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[blajde]

I have some concerns about this.

First if this is intedendet to be the official DRK logo: A Logo should always be highly stylized. The more stylised the logo is the more can it be used on all scenarios.
What we got here is a artificial Photo of a coin. It has a texture, lens flare and shadowing on it.
Therefore it is not stylized and will cause problems.

First problem is that it cant be vectorized. This means you will loose detail on small scales as of small "DRK accepted here"-Buttons and will lead in less recognizability. In the need of a big scale the coin gets coarse, because the source texture will lack in detail.
Second problem is you cant use it for any material layer. For example making a real coin out of it. What you basically do is putting a metal texture image on a metal textured real coin. This will result in an ugly coin.
The same goes for the lens flare on the top of the 'D' and all kinds of shadowing in the image.

Dont get me wrong, the Coin is looking cool in the image, you did a good job there. But its hardly usable as a logo or as raw data for further production.

My second concern is the "stabilizer" (I dont know what they are called, but often they are described as making the currency logo "more stable" looking e.g. $€BTC) on the D. It goes down. Down. Why down? Is the implication of this that the currency is going down soon? Better make that thing going up

it's the staircase to hell.. to the darkside.. opposite of lightcoin logo. you think a lot of stuf.. I don't feel that you paid the I have to many opinions fee..

please pay the feed to ---> XbjwNHRzWRstKcKvnxu3ezceqV9jz6xH9w

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[LimLims]

I apologize, I don't mean to be so harsh.  I understand you're volunteering your time and it really is appreciated.  You've created some beautiful work in this thread.

In short, dark color schemes just don't work for my eyes and the majority of people.  I know you've worked hard on it and the header is gorgeous, but I honestly feel dark color schemes will turn many away

I get where you're coming from and I appreciate the feedback. I have to take everyone's feedback into consideration and it's not uncommon to have at least a fair % of people who aren't pleased with a given design. Having said that, if the theme is just painful to read for a reasonable subset of users, it needs to be changed. I like to do things democratically so maybe we can do up a few prototypes and call a vote if we can't sufficiently improve the existing one.

[MyFarm]

I apologize, I don't mean to be so harsh.  I understand you're volunteering your time and it really is appreciated.  You've created some beautiful work in this thread.

In short, dark color schemes just don't work for my eyes and the majority of people.  I know you've worked hard on it and the header is gorgeous, but I honestly feel dark color schemes will turn many away

I get where you're coming from and I appreciate the feedback. I have to take everyone's feedback into consideration and it's not uncommon to have at least a fair % of people who aren't pleased with a given design. Having said that, if the theme is just painful to read for a reasonable subset of users, it needs to be changed. I like to do things democratically so maybe we can do up a few prototypes and call a vote if we can't sufficiently improve the existing one.

If you give your address, I'd like to send a little DRK your way for your time and effort.

[closesat315am]

I'm still having trouble with the wallet on my mac. I'm not trying to mine, just trying to have a wallet so I can store the coins I've purchased but it crashes every time I try to open it.  I did download from the official darkcoin site. Here is the crash report. I'd really like to buy some more DRK but I'm hesitant to do so until I know I have a place to store it off an exchange.


Process:         launchd [1850]
Path:            /Applications/DarkCoin-Qt.app/Contents/MacOS/DarkCoin-Qt
Identifier:      org.darkcoin.DarkCoin-Qt
Version:          ()
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [234]

Date/Time:       2014-02-21 11:48:03.832 -0500
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7.5 (11G63)
Report Version:  9

Interval Since Last Report:          13500736 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           40
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   4
Anonymous UUID:                      22B3E4EF-8EA9-4099-8051-C5F6917002B3

Crashed Thread:  Unknown

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x00007fff5fc01028

Backtrace not available

Unknown thread crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
  rax: 0x0000000000000055  rbx: 0x0000000000000000  rcx: 0x0000000000000000  rdx: 0x0000000000000000
  rdi: 0x0000000000000000  rsi: 0x0000000000000000  rbp: 0x0000000000000000  rsp: 0x0000000000000000
   r8: 0x0000000000000000   r9: 0x0000000000000000  r10: 0x0000000000000000  r11: 0x0000000000000000
  r12: 0x0000000000000000  r13: 0x0000000000000000  r14: 0x0000000000000000  r15: 0x0000000000000000
  rip: 0x00007fff5fc01028  rfl: 0x0000000000010203  cr2: 0x00007fff5fc01028
Logical CPU: 0

Binary images description not available


External Modification Summary:
  Calls made by other processes targeting this process:
    task_for_pid: 1
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0
  Calls made by this process:
    task_for_pid: 0
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0
  Calls made by all processes on this machine:
    task_for_pid: 47253
    thread_create: 1
    thread_set_state: 0

[anonymousxx1503]

I apologize, I don't mean to be so harsh.  I understand you're volunteering your time and it really is appreciated.  You've created some beautiful work in this thread.

