[ANN] Securecoin / Quark CPU miner by Spoetnik

[Spoetnik]

I have been meaning to post this publicly for a while but.. lol

This is a release of my CPU miner mod for SRC / QRK.

Windows x64 SSE4 only so far.. so have been too busy to worry about Linux support so far
It was coded in notepad and Visual Studio 2010 and compiled with MingW x64

It comes with a variety of bug fixes and new features and speed enhancements.
Please read included documentation ..I'll update this post with more info later.
I'm going to add some pictures i think showing what it looks like..
It has two color modes dark and bright and much more

LINKS REMOVED BECAUSE OF COMPLAINTS

Donations will enable make the program say registered and also enable an experimental speed enhancement
It runs about twice as fast when i use the beta mode features (see example.bat included to enable it)

Notes:
- Quark and Securecoin use the same special Algo.
- Quark came out first and SRC was made by a different guy who made it a lot more rare and made it work like Bitcoin's block rewards etc
- Miner works for SHA and Scrypt too

Resources:
Securecoin ANN page = https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=270852.0
Quark ANN page = https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=260031.960

Bright color mode (default)


DULL color (normal mode)

[MisO69]

Tested, it works about 20% faster than the Quark_v2 x64 miners. That is without the speed enhancements you have to pay for, for every computer you intend to run this on its $15.00



Oh, and for noobs, watch out for the datafile downloader. It packages the rar into a self installing .exe that puts crap all over your computer. Make sure you untick the option for fuck up my computer with adware.

[Spoetnik]

yup thanks

and its worth it if it doubles your hash speed i think

i am averaging when i checked last night $192 usd per month on a core2duo e7500 @ 3750mhz and Phenom x4 9550be "black edition" at between 2.6 and 3ghz

[MisO69]

If it doubles my hash speed its worth it! Sending you an email now.

[Spoetnik]

ok i checked my email.

also i added more info and pictures to first post

[MisO69]

I have been doing some testing with the beta miner. It reports hash rate increases over 110%. It seems to work slightly better on older CPUs such as the Core2 Q9400. The hashrate with the Quark_v2_x64 miners was about 316Kh/s meanwhile with the beta miner it reported 805Kh/s. WOW!! my old rigs are cool again.

That being said, the pool does not reflect those hash rates. Perhaps some tuning is in order? I have tried Scantime 30 and Scantime 1 so far they seem to get similar results. Do you have any suggestions that I can try?

[Spoetnik]

the pool src.coinmine.pl does not state hash rate accurately. (many don't)
what pool you on ?
scantime setting does work and will affect shares submitted.
and it does work on Getwork and Stratum unlike any other cpuminer i have seen (it only works for wallet mining on all others)
not sure what to suggest i modified the hash algo and tested for many months
so if people don't see any difference i don't know at to say really.. it IS hashing faster

and i can assure you 101% that if you turn on beta features your pool hash rate reported WILL increase.
myself and other have tested this extensively for a looooong time on many pools on both QRK and SRC.
it may not be a big change in earnings from 500khs to 1mh too especially if your on a pool doing 1.3 terhashes lol

its tricky to evaluate a miner but feel free to try some other miner and see what you get after 24 hrs then try mine
and count how many shares you get submitted and compares hashrates and don't forget scantime doesn't do anything for all other miners

oh and there is not a lot of options for this miner.. see --help commandline for more info

[Spoetnik]

please don't bother "donating" if your just looking to make more money guys..
i don't want to have to keep going through a ton of explaining to people about mining
..it's VERY complicated stuff and i hate re-explaining ..i'm not good at it

don't forget in the read me i mentioned a new feature i coded --timer
..for benchmarking

edit:

just so people know there is no trickery involved i will copy and paste the submit code..

Code:

static void share_result(int result, const char *reason)
{
	char s[345];
	double hashrate;
	int i;

	hashrate = 0.;
	pthread_mutex_lock(&stats_lock);
	for (i = 0; i < opt_n_threads; i++)
		hashrate += thr_hashrates[i];
	result ? accepted_count++ : rejected_count++;
	pthread_mutex_unlock(&stats_lock);
	
	sprintf(s, hashrate >= 1e6 ? "%.0f" : "%.2f", 1e-3 * hashrate);

	int logprio = (result ? LOG_WARNING : LOG_ERR);
	
	applog(logprio, "accepted: %lu/%lu (%.2f%%), %s kh/s %s",
		   accepted_count,
		   accepted_count + rejected_count,
		   100. * accepted_count / (accepted_count + rejected_count),
		   s,
		   result ? "(good)" : "(bad)");

	if (hashrate > Highest_Hash && result == 1) {
	    Highest_Hash = hashrate;
		applog(LOG_INFO, "NEW Highest Hash = %s kh/s", s);
    }

	if ((opt_debug || opt_hashdebug) && reason)
		applog(LOG_DEBUG, "DEBUG: reject reason: %s", reason);
}

what that shows is that it reports what hash speed is reported in console regardless if beta is activated or not.
so in other words it is NOT reporting a higher hash only if bet is activated or some other trickery

PS: Blue means highest submitted share speed.. Green is normal.

