[ANN][MAX] MAXcoin - PoW, ASIC Resistance, Keccak GPU Mining

[salstimda]

Not sure if this works..
I'm getting 0 Mh/s according to the pool.

Maybe someone can configure this to work, just like the cudaminer?
using 2x 290

https://github.com/eCoinSource/eCoin_GPU_Miner
Pool: http://max.1gh.com/

You using keccak or scrypt? It won't work with scrypt.

cgminer.exe --keccak -o stratum+tcp://maxpool.1gh.com:17333 -u mywallet -p x

tells me cant connect to server and closes instantly...

[Newmine]

Taken the liberty of correcting the OP, as the devs still can't be bothered:

MaxCoin Pre-Launch Troll Announcement

Website | Twitter | Facebook | Subreddit | Google+ | Recursion

MaxCoin (MAX)

An alternative cryptocurrency disrupting the already rather disrupting crypto market its own clusterfuck of a launch.





A Larger Paragraph Or Two Of Information That Takes Longer To Read than it took us to code this crap

One of the most important things for MaxCoin is to achieve a fair laughably fucked up launch. In the current world of 100-alts-per day achieving a fair distribution at launch seems like a rare occasion and still is. MaxCoin will have a zero % premine, proven by the timestamps of the first blocks in a block explorer, and we have attempted to combat low-difficulty instamining with a fast retarget rate up until block 200. At block 200 the Kimoto Gravity Well implementation will take over the retargeting. You can read more about KGW and it's benefits against pool hopping issues (such as coins stuck in high difficulty) here. unless you count most of the users not actually being able to mine at the launch because we didn't provide the guides before the launch like we said we would.

After we filmed the show we decided releasing the coin binaries and source at show's airing in our timezone would be unfairly beneficial to those also in our timezone, and those that live elsewhere or had simply yet not heard about the coin would be disadvantaged. For this reason we want to set a hard deadline for the release of the MaxCoin clients as 7.30PM GMT on Wednesday 5th February 2014 to allow the news of the coin's launch to spread, far too sensible for idiots like us.  Also we hadn't even finished making them anyway, and to provide a fair chance for everybody to prepare and mine wonder what the fuck is going on at official start time. This also afford you enough time to prepare yourself for mining without waiting with idle machines, or if you're not a miner to learn about it in time to to join in mining MaxCoin even though we couldn't be bothered to provide working configuration files until after mining had started.

We're working on having a lot of pretending that there will be services ready for launch. Some are ready and some are longer term goals. These include a branded block explorer, mining pools, exchanges, faucets, wallet apps for phone, web wallets, bitcoinwisdom style charting, a fiat/max exchange and a max-payment processing system (which will be added as a payment method for StartJOIN's crowdfunding as soon as it is functional).

We are also working on some less-basic altcoin things and features we'd love to see implemented in Bitcoin - a testing ground. Information for these will come out as progress occurs as this is very much a research driven aspect of the coin's implementation. For service-related talk addressable in the lead up to code release section below q/a.


Common Questions and Their Respective Answers

Q: Can I mine MaxCoin? How?
A: We'll provide config files for the completely unfinished wallet client upon after release to allow anybody to CPU mine from day one and GPU as well but we won't mention that. There will be mining pools available from launch, too but none of them will work.

Q: I am on Windows... can I mine?
A: Yep, there will be a client for all major OS. Only two hours after everyone else has started.  And you won't get anything unless you're using a GPU.

Q: What about Mac though?
A: Yep! A client for Mac too! All major OS!

Q: Linux?
A: ... Yes. Linux also.

Q: So is it CPU only? Will I be able to use my Butterfly Labs ASIC when it arrives (... any day now...)?
A: Using Keccak as a hashing function renders current Bitcoin ASICs and the upcoming Scrypt ASICs useless on the coin. GPU parallelization of Keccak is possible but currently does not exist for mining with our implementation of SHA-3 but we're pretending it doesn't.


Tl;dr - SHA-3 coin. Launches 7.30PM GMT on Wednesday 5th February 2014 Somewhere around 9 PM the following day if you're a Windows user, but earlier for Mac and Linux.  We were relieved that the forums were overloaded with 502 errors on the first launch day, because we weren't actually ready for launch.  We weren't ready on the second attempt either, but fuck it, close enough, right? . More info to be seeded out 2 hours late via @MaxCoinProject. Not Would have been better as a fork of dogecoin.

+1 

2nd this!

[rocketron]

at 1gh pool, i get stratum authtentication failed

[jollyriffic]

so where do i get my username and password at for the config file?

[zeuzzz]

Difficulty way high, maxcoins will cheap here... THEY ARE ADDING IN 5 MINUTES! (according to tweeter)


https://www.coins-e.com/exchange/MAX_BTC/

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Already ordered 400.

