Vertcoin - First Scrypt N | First Stealth Address - Privacy without mixer

[aleks648]

faster CPUminer for vertcoin is done, based on pooler-cpuminer.
Source only, no more changes from my side. It is my fear this will be used by botnet operators.

https://github.com/Bufius/cpuminer-vert

More speed than the existing CPU miner for Vertcoin?
-> yes, nearly 4 times faster (with AVX, AMD A4 4000@3Ghz)
    accepted: 51/51 (100.00%), 4.89 khash/s (yay!!!)

Can anyone make a windows build?

Windows build here http://kilovolt.co.uk/Vertcoin/cpuminer-vert-Aleks_N.zip

Enjoy!

[BorisTheSpider]

I have a question : Why "Vert"coin ?
My primary language is French and "vert" in French means "green", so I was wondering why "green"... Am I wrong ? 

Yes, I believe the dev thought of green when naming it.

[dmcx]

faster CPUminer for vertcoin is done, based on pooler-cpuminer.
Source only, no more changes from my side. It is my fear this will be used by botnet operators.

https://github.com/Bufius/cpuminer-vert

More speed than the existing CPU miner for Vertcoin?
-> yes, nearly 4 times faster (with AVX, AMD A4 4000@3Ghz)
    accepted: 51/51 (100.00%), 4.89 khash/s (yay!!!)

Can anyone make a windows build?

Windows build here http://kilovolt.co.uk/Vertcoin/cpuminer-vert-Aleks_N.zip

Enjoy!

I think this one is not build from Bufius code. I'm not getting any speed increase.

[dtothemt]

I'm a little confused. What is a reasonable hash rate to expect with this? My usual cgminer settings give me 500-600kh/s in regular scrypt, and with this scrypt-n-factor coin I get 15kh/s with my usual settings.

These are my usual settings: -I 13 --gpu-threads 2 --worksize 256 --shaders 1792 --thread-concurrency 12188

Now I am using only: -I 13

Right now it's giving me 160kh/s.

[kaene]

faster CPUminer for vertcoin is done, based on pooler-cpuminer.
Source only, no more changes from my side. It is my fear this will be used by botnet operators.

https://github.com/Bufius/cpuminer-vert

More speed than the existing CPU miner for Vertcoin?
-> yes, nearly 4 times faster (with AVX, AMD A4 4000@3Ghz)
    accepted: 51/51 (100.00%), 4.89 khash/s (yay!!!)

Can anyone make a windows build?

I would also appreciate Windows build. Tried myself and failed big time

Is there any point in CPU mining at the current difficulty, anyway?

Basically no. Right now this is a GPU coin, just like scrypt, or sha256, you can use CPU to mine them, but it's not profitable.

[enerbyte]

faster CPUminer for vertcoin is done, based on pooler-cpuminer.
Source only, no more changes from my side. It is my fear this will be used by botnet operators.

https://github.com/Bufius/cpuminer-vert

More speed than the existing CPU miner for Vertcoin?
-> yes, nearly 4 times faster (with AVX, AMD A4 4000@3Ghz)
    accepted: 51/51 (100.00%), 4.89 khash/s (yay!!!)

Can anyone make a windows build?

Windows build here http://kilovolt.co.uk/Vertcoin/cpuminer-vert-Aleks_N.zip

Enjoy!

Thanks!  

[spiffcow]

I'm a little confused. What is a reasonable hash rate to expect with this? My usual cgminer settings give me 500-600kh/s in regular scrypt, and with this scrypt-n-factor coin I get 15kh/s with my usual settings.

These are my usual settings: -I 13 --gpu-threads 2 --worksize 256 --shaders 1792 --thread-concurrency 12188

Now I am using only: -I 13

Right now it's giving me 160kh/s.

Drop your thread concurrency, set workgap to 2, and you should see an improvement.  Expect 40-50% of your normal hashrate.  While that sounds bad, remember that everyone else has 40-50% reduced hashrate, so you're still getting the same share of coins as if it was a normal scrypt coin.

[pdaddy]

Not that anyone cares but:

Network Hash rate: 52.994613 Mhash/s

    EU.VERTCOIN.ORG - Hashrate: 0 Khash/s - Workers: 0
    LA.VERTCOIN.ORG - Hashrate: 7 Khash/s - Workers: 0
    VTC.POOL.PM - Hashrate: 2.933 Mhash/s - Workers: 9
    HK.VERTCO.IN - Hashrate: 232 Khash/s - Workers: 2
    NY.VERTCO.IN - Hashrate: 5.848 Mhash/s - Workers: 21
    VTC.KILOVOLT.CO.UK - Hashrate: 14.103 Mhash/s - Workers: 27
    VERT.BITCRUSH.INFO - Hashrate: 40.122 Mhash/s - Workers: 63

Warning, mining on the largest pool can cause problems with the coin.

[Vertcoin]

Not that anyone cares but:

Network Hash rate: 52.994613 Mhash/s

    EU.VERTCOIN.ORG - Hashrate: 0 Khash/s - Workers: 0
    LA.VERTCOIN.ORG - Hashrate: 7 Khash/s - Workers: 0
    VTC.POOL.PM - Hashrate: 2.933 Mhash/s - Workers: 9
    HK.VERTCO.IN - Hashrate: 232 Khash/s - Workers: 2
    NY.VERTCO.IN - Hashrate: 5.848 Mhash/s - Workers: 21
    VTC.KILOVOLT.CO.UK - Hashrate: 14.103 Mhash/s - Workers: 27
    VERT.BITCRUSH.INFO - Hashrate: 40.122 Mhash/s - Workers: 63

Warning, mining on the largest pool can cause problems with the coin.

