[ANN][MIN] Minerals - POS | Developing own anon solution |

[baseke]

Open my wallet everyday for 3-5 hours.19-45 connections its almost the same number asit was a month ago.

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[hotwired007]

Open my wallet everyday for 3-5 hours.19-45 connections its almost the same number asit was a month ago.

Mine is open 24/7 but I only ever see 10 or 11 connections.

[Hoshimaru]

It shouldnt matter too much about CPU and RAM that much - the bottleneck with databases is always disk IO - so if you can get it to go faster it'll be worth it. 2 CPU and 4GB RAM should be fine - look at the utilisation on the server when you are using it - it should be fairly low - if not - add more

If its slow and laggy for one user - it will only get worse with more users.

Do you have any disk benchmarking software that you can use on the 'server' (either the VM or the host) to test the HDD speed? (would be worth testing both).

If its a laptop with a single HDD running Windows with VMWare Player or equivalent there is a lot of HDD overheads anyway.

You'd be better off having a dedicated disk for OS and a separate RAID array for the data - if its RAID'd you'll get data protection if a disk fails and a bit of a performance boost too.

A VPS with SSD RAID will be expensive but some VPS with a decent RAID 5 array should be ample for the blockchain - the SSD recommendation was for the laptop to squeeze as much performance as possible.

The alternative is to run the whole system from a RAMdisk and just use the RAM instead of SSD (lightning fast but will need a lot of RAM)

Can you provide some more details on your demo laptop specs?

Thank you hotwired007.

The laptop is a HP Pavilion DV2-1130EB:
- AMD Athlon Neo X2 L335 1.6Ghz
- 4 GB DDR2
- 500 GB SATA 5400RPM
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD3410 512MB
- 12.1" WXGA 1280x800
- Windows 8.1 Professional 64 bits

It's already a few years old, but still rockin' ... most of the time

And the VM I used for testing the ABE blockchain explorer and get familiar with this type of setup is virtualized using the latest Virtualbox.
The VM has 1 GB RAM, 8 GB HDD and 1 CPU capped at 80%
As hosting for this thing, I was thinking of something like this: http://fortacloud.co/?gclid=CLnN0YnB18ACFdLKtAodWlIAkg

In the ABE thread, a user told me got his PLN explorer hosted by http://www.kimsufi.com/fr/index.xml on a KS-1. It look like it's under performing for a blockchain explorer... There's a mining pool and an MPOS demo too on the server. Those last to services are very fast, but no clients are connected to them.

Considering that... A 2-core/2GB RAM/20GB HDD solution for 5.95$/mo would not be enough to run just Mineralsd, Postgresql, Python, Apache2 next to the OS?

@chinchs: here are all the transaction from the dev's wallet I know of. They are about 15mb each (same data)

• PDF: Mega
• HTM: Mega

It's over 20000 transactions. Last ones were the 1 MIN received for posting here, on the 17th of August.

@Baseke: my (staking) wallets are running 24/7. Before it was on a mining rig, since yesterday on a dedicated box (Zotac MA320 / 4GB RAM / 1TB HDD). It's still good enough for streaming HD content to the TV while running the wallets

PS: I will reset the VM and run ABE with something like 5000 block to test again and get addresses right.
Then will do the same with insight and blockchain.info's software and see how they perform...

PS2: I went to see Lucy, and it's a good movie

[dominikf]

So anyone still alive here?

[Hoshimaru]

So anyone still alive here?

Only zombies wake up at night here

[dominikf]

So anyone still alive here?

Only zombies wake up at night here

Good one :-p But seriously are the Devs still here or will there be a community takeover?

[hotwired007]

The specs seem reasonable - when you're running the VM open up your task manager / performance monitor to see what resources are maxed out - you might find allocating a second CPU helps if the code is optimised for parallel processing.

without the VM running, what kind of speeds do you get from the HDD benchmark?

Can you provide some more details on your demo laptop specs?

Thank you hotwired007.

