[ANNOUNCE] Tenebrix, a CPU-friendly, GPU-hostile cryptocurrency

[Raoul Duke]

No, plain English for Yet Another Useless Piece of Shit Currency...

Still trying to decide what's worse, if you and Artforz losing your time to do this or all this morons mining it lol

[caston]

OK I have it built now:

Code:

./minerd --user username --pass password
[2011-09-26 18:10:41] Binding thread 0 to cpu 0
[2011-09-26 18:10:41] HTTP request failed: couldn't connect to host
[2011-09-26 18:10:41] json_rpc_call failed, retry after 30 seconds
[2011-09-26 18:10:42] Binding thread 1 to cpu 1
[2011-09-26 18:10:43] Binding thread 2 to cpu 2
[2011-09-26 18:10:44] Binding thread 3 to cpu 3
[2011-09-26 18:10:45] 4 miner threads started, using SHA256 'scrypt' algorithm.
[2011-09-26 18:11:11] HTTP request failed: couldn't connect to host
[2011-09-26 18:11:11] json_rpc_call failed, retry after 30 seconds

I'm running the bitcoin-qt. I couldn't find a bitcoind.

[racerguy]

Is anyone else getting a lot of false proof of works?  around 80% of my proof of works turn out like the one below.

[2011-09-26 17:50:30] PROOF OF WORK RESULT: false (booooo)

[caston]

Is anyone else getting a lot of false proof of works?  around 80% of my proof of works turn out like the one below.

[2011-09-26 17:50:30] PROOF OF WORK RESULT: false (booooo)

I can't even figure out how to get the miner running.

are you using minerd?

[ahitman]

To mine use the batch file in the folder.

Im getting many False proofs as well. How do I fix this?

Also is there any exchange for these coins yet?

[Lolcust]

Is anyone else getting a lot of false proof of works?  around 80% of my proof of works turn out like the one below.

[2011-09-26 17:50:30] PROOF OF WORK RESULT: false (booooo)

Try setting -s in your miner to 5

[caston]

OK I got it working with : ./minerd --user 1 --pass 1 --url http://127.0.0.1:8697


But I'm not sure if I'm getting the right hash rate...

./minerd --user 1 --pass 1 --url http://127.0.0.1:8697
[2011-09-26 18:30:19] Binding thread 0 to cpu 0
[2011-09-26 18:30:20] Binding thread 1 to cpu 1
[2011-09-26 18:30:21] Binding thread 2 to cpu 2
[2011-09-26 18:30:22] Binding thread 3 to cpu 3
[2011-09-26 18:30:23] 4 miner threads started, using SHA256 'scrypt' algorithm.
[2011-09-26 18:31:00] thread 1: 65535 hashes, 1.66 khash/sec
[2011-09-26 18:31:01] thread 2: 65535 hashes, 1.65 khash/sec
[2011-09-26 18:31:02] thread 0: 65535 hashes, 1.53 khash/sec
[2011-09-26 18:31:04] thread 1: 8191 hashes, 1.66 khash/sec
[2011-09-26 18:31:06] thread 2: 8191 hashes, 1.66 khash/sec


Looks a little slow although I must admit I don't usually CPU mine

what hashrates are you guys getting?

[Lolcust]

No, plain English for Yet Another Useless Piece of Shit Currency...

Still trying to decide what's worse, if you and Artforz losing your time to do this or all this morons mining it lol

With all due respect to your opinion, I believe that in a world where i0coin is being actually sold (or perhaps it would be better to say actually bought  ) it is most unfair to call a cryptocurrency with novel PoW that significantly changes adoption dynamics "Useless Piece of Shit" :-P

OK I got it working with : ./minerd --user 1 --pass 1 --url http://127.0.0.1:8697


But I'm not sure if I'm getting the right hash rate...

