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

[traderman]

 

exploding!!!!!!!!!

[asdlolciterquit]

price is going down

[lmue]

price is going down

Relax, because of Chinese new year, everybody need some money. like Christmas money

[traderman]

The GRC/USD seems to be doing well on c-cex.com 

The orderbook is pretty thin too, but I suppose most people want to transact in Bitcoin, seems the dollar is becoming unfashionable.

[Gridcoin]

Rob,

Do you purge the leaderbord in some way?

Reason I ask is that I still see my old address G7UD.. in the leaderbord, since it was encrypted I changed to a new address 6 days ago and since that time it has not been active anymore, all project are linked to the new address since the 24th.

Someone with a lot of credits can exploit that..

Yes, 1) With the explosive growth lately, we look back 20 days (instead of 30), so for one, old nodes fall off in 20 days.

2) We purge any entries where a single host switches wallets within that period and Mines a block.
Your entry will purge when your boinc-host-id mines a new block.

Grid

[Gridcoin]

Can grid please get rid of the: Gridcoin introduction - Newsflash video link here. It makes gridcoin seem like a scamcoin.

Thanks.

I didn't realize that people hated it , or that it looked slimy.

Sure, I'll make a deprecated area and move it.

Grid

[Gridcoin]

The main problem is you should receive types registered successfully; not a noveau error; you can try googling that problem and fixing wine first; I tested on Ubuntu 12.04 and it works & boots & listens for mining;

The Nvidia/Nouveau RandR error isn't a problem. This is a ?#?# political? ethical? problem between Nvidia devs and wine devs. Wine works and it wouldn't work better with Nouveau :p
Google it if you want but I can assure you that this "fixme error" has nothing to do with us

2) You are mining scrypt successfully on the box correct? So the problem is only restricted to building the wine client.

Since wine graphical apps require a display to run, I'm testing your wine client on my laptop. I can mine scrypt on my laptop and already did it.
This is the first objective : having the QT wine wallet to run on my laptop and make it communicate with boinc and cudaminer. We need this in order to "prove" that GRC can work on linux.

In the future, I want to run Gridcoin on my mining rig. My rig doesn't have a display. So I need the cli native linux wallet to work with Boinc or a wine cli wallet ...
This is the final objective : having the GRC client working headless. Usually, linux mining rigs don't have a display
There is a workaround which is to use export DISPLAY=:0 :

Code:

[Yama@FedoraDesktop wine]$ wine gridcoin-qt.exe
Application tried to creVCRT_file_cs" wait timed out in thread 0034, blocked by 002e, retrying (60 sec)
^C^C^C[Yama@FedoraDesktop wine]$

The client seems to "launch" on my rig but since the rig doesn't have a display, I can't do anything on the client. If I earn GRC, I will have to connect a display in order to transfer them ... This is not good.

Hi Yamashita,
Thanks for testing it, OK so noveau should work well with wine, fine.  We need to test this one step at a time.  We can't jump forward to a headless version that mines until the QT version mines successfully with wine and you can see it working.  The client requires a high level of security and we can't compile those changes into the headless version until the qt version is stable.

1) Regardless of whether noveau "should" work with wine, when you do a "wine regsvr32 dllname.dll" you should receive "types registered successfully", not a noveau error.  Figure out the answer to that and we can move past the first regsvr command in the instructions I posted.
2)  Test the code on a system with cudaminer or cgminer, a monitor, and wine so we can see if the GUI shows positive boinc credits.  Im not interested in jumping to "finding a block" until it mines, boinc credits show and loopback is working correctly.
3) Regarding the chart and the other ocx you should receive the same regsvr32 response; we wont need the chart in the headless version; so dont bother coming up with workarounds to fake out the monitor being present as you may not need them in that later version
4) You should not only see the wallet but also the linux mining screen

Let me know.

Thanks,
Grid

[traderman]

Holly Crap, I just did a "listcpuminers" command too see how many guys are cpu mining, it is showing 406 CPU miners on Gridcoin. I thought we only had a handful.
 

[aysyr]

Just want to remind everyone again that we are holding a logo design contest lasting through next week and we need YOUR HELP to rate the entries. Please partake in choosing the official Gridcoin logo! Instructions and links to polls found in the link below.

https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/3950-99designs-gridcoin-logo-competition-please-help-judge-3-days-left/

[Ardolafat]

is there any maximum limitation on the amount of transfer.
 
one guy did 2 times transfer, 1st time 100k and 2nd time 40k, but only the 2nd time is confirmed and the 1st time is still with a question mark right now.
 
he is using the latest version and without syn. problem and tried to rebuild chain for several times.

I have the same problem today, it looks like more than half of transactions are not going anywhere. 

Try to Run gridcoin with -salvagewallet key if you have lost tranfers

[Inrideo]

How did you send coins to the address? Is it one that you've traded with previously?

The chances of you sending coins to a valid address via typo are millions to one.

this is important: i've send some of my coins to a wrong address: tell me there is a way to recover it!! 

Unfortunately, there's only one way that could happen: Track down the owner of the address (assuming it's a valid and owned address), beg them nicely to return your coins, and hope that they are honest enough to do it. Good luck! 

how can i track down the owner of the address?

[groten]

Rob,

Do you purge the leaderbord in some way?

Reason I ask is that I still see my old address G7UD.. in the leaderbord, since it was encrypted I changed to a new address 6 days ago and since that time it has not been active anymore, all project are linked to the new address since the 24th.

Someone with a lot of credits can exploit that..

Yes, 1) With the explosive growth lately, we look back 20 days (instead of 30), so for one, old nodes fall off in 20 days.

2) We purge any entries where a single host switches wallets within that period and Mines a block.
Your entry will purge when your boinc-host-id mines a new block.