The laptop is a HP Pavilion DV2-1130EB:
- AMD Athlon Neo X2 L335 1.6Ghz
- 4 GB DDR2
- 500 GB SATA 5400RPM
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD3410 512MB
- 12.1" WXGA 1280x800
- Windows 8.1 Professional 64 bits

And the VM I used for testing the ABE blockchain explorer and get familiar with this type of setup is virtualized using the latest Virtualbox.
The VM has 1 GB RAM, 8 GB HDD and 1 CPU capped at 80%
As hosting for this thing, I was thinking of something like this: http://fortacloud.co/?gclid=CLnN0YnB18ACFdLKtAodWlIAkg

[tramphuochuy]

A little pump 

[Hoshimaru]

A little pump 

I've missed all trading this week :/ forgot my phone, and all my accounts have 2FA enabled >_<

#dominikf: PR quit the project, dev are unmotivated to continue.
I don't know about a takeover. I don't have the skills and time to do this unfortunately.

[qwbzerra]

A little pump 

I've missed all trading this week :/ forgot my phone, and all my accounts have 2FA enabled >_<

#dominikf: PR quit the project, dev are unmotivated to continue.
I don't know about a takeover. I don't have the skills and time to do this unfortunately.

what exactly do we need to continue the project. I have some connections so I can call them in

[Hoshimaru]

The specs seem reasonable - when you're running the VM open up your task manager / performance monitor to see what resources are maxed out - you might find allocating a second CPU helps if the code is optimised for parallel processing.

without the VM running, what kind of speeds do you get from the HDD benchmark?

Can you provide some more details on your demo laptop specs?

Thank you hotwired007.

The laptop is a HP Pavilion DV2-1130EB:
- AMD Athlon Neo X2 L335 1.6Ghz
- 4 GB DDR2
- 500 GB SATA 5400RPM
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD3410 512MB
- 12.1" WXGA 1280x800
- Windows 8.1 Professional 64 bits

And the VM I used for testing the ABE blockchain explorer and get familiar with this type of setup is virtualized using the latest Virtualbox.
The VM has 1 GB RAM, 8 GB HDD and 1 CPU capped at 80%
As hosting for this thing, I was thinking of something like this: http://fortacloud.co/?gclid=CLnN0YnB18ACFdLKtAodWlIAkg

Here are the benchmark results when the laptop was doing nothing but the benchmark:


I'll work with Insight today and see what it's like.

[BossBee]

Community take over

1. Rebranding
   Change the emblem, change the name. Make this coin look and sound appealing to ALL games on ALL platforms.

2. Get some elite devs in here that know what theyre doing.
    Offer bounties for there efforts. A reward system that pays them well in MINs for each meaningful goal they "successfully" accomplish.

Gamblings an ancient everlasting business and it has yet to be successfully established in the crypto world. This coin had the right idea but not proper people to push it through

[Hoshimaru]

Getting into this node.js thing :p
To get Insight to sync the data, I need to find the right insight-api to allow other crypto than BTC.

[chinchs]

A little pump 

I've missed all trading this week :/ forgot my phone, and all my accounts have 2FA enabled >_<

#dominikf: PR quit the project, dev are unmotivated to continue.
I don't know about a takeover. I don't have the skills and time to do this unfortunately.

what exactly do we need to continue the project. I have some connections so I can call them in

What kind of connections do you have? As Bossbee said, we could rebrand the coin, don't like this name for betting on LOL or other games. So pretty much the same of Bossbee:

* Pick a new name
* Work out the anon feature
* Revive the block explorer (hoshimaru may help as you can see he has investigated a lot)
* Create a solid roadmap:
      * New games support (LOL - CSO - DOTA 2 - Etc)
      * Promoting campaign
      * POD
      * Anything else.

[tramphuochuy]

Devs please post something

[Lavinia]

Devs please post something

He is working on some important issue.Be patient.

[phoneled]

Devs please post something

He is working on some important issue.Be patient.

really?

