[ANN][CACH] CACHeCoin released based on scrypt-jane

[myagui]

Hi gents,

Who could point me towards the windows wallet? The dropbox link in the OP is down due to excessive traffic :S
Thanks
Myagui

CACHECoin wallet 5.0 mirror: https://mega.co.nz/#!18lXGaSS!xj85JpmAcAw_CLxsIn8TPT5xogy0Uj8tgyAJHeHiFCk

Thank you 

[kalgecin]

updated links in the OP

[mattbigblue]

what kind of hashrate are You people getting with 280x and r9 290 ?

[singula]

I've just noticed that not all existing pools are listed in the OP.

Two pools are missing:

First is http://cach.catcoin.cz/ - the first CACHeCoin pool - although as I see the current hashrate distribution across known pools, I think I will close registrations again soon, as the pool is approaching to 50% of the network hashrate (so the pool would be probably unavailable for new registrations for some time - until enough people joins some of the other mining pools).

Second is http://cryptocoinpool.net/ announced by Kitaj in this thread several pages ago - I see there about 1.3 Mh/s, so it is a small pool, but with current estimated round time around 30 hours perhaps large enough to be joinable even with weak mining hardware if someone wishes to help distributing the hashrate and still mine some coins within a reasonable timeframe. Also, there are zero mining fees according to pool's T&C page.

[kalgecin]

I've just noticed that not all existing pools are listed in the OP.

Two pools are missing:

First is http://cach.catcoin.cz/ - the first CACHeCoin pool - although as I see the current hashrate distribution across known pools, I think I will close registrations again soon, as the pool is approaching to 50% of the network hashrate (so the pool would be probably unavailable for new registrations for some time - until enough people joins some of the other mining pools).

Second is http://cryptocoinpool.net/ announced by Kitaj in this thread several pages ago - I see there about 1.3 Mh/s, so it is a small pool, but with current estimated round time around 30 hours perhaps large enough to be joinable even with weak mining hardware if someone wishes to help distributing the hashrate and still mine some coins within a reasonable timeframe. Also, there are zero mining fees according to pool's T&C page.

Thanks for bringing this up. I've added the 2 pools

[bit_coin_genuis]

According to setting posted here ppl are getting the hashrates of 180kh/s?

During the last n Factor I was mining at the speed of 340 kh/s which is think was par for the course.

For this new n factor I use the settings below and get a bunch of HW errors ... I have to lower my intensity to 12 to get ZERO HW errors and then I only get 72kh/s which os obviously not good.


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POSTED or POOL.CACHECOIN.NET:

R9 290 8GB RAM (1040/1400), expected hashrate about 180kh/s

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
cgminer --scrypt-jane --Nfmin 4 --Nfmax 30 --StartT 1388949883 -o stratum+tcp://pool.cachecoin.net:3333 -u worker_user -p worker_password -w 64 -g 1 -I 18 --thread-concurrency 45000 --no-submit-stale --lookup-gap 2 --expiry 10 --scan-time 1 --queue 0

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There has to be something more to the settings above ! can some please be UBER Specific and post absolutely every setting for an R9 290.... also my thread concurrency does not go over 30592, how canyou possibly get it at 45000?

I am mining with a GIGABYTE R9 290 OC and Sapphire r9 290 Tri-X, Windows 8.1, 8 GB of RAM

[CrunchHarder]

I've just noticed that not all existing pools are listed in the OP.

Two pools are missing:

First is http://cach.catcoin.cz/ - the first CACHeCoin pool - although as I see the current hashrate distribution across known pools, I think I will close registrations again soon, as the pool is approaching to 50% of the network hashrate (so the pool would be probably unavailable for new registrations for some time - until enough people joins some of the other mining pools).

Second is http://cryptocoinpool.net/ announced by Kitaj in this thread several pages ago - I see there about 1.3 Mh/s, so it is a small pool, but with current estimated round time around 30 hours perhaps large enough to be joinable even with weak mining hardware if someone wishes to help distributing the hashrate and still mine some coins within a reasonable timeframe. Also, there are zero mining fees according to pool's T&C page.

Thanks for bringing this up. I've added the 2 pools

Would be great if you could add the CrunchHarder CACHeCoin pool as well https://cache.crunchharder.net and help spread the hash around!

[singula]

Would be great if you could add the CrunchHarder CACHeCoin pool as well https://cache.crunchharder.net and help spread the hash around!

Your pool already is (and was) there, except it has a typo in its name, it is labeled as "Crush Harder pool".

Kalgecin, can you fix the typo?

As for attracting users - if the pool is empty, it is quite hard to attract some initial interest and initial load of miners.

I have the same problem with my second pool (originally created to mitigate 51% problems with too many people in the first pool), which is now empty - during the nfactor increase the pool has vacated completely due to many miners dropping out because of mining issues (there were some miners before the change, but after the increase everybody dropped out). Many miners needed to retune cards for newer nfactor due to HW errors (config that squeezes max power of cards at one nfactor may utterly fail at another). The pool has not repopulated since then and the only one that is mining there now is me (with all the crappy mining HW I have ).

One way could be to point some mining rig of yours to it to create some initial nonzero hashrate - people are much more likely to join a pool with at least one or two workers in it than pool that is completely empty. So if you have some hashpower at your disposal that you can point at your pool, no matter how small, then do it ... your chance to attract users will increase greatly.

Due to difficulty not having fully readjusted yet, people will probably still strongly prefer large pools for the time being (block time for PoW is now much larger than the designed block time, so even large pools need several hours to find a block in average), but once the block times settle down (I guess that should be in a day or two at most) and new miners will start flowing in, there would be better chance to attract some miners to a small pool.

