[announce] Namecoin - a distributed naming system based on Bitcoin

[elpresidente]

I'm very excited by the Namecoin project. I pointed ~300Mh/s at the network last night. By mid-morning today I had a message of "1 ACCEPTED" on my miner. Now when I use namecoind getinfo, I still see a 0.000000 balance. What's up with that? What am I missing?

You will be credited 50 NMC when the block you generated is confirmed. Your block is considered confirmed after 120 more blocks have been generated after yours. It takes about 18-20 hrs.

Ah. I understand. Thanks so much for the response.
-edit-
They have shown up in the getinfo request. Any idea why I would get an "Invalid Bitcoin Address" when I try to send them to exchange.bitparking.com with namecoind?

[khal]

Do you use an old build that only accept addresses starting with 1 ?

[wachtwoord]

In the meanwhile I have generated a block (after 12 hours @242Mhash so probably faster than expected).  I can see the balance now (4 hours after):

Code:

>namecoind.exe listtransactions
[
    {
        "account" : "",
        "category" : "generate",
        "amount" : 50.01000000,
        "confirmations" : 139,
        "txid" : "xxxxxxxxx",
        "time" : xxxxxxxx
    }
]

>namecoind getbalance
50.01000000

>namecoind getinfo
{
    "version" : 32150,
    "balance" : 50.01000000,
    "blocks" : 11000,
    "connections" : 8,
    "proxy" : "",
    "generate" : false,
    "genproclimit" : -1,
    "difficulty" : 3767.78158122,
    "hashespersec" : 0,
    "testnet" : false,
    "keypoololdest" : 1307811754,
    "paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
    "errors" : ""
}

But then I try to find out which of my adresses has the namecoins and I see that both have 0. How does this work?

Code:

namecoind.exe listreceivedbyaddress 0 true
[
    {
        "address" : "xxxxxxxx",
        "account" : "",
        "label" : "",
        "amount" : 0.00000000,
        "confirmations" : 0
    },
    {
        "address" : "xxxxxxxx",
        "account" : "this",
        "label" : "this",
        "amount" : 0.00000000,
        "confirmations" : 0
    }
]

[MCWey8]

I am having a issue with namecoid,

I am able to connect localhost with Ufasoft miner with -o http://127.0.0.1:8336 .. but if i try to connect to another computer on the network http://192.168.0.3:8336 it is unable to connect.. firewall is not blocking the port

I would just like to know if anyone else has had this issue.


since im CPU mining, solo mining (well single computer solo) is out for me already - 3767.78158122 difficulty

[khal]

I am having a issue with namecoid,

I am able to connect localhost with Ufasoft miner with -o http://127.0.0.1:8336 .. but if i try to connect to another computer on the network http://192.168.0.3:8336 it is unable to connect.. firewall is not blocking the port

I would just like to know if anyone else has had this issue.


since im CPU mining, solo mining (well single computer solo) is out for me already - 3767.78158122 difficulty

In your config file, add :
rpcallowip=<ip_of_your_remote_computer>

(you can add this option several times)

[khal]

In the meanwhile I have generated a block (after 12 hours @242Mhash so probably faster than expected).  I can see the balance now (4 hours after):

Code:

>namecoind.exe listtransactions

>namecoind getbalance
50.01000000

>namecoind getinfo

But then I try to find out which of my adresses has the namecoins and I see that both have 0. How does this work?

Code:

namecoind.exe listreceivedbyaddress 0 true

I don't see generated blocks too, with this command.
I only see them in listtransactions, which gives you the txid. You can paste this on blockexplorer to find your transaction then. But you don't really need to know on which address you received money. It's in your wallet and that's all that is important :p

[wachtwoord]

May be it's not important, but I'm trying to understand everything that is going on

So I went to http://explorer.dot-bit.org/ and copy pasted the tx of both blocks (I have 2 now already) I discovered. The "To address" of both is different and neither matches one of the two addresses I see when I type:

namecoind.exe listreceivedbyaddress 0 true

I'm pretty sure it are the right blocks though as the first is 50.01 and the second is 50 which is correct according to the "listtransactions" command. So I am probably looking at the wrong thing or not understanding something correctly.

