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

[BorisTheSpider]

VTC market cap: 863350 coins x 0.0000766 BTC on CoinedUp = 66.133 BTC = just over $60,000 in a week!

Well done everyone for supporting this innovative coin, that makes a change from all the clone-coin dreck we see round here. Please keep voting at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=404364 if you'd like to trade VTC at Cryptsy.

New miners - please refer to the OP for updated vertminer information which is also linked from http://www.vertcoin.org

Even at current prices, which I think everyone here expects to rise pretty massively, this is probably already the most profitable coin to mine - we're looking at about 220 coins/day/MHs (using normal scrypt MH/s values), at 0.000075, so 0.0165 BTC/day/MHs.

[BorisTheSpider]

Lots of talk in #vertcoin on freenode about porting p2pool to VTC. Who would actually use this if we did it?

[bengtåke]

Since some people had trouble with this; I've thrown together instructions to build Bufius modified cpuminer for 64 bit Windows. Or you can just download this binary I compiled (needs AVX support etc I guess).

Download mingw64:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win64/Personal%20Builds/mingw-builds/4.8.2/threads-posix/seh/x86_64-4.8.2-release-posix-seh-rt_v3-rev2.7z/download
Extract it where ever you want, but remember where

Download msys:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/files/external-binary-packages/msys%2B7za%2Bwget%2Bsvn%2Bgit%2Bmercurial%2Bcvs-rev13.7z/download
Extract it somewhere. Now enter the msys folder (where you extracted it).

open the file etc/fstab and add the line (replace PATH_TO_MINGW_FOLDER with the directory you extracted mingw to):

Code:

PATH_TO_MINGW_FOLDER /mingw

e.g. if you extracted mingw at c:\mingw-x64-4.8.1-posix-seh-rev5 you'd enter:

Code:

c:\mingw-x64-4.8.1-posix-seh-rev5 /mingw

Without this msys wont know where to look for the mingw files. Now save the file and start msys.bat (in the msys folder), this will create a home folder etc in the msys directory.

Download:
http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.34.0.tar.bz2
for simplicity you could extract this in PATH_TO_MSYS_FOLDER\home\yourusername


Now go back to your msys window (reopen it if you closed it earlier), from now on I will assume you put the files in your home directory, if not just substitute where you put the files. Type all commands in the msys window, you can use tab-completion for file and folder names, e.g you type 'cd curl' and press tab and it will complete it for you to 'cd curl-7.34.0'.

First we build libcurl (you can leave out ipv6 support if you want, but this is 2014, you'll need it sooner or later.)

Code:

cd curl-7.34.0
./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --disabled-shared --with-winssl --enable-ipv6
make
make install
cp docs/libcurl/libcurl.m4 /usr/share/aclocal
cd ..

Finally we can get to the real part:

Code:

wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/Bufius/cpuminer-vert/archive/master.zip
unzip master
cd cpuminer-vert-master
sh autogen.sh
CFLAGS=" -DPTW32_STATIC_LIB -static" ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
make

If everything went fine you should now have a new shiny minerd.exe in the cpuminer folder.

[BorisTheSpider]

Excellent job - thanks bengtake.

[BorisTheSpider]

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

 

Sent you some VTC!

[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.

[moonbat]

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

 

Thanks for this, send you some vert - really interesting and cool to see something that's not a premined scam getting some publicity for a change.

[altcoinex]

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?

This is happening to many people on many pools - it seem's most of the people effected by it use the same username and password on other pools so keep in mind -- all it takes is one shady guy who setup a pool and knows your password, sees your username on any other pool and logs in and takes your coin....

[BorisTheSpider]

Yes I'd advise everyone to start using either roboform (paid) or dashlane (free) and use a different password everwhere. 

[ejhuff]

Vertcoind miner 4.278 khash/s  cpuminer 23.5 khash/sec 

          product: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
          vendor: Intel Corp.
          physical id: 1
          bus info: cpu@0
          capacity: 3900MHz

vertcoind generate:
    "blocks" : 17365,
    "currentblocksize" : 1000,
    "currentblocktx" : 0,
    "difficulty" : 2.25693224,
    "errors" : "",
    "generate" : true,
    "genproclimit" : 4,
    "hashespersec" : 4278,
    "networkhashps" : 97300859,
    "pooledtx" : 0,
    "testnet" : false

cpuminer on ny.vertco.in:
[2014-01-18 23:07:15] accepted: 6/6 (100.00%), 23.58 khash/s (yay!!!)
...
[2014-01-18 23:12:35] accepted: 38/38 (100.00%), 23.41 khash/s (yay!!!)