    EU.VERTCOIN.ORG - Hashrate: 0 Khash/s - Workers: 0 <- closed
    LA.VERTCOIN.ORG - Hashrate: 7 Khash/s - Workers: 0 <- closed
    VTC.POOL.PM - Hashrate: 2.933 Mhash/s - Workers: 9 <- recommended
    HK.VERTCO.IN - Hashrate: 232 Khash/s - Workers: 2   <- good for who are located in China
    NY.VERTCO.IN - Hashrate: 5.848 Mhash/s - Workers: 21  <- good for who live in US
    VTC.KILOVOLT.CO.UK - Hashrate: 14.103 Mhash/s - Workers: 27 <- good for who live in EU
    VERT.BITCRUSH.INFO - Hashrate: 40.122 Mhash/s - Workers: 63

[blacklig]

Hi guys,

I want to give you small warning based on my experience.

Some fag probably hacked to my account on bitcrush.eu and changed payment addres to his. Normally I have wallet up all day so I see transactions comming, this time I just had to turn it off for 20 hours and that time he hacked in and changed address.. lol, so I lost like 400 coins.. whatever..
He sent it here: VssiCuXx8LCrG9pbe2ShiMTKJ5TLQYmbCZ
http://explorer.vertcoin.org/address/VssiCuXx8LCrG9pbe2ShiMTKJ5TLQYmbCZ

I hope admins from bitcrush soon tell me if it was some bruteforce attack or just someone sniffed my password?? Damn.. or maybe some shady pool operator doesnt crypt passwords and then knew my pools password and smoothly get in? Dont know.. curious what they will find out.. but better watch your account at pool if this doesnt happened to you as well.. its my first such experience.. never hapened before and I have accounts on like 100 pools..

Can you somehow "track" this transaction and identify it? Maybe if he sends it to some exchange.. tell them to block it? Is it possible?

[monokaskade]

Hi guys,

I want to give you small warning based on my experience.

Some fag probably hacked to my account on bitcrush.eu and changed payment addres to his. Normally I have wallet up all day so I see transactions comming, this time I just had to turn it off for 20 hours and that time he hacked in and changed address.. lol, so I lost like 400 coins.. whatever..
He sent it here: VssiCuXx8LCrG9pbe2ShiMTKJ5TLQYmbCZ
http://explorer.vertcoin.org/address/VssiCuXx8LCrG9pbe2ShiMTKJ5TLQYmbCZ

I hope admins from bitcrush soon tell me if it was some bruteforce attack or just someone sniffed my password?? Damn.. or maybe some shady pool operator doesnt crypt passwords and then knew my pools password and smoothly get in? Dont know.. curious what they will find out.. but better watch your account at pool if this doesnt happened to you as well.. its my first such experience.. never hapened before and I have accounts on like 100 pools..

Can you somehow "track" this transaction and identify it? Maybe if he sends it to some exchange.. tell them to block it? Is it possible?

Can you provide me some more details in PM? (time, account name etc)

[BorisTheSpider]

Price up ~50% on coinedup, did hit 0.0001 for a while, but now just under 0.00008

[spiffcow]

ny.vertco.in  has their contact sytem broken..  I tried to reset my password, and after pressing "Reset", got a blank page.  Same thing happened when I tried to use their contact form to let them know about it.  Never got a password reset email either.

[BorisTheSpider]

ny.vertco.in  has their contact sytem broken..  I tried to reset my password, and after pressing "Reset", got a blank page.  Same thing happened when I tried to use their contact form to let them know about it.  Never got a password reset email either.

Thanks for reporting, I'll pass it on to @vertcoin in irc now

[BorisTheSpider]

ny.vertco.in  has their contact sytem broken..  I tried to reset my password, and after pressing "Reset", got a blank page.  Same thing happened when I tried to use their contact form to let them know about it.  Never got a password reset email either.

Thanks for reporting, I'll pass it on to @vertcoin in irc now

Passed this on to @Vertcoin - he is investigating now.

[BorisTheSpider]

OP UPDATED WITH NEW WALLET BUILD

Please can everyone update their wallet using either the links in the OP, or at http://www.vertcoin.org to help out with making sure new users wallets can sync quickly, and smooth the process as the VTC network grows.

[pdaddy]

Where does vertcoin.conf need to be, in the program or wallet folder?

[BorisTheSpider]

Where does vertcoin.conf need to be, im the program or wallet location?

On windows, it goes in:

c:\users\YOUR-NAME\appdata\roaming\vertcoin

So the wallet location

[BorisTheSpider]

Just to add, network hashrate has _doubled_ the past _4 hours_!!! Not only that, but we have some serious guys moving in - one with 10MH/s (equivalent to 20MH/s normal scrypt, so about 30 x R9 290s!!!).

Vertcoin is getting too big to ignore any longer - keep the momentum up guys, vote at https://cryptsy.freshdesk.com/support/discussions/topics/64057 if you want to trade VTC at Cryptsy.

[ahnonamis]

http://www.followthecoin.com/interview-creator-vertcoin/

We have our latest interview up, with the creator of Vertcoin!

Should anyone wish to donate to someone who mines ~20 a day on a laptop, our site's donation address for VTC is Vh8kGTjVwjQaBHu5qLy15o7vu7hhFHsAdf