In short, dark color schemes just don't work for my eyes and the majority of people.  I know you've worked hard on it and the header is gorgeous, but I honestly feel dark color schemes will turn many away

I get where you're coming from and I appreciate the feedback. I have to take everyone's feedback into consideration and it's not uncommon to have at least a fair % of people who aren't pleased with a given design. Having said that, if the theme is just painful to read for a reasonable subset of users, it needs to be changed. I like to do things democratically so maybe we can do up a few prototypes and call a vote if we can't sufficiently improve the existing one.

Best move for the moment would be to remove the subreddit style entirely apart from the logo. Then figure out what to do. Otherwise I suggest a move back to /r/darkcoincrypto for sure.

[LimLims]

If you give your address, I'd like to send a little DRK your way for your time and effort.

XvU1iWCYKsXCAUHRZ53f8fvM1UZwFaJnmV

'preciate it. I kicked the text contrast down another notch -- let me know if it helped. I can go further until we get to some kind of equilibrium of user happiness!

[Kreativekrypto]

I apologize, I don't mean to be so harsh.  I understand you're volunteering your time and it really is appreciated.  You've created some beautiful work in this thread.

In short, dark color schemes just don't work for my eyes and the majority of people.  I know you've worked hard on it and the header is gorgeous, but I honestly feel dark color schemes will turn many away

I get where you're coming from and I appreciate the feedback. I have to take everyone's feedback into consideration and it's not uncommon to have at least a fair % of people who aren't pleased with a given design. Having said that, if the theme is just painful to read for a reasonable subset of users, it needs to be changed. I like to do things democratically so maybe we can do up a few prototypes and call a vote if we can't sufficiently improve the existing one.

Lim my biggest issue is on my moniter (brighter) settings you can barely read the submit button on the post. My suggestion...keep the top banner as is, but make a shade of blue that contratsts with text more visibly. It's not easy to get this right, and I know for darkcoin you wanna keep the tone, just need to get things more readable is all. Regardless keep up the great work, we are all in this as a team, feedback is important

[TanteStefana]

Can you explain what to do to install it on bamt/linux?

Oh screwballs, that's for the cpu miner, lOL, hold on, I'll get the right one...

Just a quick cut and paste, on my Ubuntu, this is what I do for the latest version:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential m4 libssl-dev libdb++-dev libboost-all-dev libminiupnpc-dev git automake libcurl4-openssl-dev

sudo git clone https://github.com/elmad/darkcoin-cpuminer-1.3-avx-aes

cd darkcoin-cpuminer-1.3-avx-aes

sudo chmod +x autogen.sh

sudo ./autogen.sh
Lol, too late

I was thinking the name was strange but...

sudo ./configure CFLAGS="-O3 -march=native"

sudo make


And this is how I start it:

sudo ./minerd -a X11 -o stratum+tcp://drk.lotterymining.com:4444 -u Me.Worker -p Password

Too late

Anyway, I'll do it again if you have the gpu-miner and then do a fresh install:)

I got an error with the apt-get install command: a file not found

I always need to do it as sudo or root, that might be the problem, I left it out in case your system doesn't require it. Oh, and look again, I updated it. 

[Lebubar]

Who just saw the huge dump and sell wall on c-cex. The cunt dumped from 23 down to 198 and put a 17btc sell wall at 20. Very annoying bullshit.

If I had some BTC I should buy the more than I can at 0.002... (now the wall is 12 BTC, I think it's not a problem)

[LimLims]

Lim my biggest issue is on my moniter (brighter) settings you can barely read the submit button on the post. My suggestion...keep the top banner as is, but make a shade of blue that contratsts with text more visibly. It's not easy to get this right, and I know for darkcoin you wanna keep the tone, just need to get things more readable is all. Regardless keep up the great work, we are all in this as a team, feedback is important

You're right, submit page does need work, good points.

[xorpheus]

I was thinking about this earlier, does anyone know how hot GPUs run mining bitcoin? If that runs cooler I would tend to think the extra power draw and heat is because scrypt pretty much rewrites the entire ram available as fast as possible over and over again, whereas Bitcoin/Darkcoin would only use a small amount of ram.

Curiosity got the better of me... below are some test results for 2 x HD7950.  Power is measured at the wall.  Idle power is 210W.

darkcoin
hashrate: 3.80Mh/s
temps: 52,57
power: 415W

bitcoin
hashrate: 1.21 Gh/s
temps: 69,76
power: 680W

litecoin
hashrate: 1.34Mh/s
temps: 73,81
power: 740W

This may not be a valid comparison because I don't know how to optimize settings for bitcoin.  All I did was fiddle with the intensity setting.  Does 605Mh/s for each HD7950 sound reasonable?