[kalgecin]

Would be great if you could add the CrunchHarder CACHeCoin pool as well https://cache.crunchharder.net and help spread the hash around!

Your pool already is (and was) there, except it has a typo in its name, it is labeled as "Crush Harder pool".

Kalgecin, can you fix the typo?

Fixed

[luiggybit]

Guys any help for 6970??? I cant get avobe 45Kh/s over card , also I have a 6870 and I get 25Kh/s

[singula]

Guys any help for 6970??? I cant get above 45Kh/s over card , also I have a 6870 and I get 25Kh/s

What options (config file, parameters...) are you using? Any undervolting/overclocking/etc.. ?

Also, how much VRAM does your cards have? At this nfactor, VRAM could be a limitation, sometimes solvable by increasing the lookup gap.
As a blind shot, try increasing the lookup gap and see if that squeezes more hashes out of it.

If that does not work - please post your configs/params you use, you may get a better advice once we see them

[bit_coin_genuis]

Guys any help for 6970??? I cant get above 45Kh/s over card , also I have a 6870 and I get 25Kh/s

What options (config file, parameters...) are you using? Any undervolting/overclocking/etc.. ?

Also, how much VRAM does your cards have? At this nfactor, VRAM could be a limitation, sometimes solvable by increasing the lookup gap.
As a blind shot, try increasing the lookup gap and see if that squeezes more hashes out of it.

If that does not work - please post your configs/params you use, you may get a better advice once we see them

I posted all that info and no one helps me with my R9 290's  why is that

[singula]

I don't have much of better information than I've posted already on pool's homepage on http://cach.catcoin.cz/

I have some working config reportedly working from someone using HD 7970 with current Nfactor, but I have no better information for R9 290 (it is often hard to find some universal config, what works on once card, crashes another one - sometimes even if that another is of same type and in same PC). So it is often taking some config as a baseline and then try fiddling with vital parameters (intensity, thread-concurrency, lookup-gap, ...)

Some hints to parameter configuration can be also found at https://github.com/Thirtybird/YACMiner/blob/master/SCRYPT-README

HD 7970 config:

Code:

"scrypt-jane" : true,
"sj-nfmin" : "4",
"sj-nfmax" : "30",
"sj-time" : "1388949883",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"worksize" : "128",
"intensity" : "12",
"gpu-engine" : "1080",
"gpu-memclock" : "1500",
"gpu-fan" : "60-100",
"gpu-powertune" : "0",
"thread-concurrency" : "16000",
"vectors" : "1",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0",
"gpu-vddc" : "0",
"auto-fan" : true,
"failover-only" : true,
"no-restart" : true,
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "93",
"temp-target" : "75",
"api-listen" : true,
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "1",
"failover-only" : true,
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"hotplug" : "5",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "1",
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"shares" : "0"
}

[luiggybit]

First of all ty everybody for answering:

My cards are: 6970 (2gb) + 6950 (1Gb) + 6870 (1Gb),

I have better Hashrates now, my configs are:

(6870) cgminer --scrypt-jane --sj-nfmin 4 --sj-nfmax 30 --sj-time 1388949883 -o stratum+tcp://east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com:3364 -u xxx -p xxx -I 14 --thread-concurrency 11520 -w 64

(6970,6950) cgminer --scrypt-jane --sj-nfmin 4 --sj-nfmax 30 --sj-time 1388949883 -o stratum+tcp://east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com:3364 -u xxx -p xxx -I 17,12 -w 64,64 --thread-concurrency 24448,17280 --lookup-gap 2,3

And that is giving me:

59Kh/s on the 6870
71Kh/s on the 6970
58Kh/s on the 6950

I had to use lookup-gap 3 con the 6950, cause look-gap = 2 (default) was crashing my driver on that card.

I think my 6970 and my 6950 can do better, but I cant figured a better config.

[Walrusbonzo]

First of all ty everybody for answering:

My cards are: 6970 (2gb) + 6950 (1Gb) + 6870 (1Gb),

I have better Hashrates now, my configs are:

(6870) cgminer --scrypt-jane --sj-nfmin 4 --sj-nfmax 30 --sj-time 1388949883 -o stratum+tcp://east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com:3364 -u xxx -p xxx -I 14 --thread-concurrency 11520 -w 64

(6970,6950) cgminer --scrypt-jane --sj-nfmin 4 --sj-nfmax 30 --sj-time 1388949883 -o stratum+tcp://east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com:3364 -u xxx -p xxx -I 17,12 -w 64,64 --thread-concurrency 24448,17280 --lookup-gap 2,3

And that is giving me:

59Kh/s on the 6870
71Kh/s on the 6970
58Kh/s on the 6950

I had to use lookup-gap 3 con the 6950, cause look-gap = 2 (default) was crashing my driver on that card.

I think my 6970 and my 6950 can do better, but I cant figured a better config.

One of my R9 280x has to go back to the store due to a faulty fan. In the mean time I'll be using my spare 6970 with my other 280X. If I find some better settings for the 6970 I'll let you know.

[Burninj]

Seems cach starting to take off on cryptsy, volume doubled in less than 12 hours!

[Mattzees]

Seems cach starting to take off on cryptsy, volume doubled in less than 12 hours!

That's because an equipment vendor is accepting CACH as payment at the value of 0.01 BTC for 24 hours beginning on Monday.  This is causing people to buy it up at a discounted rate to get a discount on the equipment.

[Glandoux]

SHould I only be getting 160k on 290s?

Also is there a config on 270 and 270x?

[Burninj]

SHould I only be getting 160k on 290s?

that seems quite low

[Glandoux]

I seem to be getting 1/5 of scrypt K on all my cards...