[NENG]Nengcoin - A Decentralized Multi-Rig Solo Mining Scrypt Coin

[honglu69]

A spike block was mined at:
http://nengexplorer.mooo.com:3001/block/9cc3357894cc56cdb1de478884f7d50af6ace3ee71c5e0dbb7ba57180484b00a

For now until the next base difficulty reset, CPU Cheetah solo miners will dominate mining.

[honglu69]

Base diff reset overnight to low level, boom for GPU or USB ASIC solo miners

[Exadro]

This coin is low diff but is there no plan to get a listing on an exchange that is in cmc or coingecko? because this is a scrypt coin that is still in the mining web pool

[honglu69]

This coin is low diff but is there no plan to get a listing on an exchange that is in cmc or coingecko? because this is a scrypt coin that is still in the mining web pool

Not sure that you are aware or not.  NENG has randomSpike that restrict big ASICs. Low diff or not, NENG is tough for big ASICs machine on mining.  NENG Miners are diversified, some CPU miners, some ASIC USB stick solo miners, some pod miners on ASIC  solo mode, and some small or big ASIC rigs in mining pools, also I expect quite some GPU miners whenever there is reset on base difficulty once a week.  

For new exchange listing beyond shorelinecrypto, not any plan as far I am aware.  This is open source decentralized coin and usually big exchange asking for a listing price that is higher than the total market cap of NENG.  In other word, you can hand over the whole NENG coin to a big exchange and have exchange owning 100% of coin, but this is not enough money for the listing fee.  The fees are barriers.

For trading, there is exchange already, not issue here.  Any one can sign up with just an email, buy and sell NENG and withdraw coins with no restrictions.

[honglu69]

base diff reset just now, another boom for GPU solo miners or USB ASIC solo miners

[honglu69]

Best Practice for Futurebit Moonlander2 USB ASIC on solo mining mode

• Problems for USB ASIC solo mining on NewEnglandcoin (NENG)
• Root Cause for ALL POOL DEAD error
• Workaround: rotate solo mining on two full nodes
• Alternative: rotate on 1 solo mining one full node + 1 mining pool

Code:

Linux scripts provided for best practice of USB ASIC on mining NewEnglandcoin (NENG).

Two wallets running scripts.
mining scripts for rotating on two full nodes, or 1 full node + 1 pool
Two configuration files for "newenglandcoin.conf" in two different folders for the two full nodes.

https://github.com/ShorelineCrypto/FuturebitMoonlander2_SoloMiner

[honglu69]

NENG base difficulty just reset. Boom for GPU/USB ASIC solo miners

[honglu69]

Pre-Announce: NENG v1.4.0 Proposal for Mobile Miner Upgrade, Android Mining Start in July 2020
June 27, 2020

We are pre-announcing today that NENG core software will have major upgrade v1.4.0 to be released in early July, 2020 within couple of weeks. This major software upgrade is mainly a hardware upgrade supporting
Android 64 bits arm64 phones and 32 bits arm phones with no impact on regular X86_64 based windows 10/linux or MacOs users.  In fact for those PC and Mac users, we won't ship v1.4.0 binary files as the   v1.3.0.1 will continue to be latest release and there is no change on v1.4.0 on software level for those hardwares.

With this soon coming software upgrade, we are restarting the Mobile Miner project with better design and will offer Android phone (both 64 bits or 32 bits) real mining experience, not simulation on almost all android phones.
Android phone users can CPU mine NENG easily by installing an app from Google Play Store, and type in a few words to setup account, follow our user installation guide to start mining in android phones. No root on the phone is needed in this setup. The NENG android mining experience will work like a regular android phone app,  you keep mining NENG (with cheetah of course) when you idle the phone at night, and stop mining during day time. If you do not like the NENG android mining experience, you can simply delete the android app from phone, restore the phone to original state with no real danger just like any other android apps.

Specifically, we are actively working on the NENG github branch "v1.4.x_MobileMining" in the past several weeks and evaluating UserLand/Termux/GNUroot etc app in the past. At this moment, A beta version of NENG with cheetah mining is already running in 64 bits android phone (android version 8.0)  and an alpha level of 32 bits arm NENG wallet has been compiled for Google Galaxy Nexus phone.  We are still testing phones and fixing the bugs and documents issues and solutions for now.

