[ANN][RIC] Riecoin: constellations POW *CPU* HARD FORK successful, world record

[tseug]

I've pushed a few new changes the repository and updated the binaries to -b11.  Changes:

- Import clintar's fix for reconnecting if the server is rebooted to improve robustness;
- Fix too-high dev fee to jh/clintar in source (this was fixed in the -b10 binaries, but I never pushed it to the source tree)
  (The bug:  Instead of donating 0.25% to each of them and subtracting 0.5% to me, it subtracted 0.5% and then donated the full amount to each person)
- Remove unneeded use of atomic header file to simplify build process with older gcc

 -Dave

regular make, make -f Makefile_mtune and make -f Makefile_nomarch all segfault for me. Using a first generation Core i7 920 and 32 bit linux mint 16

Can someone please get a working 32 bit linux build going, I've wanted to mine this coin since launch and still have an empty wallet

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[primer10]

I've pushed a few new changes the repository and updated the binaries to -b11.  Changes:

- Import clintar's fix for reconnecting if the server is rebooted to improve robustness;
- Fix too-high dev fee to jh/clintar in source (this was fixed in the -b10 binaries, but I never pushed it to the source tree)
  (The bug:  Instead of donating 0.25% to each of them and subtracting 0.5% to me, it subtracted 0.5% and then donated the full amount to each person)
- Remove unneeded use of atomic header file to simplify build process with older gcc

 -Dave

regular make, make -f Makefile_mtune and make -f Makefile_nomarch all segfault for me. Using a first generation Core i7 920 and 32 bit linux mint 16

Can someone please get a working 32 bit linux build going, I've wanted to mine this coin since launch and still have an empty wallet

32 bit is slower than 64 bit?

Maybe you should boot up a copy of 64 bit Linux if possible?

[primer10]

I need to pay closer attention. Did the difficulty raise again? MY stats on YPool has dropped like a rock on sse11 from dga.

Check your miners - some people are reporting that they're seeing invalid shares start showing up after the miner has been running for a long time.  I haven't been able to replicate this yet on any of my machines, but I'm looking.

yupe, 3 in a row after you mentioned it.

[antonio8]

I need to pay closer attention. Did the difficulty raise again? MY stats on YPool has dropped like a rock on sse11 from dga.

Check your miners - some people are reporting that they're seeing invalid shares start showing up after the miner has been running for a long time.  I haven't been able to replicate this yet on any of my machines, but I'm looking.

yupe, 3 in a row after you mentioned it.

Just happened to 3 of mine again.

Is there a way to have it run for a certain amount of time and restart it by itself?

I didn't realize the first time was about half a day.

[primer10]

I need to pay closer attention. Did the difficulty raise again? MY stats on YPool has dropped like a rock on sse11 from dga.

Check your miners - some people are reporting that they're seeing invalid shares start showing up after the miner has been running for a long time.  I haven't been able to replicate this yet on any of my machines, but I'm looking.

yupe, 3 in a row after you mentioned it.

Just happened to 3 of mine again.

Is there a way to have it run for a certain amount of time and restart it by itself?

I didn't realize the first time was about half a day.

I have a script ran from cron that restarts my miner once a day..

[northranger79510]

Hopefully these problems will be fixed soon..

[antonio8]

Here is what I am getting.

Invalid Share
Reason: CheckProofOfWork() : n not prime

[vlax352]

so, does stratum implementation for riecoin work? i see 2 pools listed on main page, and no workers there.

[c.figgis]

so, does stratum implementation for riecoin work? i see 2 pools listed on main page, and no workers there.

It works but the fast miners are not yet compatible with stratum pools.

[AJMiles]

I have always been a primecoin fan, can you elaborate how this is different? or why mine this on all my computers instead of primecoin?

[primer10]

I have always been a primecoin fan, can you elaborate how this is different? or why mine this on all my computers instead of primecoin?

Ha me too.

Short version comparison:

XPM
- Difficulty by length of cunningham chains.
- break world records for long cunningham chains

RIC
- Difficulty by length of prime number digits.
- fixed at prime number constellations of size 6 (p, p+4, p+6, p+10, p+12, p+16), also called sextuplet
- break world records for long length of prime sextuplet

Why you want to mine this is up to you I am mining both 

[primer10]

I need to pay closer attention. Did the difficulty raise again? MY stats on YPool has dropped like a rock on sse11 from dga.

Check your miners - some people are reporting that they're seeing invalid shares start showing up after the miner has been running for a long time.  I haven't been able to replicate this yet on any of my machines, but I'm looking.

yupe, 3 in a row after you mentioned it.

