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Topic: [ANN] Litecoin - a lite version of Bitcoin. Launched! - page 382. (Read 1467291 times)

donator
Activity: 1654
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Creator of Litecoin. Cryptocurrency enthusiast.
Any more logo ideas?

So far we have these:
BitcoinPorn - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.574547
ElectricMucus - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.575566
kano - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.576334

BitcoinPorn, I like it, but can you create a version that doesn't have artefacts on the edge of the coin?

ElectricMucus, I think I like the color of the leftmost coin. Can you create an image that is straight on. Something that can be used as the app icon?

kano, not bad. I think if you remove the rainbow laser ray and make it silver, it can look pretty nice.

Thanks!
donator
Activity: 1654
Merit: 1351
Creator of Litecoin. Cryptocurrency enthusiast.
Latest client: https://github.com/downloads/coblee/litecoin/litecoin-windows-client-0.5.0.1.zip (or grab from source)
 - new checkpoint at block 14112
 - fix getnetworkhashps around difficulty changes
 - mining settings and status bar icon
hero member
Activity: 560
Merit: 501
BCX's stress test on SC2 network reminds me that.
Litecoin has no central point of attack. It is a giant network made up of thousands of nodes around the world. The pools are a different story, one that does not relate to the core structure of Litecoin or its network in any way.
mrx
member
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Is it possible to use p2pool on Litecoin and/or other scrypt-based currencies?

BCX's stress test on SC2 network reminds me that.
hero member
Activity: 560
Merit: 501
could someone post the link to the Litecoin Windows 64bit minerd please? Thanks gents!
They're in the "test" folder.
http://www.wuala.com/jbw9/pub/Bitcoin/Tenebrix/miner/win/

Remember to thank twobits!
member
Activity: 84
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could someone post the link to the Litecoin Windows 64bit minerd please? Thanks gents!
sr. member
Activity: 364
Merit: 250
I'm starting to work on a feature to add the ability to mine from the client. Here's what I plan to add and the order I'm working on:

1) Turn generate on/off in the options and for that option to stick.
2) Show in the UI the mining hashrate and other mining related information
3) Add option to point to a pool instead.

What do you guys think? Would this be useful?

Can you integrate the CPU specific mining bots?  they are so much faster.  i was doing 0.8 kh/s from the solo .4 client.  then i dl/ed the core2 duo specific (from Artfotz?) and now i run 2 threads and pull down more than double that.  you'd have to do some hardware queries...set the default num of threads to 1 per core and stuff.
sr. member
Activity: 364
Merit: 250
Feature needed.
As like bitcoin client, I want Litecoin show total blocks mined & also if can the difficulty.


you can see all that in the daemon.   look for it in the first posting by coblee.  you have to run it from the command line.   cd to the deamons directory then submit  litecoind getinfo....you may have to mod the config file of the litecoin client by adding daemon=1
legendary
Activity: 1855
Merit: 1016
Feature needed.
As like bitcoin client, I want Litecoin show total blocks mined & also if can the difficulty.
full member
Activity: 128
Merit: 100
If you've got several machines on the same subnet, use -addnode= in the command line for starting the daemon, in order to establish connections between all of them. This way, when one of them downloads a block, they all will, most of the time, receive it from that node, thereby reducing the Internet connection load.
Thank you sir.
member
Activity: 81
Merit: 10
I'm starting to work on a feature to add the ability to mine from the client. Here's what I plan to add and the order I'm working on:

1) Turn generate on/off in the options and for that option to stick.
2) Show in the UI the mining hashrate and other mining related information
3) Add option to point to a pool instead.

What do you guys think? Would this be useful?

Ok, implemented 1 and 2: https://github.com/coblee/litecoin/commit/d7ff5b84be27512e6811a92540824245a9702913
You can now start/stop mining from the option pages. You can also limit the number of processors used.
The status bar now has a new icon. Unfortunately, the icon doesn't change, but the tool tip will show you your hashrate.

Who wants to help me create a colored mining icon that I can use?

I'm building a Windows client binary now.