./minerd --user 1 --pass 1 --url http://127.0.0.1:8697
[2011-09-26 18:30:19] Binding thread 0 to cpu 0
[2011-09-26 18:30:20] Binding thread 1 to cpu 1
[2011-09-26 18:30:21] Binding thread 2 to cpu 2
[2011-09-26 18:30:22] Binding thread 3 to cpu 3
[2011-09-26 18:30:23] 4 miner threads started, using SHA256 'scrypt' algorithm.
[2011-09-26 18:31:00] thread 1: 65535 hashes, 1.66 khash/sec
[2011-09-26 18:31:01] thread 2: 65535 hashes, 1.65 khash/sec
[2011-09-26 18:31:02] thread 0: 65535 hashes, 1.53 khash/sec
[2011-09-26 18:31:04] thread 1: 8191 hashes, 1.66 khash/sec
[2011-09-26 18:31:06] thread 2: 8191 hashes, 1.66 khash/sec


Looks a little slow although I must admit I don't usually CPU mine

what are you guys getting?

Typical hashrates for TBX.

Do mind that most GPU implementations will be notably slower with modern GPUs.

[caston]

Typical hashrates for TBX.

Thank you


ahh then I wonder how long until I find a  block at this rate?

[racerguy]

thanks, switching -s to 5 fixes it.

I'm getting 1.2-3khashes on my q9400@3.2ghz and 1.08khash on my sisters q8200.

[Lolcust]

"tPKbCkqgio92KVJj4cQAXqs7Ng4dfbhFxR","-765.00"

"tFCq32aZFqa13wrab6m55Nv3R53tk4zkL8","-765.00"

"tVEFkyC8VkXyMfpCyeM78k2nBC6nYUHKS4","-765.00"

"t9ArZXPEa4hiPY22WXDyLu8LW34b13zVMB","-765.00"

"tUK2EQTMF6cN6vuNEfJtVf1BMqarvEZJBL","-765.00"

Sent. Also, other people who posted their addresses before this message will recieve a sum too, a smaller one tho

[EskimoBob]

Code:

make 
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/Tenebrix-miner'
Making all in compat
make[2]: Entering directory `/Tenebrix-miner/compat'
make[3]: Entering directory `/Tenebrix-miner/compat'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/Tenebrix-miner/compat'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/Tenebrix-miner/compat'
make[2]: Entering directory `/Tenebrix-miner'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing     -g -O2 -MT minerd-cpu-miner.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/minerd-cpu-miner.Tpo -c -o minerd-cpu-miner.o `test -f 'cpu-miner.c' || echo './'`cpu-miner.c
cpu-miner.c: In function ‘parse_arg’:
cpu-miner.c:786: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘json_load_file’ makes integer from pointer without a cast
/usr/include/jansson.h:221: note: expected ‘size_t’ but argument is of type ‘struct json_error_t *’
cpu-miner.c:786: error: too few arguments to function ‘json_load_file’
make[2]: *** [minerd-cpu-miner.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/Tenebrix-miner'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/Tenebrix-miner'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Any ideas whats wrong here?

I vaguely suspect jansson is to blame. What's dependency versions and what are you building it on (and for) ?

I've built it for windows from under Fedora 15 (Eh, I know) vm and under ubuntu for, well, ubuntu.

in Gentoo for Gentoo

dev-libs/jansson Installed versions:  2.0.1
and works fine with other *coin miners/apps

[Lolcust]

Code:

make 
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/Tenebrix-miner'
Making all in compat
make[2]: Entering directory `/Tenebrix-miner/compat'
make[3]: Entering directory `/Tenebrix-miner/compat'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/Tenebrix-miner/compat'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/Tenebrix-miner/compat'
make[2]: Entering directory `/Tenebrix-miner'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing     -g -O2 -MT minerd-cpu-miner.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/minerd-cpu-miner.Tpo -c -o minerd-cpu-miner.o `test -f 'cpu-miner.c' || echo './'`cpu-miner.c
cpu-miner.c: In function ‘parse_arg’:
cpu-miner.c:786: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘json_load_file’ makes integer from pointer without a cast
/usr/include/jansson.h:221: note: expected ‘size_t’ but argument is of type ‘struct json_error_t *’
cpu-miner.c:786: error: too few arguments to function ‘json_load_file’
make[2]: *** [minerd-cpu-miner.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/Tenebrix-miner'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/Tenebrix-miner'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Any ideas whats wrong here?