4 hrs after I started 2 instances of xptminer on 2 different machines, I noticed a chain of "Reason: CheckProofOfWork() : n not prime" on my I7 4770, compiled to AVX. My other machine, Quad core Q9550, compiled to SSE, no chain of msg yet.

[AJMiles]

I have always been a primecoin fan, can you elaborate how this is different? or why mine this on all my computers instead of primecoin?

Ha me too.

Short version comparison:

XPM
- Difficulty by length of cunningham chains.
- break world records for long cunningham chains

RIC
- Difficulty by length of prime number digits.
- fixed at prime number constellations of size 6 (p, p+4, p+6, p+10, p+12, p+16), also called sextuplet
- break world records for long length of prime sextuplet

Why you want to mine this is up to you I am mining both  

Thanks

SOLO or POOL?

In Primecoin, I made less money on ypool vs connecting 100 VPS servers and solo mining primecoin

What is your take on this for large VPS (CPU Core) farms?

[primer10]

Thanks

SOLO or POOL?

In Primecoin, I made less money on ypool vs connecting 100 VPS servers and solo mining primecoin

What is your take on this for large VPS (CPU Core) farms?

Me? Pool.

I suppose if you have large VPS farms, you should make more from solo.

Btw,
Riecoin's block reward is 50 vs Primecoin's current reward of 8 or 9. An estimate of current pricing on exchanges, XPM is 10x the price of RIC. So you have to mine RIC at about 2x the rate more than XPM..

[GordonSSS]

I need to pay closer attention. Did the difficulty raise again? MY stats on YPool has dropped like a rock on sse11 from dga.

Check your miners - some people are reporting that they're seeing invalid shares start showing up after the miner has been running for a long time.  I haven't been able to replicate this yet on any of my machines, but I'm looking.

yupe, 3 in a row after you mentioned it.

4 hrs after I started 2 instances of xptminer on 2 different machines, I noticed a chain of "Reason: CheckProofOfWork() : n not prime" on my I7 4770, compiled to AVX. My other machine, Quad core Q9550, compiled to SSE, no chain of msg yet.

I've had this too on dga's official b11 Windows build. It just stops finding valid shares altogether and always says "n not prime" for any share found.

[dga]

I need to pay closer attention. Did the difficulty raise again? MY stats on YPool has dropped like a rock on sse11 from dga.

Check your miners - some people are reporting that they're seeing invalid shares start showing up after the miner has been running for a long time.  I haven't been able to replicate this yet on any of my machines, but I'm looking.

yupe, 3 in a row after you mentioned it.

4 hrs after I started 2 instances of xptminer on 2 different machines, I noticed a chain of "Reason: CheckProofOfWork() : n not prime" on my I7 4770, compiled to AVX. My other machine, Quad core Q9550, compiled to SSE, no chain of msg yet.

I've had this too on dga's official b11 Windows build. It just stops finding valid shares altogether and always says "n not prime" for any share found.

Are people seeing this on Linux also?

[primer10]

Are people seeing this on Linux also?

Mine's Linux.

but my 2nd and current run is 6 hrs and no msg yet.. so it looks to be hard to reproduce ..

[otila]

Are people seeing this on Linux also?

yes.

Code:

