[Datacoin] Pool developer needed! Rewards and discussion

[maxsolnc]

Now Datacoin is at the stage where difficulty is so high that it is hard to solomine even with fast processors. Datacoin is not scrypt-based coin, it is XPM-based, so there are difficulties to create such pool (see http://www.reddit.com/r/primecoin/comments/1q42gz/primecoin_mining_pool_software/ )
Datacoin needs developer for pool (or someone from XPM team to open another pool for DTC even without opening sources to community). It will be rewarded of course (I can donate maybe 1-2K datacoins, and other miners can do thesame), and it needs to be done quickly. I'll bump this post several times - Datacoin needs to grow!  

[bidji29]

There is only a handfull of pool from primecoin since it's a different PoW.

There is  beeeeer.org,  ypool.net and rpool.net
So we could ask one of those to setup a Datacoin mining pool. Should be easy for them.


If not,  someone could create one.
I think the pool miner of beeeeer is opensource.

http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=485.0
http://www.mediafire.com/download/473rshiav08074t/primeminer_v08_rc1.zip

It should work with Datacoin too. But we need a server

[lanyounanhai]

Urgent need of DTC mineral pool, as long as the mineral pools, will soon enter the hundreds.

[mux]

Yay at the mineral pools 
Yes we indeed need that now!

[sugarkey]

bump！
indeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed  need Datacoin mining pool

[dr_chen]

Now Datacoin is at the stage where difficulty is so high that it is hard to solomine even with fast processors. Datacoin is not scrypt-based coin, it is XPM-based, so there are difficulties to create such pool (see http://www.reddit.com/r/primecoin/comments/1q42gz/primecoin_mining_pool_software/ )
Datacoin needs developer for pool (or someone from XPM team to open another pool for DTC even without opening sources to community). It will be rewarded of course (I can donate maybe 1-2K datacoins, and other miners can do thesame), and it needs to be done quickly. I'll bump this post several times - Datacoin needs to grow!  

maybe you can ask roje or xoloram for help

for they the authors of rpool and beeeer

[simbo]

Is there any open source mining pool software that we can use to setup a datacoin pool?

[bidji29]

Is there any open source mining pool software that we can use to setup a datacoin pool?

http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=485.0
http://www.mediafire.com/download/473rshiav08074t/primeminer_v08_rc1.zip

[maxsolnc]

Talking to ypool developers just now - you can also visit chat and talk to us: http://ypool.net/chat

[Teka]

Talking to ypool developers just now - you can also visit chat and talk to us: http://ypool.net/chat

Looks like you will need to look for a new pool developer.

[maxsolnc]

Talking to ypool developers just now - you can also visit chat and talk to us: http://ypool.net/chat

Looks like you will need to look for a new pool developer.

Main developer and some developers of unofficial DTC team work with that.
Did you mean that you want to help with pool?

[mpjetta]

While my C++ skills are rusty, I can provide server(s) and run a pool if a DTC pool software is ever released.

I have been trying to get a bunch of miners pointed at 1 remote datacoind to serve out work. I have the latest datacoin and datacoin-hp with getwork(), and an old version of primeminer.

Watching the wire, I can see the work json data object get served to the primeminer, but the primeminer is choking on the object it looks like. Hopefully someone is having better luck than I.   

[mstfck]

I think you can point jhProtominer at Datacoin-qt, not sure.

If anyone wants to try:

Help -> Debug console -> Console and type in: setgenerate true 0

Then point the miner at the ip:port.

Will test aswell soon

-mstfck

[Teka]

Talking to ypool developers just now - you can also visit chat and talk to us: http://ypool.net/chat

Looks like you will need to look for a new pool developer.

Main developer and some developers of unofficial DTC team work with that.
Did you mean that you want to help with pool?

I mean't that as far as I know that the ypool developer said no. Although if your offering then I wouldn't mind helping out with graphical design and front end website development.

[maxsolnc]

Talking to ypool developers just now - you can also visit chat and talk to us: http://ypool.net/chat

Looks like you will need to look for a new pool developer.

Main developer and some developers of unofficial DTC team work with that.
Did you mean that you want to help with pool?