I vaguely suspect jansson is to blame. What's dependency versions and what are you building it on (and for) ?

I've built it for windows from under Fedora 15 (Eh, I know) vm and under ubuntu for, well, ubuntu.

in Gentoo for Gentoo

dev-libs/jansson Installed versions:  2.0.1
and works fine with other *coin miners/apps

Did you try going  autogen.sh route as described in readme ( needs  automake and autoconf)?

[doublec]

cpu-miner.c:786: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘json_load_file’ makes integer from pointer without a cast
/usr/include/jansson.h:221: note: expected ‘size_t’ but argument is of type ‘struct json_error_t *’
cpu-miner.c:786: error: too few arguments to function ‘json_load_file’

You'll need to tweak the call to json_loads. It changed the number of arguments it accepted between the 1.x and 2.x versions of libjansson.

[Lolcust]

Hm, indeed.

doublec, I wonder why it compiles allright on my ubuntu when I go the autogen route... somewhat weird.

[caston]

Rejuvepedia is accepting donations at:

tVxuc4sgkCTsDLZPSaZPc4TDxt1mz47Rsi


http://www.rejuvepedia.org/index.php?title=Donations

Oh and I seem to have mined 10 blocks but they haven't come up in my balance yet.. this is actually pretty fun.

[racerguy]

yes today is the first time I've ever mined a block in anything, up to 31 blocks so far today.

[EskimoBob]

cpu-miner.c:786: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘json_load_file’ makes integer from pointer without a cast
/usr/include/jansson.h:221: note: expected ‘size_t’ but argument is of type ‘struct json_error_t *’
cpu-miner.c:786: error: too few arguments to function ‘json_load_file’

You'll need to tweak the call to json_loads. It changed the number of arguments it accepted between the 1.x and 2.x versions of libjansson.

I followed the README  doc:

Code:

Basic *nix build instructions:
        ./autogen.sh    # only needed if building from git repo
        CFLAGS="-O3 -Wall -msse2" ./configure
        make

autogen whines:

Code:

  ./autogen.sh
configure.ac:95: warning: AC_LANG_CONFTEST: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call detected in body
../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:194: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2662: _AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2679: AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:606: AS_IF is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2032: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2053: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from...
/usr/share/aclocal/libcurl.m4:38: LIBCURL_CHECK_CONFIG is expanded from...
configure.ac:95: the top level
configure.ac:95: warning: AC_LANG_CONFTEST: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call detected in body
../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:194: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2662: _AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2679: AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:606: AS_IF is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2032: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2053: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:59: LIBCURL_CHECK_CONFIG is expanded from...
configure.ac:95: the top level
configure.ac:95: warning: AC_LANG_CONFTEST: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call detected in body
../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:194: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2662: _AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2679: AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:606: AS_IF is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2032: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2053: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:59: LIBCURL_CHECK_CONFIG is expanded from...
configure.ac:95: the top level
configure.ac:95: warning: AC_LANG_CONFTEST: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call detected in body
../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:194: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2662: _AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2679: AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:606: AS_IF is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2032: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2053: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:59: LIBCURL_CHECK_CONFIG is expanded from...
configure.ac:95: the top level

BTW, client compiles fine but in Gentoo you probably need top add '-I/usr/include/db4.8/' to 'make' (if you get a can not find db_cxx.h error) 

Can someone tweak the call to json_loads adn push it to git? 

[EskimoBob]

thanks, switching -s to 5 fixes it.

I'm getting 1.2-3khashes on my q9400@3.2ghz and 1.08khash on my sisters q8200.

I had --s  120
now I have --s 5 and I still get boooo's

[CosicMiner]

Thank you Lolcust for the generous starting bounty!
Been mining during the night with 2 spare cores on my i5 2500k (Dedicated one core to 100% cpu bug for gpu mining and one core left free for system stability.) and my second rig is mining with C2D E6750. Found nearly 30 blocks so far.
Will unleash it on all of the i5 cores during the day to see how it affects overall system performance and gpu mining.