[zeuzzz]

Is mining this even working on windows, or can I use my OSX virtual machine?

[chickenliver503]

this is the biggest scam coin of them all, no support for windows, no wallet or no cpu miner and people have are really found a way to use gpu and they are no staying how to..

[Zatamas]

Fuck this coin!!!
Maxcoin stupid bitch!

I will mine another SHA3 coin, c'mon guys fuck this shit, lets mine normal SHA3 coin
What about eCoin
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=400323.0

[dr blowfin]

When I saw these turds on the Keiser report I just knew they were going to try and scam the community.
Had to LOL at the one that thought he was Gordon Fucking Gekko for buying Kittehcoin at 2 satoshi and selling for 90 or whatever.
Don't buy into this crap. Let is go the way of Coinye.

[smartbrain]

so where do i get my username and password at for the config file?

You put any username and password you want in the config file and you use them later if you mine from the cpuminer or cgminer (if it actually works). If you mine from within the wallet itself, then the username and password doesn't matter.

[BotwinBG]

Oh, I get it! The wallet balance is hardcoded to 0.

[litecoin123]

Code:

2014-02-06 22:21:39 ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED
2014-02-06 22:21:39 CreateNewBlock(): total size 1000
2014-02-06 22:21:39 CreateNewBlock(): total size 1000
2014-02-06 22:21:39 Running MaxCoinMiner with 1 transactions in block (220 bytes)
2014-02-06 22:21:39 Running MaxCoinMiner with 1 transactions in block (220 bytes)
2014-02-06 22:21:40 connection timeout
2014-02-06 22:21:41 trying connection 54.201.146.96:8668 lastseen=4.5hrs
2014-02-06 22:21:42 hashmeter     51 khash/s
2014-02-06 22:21:46 connection timeout
2014-02-06 22:21:46 trying connection 91.233.197.151:8668 lastseen=2.6hrs
2014-02-06 22:21:46 hashmeter     40 khash/s
2014-02-06 22:21:47 Added 1 addresses from 54.205.5.66: 17 tried, 5287 new
2014-02-06 22:21:50 hashmeter     33 khash/s
2014-02-06 22:21:51 connection timeout
2014-02-06 22:21:52 trying connection 138.91.122.193:8668 lastseen=7.0hrs
2014-02-06 22:21:54 hashmeter     35 khash/s
2014-02-06 22:21:57 connection timeout
2014-02-06 22:21:57 trying connection 209.23.236.245:8668 lastseen=4.2hrs
2014-02-06 22:21:58 Added 3 addresses from 188.226.147.216: 17 tried, 5290 new
2014-02-06 22:21:58 hashmeter     39 khash/s
2014-02-06 22:22:02 connection timeout
2014-02-06 22:22:02 hashmeter     40 khash/s
2014-02-06 22:22:03 trying connection 24.70.160.234:8668 lastseen=4.9hrs
2014-02-06 22:22:06 hashmeter     47 khash/s
2014-02-06 22:22:08 connection timeout
2014-02-06 22:22:08 trying connection 78.45.12.237:8668 lastseen=5.5hrs
2014-02-06 22:22:10 hashmeter     44 khash/s
2014-02-06 22:22:13 connection timeout
2014-02-06 22:22:14 trying connection 75.70.192.211:8668 lastseen=5.5hrs
2014-02-06 22:22:14 hashmeter     36 khash/s
2014-02-06 22:22:18 received block 00000000009cb22a02631963cfd7428898e1fef19174b193e73aed09b849fe07
2014-02-06 22:22:18 Committing 1 changed transactions to coin database...
2014-02-06 22:22:18 SetBestChain: new best=00000000009cb22a02631963cfd7428898e1fef19174b193e73aed09b849fe07  height=310  log2_work=47.035892  tx=323  date=2014-02-06 22:22:14 progress=0.991473
2014-02-06 22:22:18 ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED
2014-02-06 22:22:18 CreateNewBlock(): total size 1000
2014-02-06 22:22:18 CreateNewBlock(): total size 1000
2014-02-06 22:22:18 Running MaxCoinMiner with 1 transactions in block (220 bytes)
2014-02-06 22:22:18 Running MaxCoinMiner with 1 transactions in block (220 bytes)
2014-02-06 22:22:18 hashmeter     44 khash/s
2014-02-06 22:22:19 connection timeout
2014-02-06 22:22:19 trying connection 128.0.0.4:8668 lastseen=4.2hrs
2014-02-06 22:22:20 Added 117 addresses from 137.117.213.160: 17 tried, 5358 new
2014-02-06 22:22:20 Added 47 addresses from 137.117.213.160: 17 tried, 5383 new
2014-02-06 22:22:22 hashmeter     39 khash/s

ACCEPTED
Does this means I found a block ?
Balance shows 0.0000

i highly doubt you found anything... i get similar lines in debug...