What config do you use for darkcoin?

For HD7950:
"kernel" : "darkcoin",
"gpu-engine" : "1150",
"gpu-memclock" : "1250",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"intensity" : "16"

wow there is a lot of activity in this thread...  I go to sleep and when I wake up there's another 8 pages!

[xorpheus]

NET HASH @ 6GH/s. It is amazing !!! 

With pool.darkcoin.io down?

Still? Please use p2p from now on so you aren't at the mercy of these pool operators.

I'm having trouble with every pool, including p2p.  Got 5 pools in my config and can't mine at the rate my miner is capable of. It's locked onto the p2p pool but I get constant "Pool 0 is not providing work fast enough" and fluctuating hash rates averaging a little over half what it should be.  The p2p was down completely for a couple of days and prior to that it did work well for me.  It's back up now but not working like it did before.

[cannonfodder]

Anyone can help with mining on 7950s?

My 7850 in my desktop can mine no problem using it's standard values used for scrypt mining, but the 7950s only return HW errors. I've been trying for two days. I've tried no parameters at all in the BAT file, multiple TCs and multiple values of every other variable imaginable. I've also tried underclocking, limiting it to just one GPU to see if I could get something working, upgrading drivers, downgrading drivers, etc. etc. Am I missing something? If someone can help, I'll tip you something. Probably in LTC since I don't have any DRK. Feel free to PM me if you'd like.

[MyFarm]

If you give your address, I'd like to send a little DRK your way for your time and effort.

XvU1iWCYKsXCAUHRZ53f8fvM1UZwFaJnmV

'preciate it. I kicked the text contrast down another notch -- let me know if it helped. I can go further until we get to some kind of equilibrium of user happiness!

It definitely helped but the light text on dark background is still rough for me.

Donation sent.

[xorpheus]

Thank-you for the testing and for sharing your results.

I'm seeing almost the exact same hash rate from my 7950s while mining DRK, and while anecdotally I know they're running way cooler, I don't have a Kill-A-Watt to test the power draw. Taking your idle draw into account, it seems that each 7950 draws roughly 100W extra mining DRK versus 265W mining LTC. Saving 165W per card shaves an awful lot off the electric bill when they're going full throttle 24/7

It sure does! 

[overlode]

Anyone can help with mining on 7950s?

My 7850 in my desktop can mine no problem using it's standard values used for scrypt mining, but the 7950s only return HW errors. I've been trying for two days. I've tried no parameters at all in the BAT file, multiple TCs and multiple values of every other variable imaginable. I've also tried underclocking, limiting it to just one GPU to see if I could get something working, upgrading drivers, downgrading drivers, etc. etc. Am I missing something? If someone can help, I'll tip you something. Probably in LTC since I don't have any DRK. Feel free to PM me if you'd like.

You have a PM

[cflocation]

Thank-you for the testing and for sharing your results.

I'm seeing almost the exact same hash rate from my 7950s while mining DRK, and while anecdotally I know they're running way cooler, I don't have a Kill-A-Watt to test the power draw. Taking your idle draw into account, it seems that each 7950 draws roughly 100W extra mining DRK versus 265W mining LTC. Saving 165W per card shaves an awful lot off the electric bill when they're going full throttle 24/7

It sure does! 

Yea I am in the same boat. My power is a little over half the last testing. This coin is saving me money on my power bill so I am taking that into account when deciding what ti mine. But like you I am all in on my miners.

[Probleminfected]

Anyone can help with mining on 7950s?

My 7850 in my desktop can mine no problem using it's standard values used for scrypt mining, but the 7950s only return HW errors. I've been trying for two days. I've tried no parameters at all in the BAT file, multiple TCs and multiple values of every other variable imaginable. I've also tried underclocking, limiting it to just one GPU to see if I could get something working, upgrading drivers, downgrading drivers, etc. etc. Am I missing something? If someone can help, I'll tip you something. Probably in LTC since I don't have any DRK. Feel free to PM me if you'd like.

You have a PM

Try --no-adl

[cannonfodder]

Try --no-adl

Tried it. Same result.

[bitclock]

Anyone can help with mining on 7950s?

My 7850 in my desktop can mine no problem using it's standard values used for scrypt mining, but the 7950s only return HW errors. I've been trying for two days. I've tried no parameters at all in the BAT file, multiple TCs and multiple values of every other variable imaginable. I've also tried underclocking, limiting it to just one GPU to see if I could get something working, upgrading drivers, downgrading drivers, etc. etc. Am I missing something? If someone can help, I'll tip you something. Probably in LTC since I don't have any DRK. Feel free to PM me if you'd like.

For me it was the driver, I use 13.11 beta 9.5 from Guru3D.com for my 7950's (~1.7 MH). Also limit your commands to see if it works, then add more and test.