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[kkangjji22]

Am I too late to start mining Darkcoin?

Not too late,
The price of Darkcoin would have much room for improvement in a period of time,
Good luck to you.

[AlexGR]

A few all-around "optimizations":

First post:

(additions/alterations)

1) DarkSend progress report (V5)
2) The new block explorer
3) Change of description for 1.2c / SSE2 miner (the link is for 1.2c binary)
4) Extra link for version 1.3 AVX/AES binary (it can be found here) http://download.darkcoin.fr/darkCoin-cpuminer-1.3-avx-aes-windows-binaries.zip
5) GPU miner link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=475795.0
+
6) Release date should return to a more normal font size (since it's not a pre-ann) and be something like "Released on x date / 0 premine". If emphasis on the premine aspect is needed, it's not necessary to capitalize the release (which is already past).

---

Darkcoin explorer:

+ Darkcoin explorer should write DRK instead of XCO
+ Darkcoin explorer should feature the new coin design

---

Source code for wallet:

+ https://github.com/evan82/darkcoin/blob/master/src/qt/res/icons/toolbar.png should be changed with new coin design

---

Website:

- Change description of 1.3 AVX/AES miner to 1.2 SSE2 miner (as the link points to 1.2)
- Add 1.3 miner binary
- Add sources for 1.3 miner
- Add sources for the GPU miner: https://github.com/prettyhatemachine/sph-sgminer
- Change link of darkcoin sgminer as it is the first incarnation and should be slower than the second one
- Change font of Darkcoin on the top (too fat - problematic aesthetics), then a snapshot of the website can be taken and replace the thread logo on the first post as well with a more pleasing version. Release information should also be toned town as it's two months back, not a pre-ann.

(links for miners are collected here: http://wiki.darkcoin.fr/index.php?title=Installer_Minage_CPU_Windows )

[chaeplin]

certainly a stupid question, sorry for that.

I can mine on pool with no issue.

I try now to put some of my miner on p2pool, different one for test.

But i cant mine on p2pool.

i try with all same setting.

I just change ./sgminer -k darkcoin -o http://IP-OF-THE-P2POOL:7903 -u MY-KEY -p x

what do i miss ?
 

Try this
./sgminer -k darkcoin -o stratum+tcp://IP-OF-THE-P2POOL:7903 -u wallet_address -p x

[kkangjji22]

in other news....I found 2 blocks today for the pool

Congratulations!
A good mine pool will benefit a lot,
I hope you harvest!

[chaeplin]

certainly a stupid question, sorry for that.

I can mine on pool with no issue.

I try now to put some of my miner on p2pool, different one for test.

But i cant mine on p2pool.

i try with all same setting.

I just change ./sgminer -k darkcoin -o http://IP-OF-THE-P2POOL:7903 -u MY-KEY -p x

what do i miss ?
 

Try this
./sgminer -k darkcoin -o stratum+tcp://IP-OF-THE-P2POOL:7903 -u wallet_address -p x

does its mean some p2pool have stratum some other not ?
I already try this, i do it again with issue.

All p2pool use stratum.

http connection redirected to use stratum+tcp.

Some firewall stop none standard port access using http.

I have tested 14.201.112.110:7903, No error, 14.201.112.110:7903 is fine.

I think you have connection problem.

open http://14.201.112.110:7903/ with your browser.
If you can't, choose another from here http://drk.poolhash.org/

[chaeplin]

certainly a stupid question, sorry for that.

I can mine on pool with no issue.

I try now to put some of my miner on p2pool, different one for test.

But i cant mine on p2pool.

i try with all same setting.

I just change ./sgminer -k darkcoin -o http://IP-OF-THE-P2POOL:7903 -u MY-KEY -p x

what do i miss ?
 

Try this
./sgminer -k darkcoin -o stratum+tcp://IP-OF-THE-P2POOL:7903 -u wallet_address -p x

does its mean some p2pool have stratum some other not ?
I already try this, i do it again with issue.

[15:36:23] Started sgminer 4.1.0-85-gccc7d
[15:36:23] Kernel darkcoin is experimental.
[15:36:23] Probing for an alive pool
[15:36:24] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 0.000
[15:36:33] Waiting for work to be available from pools.
[15:37:23] No servers were found that could be used to get work from.
[15:37:23] Please check the details from the list below of the servers you have input
[15:37:23] Most likely you have input the wrong URL, forgotten to add a port, or have not set up workers
[15:37:23] Pool: 0  URL: stratum+tcp://14.201.112.110:7903  User: MY-KEY  Password: x
[15:37:23] Press any key to exit, or sgminer will try again in 15s.
[15:37:23] No servers could be used! Exiting.

I have tested 14.201.112.110:7903, No error, 14.201.112.110:7903 is fine.

