Vertcoin - 1 | ASIC - 0 | Lyra2RE | Decentralised | GPU Mineable | Open Source

[cnerd]

Mining in summer sucks - you want to, but feel torn between mining and not being cooked alive.  

this basically defines my mining activity for the last 4 months. It takes just a couple of hours for my mining rigs to increase the room temperature to Sahara levels, and I do have a fuckin expensive cooling setup in place

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[chris190]

I found a bug in the new cpuminer 1.2 with the new algorithm lyre2REv2.

It does not detect the address of payment even if the configuration is correct. How do you think can solve? I'm not the only one to have these problems!

[crackfoo]

Hi!

We've enabled Vertcoin as a payout option on our multipool: www.xpool.ca

Now you can mine on ANY algo (SHA256, Scrypt, X11 & Lyra2REv2) with your VTC address and get paid in VTC.

We would really love to see more Lyra miners too though!

Cheers!

www.xpool.ca

[DragonSlayer]

I just added this to the Mobilecash thread figure would be good to post here as well.  I would love to see more miners using p2pool.

Guide for merge mining vtc and mbl on p2pool.

1.  Install and sync both wallets
2.  Create a vertcoin.conf and place in C:\Users\Kenneth\AppData\Roaming\Vertcoin directory.  Replace Kenneth with your local account.  I use a wildcard for rpcallowip, so I can mine with other pc's on the network.

Code:

rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=password
rpcallowip=192.168.1.*
rpcport=5888
server=1
gen=0
addnode=87.236.196.77

3.  Create a bat file to open vtc wallet.  I save mine on the desktop.  Adjust the path to where you installed your wallet.

Code:

cd C:\Users\Kenneth\Downloads\vertcoin-qt-v0.10.0.0-WIN64
vertcoin-qt.exe -server -conf=vertcoin.conf

4.  Create a mobilecash.conf and place in C:\Users\Kenneth\AppData\Roaming\Mobilecash directory.  Same notes as above apply.

Code:

rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=password
rpcallowip=192.168.1.*
server=1
gen=0
addnode=5.196.3.187
addnode=185.35.64.174
addnode=81.2.237.134
addnode=86.105.50.219
addnode=93.186.251.227
addnode=185.43.211.233

5.  Create a bat file to open mbl wallet.  I save mine on the desktop.  Adjust the path to where you installed your wallet.

Code:

cd C:\Users\Kenneth\Downloads\mobilecash-qt-v0.10.0.0-win64
mobilecash-qt.exe -server -conf=mobilecash.conf

6.  Setup p2pool install.  This will cover the complete install from scratch.

a.  Install Python 2.7 from https://www.python.org/getit/.  Please use version 2.7.9 as 2.7.10 gives errors.
b.  Install Twisted for Python 2.7 from http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Downloads.
c.  Install Zope.Interface from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.interface/3.8.0.
d.  Install python win32 api from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build%20218/.
e.  Install python win32 api wmi wrapper from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/WMI/#downloads
f.  Install MinGW (gcc-mingw-4.3.3-setup.exe) from https://github.com/develersrl/gccwinbinaries/releases.  Note:  Make sure to check the first 3 options and 'Link with MSVCR90.DLL' during the install process.
g.  Download p2pool source from https://github.com/metalicjames/p2pool-Lyra2RE.
h.  Extract files to a folder.  During this guide I will use c:\p2pool-vtc as my path.
i.  Download and extract lyra2re-hash-python to your p2pool-vtc folder from https://github.com/metalicjames/lyra2re-hash-python.
j.  In the Command Prompt navigate to your lyra2re-hash-python folder in p2pool-vtc directory.
k.  Execute the follow command.

Code:

c:\Python27\python.exe setup.py build --compile=mingw32 install

l.  In the p2pool-vtc directory create a launch bat file for p2pool.  Edit to use your vtc payout address, your ip address, and your mbl username & password used in the wallet conf.  I suggest to create a shortcut on your desktop for this bat file to launch p2pool.