[Hoshimaru]

Devs please post something

He is working on some important issue.Be patient.

Are you affiliated with the devs in any way?

I haven't done much work on the explorer yet... Other business I can miss like the pest is keeping me busy.
In order to get insight up & running, I need to get full dump of Minerals' Genesis Block to fetch some information required to start synching with the blockchain.

[Wretched]

what exactly do we need to continue the project. I have some connections so I can call them in

A lead developer talented enough to code features practical to E-sports betting. That's all we really need right now since there's no hope in re-branding a broken coin with no purpose. We could hype it all day but that's pointless without any practical use and currently it has none. Get someone to begin working on coding in-wallet streaming, betting and a sustainable self-funded feature beyond dumping our own money into tournaments.

If we choose to revive it before any self-sustainable feature is added, we're back to relying on our own source of income to fund tournaments as our solitary purpose for the coins existence.

In regards to the self-sustainable feature, you can choose whatever you like but my personal favorite would be some type of amateur matches w/ betting and perhaps let the winner take a predetermined amount of the pot as incentive to actually use the feature. Even if they're only winning a few dollars, that still beats playing for free & it could be held as an investment worth more at a later date.


Just my opinion, but as a gamer, I'd love to see this coin succeed.

[Hoshimaru]

Okay guys

I've finally come to getting Insight sync the Minerals block chain ~1 MByte (4031 blocks) of it for testing
It's more work than I expected and I had to find required parameters at the core of the genesis block using the wallet daemon, base58.h and main.cpp from the source code.

Code:

 INSIGHT_NETWORK="livenet" node insight.js

    ____           _       __    __     ___          _
   /  _/___  _____(_)___ _/ /_  / /_   /   |  ____  (_)
   / // __ \/ ___/ / __ `/ __ \/ __/  / /| | / __ \/ /
 _/ // / / (__  ) / /_/ / / / / /_   / ___ |/ /_/ / /
/___/_/ /_/____/_/\__, /_/ /_/\__/  /_/  |_/ .___/_/
                 /____/                   /_/

                                                v0.2.7
 # Configuration:
                Network: livenet        INSIGHT_NETWORK
                Database Path:  /home/hoshi/.insight INSIGHT_DB
                Safe Confirmations:  6  INSIGHT_SAFE_CONFIRMATIONS
                Ignore Cache:  no       INSIGHT_IGNORE_CACHE
 # Bicoind Connection configuration:
                RPC Username: hoshi     BITCOIND_USER
                RPC Password: Yes(hidden)       BITCOIND_PASS
                RPC Protocol: http      BITCOIND_PROTO
                RPC Host: 127.0.0.1     BITCOIND_HOST
                RPC Port: 33441 BITCOIND_PORT
                P2P Port: 33442 BITCOIND_P2P_PORT
                Data Dir: /home/hoshi/.Minerals/     BITCOIND_DATADIR


Change setting by assigning the enviroment variables in the last column. Example:
 $ INSIGHT_NETWORK="testnet" BITCOIND_HOST="123.123.123.123" ./insight.js


info: starting...
insight server listening on port 3000 in development mode
info: Could not find block files at: /home/hoshi/.Minerals//blocks/blk*.dat. Disabling file sync.
info: Got 0 blocks in current DB, out of 4031 block at bitcoind
info: syncing from RPC (slow)
info: Starting from:  00000c639b0fbf250ba63c6ef2952dbb44bb1051324a27383b8a56fb833d8137
info: status: [0%]
info: status: [0.025%]
...
info: status: [99.752%]
info: status: [100%]
Done Syncing { status: 'finished',
  blockChainHeight: 4031,
  syncPercentage: '100.000',
  height: 4031,
  syncTipHash: undefined,
  error: null,
  type: 'from RPC calls',
  startTs: 1410726207968,
  endTs: 1410726304465 }
info: status: [100%]

I hope to get the front-end up & running as well tonight
Front-end can't seem to connect to back-end for some reason. Some troubleshooting required. But first things first: a good night's rest.