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[Cosbycoin]

at present not worth mining for me since the difficulty on all coins way too high for my energy costs

Yeah but if your PC is on anyway it might as well be mining.

When one is worried about energy costs:

1. They are broke.
2. The immediately convert to cash what they mined.

[LoWang]

Too bad. There seem to be some problems in the network because my miners pause a lot. I have just seen long periods of inactivity probably because connections to network were lost.

last 3 hours. But maybe the problem is that my litecoin-qt creates only 8 connections at max. I guess windows XP may be limiting that

[Cosbycoin]

Too bad. There seem to be some problems in the network because my miners pause a lot. I have just seen long periods of inactivity probably because connections to network were lost.

last 3 hours. But maybe the problem is that my litecoin-qt creates only 8 connections at max. I guess windows XP may be limiting that

If you computer is sitting behind a router then you will get about 8 connections with default router settings. Connect your computer directly to your internet connection from your ISP and watch your connections go up to like 30+.

[Ian Moone]

Litecoin I think is down and has been down for at least 4 hrs, I had my miners running I was doing other things then went to the coinotron stats page around 3 pm westcoast time and looked at the stats for all the Litecoin miners ; I must have had my miners running for nothing for several hours
http://coinotron.com/coinotron/AccountServlet?action=statistics

Top miners LTC#   Name   Shares   Speed
1   zhezhe   17424    0.00 KH
2   Schwede65   11733    0.00 KH
3   goblin1974   5580    0.00 KH
4   Squidnet   1947    0.00 KH
5   Josi   1860    0.00 KH
6   SuperTramp   1815    0.00 KH
7   fagtri   1623    0.00 KH
8   Ian_Moone   1296    0.00 KH
9   ue7ae   849    0.00 KH
10   RobRoy   345    0.00 KH
11   h4malui   318    0.00 KH
12   novacioni   264    0.00 KH
13   nipester   237    0.00 KH
14   XPMining   192    0.00 KH
15   chris3spice   186    0.00 KH
16   daki   111    0.00 KH
17   czarnicholas2k   72    0.00 KH
18   dim13   69    0.00 KH
19   skippy   69    0.00 KH
20   squeept   66    0.00 KH
   .

[tacotime]

Litecoin I think is down and has been down for at least 4 hrs, I had my miners running I was doing other things then went to the coinotron stats page around 3 pm westcoast time and looked at the stats for all the Litecoin miners ; I must have had my miners running for nothing for several hours
http://coinotron.com/coinotron/AccountServlet?action=statistics

Top miners LTC#   Name   Shares   Speed
1   zhezhe   17424    0.00 KH
2   Schwede65   11733    0.00 KH
3   goblin1974   5580    0.00 KH
4   Squidnet   1947    0.00 KH
5   Josi   1860    0.00 KH
6   SuperTramp   1815    0.00 KH
7   fagtri   1623    0.00 KH
8   Ian_Moone   1296    0.00 KH
9   ue7ae   849    0.00 KH
10   RobRoy   345    0.00 KH
11   h4malui   318    0.00 KH
12   novacioni   264    0.00 KH
13   nipester   237    0.00 KH
14   XPMining   192    0.00 KH
15   chris3spice   186    0.00 KH
16   daki   111    0.00 KH
17   czarnicholas2k   72    0.00 KH
18   dim13   69    0.00 KH
19   skippy   69    0.00 KH
20   squeept   66    0.00 KH
   .

Looks like coinotron's pool is down
http://pool-x.eu/net

[LoWang]

Not a good day today. Made less then LTC mining calculator calculates :-]

[EskimoBob]

...
When one is worried about energy costs:

1. They are broke.
2. The immediately convert to cash what they mined.

LOL...
Or they can do simple math and realized, that it is cheaper to buy the LTC than mine at certain price levels.

[LoWang]

Hey Coblee I have a question: is it possible to use this listen port 9333 when litecoind or litecoin-qt is connected using socks4 proxy? What do you say, is it possible to forward this port so the application listen through the proxy server it is connected via? Thank you

[01BTC10]

Hey Coblee I have a question: is it possible to use this listen port 9333 when litecoind or litecoin-qt is connected using socks4 proxy? What do you say, is it possible to forward this port so the application listen through the proxy server it is connected via? Thank you

It is possible to use TOR wich is a socks5 proxy. I can't tell about socks4 as I'm still new to networking.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Tor

[LoWang]

"bitcoind will detect that you are using a proxy on 9050 and will force the "nolisten" flag"
So it seems 9333 is not used via TOR at all...

[idev]

Hello, im trying to get LTCD going on my Ubuntu 11.04 x64
but after doing..

Code:

make -f makefile.unix litecoind

I get..

Code:

g++ -c -pthread -Wextra -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-char-subscripts -Wno-invalid-offsetof -Wformat-security -g -DNOPCH -I/root/litecoin/src -DUSE_UPNP=0 -DUSE_SSL -fno-stack-protector -fstack-protector-all -Wstack-protector -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2 -MMD -o obj/bitcoinrpc.o bitcoinrpc.cpp

This it stops/stalls at this point ?

[pooler]

Hello, im trying to get LTCD going on my Ubuntu 11.04 x64
but after doing..

Code:

make -f makefile.unix litecoind

I get..