Windows binary uploaded: https://github.com/downloads/coblee/litecoin/litecoin-windows-client-50000.zip

Please help me test it. Thanks!
Nice update Coblee !
Two things tho;
- When I select 'autostart with Windows' this setting is not remembered (on Win7 x64 non admin user with UAC enabled)
- when I click Help it says 'about Bitcoin' which seems rather odd Smiley

Litecoin is based on a beta version of Bitcoin. So it's probably that they have not fixed this problem in Bitcoin. Once it's fixed, I will merge the fix in.
As for text still showing Bitcoin, I think you must be running a non-English version of Litecoin. Unfortunately, I have not gone through and fixed all the locale strings yet. I will do that soon.
- Bitcoin 0.40-beta does not have this issue (the setting is retained)
- I am indeed running a Dutch (and thus non-English version) of Litecoin Smiley
donator
Activity: 1654
Merit: 1351
Creator of Litecoin. Cryptocurrency enthusiast.
I'm starting to work on a feature to add the ability to mine from the client. Here's what I plan to add and the order I'm working on:

1) Turn generate on/off in the options and for that option to stick.
2) Show in the UI the mining hashrate and other mining related information
3) Add option to point to a pool instead.

What do you guys think? Would this be useful?

Ok, implemented 1 and 2: https://github.com/coblee/litecoin/commit/d7ff5b84be27512e6811a92540824245a9702913
You can now start/stop mining from the option pages. You can also limit the number of processors used.
The status bar now has a new icon. Unfortunately, the icon doesn't change, but the tool tip will show you your hashrate.

Who wants to help me create a colored mining icon that I can use?

I'm building a Windows client binary now.

Windows binary uploaded: https://github.com/downloads/coblee/litecoin/litecoin-windows-client-50000.zip

Please help me test it. Thanks!
Nice update Coblee !
Two things tho;
- When I select 'autostart with Windows' this setting is not remembered (on Win7 x64 non admin user with UAC enabled)
- when I click Help it says 'about Bitcoin' which seems rather odd Smiley

Litecoin is based on a beta version of Bitcoin. So it's probably that they have not fixed this problem in Bitcoin. Once it's fixed, I will merge the fix in.
As for text still showing Bitcoin, I think you must be running a non-English version of Litecoin. Unfortunately, I have not gone through and fixed all the locale strings yet. I will do that soon.
member
Activity: 81
Merit: 10
I'm starting to work on a feature to add the ability to mine from the client. Here's what I plan to add and the order I'm working on:

1) Turn generate on/off in the options and for that option to stick.
2) Show in the UI the mining hashrate and other mining related information
3) Add option to point to a pool instead.

What do you guys think? Would this be useful?

Ok, implemented 1 and 2: https://github.com/coblee/litecoin/commit/d7ff5b84be27512e6811a92540824245a9702913
You can now start/stop mining from the option pages. You can also limit the number of processors used.
The status bar now has a new icon. Unfortunately, the icon doesn't change, but the tool tip will show you your hashrate.

Who wants to help me create a colored mining icon that I can use?

I'm building a Windows client binary now.

Windows binary uploaded: https://github.com/downloads/coblee/litecoin/litecoin-windows-client-50000.zip

Please help me test it. Thanks!
Nice update Coblee !
Two things tho;
- When I select 'autostart with Windows' this setting is not remembered (on Win7 x64 non admin user with UAC enabled)
- when I click Help it says 'about Bitcoin' which seems rather odd Smiley
donator
Activity: 1654
Merit: 1351
Creator of Litecoin. Cryptocurrency enthusiast.
I'm starting to work on a feature to add the ability to mine from the client. Here's what I plan to add and the order I'm working on:

1) Turn generate on/off in the options and for that option to stick.
2) Show in the UI the mining hashrate and other mining related information
3) Add option to point to a pool instead.

What do you guys think? Would this be useful?

Ok, implemented 1 and 2: https://github.com/coblee/litecoin/commit/d7ff5b84be27512e6811a92540824245a9702913
You can now start/stop mining from the option pages. You can also limit the number of processors used.
The status bar now has a new icon. Unfortunately, the icon doesn't change, but the tool tip will show you your hashrate.

Who wants to help me create a colored mining icon that I can use?

I'm building a Windows client binary now.

Windows binary uploaded: https://github.com/downloads/coblee/litecoin/litecoin-windows-client-50000.zip

Please help me test it. Thanks!
sr. member
Activity: 313
Merit: 251
Third score
I'm starting to work on a feature to add the ability to mine from the client. Here's what I plan to add and the order I'm working on:

1) Turn generate on/off in the options and for that option to stick.
2) Show in the UI the mining hashrate and other mining related information
3) Add option to point to a pool instead.

What do you guys think? Would this be useful?