[MisO69]

Thanks for the explanation, I am in fact mining on qrk.coinmine.pl. I will try a different quark pool and see what kind of results I get. It is definitely faster not saying it isn't and worth the buy in for the beta.

[Spoetnik]

i am normally bad at explaining things and last few month i have tried to discuss this with various people and its hard..

many people already know but i have had a dedicated beta tester confirm my findings and he has the current source code right now too
and he has confirmed what i have said himself

[rammy2k2]

good luck

[MisO69]

Here are my results from testing the beta miner vs the quark_v2_x64 miner. Some people refer to it as minerd_sse4.exe. Thats the only other high performance miner I had to test with. For the sake of this post I'll call it v2 vs beta.

CPU Model - v2 hashrate - beta hashrate

Q9400 - 318Kh/s - 808Kh/s
Corei7 870 - 483Kh/s - 1044Kh/s
Core i5 3570 - 595Kh/s - 1303Kh/s
AMd FX8350 - 759Kh/s - 1750Kh/s
Xeon e5430x2 - 635Kh/s - 1620Kh/s
Xeon x5660x2 - 1342Kh/s - 3025Kh/s
Xeon e5-2450x2 - 1782Kh/s - 3663Kh/s

Huge increase in speeds.

[braytz]

AMd FX8350 - 759Kh/s - 1750Kh/s

i have a fx8350 too and i'm hashing at 800 Kh/s with this new miner....no performance increase for me. 

[MisO69]

AMd FX8350 - 759Kh/s - 1750Kh/s

i have a fx8350 too and i'm hashing at 800 Kh/s with this new miner....no performance increase for me. 

Are you running it without the unlock code? The miner runs ALOT faster if you donate to the OP and get your code.

[NUFCrichard]

AMd FX8350 - 759Kh/s - 1750Kh/s

i have a fx8350 too and i'm hashing at 800 Kh/s with this new miner....no performance increase for me. 

Are you running it without the unlock code? The miner runs ALOT faster if you donate to the OP and get your code.

That's not donating, that's buying a miner. Nothing wrong with that, but lets call it what it is.

[feeleep]

the pool src.coinmine.pl does not state hash rate accurately. (many don't)
what pool you on ?

Hi - every pool for every coin calculates hashrate based on submitted shares - you can 'tweak' miners by displaying 2x hashrate or even try to submit invalid shares but pool will still display the real hashrate... If this miner really submits 2x valid shares than original one then respect!

feeleep

[murraypaul]

Also, the known issues a while ago with QRK/SRC share difficulty might be a reason for the client and pool displaying different hash rates.
The coinmine pool does not allow too-low difficulty share submission.
The rate accepted by the pool is the reality.

[barwizi]

the pool src.coinmine.pl does not state hash rate accurately. (many don't)
what pool you on ?

Hi - every pool for every coin calculates hashrate based on submitted shares - you can 'tweak' miners by displaying 2x hashrate or even try to submit invalid shares but pool will still display the real hashrate... If this miner really submits 2x valid shares than original one then respect!

feeleep

hehehe, you nailed it

miners report based on programmed calculation that does not reflect what the pool is accepting.

Do this test, run the last miner yu were using for 8 hours then this one for 8 hours and compare your income, that is the most sure fire way of seeing performance difference.

[murraypaul]

I have been meaning to post this publicly for a while but.. lol

This is a release of my CPU miner mod for SRC / QRK.

Windows x64 SSE4 only so far.. so have been too busy to worry about Linux support so far
It was coded in notepad and Visual Studio 2010 and compiled with MingW x64

It comes with a variety of bug fixes and new features and speed enhancements.
Please read included documentation ..I'll update this post with more info later.

Where is the source code?
If this is a modification of the previous CPU miner, you are required by the GPL to release the full source for your version.

(Plus, anyone who downloads and runs prebuilt binaries from this forum with no source available is a bit dim, IMHO)

[braytz]

Are you running it without the unlock code? The miner runs ALOT faster if you donate to the OP and get your code.

i use the unregistered version, and i think now that you are a multi-account of the OP that is tryng to scam some noob promising him 2x faster miner.


nice try, but you failed.