--- s.ny.vertco.in ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9008ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 24.158/28.115/32.202/2.410 ms
--- vtc.pool.pm ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9009ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 21.465/25.351/29.578/2.541 ms
--- hk.vertco.in ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9008ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 21.516/26.300/35.325/3.863 ms
--- la.vertcoin.org ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9009ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 17.161/24.596/29.581/3.529 ms

[Vertcoin]

Vertcoind miner 4.278 khash/s  cpuminer 23.5 khash/sec 

          product: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
          vendor: Intel Corp.
          physical id: 1
          bus info: cpu@0
          capacity: 3900MHz

vertcoind generate:
    "blocks" : 17365,
    "currentblocksize" : 1000,
    "currentblocktx" : 0,
    "difficulty" : 2.25693224,
    "errors" : "",
    "generate" : true,
    "genproclimit" : 4,
    "hashespersec" : 4278,
    "networkhashps" : 97300859,
    "pooledtx" : 0,
    "testnet" : false

cpuminer on ny.vertco.in:
[2014-01-18 23:07:15] accepted: 6/6 (100.00%), 23.58 khash/s (yay!!!)
...
[2014-01-18 23:12:35] accepted: 38/38 (100.00%), 23.41 khash/s (yay!!!)

--- s.ny.vertco.in ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9008ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 24.158/28.115/32.202/2.410 ms
--- vtc.pool.pm ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9009ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 21.465/25.351/29.578/2.541 ms
--- hk.vertco.in ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9008ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 21.516/26.300/35.325/3.863 ms
--- la.vertcoin.org ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9009ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 17.161/24.596/29.581/3.529 ms

6 times !!!!

[Crackmacs]

Hi vertcoin community

Hoping to get the most out of my 7970 towards vert. I've tried searching the forums to no avail. Can anyone suggest a good config? I get 730kh/s using cgminer on normal scrypt coins using

cgminer --scrypt --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-engine 1050 --thread-concurrency 8192 --intensity 13 --worksize 256 -g 2 -v 1 --lookup-gap 2 --auto-fan -o stratum+tcp://pool:1234 -u Crackmacs.x -p x

This only gives a 100-300

thanks!!

[ahnonamis]

Yes I'd advise everyone to start using either roboform (paid) or dashlane (free) and use a different password everwhere. 

Or, if you're not a fan of having things installed on different machines and want to remember the login when you're on the road, coming up with a simple FORMULA for a password is much more efficient than using the same password on every site. It doesn't have to be rocket science, either. The key is that using the same password on multiple sites won't work, and almost anyone trying to steal it will stop at that point, and not examine it to see if they can crack the code.

Even at the simplest method of doing it, it's MUCH better than using the same password on every site.

For example, pick a word/phrase you'll remember, like the city you were born. (From this point all this info is made up for me =P.)

Atlanta

Then pick a date that you'll remember. Maybe a birthday, or an anniversary. Add those numbers together. Let's pretend the birthday is January 1, 1980. (1-1-1980). You'd come up with

Atlanta1982.

Then take the URL of the site you're making the password on. Let's say ESPM.com. Take the first and last letter of the URL (E + M) and assign their numeric value. E = 5, M=13. Multiply those two numbers (65). Take that, and multiply it by the original number. 128830. So now, your password for this site might be

Atlanta128830

The same formula for Luckyminers, and it would be

Atlanta618384

It doesn't even need to be that difficult. The key is, come up with something YOU can remember, that you can use on multiple pools in place of re-using a throwaway password.

[Cryptomancer]

Or just write the passwords down on a piece of paper 

[hmachado]

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

 

Its a nice interview, but i think the CPU part should be clarified.
It induces people with cpu's to think they can actually mine Vertcoin at this point, when that's really not the case.
If it is a strategy to bring more people into the coin, it will only backfire when disgruntled CPU folks realize its not working for them.

Seems like there are other valid things to talk about, and i for sure would feel a lot better if that CPU talk went away. From my point it will do more harm then good.

[shirenlihei]

Interesting coin.
Does this coin have the feature proof-of-stake or only proof-of-work?

[Vertcoin]

Interesting coin.
Does this coin have the feature proof-of-stake or only proof-of-work?

Vertcoin doesn't have PoS, only PoW

[Pleskac]

lol no wallet  virus scan it seems like somthing is in there 

[BorisTheSpider]

lol no wallet  virus scan it seems like somthing is in there 

https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/b2c449ae114884df6c0bd624a038b3d0b19f15a4a499ca2b5080aa79be8996aa/analysis/1390144171/

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/07ce1ff7f35757036dcc0e7218672f04a6a88d1b459fd20b57117442d44df6bb/analysis/1390144199/

[Pleskac]

http://vertcoin.org/downloads/Vertcoin-setup.exe

Websense ThreatSeeker   Malicious site??

just downloaded the zip.. but wtf..