[ANN] PHO Photon blake256- MERGE MINE 6 COINS- NO PREMINE - POW ONLY 4+ YRS

[photon_coin]

    
    PHOTON (PHO)
  
    
    
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    Photon is a Cryptocurrency using the Blake 256 Algorithm.  It is a new project designed to function well now and with future technology in mind.  Photon is the second coin to use this unique design (modeled after Blake Coin) and may be mergemined in a pool with Blake Coin or other Blake 256 coins in the future.
    
    Currently almost every Cryptocurrency that exists cannot be merge mined in the same way Namecoin and others are with Bitcoin.  Coin developers are working against each other instead of together right now. Photon is an attempt to change that.  If you are digging in a mine for gold you would not leave silver, tin or other things of value around; you would take them all.
    
    This is why Photon was created with the fast & light Blake 256 algorithm.  This is the future.  Scrypt coins cannot be merge mined. Most Sha-256D coins cannot be either.  I could not have completed this project without the input of Bluedragon747, the creator of Blake Coin. Many thanks.
    
    Photon can be mined by most people with a CPU or GPU.  Below is information on how to mine Photon with some FPGA boards (ASIC's for Bitcoin cannot be used to mine photon.)
    
    Unlike Scrypt-1024 and other variations it is possible to mine Photon with ASIC technology designed to solve Blake 256
    although none currently exist or are in development to my knowledge. The memory limitations of making ASIC's for
    Scrypt 1024 are not a problem with this algorithm.  Blake-256(optimized) is faster than Scrypt, SHA-256D and Keccak.  The algorithm was written as a candidate for SHA-3, Based on round one candidate code from the Sphlib 2.1 library and reduced the round function to 8 rounds.
    
        
    Advantages
    
    Design
    • simplicity of the algorithm
    • interface for hashing with a salt
    
    Performance
    • fast in both software and hardware
    • parallelism and throughput/area trade-off for hardware implementation
    • simple speed/confidence trade-off with the tunable number of rounds
    
    Security
    • based on an intensively analyzed component (ChaCha)
    • resistant to generic second-preimage attacks
    • resistant to side-channel attacks
    • resistant to length-extension
    
    Why Photon using the Blake-256 algorithm beats others in the long run
    
    • The Blake-256 algorithm hash rate is just under 3x faster on the GPU and just over 2x on the FPGA compared with Bitcoin
    • The reward for mining Photon does Not decrease over time, instead it increases with block height and difficulty
    • There are no restrictions on any platform as Photon does not include artificial *Security* or *Resistance* that reduce mining hash rate and power efficiency
      
        
    SPECIFICATIONS
    
    • Coin Type: Blake-256
    • Block Reward: 32768  + inflation (square root of (difficulty * block height))
    • No reduction of block reward
    • Cap in place to reduce difficulty jumps upward.
    • Block Target Time: 3 minutes
    • Retarget: 20 blocks
    • Total Coins: 90,000,000,000 (Yes, 90 Billion coins --- Photons are plentiful in the universe)
    • Block Maturity: 120
    
        
    Photon.conf Sample File
    
    

Code:

listen=1
    gen=0
    rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
    rpcuser=username
    rpcpassword=password
    rpcallowip=localhost
    rpcport=8984
    port=35556
    gen=0
    server=1
    daemon=1
    listen=1
    addnode=162.243.101.139
    addnode=72.23.74.166
    addnode=62.219.234.143
    addnode=78.26.209.208
    addnode=162.243.101.139
    addnode=77.121.61.203
    addnode=107.170.123.55
    addnode=218.146.3.80:3005
    addnode=162.243.101.139
    addnode=162.243.166.74
    addnode=67.205.187.161
    addnode=107.170.78.146

   
    DOWNLOADS
    
    
     Photon Windows QT 8.9.6 open ssl 1.0.2e
    Photon Wallet Download on Github
    Photon Source Code on Github
    Cgminer Source Code for Blake-256 on Github
    Cgminer for mining Photon (Windows Build)
    Cgminer for mining Photon (Windows Source)
    *** NOTE: TO GPU MINE WITH THE BLAKE CG MINER YOU MUST SET YOUR RPC PORT TO 8984 in your cgminer.conf file ***
    FPGA-Blake256 Miner by Kramble *
    (* Early development.  For information, an FPGA is not a SHA-256D ASIC. It is a re-programmable hardware device used for hardware development and high speed custom logic.)
    
