01
Project1=107958
Project3=491999
Project5=1012899
boincappfolder=C:\Program Files\Boinc\

cgminer.conf is (not sure if I even need to set this for CPU mining):
"pools" : [
 {
   "url" : "127.0.0.1:9332",
   "user" : "gridcoinrpc",
   "pass" : "GG6XHgjJYmzaSxAeRTeRRhC1g3Smgk1QDh"
 }
]

CPU = Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU B970 @ 2.30GHz
Project console - malaria control, Milkyway@home and Rosetta@home all have positive credits.
I've changed the wallet address receiving label to 'Default'

To date I've 'received' 6 unconfirmed transactions of either 0.00000167 or 0.00000267 GRC but I'm pretty sure they have nothing to do with mining and I haven't mined these.

IS there something really obvious that I'm missing? Any help is greatly appreciated as I'm completely stuck! 

[hamiltino]

Thank you to all the people who joined the Gridcoin Boinc team in the past few days,

We are now ranked: 5,505 out of 99,779 thanks to you guys.  

On our way to that number 1 spot 


Another reminder if you haven't yet done so:

"To join a team, all you have to do is log into the project’s website with the credentials you used when adding it to your BOINC client, find the Team page, search for Gridcoin, and join! Be aware that not every project may support teams."

[lmue]

Thank you to all the people who joined the Gridcoin Boinc team in the past few days,

We are now ranked: 5,505 out of 99,779 thanks to you guys.  

On our way to that number 1 spot 


Another reminder if you haven't yet done so:

"To join a team, all you have to do is log into the project’s website with the credentials you used when adding it to your BOINC client, find the Team page, search for Gridcoin, and join! Be aware that not every project may support teams."

excellent

[traderman]

Wow that is a nice looking chart.

[aysyr]

You're talking about CPU mining and not GPU mining right? The link below has instructions on getting started on it.

https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/1922-cpu-mining-tutorialtopic/

If that's what you were talking about then you can ignore/close the "Mining Console" window. You need at least 0.5 GRC to get started though so if you don't have any GRC yet post your address and hopefully someone here will send you a couple.

Newb here. Can someone tell me how to do CPU mining? Boinc is open and doing work, but nothing's happening in the gridcoin mining console. I read the instructions on the gridcoin website, but I'm still confused. Do I have to integrate/configure a separate mining program even though the gridcoin wallet comes bundled with a mining console now?
Thanks in advance for your help! 

[aysyr]

Nthuse,

What version of Gridcoin do you have? You check it by clicking on the tab Help > About Gridcoin and it should be something like v1.1.5.x. I know the earlier version of the CPU mining was having issues sending out beacons. IIRC versions 1.1.5.6 and later should work so maybe/hopefully that's the issue.

[deerough]

I want to post an update for #1 issue.  A simple reboot of my system seemed to work.  Once I did this and fired up Gridcoin qt again my cpu processing power immediately bounce back up to 100%.

i am trying to be an early adopter.  i have a few questions. first of all, i am mining 2 gpus solo with a 12 thread processor.  my average daily credits is 2700 and i have 11 threads devoted to boinc.  my boinc processing power won't go above 65 points.  this has been 100 fairly consistently until i decided to take a few days off with my rig.  i have not had syncing issues so long as i kept up with all the updates and addnodes.  my questions are these:

1. what can cause this to stay at only 65?

2. can someone please explain the scrypt sleep?  does this mean when my sleep is on that my hashing is doing nothing? 

3. does closing the mining console have to hide command prompts? i have other things running in command prompt sometimes and these get hidden as well.  it would be helpful if the mining console only hid process that it started. 

thanks, and good work so far. 

1. How long were you running Gridcoin before you took a break for a few days? The 100% is made up of two things - 50% utilization which you probably have and 50% is total average daily credits which builds up 2-4 weeks. So maybe that few days break brought your average daily credits down.

2. Rob answered this question previously.

3. Try putting closeconhost=false into your gridcoin.con file to prevent it from hiding cmd prompts.

And thanks to you as well.  I will try the setting.  I am sure my average daily credits were at 2,700 still, and all i need is 1,000 for the first 50% gridcoin credit.  The second portion was supposed to be based on the CPU processing power.  I have a six (12 thread) machine and was devoting 10 processing threads to BOINC and left 2 threads for my GPUS and user-interface.  This at one time easily made up the other 50% gridcoin credit, so i was at 100% and getting the full 150 block reward.  I took a break for a few days and now once i started back up, after running for 5 hours.  My total gridcoin credit was only 65%.  Again, my boinc avg daily credit was 2,700.  so 10 cpu threads only accounted for 15 additional %?  As proof, if I pause BOINC processing, my gridcoin credit drops back to 50%.