To be tuned, we will publish a pdf file report soon on the evaluation of NENG v1.3.x randomSpike results and the high level design and details for the coming v1.4.0 Android Mining Upgrade.

Update on July 2, 2020
There will be one change on x86_64 platform.  Ubuntu 20.04 on AMD64 will be supported in the comining new release v1.4.0 with binary files download and some wallet compiling instructions.

[honglu69]

Overnight base difficulty went through reset unexpected.  Now it is already back up to 0.35 diff.

[honglu69]

1st Block Mined on Galaxy Nexus Phone

64 bits android phone NENG wallet compiling has been easy and smooth.

32 bits android phone compiling has been tough. Days of crash and unable to find a solution. A workaround has been found today, the NENG core has been stable on Galaxy Nexus phone.

Below is 1st block mined today on Galaxy Nexus phone (android version 4.3), almost 8 years old 32 bits old phone running GNUroot app and mined one block NENG with cheetah CPU miner after 8 hours of running, see attached picture.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NewEnglandCoin/comments/hjsdda/1st_block_mined_on_galaxy_nexus_phone/

[DaveF]

I am now a NENG billionaire
NSr8vGT6guHGWg1ya7quiFFd7VyHzP8HW2 is mine http://nengexplorer.mooo.com:3001/richlist

Thank you honglu69 for making a nice CPU mining coin and keeping it alive and doing something with it.
Now it's time for me to try to get the #2 position.

Side note, in addition to the 2 node / 1 node & 1 pool solution for the Moonlander mining issue. You can also set BFGminer to output to a log.
Then with a bit of programming scan the log once a minute and restart BFG if you see the dead pool message.

Took a bit of tweaking and still not working 100% but I am guessing someone with more time & better skills could do it in under a hour.

-Dave

[Ive Gone Parabolic]

Has the core security evaluation part been completed? It is my honest conviction that there was nothing in this coin to remotely seem like security. I doubt there was any evaluation in the first place. Coin just scrabbles around in your backyard like a dwarf in diapers and does nothing besides that. Betwixt this coins life and its death is a hair-think edge about to be broken.

[honglu69]

I am now a NENG billionaire
NSr8vGT6guHGWg1ya7quiFFd7VyHzP8HW2 is mine http://nengexplorer.mooo.com:3001/richlist

Thank you honglu69 for making a nice CPU mining coin and keeping it alive and doing something with it.
Now it's time for me to try to get the #2 position.

Side note, in addition to the 2 node / 1 node & 1 pool solution for the Moonlander mining issue. You can also set BFGminer to output to a log.
Then with a bit of programming scan the log once a minute and restart BFG if you see the dead pool message.

Took a bit of tweaking and still not working 100% but I am guessing someone with more time & better skills could do it in under a hour.

-Dave

Congratulations for NENG billionaires!  I mined a lot myself with GPU/Moonlander2 and a billionaire too on NENG. 

Before I found the rotate method on Futurebit Moonlander2, I was doing a hard way, every hour kill the bfgminer and restart.  Not fun.  Some times my MLD2 missed one hour during
reset day, a lot of coins missed.  Rotate method actually is easy.   Wallet data files folder can be copied over from one node to another, no syncing issue too.

[honglu69]

Has the core security evaluation part been completed? It is my honest conviction that there was nothing in this coin to remotely seem like security. I doubt there was any evaluation in the first place. Coin just scrabbles around in your backyard like a dwarf in diapers and does nothing besides that. Betwixt this coins life and its death is a hair-think edge about to be broken.

Not sure what you are referring to on "security evaluation".  We are evaluating ourselves too on the randomSpike results.  So far is very good for couple of past months operation.

In terms of code, it is open source start with exact clone of litecoin at version v0.8.7.5.  Later changes are in github. here is summary of major version changes and features on README front page:
https://github.com/ShorelineCrypto/NewEnglandCoin/tree/v1.4.x_MobileMining

The feature of protection against 51% attack through decentralized mining rigs is still experimental.  But for sure is that NENG is the only scrypt coin that diversified miners on CPUs, GPUs, ASICs are on it, and soon on Android Phones.  Potentially there are billions of android phone users in the world, hopefully the new features will attract a lot more user bases into NENG.