I think you have connection problem.

open http://14.201.112.110:7903/ with your browser.
If you can't, choose another from here http://drk.poolhash.org/

I try  3 other, same result, do you mean than network connection is more sensitive with p2pool than with normale pool ?

Because i dont have problem on pool, some R: but less than 0.3%

Can you open 3 other with your browser, see stat page ?
Then should have no problem.

[chaeplin]

I can open them in browser, some have just 60 ms for ping and i cant mine on it.

Do i have to open port for p2pool, not need for normal pool.

No need open ports.

I use following config, it has no errors.
xfx R9 280X, ubuntu

Code:

e@e-H87-HD3:~/sph-sgminer$ ./sgminer --kernel darkcoin -o stratum+tcp://14.201.112.110:7903 -u Xhw8EQDdK4ogGFre677vgh4RYkocLafQPp -p 1

sgminer 4.1.0-85-gccc7d - Started: [2014-03-28 14:13:16]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(5s):118.3K (avg):118.0Kh/s | A:0  R:0  HW:0  WU:0.002/m
ST: 1  SS: 0  NB: 3  LW: 135  GF: 0  RF: 0
Connected to Pool 0 (stratum) diff 0.000 as user Xhw8EQDdK4ogGFre677vgh4RYkocLafQPp
Block: 62c59a2b...  Diff:486  Started: [14:14:05]  Best share: 0.008
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GPU 0:  42.0C 1119RPM | 59.53K/59.72Kh/s | R:  0.0% HW:0 WU:0.002/m I: 8
 GPU 1:  39.0C 1044RPM | 59.40K/59.51Kh/s | R:100.0% HW:0 WU:0.000/m I: 8
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[14:12:24] Started sgminer 4.1.0-85-gccc7d
[14:12:25] Kernel darkcoin is experimental.
[14:12:25] Kernel darkcoin is experimental.
[14:12:35] Waiting for work to be available from pools.
[14:13:14] Probing for an alive pool
[14:13:14] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 0.001
[14:13:15] Network diff set to 475
[14:13:15] Stratum from Pool 0 requested work restart
[14:13:16] Work available from pools, resuming.
[14:13:17] Stratum from Pool 0 requested work restart
[14:13:18] Accepted 80ead7cd Diff 0.008/0.001 GPU 0
[14:13:43] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 0.000
[14:13:43] Stratum from Pool 0 requested work restart
[14:13:44] Accepted 010dd938 Diff 0.004/0.000 GPU 0
[14:13:44] Stratum from Pool 0 detected new block
[14:13:45] Stratum from Pool 0 requested work restart
[14:13:45] Stratum from Pool 0 requested work restar

This is my normal config.

Code:

/usr/bin/screen -d -m -S M1  ./sgminer \
--kernel darkcoin \
-o stratum+tcp://14.201.112.110:7903 -u Xhw8EQDdK4ogGFre677vgh4RYkocLafQPp -p 1 \
--failover-only \
--worksize 256 \
--thread-concurrency 8192 \
--gpu-threads 2 \
--gpu-engine 1040 \
--gpu-memclock 1500 \
--gpu-platform 0 \
--temp-target 75 \
--temp-cutoff 90 \
--shaders 2048 \
--lookup-gap 2 \
--intensity 13 \
--log 1 \
--queue 0 \
--auto-fan \
--worktime 

[chaeplin]

I cant explaine why, but i canl mine on Pp2pool.

you have R:100.0%, its normal ?

I didn't use other option, so I think R:100.0% is normal behaviour.

With my config, I got under 2% R.

Code:

--worksize 256 \
--thread-concurrency 8192 \
--gpu-threads 2 \
--gpu-engine 1040 \
--gpu-memclock 1500 \
--gpu-platform 0 \
--temp-target 75 \
--temp-cutoff 90 \
--shaders 2048 \
--lookup-gap 2 \
--intensity 13 \
--log 1 \
--queue 0 \
--auto-fan \
--worktime 

Sorry, I can't help you more.

[TanteStefana]

A few all-around "optimizations":

First post:

(additions/alterations)

1) DarkSend progress report (V5)
2) The new block explorer
3) Change of description for 1.2c / SSE2 miner (the link is for 1.2c binary)
4) Extra link for version 1.3 AVX/AES binary (it can be found here) http://download.darkcoin.fr/darkCoin-cpuminer-1.3-avx-aes-windows-binaries.zip
5) GPU miner link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=475795.0
+
6) Release date should return to a more normal font size (since it's not a pre-ann) and be something like "Released on x date / 0 premine". If emphasis on the premine aspect is needed, it's not necessary to capitalize the release (which is already past).