Code:

g++ -c -pthread -Wextra -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-char-subscripts -Wno-invalid-offsetof -Wformat-security -g -DNOPCH -I/root/litecoin/src -DUSE_UPNP=0 -DUSE_SSL -fno-stack-protector -fstack-protector-all -Wstack-protector -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2 -MMD -o obj/bitcoinrpc.o bitcoinrpc.cpp

This it stops/stalls at this point ?

I'd say that's normal, bitcoinrpc.cpp takes a lot of time and resources to compile. Make sure you have enough RAM available.

[idev]

Hello, im trying to get LTCD going on my Ubuntu 11.04 x64
but after doing..

Code:

make -f makefile.unix litecoind

I get..

Code:

g++ -c -pthread -Wextra -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-char-subscripts -Wno-invalid-offsetof -Wformat-security -g -DNOPCH -I/root/litecoin/src -DUSE_UPNP=0 -DUSE_SSL -fno-stack-protector -fstack-protector-all -Wstack-protector -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2 -MMD -o obj/bitcoinrpc.o bitcoinrpc.cpp

This it stops/stalls at this point ?

I'd say that's normal, bitcoinrpc.cpp takes a lot of time and resources to compile. Make sure you have enough RAM available.

Cheers, got it working

[Mythoranium]

Hello everyone!

I just started looking into alternative cryptocurrencies, and Litecoin seems very interesting.

I am trying to build the litecoin headless daemon on Arch Linux, but I get the following error (tail of compile log pasted):

Code:

cc1plus: warning: -Wformat-security ignored without -Wformat [-Wformat-security]
In file included from util.cpp:9:0:
/usr/include/boost/program_options/detail/config_file.hpp: In instantiation of ābool boost::program_options::detail::basic_config_file_iterator<charT>::getline(std::string&) [with charT = char; std::string = std::basic_string<char>]ā:
util.cpp:1263:1:   required from here
/usr/include/boost/program_options/detail/config_file.hpp:163:13: error: āto_internalā was not declared in this scope, and no declarations were found by argument-dependent lookup at the point of instantiation [-fpermissive]
In file included from /usr/include/boost/program_options/detail/parsers.hpp:9:0,
                 from /usr/include/boost/program_options/parsers.hpp:265,
                 from util.cpp:10:
/usr/include/boost/program_options/detail/convert.hpp:75:34: note: ātemplate<class T> std::vector<std::basic_string<char> > boost::program_options::to_internal(const std::vector<T>&)ā declared here, later in the translation unit
util.cpp: In function āvoid ShrinkDebugFile()ā:
util.cpp:975:41: warning: ignoring return value of āsize_t fwrite(const void*, size_t, size_t, FILE*)ā, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
make: *** [obj/util.o] Error 1

The first warning about -Wformat is seen all throughout the compile log, but that is just a warning. It seems the error has something to do with Boost libraries. Could the problem be that I installed both the developer Boost and Boost runtimes?

Thank you in advance!

P.S. please don't mind the encoding problems - seems that quotes are shown as "ā", but don't mind that.

[Cosbycoin]

Coblee is there an updated client coming out in the near future?

[EskimoBob]

Coblee is there an updated client coming out in the near future?

What's wrong with the current version?

If you have a idea, how to improve the Litecoin client, please write about it here :Litecoin - feature request and please, do not feed the trolls and stay on topic

[Cosbycoin]

Coblee is there an updated client coming out in the near future?

What's wrong with the current version?

If you have a idea, how to improve the Litecoin client, please write about it here :Litecoin - feature request and please, do not feed the trolls and stay on topic

Nothing is wrong. I wanted to see if purely there was an update. I'm sure at some point new features or bugs will need to be fixed.

[bulanula]

Can anybody help me out here ?

I am getting this error on Mac OS X 10.5.8 :

Dyld Error Message:
  Symbol not found: __ZNKSt13bad_exception4whatEv
  Referenced from: /Applications/Litecoin-Qt.app/Contents/MacOS/Litecoin-Qt
  Expected in: /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib

Also related thread without solution : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55105

[Brunic]

At first, I was suspicious of all forms alternate cryptocurrencies. They felt so much like "oh, look, success over there! Let's go copy it and grab a share of it!".

But now, I'm still suspicious of all forms of alternate cryptocurrencies, but I like more and more the idea of Litecoin. Bitcoin is designed to keep a relative high value, since its supply is limited and somewhat low when you compare it to the human population. Having Litecoin as a "cheap" Bitcoin act as a buffer of offer for the market, and gives the market a chance to trade at lower values.

Sure, right now, the market is still small, but the more Bitcoin takes value, the more Litecoin will become interesting. The saving grace of Litecoin is probably the complementary mining offer it provides. The CPU of my mining rigs were useless and inactive with Bitcoin, but now, they have an interesting use.

So great job guys! Don't desesperate if Litecoin is slow at start, it's dependant on Bitcoin. In the future, it could certainly become the entry point for alternate cryptocurrencies.

[Cosbycoin]

Can anybody help me out here ?

I am getting this error on Mac OS X 10.5.8 :

Dyld Error Message:
  Symbol not found: __ZNKSt13bad_exception4whatEv
  Referenced from: /Applications/Litecoin-Qt.app/Contents/MacOS/Litecoin-Qt
  Expected in: /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib

Also related thread without solution : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55105

No. Help yourself =)