[elpresidente]

Do you use an old build that only accept addresses starting with 1 ?

Thanks. This was the problem. I had thought I had tried the most recent build by downloading it and using it to send. but I neglected to stop the running namecoind and start the new one first.

Thanks for the help!

[khal]

May be it's not important, but I'm trying to understand everything that is going on

So I went to http://explorer.dot-bit.org/ and copy pasted the tx of both blocks (I have 2 now already) I discovered. The "To address" of both is different and neither matches one of the two addresses I see when I type:

namecoind.exe listreceivedbyaddress 0 true

I'm pretty sure it are the right blocks though as the first is 50.01 and the second is 50 which is correct according to the "listtransactions" command. So I am probably looking at the wrong thing or not understanding something correctly.

Now that you know your addresses, use :

Code:

validateaddress <address>

And you should see "ismine: true".

[wachtwoord]

Yes they both say ismine: true. 

I still don't understand why these addresses differ from the 2 addresses I get with: namecoind.exe listreceivedbyaddress 0 true

[khal]

Default configuration in bitcoin/namecoin generate 100 addresses in your wallet. Some are visible, most are not. I guess generated blocks use non-visible addresses and doesn't set them as visible. We may consider this a minor bug ? :p

[elpresidente]

Hey - Does anybody know of a way to show total hash rate with namecoind? For example, I have namecoind started and have connected to it with 2 miners, one on the same pc (gpu miner) and one from a pc outside my network. They both connected but I cannot tell if the one outside my network is actually contributing. It says it's connected but it's poclbm on ubuntu and it doesn't show any information aside from hash rate. Is there a way to see how many and what miners are connected to namecoind?

[jackjack]

Hey - Does anybody know of a way to show total hash rate with namecoind? For example, I have namecoind started and have connected to it with 2 miners, one on the same pc (gpu miner) and one from a pc outside my network. They both connected but I cannot tell if the one outside my network is actually contributing. It says it's connected but it's poclbm on ubuntu and it doesn't show any information aside from hash rate. Is there a way to see how many and what miners are connected to namecoind?

It must be

Code:

./namecoind gethashespersec

But here I just see 0... Thus I stopped mining namecoins until I'm sure it's a bug

[elpresidente]

Hey - Does anybody know of a way to show total hash rate with namecoind? For example, I have namecoind started and have connected to it with 2 miners, one on the same pc (gpu miner) and one from a pc outside my network. They both connected but I cannot tell if the one outside my network is actually contributing. It says it's connected but it's poclbm on ubuntu and it doesn't show any information aside from hash rate. Is there a way to see how many and what miners are connected to namecoind?

It must be

Code:

./namecoind gethashespersec

But here I just see 0... Thus I stopped mining namecoins until I'm sure it's a bug

Yeah. I get 0 as well but I've found 2 blocks so that's not accurate. I'm wondering if that's if you start the server and hash at the same time (cpu mine) and then connect with gpu miner. GPU miner will show it's hash rate and gethashespersec will pull just that cpu hash rate. Not sure.

[elpresidente]

Hey - Does anybody know of a way to show total hash rate with namecoind? For example, I have namecoind started and have connected to it with 2 miners, one on the same pc (gpu miner) and one from a pc outside my network. They both connected but I cannot tell if the one outside my network is actually contributing. It says it's connected but it's poclbm on ubuntu and it doesn't show any information aside from hash rate. Is there a way to see how many and what miners are connected to namecoind?