I mean't that as far as I know that the ypool developer said no. Although if your offering then I wouldn't mind helping out with graphical design and front end website development.

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. After we finish backend...

[mpjetta]

I think you can point jhProtominer at Datacoin-qt, not sure.

If anyone wants to try:

Help -> Debug console -> Console and type in: setgenerate true 0

Then point the miner at the ip:port.

Will test aswell soon

-mstfck

I tried to point jhProtominer at a local datacoind without luck. I am trying all this stuff on linux CLI, and don't have a QT wallet built yet as I am on a mac.

All the versions of jhProtominer that I found are trying to use the "x.pushthrough(xpt) protocol" , I thought DTC required the getwork method now?

[maxsolnc]

I think you can point jhProtominer at Datacoin-qt, not sure.

If anyone wants to try:

Help -> Debug console -> Console and type in: setgenerate true 0

Then point the miner at the ip:port.

Will test aswell soon

-mstfck

I tried to point jhProtominer at a local datacoind without luck. I am trying all this stuff on linux CLI, and don't have a QT wallet built yet as I am on a mac.

All the versions of jhProtominer that I found are trying to use the "x.pushthrough(xpt) protocol" , I thought DTC required the getwork method now?

just now - yes, only getwork.

[Teka]

I think you can point jhProtominer at Datacoin-qt, not sure.

If anyone wants to try:

Help -> Debug console -> Console and type in: setgenerate true 0

Then point the miner at the ip:port.

Will test aswell soon

-mstfck

I tried to point jhProtominer at a local datacoind without luck. I am trying all this stuff on linux CLI, and don't have a QT wallet built yet as I am on a mac.

All the versions of jhProtominer that I found are trying to use the "x.pushthrough(xpt) protocol" , I thought DTC required the getwork method now?

just now - yes, only getwork.

Would that mean that a whole new miner has to be built or....?

[mstfck]

I think you can point jhProtominer at Datacoin-qt, not sure.

If anyone wants to try:

Help -> Debug console -> Console and type in: setgenerate true 0

Then point the miner at the ip:port.

Will test aswell soon

-mstfck

I tried to point jhProtominer at a local datacoind without luck. I am trying all this stuff on linux CLI, and don't have a QT wallet built yet as I am on a mac.

All the versions of jhProtominer that I found are trying to use the "x.pushthrough(xpt) protocol" , I thought DTC required the getwork method now?

just now - yes, only getwork.

Would that mean that a whole new miner has to be built or....?

No, the first bitcoin pool miners were made with getwork.
But i am pretty sure we can use a x.pushthrough proxy for mining. More efficent, and i am looking into 'getblocktemplate' instead of getwork. It is more easier to use, and provides more information.

[MrMagic]

I think you can point jhProtominer at Datacoin-qt, not sure.

If anyone wants to try:

Help -> Debug console -> Console and type in: setgenerate true 0

Then point the miner at the ip:port.

Will test aswell soon

-mstfck

I tried to point jhProtominer at a local datacoind without luck. I am trying all this stuff on linux CLI, and don't have a QT wallet built yet as I am on a mac.

All the versions of jhProtominer that I found are trying to use the "x.pushthrough(xpt) protocol" , I thought DTC required the getwork method now?

just now - yes, only getwork.

Would that mean that a whole new miner has to be built or....?

No, the first bitcoin pool miners were made with getwork.
But i am pretty sure we can use a x.pushthrough proxy for mining. More efficent, and i am looking into 'getblocktemplate' instead of getwork. It is more easier to use, and provides more information.

I found a jhPrimeminer source that can be used to mine datacoins. https://github.com/hg5fm/jhPrimeminer.

The only changes I had to make were adding transaction.h and transaction.cpp to the project and setting useGetBlockTemplate = false. I compiled using x64-AVX in Visual Studio 2012 Express.

To start mining you need to open the debug console on your server wallet and put "setgenerate true 0". Now you can point your miner at the wallet and start mining.

I tested on testnet with a few PCs and watched the mined blocks roll in. I have been running on mainnet on all my PCs for about 24 hours and I mined one block so far.