    
    
    POOLS
    
      
    BlueDragon747's EU Merged Mining Pool - 6 Coins At Once
 
    BlueDragon747's New York Merged Mining Pool - 6 Coins At Once  
    
    BlueDragon747's West Coast Merged Mining Pool - 6 Coins At Once

    Blue Dragon 747's Chicago Merged Mining Pool (CLOSED FOR WINTER)  - 6 Coins At Once
 
    This pool requires a specialized Cgminer, which can be downloaded HERE. This is NOT the same miner from the above link.
    

    EXCHANGES
  
       CRYPTOPIA
 
       C-PATEX

      BLOCK CRAWLER
      
      Photon Premium Explorer



        
    Solo CPU Mining
    Open the Photon client's Debug Console and type "setgenerate true -1" to solo-mine on all cores of your machine.  You can also type "setgenerate true X" to mine on (X = # of cores) of your CPU.
    
        
    LINUX
    
    Ubuntu 12.04 dependencies used for the wallet on Linux build machine
    git-core build-essential libssl-dev libboost-all-dev libdb5.1-dev libdb5.1++-dev libgtk2.0-dev libminiupnpc-dev qt4-qmake mingw32 synaptic qt-sdk qt4-dev-tools libqt4-dev libqt4-core libqt4-gui libdb++-dev
    
        
    More information on Sha-3 and Blake
    
     Remember, this is experimental software. It has been tested, but like all new technology, tests may not reveal everything.  Photon was designed to be innovative and cutting edge today and help lead new trends in Cryptocurrency.
    
    Photon was built and tested by @Cinnamon_Carter with vital input from BlueDragon747 creator of BlakeCoin and the 'Father' of this project !
    
    Photon is not part of any other similar projects that may be in development by others using the Blake-256 algorithm design by BlueDragon747.
    
     Thanks to Ignatius Enjoy Photon Dice--APPEARS INACTIVE UPDATED 2017

     Official Twitter

     Official Blake Coin Website (Family of coins)

  

[crike]

{
"blocks" : 1444,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 80.47275518,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : false,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"hashespersec" : 0,
"networkhashps" : 16946321018,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}

[temple]

pool-

[MisO69]

pool-

"For launch there are no pools available so solomining is your only option. "

[MisO69]

No interest in this one? Anyone? lol. No bling bling... is that what everyone is really looking for?

"blocks" : 1627,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 283.46162944,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : false,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"hashespersec" : 0,
"networkhashps" : 95915086078,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false

Come join in the instamine. GPU miner is here: http://blakecoin.org/cgminer-blake256.7z

[claygraffix]

No interest in this one? Anyone? lol. No bling bling... is that what everyone is really looking for?

"blocks" : 1627,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 283.46162944,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : false,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"hashespersec" : 0,
"networkhashps" : 95915086078,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false

Come join in the instamine. GPU miner is here: http://blakecoin.org/cgminer-blake256.7z

Found about 7 blocks so far.  I started around block 900.  4x 280x's and 1 7950.

280x are getting 2.5GH/s each
7950 is getting 1.75GH/s

[Cyrax89721]

6 Blocks for me on two 270's.  Now that the coin is posted here, looks like my chances for any future blocks are gone.  Oh well, I'll wait for the pool.  My first time solo-mining a coin though!  Giveaways for a first timer? ;-)  Photon Address: Be6HeSpnpHGzPwbkYMg9mkdyUnPz73xp2T


Have some fun with this coin, it has some great ideas for the community!  To the moon?

[ShadowOfScales]

Laptop with an AMD 6990m @ 675.5mhash apparently.
What are my chances of finding anything?

Donations appreciated.
BimfTbAZhwV9RLfVtnymbgoZ2XUeZXJjiu

[TheDailyCrypto]

I'm solo mining the night away!

[MisO69]

No interest in this one? Anyone? lol. No bling bling... is that what everyone is really looking for?

"blocks" : 1627,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 283.46162944,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : false,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"hashespersec" : 0,
"networkhashps" : 95915086078,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false

Come join in the instamine. GPU miner is here: http://blakecoin.org/cgminer-blake256.7z

Found about 7 blocks so far.  I started around block 900.  4x 280x's and 1 7950.