Code:

C:\Python27\python.exe C:\p2pool-vtc\run_p2pool.py --net vertcoin -a VwV2J84P8mQggWgUv8ubCf6nJuAXHNoUce --merged http://username:password@192.168.1.6:14414

m.  Launch both your vtc and mbl bat files.  After both wallets are sync, launch p2pool bat shortcut.  If you did as I, these should all be on your desktop.

You should be running p2pool with merge mining now.  Point your miners to the ip address of the p2pool machine, and start mining.

[Hox]

Has anyone done any recent investigations into the botnet that was mining previously? P2pool numbers are huge but I have a feeling the botnet may have just switched to it. Any way to confirm/deny this?

[TheCoinFinder]

Has anyone done any recent investigations into the botnet that was mining previously? P2pool numbers are huge but I have a feeling the botnet may have just switched to it. Any way to confirm/deny this?

Seems unlikely, as botnet was hardcoded to work on ipominer only, its probably switched to other algo. Also the cpu mining of the botnet wouldn't be as effective on the new network, soits probably more profitable elsewhere.

[thefix]

What up with this persons constant 2,712.95--/MH      8,233.137---Coins per day


Very foolish to try and get so many when a more even distribution makes it better for all


Greed ruins it for everyone

[pallas]

What up with this persons constant 2,712.95--/MH      8,233.137---Coins per day


Very foolish to try and get so many when a more even distribution makes it better for all


Greed ruins it for everyone

Greed is a motivator - it won't go away, so try to leverage it for good, rather than try to eradicate it.

Well said. If you can't kill it, better have it on your side.
On a side note, in general it looks like Pareto's distribution can be applied to hashrate. Food for though.

http://organofcorti.blogspot.it/2013/04/121-pre-asic-network-hashrate.html

[thefix]

What up with this persons constant 2,712.95--/MH      8,233.137---Coins per day


Very foolish to try and get so many when a more even distribution makes it better for all


Greed ruins it for everyone

Greed is a motivator - it won't go away, so try to leverage it for good, rather than try to eradicate it.

Looks like he stopped

Sometimes people can be cool like that

[crackfoo]

Just wanted to get an update since enabling VTC as a payout option. We've seen a good increase in miners and payouts are starting to grow.

Today's payout earned 143+ VTC from mined and exchanged coins (paid once a day) and we also found 5 blocks (paid every 6 hours) in the past 24 hours so we paid out 250+ VTC already today as well.

For continued updates on results you can hang out in the #vertcoin channel on freenet or check the pools BCT thread (link in sig) or follow us on twitter (@_xpool_)

Cheers!

[HR]

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[lowroller1]

What kind of hashrate are people getting with 290s? I am only averaging 4.5Mh/s with:

-I 17 -w 32 -g 2

[fastlan]

i get 5.7mh with no overclocking

-w 64 -g 2 -I 18

[unununium]

i get 5.7mh with no overclocking

-w 64 -g 2 -I 18

Do you use 290x too?

[fastlan]

i get 5.7mh with no overclocking

-w 64 -g 2 -I 18

Do you use 290x too?

no just a 290..but it should work also

[unununium]

i get 5.7mh with no overclocking

-w 64 -g 2 -I 18

Do you use 290x too?

no just a 290..but it should work also

Ok, thanks!

[Shoma]

How much hashe can i get from 270 and 280x?

[fastlan]

How much hashe can i get from 270 and 280x?

i get 2.9mh on my 270x and 4.3mh on my 280x/280

[DragonSlayer]

Really nice to see p2pool up to 1.2 GH/s.

[usukan]

Anything to this coin now - apart from mining chatter?

Just going lower and lower on price without a plan in the bigger picture!

Whats the next big thing related to popular adoption and real use scenarios?

May seem harsh - but reading the thread is not providing me any confidence at all.