---

Darkcoin explorer:

+ Darkcoin explorer should write DRK instead of XCO
+ Darkcoin explorer should feature the new coin design

---

Source code for wallet:

+ https://github.com/evan82/darkcoin/blob/master/src/qt/res/icons/toolbar.png should be changed with new coin design

---

Website:

- Change description of 1.3 AVX/AES miner to 1.2 SSE2 miner (as the link points to 1.2)
- Add 1.3 miner binary
- Add sources for 1.3 miner
- Add sources for the GPU miner: https://github.com/prettyhatemachine/sph-sgminer
- Change link of darkcoin sgminer as it is the first incarnation and should be slower than the second one
- Change font of Darkcoin on the top (too fat - problematic aesthetics), then a snapshot of the website can be taken and replace the thread logo on the first post as well with a more pleasing version. Release information should also be toned town as it's two months back, not a pre-ann.

(links for miners are collected here: http://wiki.darkcoin.fr/index.php?title=Installer_Minage_CPU_Windows )

+1

I know the guys are busy, but yes, these things need to be updated

just a thought, tesquenure, is the port for the pool? or is it the one you set in your config file?  It should be for the pool.

[CHAOSiTEC]

Come and help mine darkcoin, and get a chance of winning the lottery pool.

for the next week im going to do a lottery EVERY day, ill even trow in 200 DRK of my own.

So each day 1 lucky winner will get 50% of fees, AND 28.57 DRK

Pool Pays Witdrawal fee: 0.0

Dedicated pool, we only run Darkcoin mining

DDOS Protected pool, resistant to: fake shares & scrypt ddos

Stable Fast Server, but dont take my word for it, see what others have said in this thread

[sdersdf2]

There's certainly increasingly fertile ground for DRK marketing as the block chain's privacy becomes a bigger part of the crypto conversation.

Bitcoin thought leader and security expert Andreas Antonopoulos got some of the strongest applause at this week's Coin Summit for his excellent, thoughtful, almost profound remarks about privacy and democracy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rEtrIjzsceM#t=1018

He talks about developing solutions, but doesn't mention Darkcoin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rEtrIjzsceM#t=1452

When Darksend is ready, DRK should be showcased at summits like this - people are either already (or soon will be) looking for the turnkey solution it offers.

[chaeplin]

Problems with the official pool?


edit:

more detailed one.
http://drk.poolhash.org/x11hash.html

Official and Such got ddosed ?

Briefly attacked and InternetApe fixed it. Seems to be humming along now.

Showing lower hashrate is my fault.
It should be jumped up to normal hashrate, but I used wrong code.

Code:

  if official == None or ( official / float(official_prev) * 100 > 250 or official / float(official_prev) * 100 < 20 ):
     official = official_prev

I have chaged it to 1200.

Also graph is corrected.

[LimLims]

Darksends look pretty cool in the new explorer:

http://chainz.cryptoid.info/drk/tx.dws?170313.htm

Indeed!

Each darksend adds more and more uncertainity as to the actual money paths. It seems that two mixings will be better than one, especially if the mixing node selection maximized uncertainity, eg. converge each nodes in/out to overall average. This would eliminate most of the knapsack attacks.

What do you think about being able to specify additional anonymity by requesting additional stages of mixing. The tradeoff is transaction cost/time vs anonymity level. This would eliminate most timing attacks.

James

Great idea. Actually, injecting an element of randomness in pooling finalisation time would make it really difficult for timing attacks. It'd be cool to have an option in the client to go "pitch dark" or something, where the transaction goes through multiple pooling steps with random pooling times. Although I'm not sure how multiple pooling steps would work in a decentralised implementation.

[CHAOSiTEC]

BorisTheSpider, hope this helps

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to understand this stratum exploit better, and something is confusing me.

The lowest difficulty is defined by the biggest target. So if we look at the nBits of the genesis block, we then convert to hex (from the compact representation) to get the diff 1 targets.

In BTC, genesis.nBits    = 0x1d00ffff;

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty suggests we convert to a hex representation like:

so the hex target is
0x00ffff * 2**(8*(0x1d - 3))
or
0000 0000 ffff 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

Which matches https://github.com/Crypto-Expert/stratum-mining/blob/master/lib/template_registry.py where for sha256

diff1 = 0x00000000ffff0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Now looking at a scrypt coin, eg LTC:

0x1e0ffff0 is the genesis block nbits

so the hex target is

0x0ffff0 * 2**(8*(0x1e - 3))
or
0000 0fff f000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

Which doesn't match stratum-mining

 if settings.COINDAEMON_ALGO == 'scrypt' or 'scrypt-jane':
            diff1 = 0x0000ffff00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

ie. the stratum-mining code has 4 leading zeros in the 64 byte hex representation of the target, wheras I get 5 leading zeros when doing the conversion from the compact to the full hex representation of the max difficulty.

I'm sure stratum-mining must be correct  - where am I going wrong?