[KeyserMining]

You can now mine NENG on

https://keysermining.com/

Happy minnig all

[honglu69]

base diff just reset to very low level. boom for GPU or USB ASIC solo miners.

2 days ago base diff already reset. 2nd time in couple of days.

[DaveF]

base diff just reset to very low level. boom for GPU or USB ASIC solo miners.

2 days ago base diff already reset. 2nd time in couple of days.

Is there any documentation, other then reading though everything in github about the requirements for the difficulty reset to the low numbers?
I just did a quick look through the thread and did not see anything see anything about it.

-Dave

[honglu69]

base diff just reset to very low level. boom for GPU or USB ASIC solo miners.

2 days ago base diff already reset. 2nd time in couple of days.

Is there any documentation, other then reading though everything in github about the requirements for the difficulty reset to the low numbers?
I just did a quick look through the thread and did not see anything see anything about it.

-Dave

Base Difficulty reset is controlled by  big ASIC rigs.  You can predict that base diff reset will come soon as soon as the difficulty level rose to a high level, say diff=10,  then suddenly big ASIC rigs left.  Then CPU Cheetah usually only dominate for 1 to 2 days, then reset.

I found explorer is the easiest way to know what is going on because explorer report base difficulty.  Some times the current difficulty is only
0.000244 created by CPU cheetah miner, you can go back to the link of the prior blocks to find the base diff.  You will need a desktop computer to find base diff, I found cell phone mobile page skip those info on explorer:
http://nengexplorer.mooo.com:3001/

In GUI or CLI wallet,  "getmininginfo"  command report the base difficulty level.

Documentation is on the github code and my explanation of prior white paper and reports.  CPU Cheetah runs around 3 to 4 minutes per block, the target time desired by NENG algorithm is 1 minute per block.  CPU cheetah domination means reset is coming soon because 3 minutes is way longer than desired 1 minute target.

Another math factor is every 1440 blocks reset.  You can divide the current block number divided by this 1440 to know the left over blocks and times.  The explorer provide this information there but you have to do the math your self to know the left over time.

When I say big ASIC controlling this reset, they are truly controlling. If big ASIC rigs keep mining even on high base diff, the reset will not come soon.  In history, the longest reset comes after two weeks in stead of every 1 week.  But we got some times two three reset in one week, controlled too by big ASICs, some times big GPU solo miners control this too when the base diff is low range (~ 1) and reset from there.  

I think CPU cheetah solo miners do not control this because CPU solo miners are mining NENG for profit.  For sure GPU/ASIC left, CPU cheetah will pound on mining for sure, but their domination is doomed to have reset because of every 1440 reset, verses long block time by CPUs.

[honglu69]

NENG v1.4.0 Android Mining, randomSpike Evaluation

• Major Success - v1.3.x Scrypt randomSpike Release
  Overview of randomSpike
  Observation of Effect on Base Diff Reset Day
  Conclusion on v1.3.x randomSpike Release
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Support on v1.4.0
  
• NENG core v1.4.0 Upgrade Proposal – Mobile Mining Start on Android Phones
  Table 1 – Mobile Mining Comparison of Electroneum (ETN) and NewEnglandcoin (NENG)
• Linux, Cloud, Docker/QEMU virtualization Tech Advancement
• Userland for arm64 android – Easy to Setup or Use
• Alpha Release - GNUroot for 32 bits arm android
  Android Hardware Compatibility Issue on arm phones
  Memory Issue on Old 32 bits phone

For full text of the report, please download pdf file at:
https://github.com/ShorelineCrypto/NewEnglandCoin/releases/download/NENG_2020_Q3_report/NENG_2020_Q3_report.pdf

[nxtraordinary]

Hi,

I installed your new wallet from February today, it added blocks, but numbers of the NENG-explorer differ.
I am at block 1388205 but wallet says its only 5 hours left to being synchronized.
Otherwise, since these 5 hours it doesn't sync any further, and if I open the wallet, number of connections first rises to about 6, but then again it drops step by step to zero. Strange behaviour, despite I added the nodes from the explorer-site.
Funny also, I already mined three blocks, as I forgot to set gen=0 in the beginning, they are confirmed already up to three times, but it doesn't go on, as the wallet has connections but doesn't sync.
My question is: Why connections rise and then fall to zero, why the low chain number versus the higher in the explorer, and why is no sync possible, despite connections?

Greez,
n.