This is a great idea. Even with all the false hype on SC2, Coinhunter had got that right. It will most certainly help to speed up adoption of the currency. The pool is necessary given the increasing difficulty. Just don't artificially inflate hash rates  Wink


One problem I have with the miner built in the client is on a slow download speed and sharing the connection with multiple people in my house to run a miner (currently minerd) on multiple pc's they are all constantly downloading the blocks when I only need it on my main computer thus making the internet even slower for everyone else.

If you've got several machines on the same subnet, use -addnode= in the command line for starting the daemon, in order to establish connections between all of them. This way, when one of them downloads a block, they all will, most of the time, receive it from that node, thereby reducing the Internet connection load.
hero member
Activity: 756
Merit: 500
That would be great, because now running gen=1 results in 100% utilization.  I rather prefer being able to control more easier.  Thanks a bunch!

I'm starting to work on a feature to add the ability to mine from the client. Here's what I plan to add and the order I'm working on:

1) Turn generate on/off in the options and for that option to stick.
2) Show in the UI the mining hashrate and other mining related information
3) Add option to point to a pool instead.

What do you guys think? Would this be useful?

Ok, implemented 1 and 2: https://github.com/coblee/litecoin/commit/d7ff5b84be27512e6811a92540824245a9702913
You can now start/stop mining from the option pages. You can also limit the number of processors used.
The status bar now has a new icon. Unfortunately, the icon doesn't change, but the tool tip will show you your hashrate.

Who wants to help me create a colored mining icon that I can use?

I'm building a Windows client binary now.

That would be great, because now running gen=1 results in 100% utilization.  I rather prefer being able to control more easier.  Thanks a bunch!
donator
Activity: 1654
Merit: 1351
Creator of Litecoin. Cryptocurrency enthusiast.
I'm starting to work on a feature to add the ability to mine from the client. Here's what I plan to add and the order I'm working on:

1) Turn generate on/off in the options and for that option to stick.
2) Show in the UI the mining hashrate and other mining related information
3) Add option to point to a pool instead.

What do you guys think? Would this be useful?

Ok, implemented 1 and 2: https://github.com/coblee/litecoin/commit/d7ff5b84be27512e6811a92540824245a9702913
You can now start/stop mining from the option pages. You can also limit the number of processors used.
The status bar now has a new icon. Unfortunately, the icon doesn't change, but the tool tip will show you your hashrate.

Who wants to help me create a colored mining icon that I can use?

I'm building a Windows client binary now.
hero member
Activity: 798
Merit: 1000
I'm starting to work on a feature to add the ability to mine from the client. Here's what I plan to add and the order I'm working on:

1) Turn generate on/off in the options and for that option to stick.
2) Show in the UI the mining hashrate and other mining related information
3) Add option to point to a pool instead.

What do you guys think? Would this be useful?

Definitely.  Especially number 3.
full member
Activity: 128
Merit: 100
I'm starting to work on a feature to add the ability to mine from the client. Here's what I plan to add and the order I'm working on:

1) Turn generate on/off in the options and for that option to stick.
2) Show in the UI the mining hashrate and other mining related information
3) Add option to point to a pool instead.

What do you guys think? Would this be useful?

sounds great.  but maybe the pools could be in a user-editable table, or have that option as well? (kinda like gui miner).

Also, is this going to come with just a general miner, or every optimized one released thus far?

keep up the great work!

Maybe initially, it will just be an option to set 1 pool and just have the generic miner that's already included in the client.
Once I have that done, I will see what the interest is to include something like minerd with the client.
One problem I have with the miner built in the client is on a slow download speed and sharing the connection with multiple people in my house to run a miner (currently minerd) on multiple pc's they are all constantly downloading the blocks when I only need it on my main computer thus making the internet even slower for everyone else.
donator
Activity: 1654
Merit: 1351
Creator of Litecoin. Cryptocurrency enthusiast.
I'm starting to work on a feature to add the ability to mine from the client. Here's what I plan to add and the order I'm working on:

1) Turn generate on/off in the options and for that option to stick.
2) Show in the UI the mining hashrate and other mining related information
3) Add option to point to a pool instead.

What do you guys think? Would this be useful?

sounds great.  but maybe the pools could be in a user-editable table, or have that option as well? (kinda like gui miner).

Also, is this going to come with just a general miner, or every optimized one released thus far?

keep up the great work!

Maybe initially, it will just be an option to set 1 pool and just have the generic miner that's already included in the client.
Once I have that done, I will see what the interest is to include something like minerd with the client.
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