It must be

Code:

./namecoind gethashespersec

But here I just see 0... Thus I stopped mining namecoins until I'm sure it's a bug

Yeah. I get 0 as well but I've found 2 blocks so that's not accurate. I'm wondering if that's if you start the server and hash at the same time (cpu mine) and then connect with gpu miner. GPU miner will show it's hash rate and gethashespersec will pull just that cpu hash rate. Not sure.

Yeah. That shows cpu hash rate when setgenerate is true. I'm looking for more than that.

[wachtwoord]

How many namecoins ave been generated by now?

[MCWey8]

In your config file, add :
rpcallowip=<ip_of_your_remote_computer>

(you can add this option several times)

Still having issues, so I thought maybe i should give more info

Server is running on Linux Mint 10 64 bit
Client is running Ubuntu Linux 10.10 64 bit

So I added

Code:

rpcallowip=192.168.0.2
rpcallowip=192.168.0.3
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1

into the /.namecoin/bitcoin.conf, because the server is 192.168.0.3 on the network, the client im trying to connect is on 192.168.0.2.

On the server locally i am able to start Ufasoft v0.10 and mine namecoins with:

Code:

./bm -a 5 -o http://127.0.0.1:8336 -u [edit] -p [edit]

but on the client (192.168.0.2), which i also added the 3 rpcallowip in its /.namecoin/bitcoin.conf
always returns

Code:

./bm -a 5 -o http://192.168.0.3:8336 -u [edit] -p [edit]
bitcoin-miner 0.10  Copyright (c) 2011 Ufasoft  http://ufasoft.com/open/bitcoin
Mining for http://192.168.0.3:8336
1 threads Using SSE2
Couldn't connect to server
0 MHash/s     Couldn't connect to server

just like before adding the rpcallowip lines into the .conf. I have allowed ALL PORTS incoming and outgoing on the server just for testing and still getting the same result. The machine (192.168.0.3) is also running Apache Web Server .. and is reachable.

Any ideas namecoin miners ??

[jackjack]

In your config file, add :
rpcallowip=<ip_of_your_remote_computer>

(you can add this option several times)

Still having issues, so I thought maybe i should give more info

Server is running on Linux Mint 10 64 bit
Client is running Ubuntu Linux 10.10 64 bit

So I added

Code:

rpcallowip=192.168.0.2
rpcallowip=192.168.0.3
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1

into the /.namecoin/bitcoin.conf, because the server is 192.168.0.3 on the network, the client im trying to connect is on 192.168.0.2.

On the server locally i am able to start Ufasoft v0.10 and mine namecoins with:

Code:

./bm -a 5 -o http://127.0.0.1:8336 -u [edit] -p [edit]

but on the client (192.168.0.2), which i also added the 3 rpcallowip in its /.namecoin/bitcoin.conf
always returns

Code:

./bm -a 5 -o http://192.168.0.3:8336 -u [edit] -p [edit]
bitcoin-miner 0.10  Copyright (c) 2011 Ufasoft  http://ufasoft.com/open/bitcoin
Mining for http://192.168.0.3:8336
1 threads Using SSE2
Couldn't connect to server
0 MHash/s     Couldn't connect to server

just like before adding the rpcallowip lines into the .conf. I have allowed ALL PORTS incoming and outgoing on the server just for testing and still getting the same result. The machine (192.168.0.3) is also running Apache Web Server .. and is reachable.

Any ideas namecoin miners ??

Did you add 'server=1' in bitcoin.conf ?

[MCWey8]

Did you add 'server=1' in bitcoin.conf ?

I did not. so I added that, still same

should i remove daemon=1 ?
this is the complete bitcoin.conf

Code:

rpcuser=[edit]
rpcpassword=[edit]
rpcport=8336
rpcallowip=192.168.0.2
rpcallowip=192.168.0.3
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
daemon=1
server=1

[jackjack]

I don't know, i don't use 'daemon' but I don't think it is the problem
Here is my working bitcoin.conf, try it

Code:

server=1
rpcuser=user
rpcpassword=pass
rpcport=9332
rpcallowip=192.168.0.*