Quote from pooler

Hi,

The definition of difficulty in Litecoin is exactly the same as in
Bitcoin, that is, it uses the minimum difficulty of Bitcoin, not of
Litecoin. Litecoin's minimum difficulty is just that, and plays no role in
difficulty/target conversions. That is one important thing to understand.

Then, there is the fact that (for historical reasons which still upset me
to this day, basically boiling down to cgminer not supporting non-integer
difficulties back in the day) in the Stratum protocol understood by LTC
miners the difficulty is multiplied by a factor of 65536 (2^16). So when
in sgminer you read diff 65536, that is actually diff 1. This should
answer your question.

Cheers,
pooler

[AlexGR]

There's certainly increasingly fertile ground for DRK marketing as the block chain's privacy becomes a bigger part of the crypto conversation.

Bitcoin thought leader and security expert Andreas Antonopoulos got some of the strongest applause at this week's Coin Summit for his excellent, thoughtful, almost profound remarks about privacy and democracy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rEtrIjzsceM#t=1018

He talks about developing solutions, but doesn't mention Darkcoin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rEtrIjzsceM#t=1452

When Darksend is ready, DRK should be showcased at summit's like this - people are either already (or soon will be) looking for the turnkey solution it offers.

Excellent highlights...

[sdersdf2]

There's certainly increasingly fertile ground for DRK marketing as the block chain's privacy becomes a bigger part of the crypto conversation.

Bitcoin thought leader and security expert Andreas Antonopoulos got some of the strongest applause at this week's Coin Summit for his excellent, thoughtful, almost profound remarks about privacy and democracy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rEtrIjzsceM#t=1018

He talks about developing solutions, but doesn't mention Darkcoin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rEtrIjzsceM#t=1452

When Darksend is ready, DRK should be showcased at summit's like this - people are either already (or soon will be) looking for the turnkey solution it offers.

Excellent highlights...

He seems to be a very thoughtful big-picture thinker. Key quote from the Andreas video about how, outside the US, this issue can literally be a matter of life and death:

"While we're trying to appease regulators in the US and give them identity tracking and full transparency of individual actions, regulators in Egypt are using that to drag people out of their homes and torture them - as they are doing in dozens of other countries around the world.

We need to be more aware that this is the global environment we live in. Individual privacy means freedom of association and expression. It's a cherished right - one we have to absolutely defend. We have to do it for the places where owning currency and using it as an empowering tool as an individual *gets you killed*."

This is about a lot more than masking Magic the Gathering online trading card purchases. Potential market for this is massively global.

[luke997]

There's certainly increasingly fertile ground for DRK marketing as the block chain's privacy becomes a bigger part of the crypto conversation.

Bitcoin thought leader and security expert Andreas Antonopoulos got some of the strongest applause at this week's Coin Summit for his excellent, thoughtful, almost profound remarks about privacy and democracy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rEtrIjzsceM#t=1018

He talks about developing solutions, but doesn't mention Darkcoin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rEtrIjzsceM#t=1452

When Darksend is ready, DRK should be showcased at summit's like this - people are either already (or soon will be) looking for the turnkey solution it offers.

Excellent highlights...

He seems to be a very thoughtful big-picture thinker. Key quote from the Andreas video about how, outside the US, this issue can literally be a matter of life and death:

"While we're trying to appease regulators in the US and give them identity tracking and full transparency of individual actions, regulators in Egypt are using that to drag people out of their homes and torture them - as they are doing in dozens of other countries around the world.

We need to be more aware that this is the global environment we live in. Individual privacy means freedom of association and expression. It's a cherished right - one we have to absolutely defend. We have to do it for the places where owning currency and using it as an empowering tool as an individual *gets you killed*."

This is about a lot more than masking Magic the Gathering online trading card purchases. Potential market for this is massively global.

That's why this coin will skyrocket once the DarkSend is implemented - real use for masses, not only trading/investment.

Major players are stocking up for the last week, both on the official twitter (we're talking several accounts with total tens of thousands of followers) as well as in the private groups.
Messages are "undervalued", "great future", "one to stay when the dust settles".

[km4700ruda]

Goodbye Darkcoin....


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=423348.0

Why to say goodbye to Darkcoin
Darkcoin is a very potential coin, in the near future, its price will be like to take off like a rocket!
Good luck to you.
 

[luke997]

Goodbye Darkcoin....


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=423348.0

Why to say goodbye to Darkcoin
Darkcoin is a very potential coin, in the near future, its price will be like to take off like a rocket!
Good luck to you.
 

This is a well known troll in several threads, spreading fud just ignore him.
Recently he was trying to force people to sell off for cheap, as the price was suppose to drop to 0.0012 after the hike.

[Gabri]

Is there a Mac wallet that works with Lion? The one submitted is only for Mavericks.