2014-03-23 08:58:23.532409175 [07:39:52] Share found! (Blockheight: 24610)
2014-03-23 08:58:25.432824705 [07:39:54] 2ch/s: 30.3795 3ch/s: 1.9480 4ch/s: 0.0681 Shares total: 532 / 511
2014-03-23 08:58:33.432838812 [07:40:02] 2ch/s: 30.3808 3ch/s: 1.9483 4ch/s: 0.0681 Shares total: 532 / 511
2014-03-23 08:58:34.672120815 [07:40:03] Share found! (Blockheight: 24610)
2014-03-23 08:58:41.434825115 [07:40:10] 2ch/s: 30.3809 3ch/s: 1.9485 4ch/s: 0.0682 Shares total: 533 / 512
2014-03-23 08:58:49.435824174 [07:40:18] 2ch/s: 30.3814 3ch/s: 1.9489 4ch/s: 0.0682 Shares total: 533 / 512
2014-03-23 08:58:56.817584732 [07:40:25] Share found! (Blockheight: 24610)
2014-03-23 08:58:57.435830082 [07:40:26] 2ch/s: 30.3820 3ch/s: 1.9490 4ch/s: 0.0684 Shares total: 534 / 513
2014-03-23 08:58:57.751832129 Invalid share
2014-03-23 08:58:57.751847632 Reason: CheckProofOfWork() : not valid pow
2014-03-23 08:59:05.435828594 [07:40:34] 2ch/s: 30.3828 3ch/s: 1.9487 4ch/s: 0.0683 Shares total: 534 / 512
... no new shares found till I restarted the process
2014-03-23 09:01:21.381338929 [07:42:50] Share found! (Blockheight: 24612)
2014-03-23 09:01:21.450835838 [07:42:50] 2ch/s: 30.3662 3ch/s: 1.9490 4ch/s: 0.0681 Shares total: 535 / 513
2014-03-23 09:01:22.209827519 Invalid share
2014-03-23 09:01:22.209846968 Reason: CheckProofOfWork() : n not prime
2014-03-23 09:01:29.450829867 [07:42:58] 2ch/s: 30.3649 3ch/s: 1.9488 4ch/s: 0.0681 Shares total: 535 / 512
2014-03-23 09:01:31.656831570 Ping 656.0ms (Average 912.0)
2014-03-23 09:01:37.451826894 [07:43:06] 2ch/s: 30.3659 3ch/s: 1.9492 4ch/s: 0.0681 Shares total: 535 / 512
2014-03-23 09:01:45.453825500 [07:43:14] 2ch/s: 30.3656 3ch/s: 1.9491 4ch/s: 0.0681 Shares total: 535 / 512
2014-03-23 09:01:53.455857748 [07:43:22] 2ch/s: 30.3648 3ch/s: 1.9488 4ch/s: 0.0681 Shares total: 535 / 512
2014-03-23 09:02:01.073502585 [07:43:30] Share found! (Blockheight: 24612)
2014-03-23 09:02:01.289827815 Invalid share
2014-03-23 09:02:01.289841922 Reason: CheckProofOfWork() : n not prime
...
2014-03-23 09:24:07.587949574 Reason: CheckProofOfWork() : n not prime
2014-03-23 09:24:09.612825465 [08:05:38] 2ch/s: 30.2689 3ch/s: 1.9400 4ch/s: 0.0685 Shares total: 560 / 512

restarted, all works ok:

2014-03-23 09:25:18.179824577 [00:00:56] 2ch/s: 23.3326 3ch/s: 1.0971 4ch/s: 0.0000 Shares total: 0 / 0
2014-03-23 09:25:18.686221800 [00:00:56] Share found! (Blockheight: 24628)
2014-03-23 09:25:26.179830232 [00:01:04] 2ch/s: 24.1280 3ch/s: 1.2160 4ch/s: 0.0640 Shares total: 1 / 1

[chryspano]

Thanks

SOLO or POOL?

In Primecoin, I made less money on ypool vs connecting 100 VPS servers and solo mining primecoin

What is your take on this for large VPS (CPU Core) farms?

Me? Pool.

I suppose if you have large VPS farms, you should make more from solo.

Btw,
Riecoin's block reward is 50 vs Primecoin's current reward of 8 or 9. An estimate of current pricing on exchanges, XPM is 10x the price of RIC. So you have to mine RIC at about 2x the rate more than XPM..

There are some differences between primecoin's and riecoin's "blocks"

Primecoin has 1 minute blocks that each pays 9,25 coins, so per 10 minutes  that is the "default bitcoin block" its a total of 92.5 coins.
Riecoin has 2.5 minute blocks that each pays 50 coins, so we have 200 coins per 10 minutes.

[primer10]

Are people seeing this on Linux also?

Mine's Linux.

but my 2nd and current run is 6 hrs and no msg yet.. so it looks to be hard to reproduce ..

ok, 8hrs in and I got it again.

[08:16:09] 2ch/s: 38.2258 3ch/s: 2.4714 4ch/s: 0.0834 Shares total: 606 / 541
Invalid share
Reason: CheckProofOfWork() : n not prime
[08:16:16] Share found! (Blockheight: 24832)
Invalid share
Reason: CheckProofOfWork() : n not prime
[08:16:17] 2ch/s: 38.2270 3ch/s: 2.4717 4ch/s: 0.0835 Shares total: 607 / 540

This time around I am using the SSE version on my i7.

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Interestingly, sse ver has lower 2ch/s but higher 4ch/s.. not conclusive since only 13mins

[00:13:44] 2ch/s: 34.5873 3ch/s: 2.1027 4ch/s: 0.1044 Shares total: 21 / 19