Hi Deff,
Hows things?
I have just built a new mining pc, and started from scratch with Win 10, and wallet "v6.1.1.45-g32a928e-cache-2018-beta-one"
I couldn't find a bootstrap, so i just started from zero, have to say, quickest sync so far, i think it took less that 8 hours, which seems a great improvement on the older wallets...
However, slightly concerned....i have ben mining in the wallet (setgenerate true
for over 30 hours, and not a single block....
{
"blocks" : 406288,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 0.00000095,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 8,
"hashespersec" : 0,
"networkhashps" : 0,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false,
"Nfactor" : 19,
"N" : 1048576,
"powreward-new" : 40.00000000,
"powreward-old" : 100.00000000
}
The wallet permanently says "out of sync", and you can see my hashrate says "0"
So i have duplicated this on 2 other PC's
1) i have tried cpuminer-opt 3.14.3 ...i get " json_rpc_call failed, retry after 10 seconds" error...
2) I have tried ccminer, and it "finds a block within a few minutes, but always fails
"[2020-08-24 09:16:00] NVML GPU monitoring enabled.
[2020-08-24 09:16:00] NVAPI GPU monitoring enabled.
[2020-08-24 09:16:00] 1 miner thread started, using 'scrypt' algorithm.
[2020-08-24 09:16:00] scrypt block 406289, diff 0.00
[2020-08-24 09:16:00] GPU #0: 32 hashes / 4096.0 MB per warp.
[2020-08-24 09:16:01] GPU #0: using launch configuration T1x1
[2020-08-24 09:16:01] GPU #0: Intensity set to 5, 32 cuda threads
[2020-08-24 09:16:01] scrypt factor set to 19 (1048576)
[2020-08-24 09:41:30] accepted: 0/1 (diff 0.001), 5.73 H/s booooo solved: 1
"
I've checked the block explorer, and its seems we haven't had a POW block for over 2 days, but several POS blocks.
Yet someone managed to mine over 60 blocks in 24 hours.....3 days ago. That's more blocks than i have mined in 3 years ! (on / off, not continuous)
How can this be?
I think you have simply made this algo to "hit and miss"...sorry mate, but i can't say it any other way. I really hope you can fix it, cos i love scrypt:N coins, and TBH, this is about last man standing.
I have just had a look at the richlist and it is actually really depressing reading.
The top wallets are staking more coins than i can mine in a week...
What incentive does that give any new miner?
Remember months ago, you helped me compile a linux version...well that wallet, i managed to mine a total of 1000 coins in just over 1 week, bringing my 3 year total upto just over 3500 coins.
That wallet mined slowly, but consistently each day, until it lost all connections, and has never re-connected since (yes it has all the current live nodes)
That was the last time i gave in.
The new wallet i cna't get to compile on any versions of linux, so i tried the latest windows wallet, well you can see my results above...zero.
I honestly think, if you want to encourage any new miners, that this whole chain needs a start over....
Split to a "live" chain and a "test" chain, we can all dedicate a thread or 2, just to keep the test chain ticking over, so you can do your tweaks, but please lets get back to a chain that a normal small miner has some chance on.
As for the exsisting wallets...well thats hard, but how can someone with less that a 100 / 1000 coins be expected to compete with the 100K / 1 mil wallets?
Without a pool, virtually no chance to even get a coin nevermind a block.
Perhaps, look at say the most recent 50 wallets, total their balances, and do a new chain, premine that balance + 10% (10% for you), then distribute that balance to those 50 wallets...
That may give newbies some slight incentive to start mining.
Sorry to be so harsh, but lets face it, if there is no pool, and you cant mine a single block with 8t cpu in 36 hours, then i think the coin is dead.....or, you reward the current major share holders, and give up on POW altogether....the rich will get massively richer, and the rest...well......
J
BTW, it you're up for talking me thru compiling on either Ubuntu or Mint (versions 18/19/20) or my new fav LinuxLite 5 (much better for mining) , then i will happily try mining for another 36 hours....