[ANN][GAP] Gapcoin - Prime Gap Search - New Math Algo - CPU / GPU - Zero Premine

[-Greed-]

Happy Birthday Gapcoin


One year has gone by and we found more than 1500 new first-known occurrence prime gap records!!

I want to thank all of you for your great support,
without your engagement this wouldn't have been possible

Great results, congratz! Glad to see you dev again.

[HarryPorter]

any party, free drinks or something...

[ph4nt0m]

any party, free drinks or something...

Maybe a pump?

[GreekBitcoin]

Happy Birthday Gapcoin!
Traffic is bad nowadays but i am sure we will manage to break the world record until next anniversary. Mining equipment gets better and all we need to do is to decide to persuade a few people to help us mine for a few days

[HarryPorter]

"... we will manage to break the world record until next anniversary.."

and then... party, free drinks, etc !!!

[ph4nt0m]

Would be nice to see some real use for these coins piling up in the wallets. Even if some kind of gambling or tip bot or anything. The only thing you can do right now with GAP is to sell it.

[no-ice-please]

Would be nice to see some real use for these coins piling up in the wallets. Even if some kind of gambling or tip bot or anything. The only thing you can do right now with GAP is to sell it.

The whole point behind algorithms like this though is that something useful is being done just by mining the coin. Coin economies still have a long way to develop and a lot of possible ideas exist, like the ones you mentioned, but in the mean time at least some coins like gap are producing a useful product, in this case a mathematical one, rather than simply spinning in pretty circles like bitcoin.

[jakals]

is there any blockchain copy for fast syncing ?

edit:how can i mine this with nvidia cuda 2.1 gpu ?

[HarryPorter]

is there any blockchain copy for fast syncing ?

edit:how can i mine this with nvidia cuda 2.1 gpu ?

ad1.
 If you know what to do with bootstrap file, I just made it fresh one for you:  https://mega.nz/#!eVsyWKLA!94xINoHuEwEVKa1qOvoetRmJtknxACjTmHMFTu5mvQc


(copy it into your folder (for Windows) ......AppData/Roaming/Gapcoin/blocks .  Close your client , delete what is there, and copy bootstrap.dat file there, then relaunch client) 

 If you like easy way, quick way:  https://mega.nz/#!mNN3RT6Z!Mf4boXb6tGdNzKxvYuEtW1ZPTn0jTUHmnh6RGzGDXOc

Just copy unpack archive and copy to ......AppData/Roaming on your PC. Then put on there your wallet.dat file and start client to have your old address&coins back. This is just copy of the chain.

ad2.
  As I know there is no working pool but you can solo mine this coin. You need conf file "gapcoin.conf" in Gapcoin folder with this inside:
rpcuser=user
rpcpassword=password
rpcport=31397
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
server=1
daemon=1
gen=0

You can use one of the miners which are on this thread. Sorry but I don't have nvidia card to tell you which one works or is the best. If those miners (GPUs) works for nvidia, to start it you can just make start.bat file with this line inside:  gapminer-gpu.exe -o 127.0.0.1 -p 31397 -u user -x password --use-gpu -t 1 -w 512

Read pages back on this thread, you will find out things about it as people has this discussion already.
Good luck

[thdim]

I like the idea behind this GAP but why it takes 15 minutes to open the wallet? everybody haves the same problem?

[HarryPorter]

I like the idea behind this GAP but why it takes 15 minutes to open the wallet? everybody haves the same problem?

My is starting in 12 sec. Is not the quickest client I tried, but is not the worse one.

[Milquetoast]

Any ideas to make this coin more popular again?

[benjy33]

Exange?

[HarryPorter]

Any ideas to make this coin more popular again?

place 50BTC on buy side (support) - that should help.

Exange?

https://poloniex.com/exchange#btc_gap

[benjy33]

how mining?

[Ardolafat]

v' rich   

[GreekBitcoin]

how mining?

what OS?

v' rich   

Its not just about much rich so wow. It finds new gap records...

[no-ice-please]

FWIW,
The mentions on Nicely's site http://www.trnicely.net/

<2000               [0 found]                                  http://www.trnicely.net/gaps/gaplist.html
4000 to 5998     [More than 100 found by gapcoin]  http://www.trnicely.net/gaps/g4k.html
6000 to 7998     [More than 100 found by gapcoin]  http://www.trnicely.net/gaps/g6k.html
8000 to 9998     [10 found]                                  http://www.trnicely.net/gaps/g8k.html
10000 to 14998  [More than 100 found by gapcoin]  http://www.trnicely.net/gaps/g10k.html
15000 to 19998  [More than 100 found by gapcoin]  http://www.trnicely.net/gaps/g15k.html
20000 to 24998  [53 found]                                  http://www.trnicely.net/gaps/g20k.html

The highest listed gap found by gapcoin was # 24822

Gapcoin and Riecoin have both found many numbers in their respective categories.

Also worth noting that Gapcoin seems to find prime gaps which are considered of higher merit than most others. Merit "indicates how much larger the gap is than the average gap" (ref Dr Nicely's site).

I am not sure how science will use these numbers. Maybe in a hundred years they will be found to correlate with some natural process and having these numbers will allow another branch of science to progress.

interesting stuff even if I don't quite understand it.  

[Milquetoast]

J0nn9,

can you please remove this page from the first post, the page looks realy dead.

"Statistics: http://coinia.net/gapcoin/stat.php"

[no-ice-please]

J0nn9,

can you please remove this page from the first post, the page looks realy dead.

"Statistics: http://coinia.net/gapcoin/stat.php"

A lot of links on the website and original post need to be updated.

j0nn9 posts sporadically, probably has a day job, and mathematicians are not often team players