280x are getting 2.5GH/s each
7950 is getting 1.75GH/s

I have been doing well too. I got in around block 1200. I think this may have been announced in another forum before it was here. Gonna go check it out.

[TheDailyCrypto]

No interest in this one? Anyone? lol. No bling bling... is that what everyone is really looking for?

"blocks" : 1627,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 283.46162944,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : false,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"hashespersec" : 0,
"networkhashps" : 95915086078,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false

Come join in the instamine. GPU miner is here: http://blakecoin.org/cgminer-blake256.7z

Found about 7 blocks so far.  I started around block 900.  4x 280x's and 1 7950.

280x are getting 2.5GH/s each
7950 is getting 1.75GH/s

I have been doing well too. I got in around block 1200. I think this may have been announced in another forum before it was here. Gonna go check it out.

I'm mining at 1.7 gh/s and I haven't found crap yet.

[Cyrax89721]

I think this may have been announced in another forum before it was here. Gonna go check it out.

Over here: https://cryptocointalk.com/forum/944-photon-pho/

[MisO69]

It wasn't premined. It was Announced here https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/5903-photon-pho-information/ 1 hour and 15 minutes before it was posted here.

[MisO69]

I think this may have been announced in another forum before it was here. Gonna go check it out.

Over here: https://cryptocointalk.com/forum/944-photon-pho/

lol ya beat me to it.

[claygraffix]

I think this may have been announced in another forum before it was here. Gonna go check it out.

Over here: https://cryptocointalk.com/forum/944-photon-pho/

lol ya beat me to it.

I've bookmarked that site too now.   Around 16 blocks found now, only 1 orphan.  Its refreshing to not have hundred's of orphans flying by, those are depressing.

[bjmillican4]

I've spent a few hours on cgminer setup and need some help.  I used the cgminer dl in the OP.  It has a blake256.conf file and a cgminer. conf file.  Anyone know the correct settings?  Win7 64.

[claygraffix]

I've spent a few hours on cgminer setup and need some help.  I used the cgminer dl in the OP.  It has a blake256.conf file and a cgminer. conf file.  Anyone know the correct settings?  Win7 64.

My photon.conf looks like this:

listen=1
gen=0
rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=password
rpcport=8984
server=1
daemon=1
addnode=162.243.101.139


And the cgminer.conf looks like this:

{
"pools" : [
   {
      "url" : "http://localhost:8984",
      "user" : "username",
      "pass" : "password"
   }
],


The rest of the stuff should be customized for your card(s).

[Cyrax89721]

I've spent a few hours on cgminer setup and need some help.  I used the cgminer dl in the OP.  It has a blake256.conf file and a cgminer. conf file.  Anyone know the correct settings?  Win7 64.

The cgminer.conf file is what you're after.  But first you need to create a photon.conf file in your Users/user/appdata/Roaming/Photon folder with the following details:

listen=1
gen=0
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=password
rpcport=8984
server=1
daemon=1
addnode=162.243.101.139

I bolded the details where you put your personal information.  After this photon.conf file is saved in your appdata folder, change the same bolded settings in your cgminer.conf file:

{
"pools" : [
   {
      "url" : "http://127.0.0.1:8984",
      "user" : "Username",
      "pass" : "password"
   }
],

"intensity" : "11",
"auto-gpu" : true,
"expiry" : "10",
"failover-only" : true,
"gpu-threads" : "1",
"log" : "5",
"no-restart" : true,
"queue" : "5",
"scan-time" : "1",
"worksize" : "128",
"temp-hysteresis" : "4",
"blake256" : true,
"vectors" : "1",
"kernel-path" : "/"
}

Save this conf file, and open cgminer.exe.  The lower details (intensity, etc.) can be adjusted according to your GFX card.  If you're a newbie to that too, I'd suggest only messing with the Intensity.

[hostmaster]

looks promising

[rockrabbit]

I think this may have been announced in another forum before it was here. Gonna go check it out.

Over here: https://cryptocointalk.com/forum/944-photon-pho/

lol ya beat me to it.

I've bookmarked that site too now.   Around 16 blocks found now, only 1 orphan.  Its refreshing to not have hundred's of orphans flying by, those are depressing.

My cgminer cannot work. It always shows the error "pool 0 shuts down or ..."