2014-02-06 22:44:22 ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED
2014-02-06 22:44:22 CreateNewBlock(): total size 1000
2014-02-06 22:44:22 CreateNewBlock(): total size 1000
2014-02-06 22:44:22 Running MaxCoinMiner with 1 transactions in block (220 bytes)
2014-02-06 22:44:22 Running MaxCoinMiner with 1 transactions in block (220 bytes)
2014-02-06 22:44:22 trying connection 192.0.201.234:8668 lastseen=5.2hrs
2014-02-06 22:44:23 getblocks -1 to 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 limit 500
2014-02-06 22:44:23 hashmeter     84 khash/s
2014-02-06 22:44:27 connection timeout
2014-02-06 22:44:27 hashmeter     84 khash/s
2014-02-06 22:44:27 trying connection 92.27.168.68:8668 lastseen=4.0hrs
2014-02-06 22:44:31 hashmeter     84 khash/s
2014-02-06 22:44:32 connection timeout
2014-02-06 22:44:33 trying connection 178.118.44.5:8668 lastseen=4.3hrs

and i dont know what this even is!!!! am i minig or not or what

cmd is blank!!! this is in debug file...

Well so what it is, we are solo mining, and I think are blocks, however anyone can explain what it is ?
It might need some time to show up in balance, based on this answer

mined blocks do not show up in your wallet until they are buried under 100 other blocks. That's to prevent them being spent in case the block chain splits, and your block ends up NOT being the one chosen by the network for the chain. Give it another 13 hours or so, and then it should appear in your wallet.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5637.0

To print logs run like this

Code:

maxcoind -printtoconsole

And you will see logs on cmd !

http://snag.gy/sROGt.jpg

maxcoind -printtoconsole command is working but what is this just printing debug file or what or am i minig

It prints out debug.log it's easier than going manually re-open many times that file, you should be able to know yourself If you are mining or not, check for hash rate, check If your are conneceted to any node, If not add more nodes ...

so it/s the same as //maxcoind.exe --daemon// command except it is show //mining progress//  (sorry for the missing  quotation, i have some shitty keyboard on my minig rig )

[reorder]

Guys,

cgminer posted on github is copperlark version and is not functional at all.

cudaminer seems to miscalculate the share difficulty. Only cpuminer works properly with max.1gh.com on the moment.

Someone posted here yesterday that only a few lines of code in that version need changing to make it work.

They did not make it easy in maxcoin! There was absolutely no reason to change the difficulty formula, but they did it.

[LuckyLuke]

you can now buy and sell on coins-e

https://www.coins-e.com/exchange/MAX_BTC/


here are all the commands for MAXCOIN

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client/API_calls_list

[Kapitan]

maxcoins are cheap here... THEY ARE NOW ADDED!!!!!!!! 
GET THEM WHILE YOU CAN


https://www.coins-e.com/exchange/MAX_BTC/


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[greentea]

http://max.1gh.com/user?wallet=md7XmFASYDnNPd28Z4n1MAcjxMp4gG3mYp   --- 0 Coins  

is that pool legit ??

[mipl]

Yo, it's working!
Setting up a Wallet at DigitalOcean (needed quick a Ubuntu 13.10, because it's not running on my Debians :p), getting CPU-Miner running on my Servers (works on Debian Wheezy amd64) and connected them to DO-Wallet.
see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=438150.msg4983111#msg4983111

Got a "yay!"... and 142 confirmations later it is showing up in the wallet as

        "category" : "generate",
        "amount" : 96.00000000,
        "confirmations" : 142,
        "generated" : true,

Now MAX to the moon, please.

BUT: Diff now >40G... one of the Dual-QC-Xeon@2.5GHz here does ~8M... solo-mining will be done for me soon. Chaotic start... but somehow funny...  


Coins-E has Maxcoin (MAX) working now: https://www.coins-e.com/exchange/MAX_BTC/?ref=5304766066327552 , but I am keeping my MAX. :p
Oh, and Mr. RealC++ doesnt get it running at https://mcxnow.com/?r=bitcoinnews , but it's funny to read the chat...

[rocketron]

would WANT TO BUY MAXCOIN?? with no fucking working wallet for windows..

peopel will dump them alright as there worthless scamcoin

[nitai]

96 coins confirmed!

gpu mining?

Yeah. With my GTX 560 Ti. Cudaminer. 19M/hs. Started pretty early before block 40 or so.

[nosf009]

Dear Max, do sell us more shit, pls