Grid

Good to know, but how about cpu mining? I had to transfer some coins today from the old wallet so I took the time to do a little abuse test.

For what I see, I can conclude that you made it solid enough, beacons are sent but "CPU daily avg credits" shows -1 if I try to use my existing points for the other wallet, compliments, good work ;-)

[traderman]

Out of all the designs I have seen so far, this one looks very professional and has the look of a real world metallic coin.
You can vote for it here: https://99designs.com/logo-design/vote-xojffu

[YamashitaRen]

@Gridcoin
No problem, I understand that making gridcoin working with QT is a step before havint it work headless.

1) Regardless of whether noveau "should" work with wine, when you do a "wine regsvr32 dllname.dll" you should receive "types registered successfully", not a noveau error.  Figure out the answer to that and we can move past the first regsvr command in the instructions I posted.

What I wanted to say is that I have this nouveau error with everything in wine. It's like wine telling "please, use nouveau instead of nvidia, I don't like nvidia even if it works".
Not a problem since every program who should work in wine, work even with this error.

What I don't understand is this :
dll registering works but not ocx registering ...

Code:

[Yama@VaioLaptop wine]$ wine regsvr32 msvbvm60.dll
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
Successfully[ registered DLL msvbvm60.dll
[Yama@VaioLaptop wine]$ wine regsvr32 BoincLinux.dll
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
Successfully registered DLL BoincLinux.dll

Code:

[Yama@VaioLaptop wine]$ wine regsvr32 mschrt20.ocx
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
Failed to load DLL mschrt20.ocx
[Yama@VaioLaptop wine]$ wine regsvr32 mscomctl.ocx
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
Failed to load DLL mscomctl.ocx

I think your howto lacks something 

edit :
Okay, problem found. .ocx files were not in the zip.

Now, ocx registering works :

Code:

[Yama@VaioLaptop wine]$ wine regsvr32 msvbvm60.dll
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
The explorer process failed to start.
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
Successfully registered DLL msvbvm60.dll
[Yama@VaioLaptop wine]$ wine regsvr32 mschrt20.ocx
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
Successfully registered DLL mschrt20.ocx
[Yama@VaioLaptop wine]$ wine regsvr32 mscomctl.ocx
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
Successfully registered DLL mscomctl.ocx
[Yama@VaioLaptop wine]$ wine regsvr32 BoincLinux.dll
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
Successfully registered DLL BoincLinux.dll
[Yama@VaioLaptop wine]$ wine GridcoinLinuxGUI.exe /regsvr
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
fixme:ole:RemUnknown_QueryInterface No interface for iid {00000019-0000-0000-c000-000000000046}
err:ole:CoReleaseMarshalData IMarshal::ReleaseMarshalData failed with error 0x8001011d

I now see the wallet AND the linux mining screen. There is a boinc utilization of 50 and the wallet seems to having trouble synchronizing (57422/57426, 57424/57427) ...
Cudaminer still doesn't work ...

Code:

[Yama@VaioLaptop ~]$ cudaminer -o http://127.0.0.1:9332 -O Cubie:x
           *** CudaMiner for nVidia GPUs by Christian Buchner ***
                     This is version 2014-01-20 (beta)
        based on pooler-cpuminer 2.3.2 (c) 2010 Jeff Garzik, 2012 pooler
            Cuda additions Copyright 2013,2014 Christian Buchner
           My donation address: LKS1WDKGED647msBQfLBHV3Ls8sveGncnm

[2014-01-31 23:19:37] 1 miner threads started, using 'scrypt' algorithm.
[2014-01-31 23:19:37] HTTP request failed: Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 9332: Connection refused
[2014-01-31 23:19:37] json_rpc_call failed, retry after 15 seconds

Code:

rpcuser=Cubie
rpcpassword=x
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=9332
server=1
poolmining=false
gen=0
#PORTS
#RPC Port: 9778
#RPC Port (testnet):  19778

edit2 : Could it be a problem of architecture ?
I'm using a 64bit cudaminer while your wine exe might be 32bit ...

[aigeezer]

Out of all the designs I have seen so far, this one looks very professional and has the look of a real world metallic coin.
You can vote for it here: https://99designs.com/logo-design/vote-xojffu

It's a beauty.

I'm assuming we only get one vote. If so, I'll wait a bit longer just in case someone animates the electrons in their orbits or adds musical spheres or double helices or whatever. That one is definitely my fave so far.

[traderman]

You vote 1 per page. There are 60 pages right now and more being added. So get to work aigeezer!!

Official Logo Voting: https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/3950-99designs-gridcoin-logo-competition-please-help-judge-3-days-left/

Out of all the designs I have seen so far, this one looks very professional and has the look of a real world metallic coin.
You can vote for it here: https://99designs.com/logo-design/vote-xojffu

It's a beauty.

I'm assuming we only get one vote. If so, I'll wait a bit longer just in case someone animates the electrons in their orbits or adds musical spheres or double helices or whatever. That one is definitely my fave so far.

[hamiltino]

Out of all the designs I have seen so far, this one looks very professional and has the look of a real world metallic coin.
You can vote for it here: https://99designs.com/logo-design/vote-xojffu

I wouldn't mind having a CASASCIUS physical gridcoin that looked like that.

[hamiltino]

Any update on getting the current supply of coins on the block explorer?

[pabloangello]

Out of all the designs I have seen so far, this one looks very professional and has the look of a real world metallic coin.
You can vote for it here: https://99designs.com/logo-design/vote-xojffu

Yep that's cool but I also like this one:



Is little bit more informative than previous one :]
Voted on both.

[blueangel01]

for some reason i could not access the exchange of the GRC/BTC....