[ANN][POWER] Powercoin: Power of your coins! Released today!

[DubFX]

any premine? total coins?

[mintzone]

any premine? total coins?

There was a 200 block history when I jumped on.
Block reward appears to be 61.30
It's scrypt.
And it has something called stake in the client, which I know is something that some cryptos feature only in passing.

That's all I got.

[duuuuude]

tried to open the zip file and it is empty, i have downloaded from github 3 times, and still no joy, it says the zip files are empty

j

[mintzone]

tried to open the zip file and it is empty, i have downloaded from github 3 times, and still no joy, it says the zip files are empty

j

I got it perfectly fine. Click on the main link https://github.com/powercoin-pow/powercoin-binary , then go to the right hand side of the page and hit "save zip" or "clone in desktop".
When I did that I managed to successfully get the binary out of the zip.

[DubFX]

Hmm here not even 1 block but dif is rising

[powercoin.pow]

Coin is scrypt, have just mined my first coins. Got 61 coins from the block.
Not sure how block rewards work on this coin, though.

EDIT: I'm getting tons of rejects, is this normal?
http://postimg.org/image/rj36cj40v/

Ｗe haven't try cgminer with Powercoin yet. Keeping focus on your post!!

[mintzone]

Coin is scrypt, have just mined my first coins. Got 61 coins from the block.
Not sure how block rewards work on this coin, though.

EDIT: I'm getting tons of rejects, is this normal?
http://postimg.org/image/rj36cj40v/

Ｗe haven't try cgminer with Powercoin yet. Keeping focus on your post!!

All right, thanks
Will continue mining... Still acting a bit weird.

EDIT:
cgminer working just fine now. Nice 

[mintzone]

Can we please get an example conf on the main post?  
It seems to be standard for coin releases.
Also, should I have a node in my powercoin.conf? I don't know any to add.

[powercoin.pow]

Can we please get an example conf on the main post? 
It seems to be standard for coin releases.
Also, should I have a node in my powercoin.conf? I don't know any to add.

I'll include the powercoind for someone who is willing to setup a node! To start a node instead running powercoin-qt, the simplest way is to configure 'rpcuser' and 'rpcpassword' in powercoin.conf, and that's it for running powercoind.

I'll include the powercoind executable in GitHub and update the main post later.

[bakhnanb]

Powercoin,Formal mining?

[mintzone]

Finally got my first confirmed block
I'm about to purchase a vps, and am looking into setting up a node.
All I have to do is run powercoind with an rpcuser and rpcpassword, then provide the ip address of the VPS, right?

[mintzone]

Just got a vps, will be running a node soon.
Possibly also a p2pool! Let's get things really launching 

[duuuuude]

i cant get cgminer to work for this, so how would we p2pool.  thanks

j

[mintzone]

i cant get cgminer to work for this, so how would we p2pool.  thanks

j

Once I get around to setting it up,  it would be as simple as connecting with your username as your payment address and any password (It wouldn't matter)
This would be my first time setting up a p2pool, so it might go wrong. If anyone else would like to set up a powercoin pool, please do!

Also, Please spice up your post some op
By putting the picture of your coin at the top of the thread centered, or something like that? And maybe an entire paragraph detailing your goals for this coin!

[duuuuude]

yes i understand how to use a p2pool, what i am saying is if gpu miners dont work for the wallet then how will they work for the daemon.


j

[mintzone]

yes i understand how to use a p2pool, what i am saying is if gpu miners dont work for the wallet then how will they work for the daemon.


j

Sorry I misunderstood you j, gpu miners work fine for this coin. I have been gpu mining since launch and have accrued almost 1000 POW.
Just let it run for a while! Make sure you have properly configured your client to accept solo mining.

I'll post my powercoin.conf if you still have issues

[duuuuude]

yes, if you could show yoru conf and cgminer file, that would be awesome, i have been running for  hours and have not gotten one block yet,  i have setup 100 of coins for mining, but this one i  am havinga problem with cgminer, thanks

j

[mintzone]

yes, if you could show yoru conf and cgminer file, that would be awesome, i have been running for  hours and have not gotten one block yet,  i have setup 100 of coins for mining, but this one i  am havinga problem with cgminer, thanks

j

Here is my powercoin.conf:
listen=1
server=1
gen=0
rpcuser=user
rpcpassword=pass
rpcport=2225
rpcconnect=127.0.0.1
rpcallowip=198.168.1.*

For cgminer I connect using these settings:
cgminer.exe -o (Whatever IP You use) --scrypt -u user -p pass -I 13 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 8192

I've mined out tons of POW this way.

I will be getting a node and a P2Pool setup late tonight or tomorrow! Look forward to it.

EDIT: P.S., sorry I took so long to respond, I have guests over

[duuuuude]

no problem, an i see my problem has been the port# the whole time, i will retry when i get home, thank again.


j

[mintzone]

no problem, an i see my problem has been the port# the whole time, i will retry when i get home, thank again.


j

Allright man