Topic: [ANN] PHO Photon blake256- MERGE MINE 6 COINS- NO PREMINE - POW ONLY 4+ YRS - page 38. (Read 99194 times)

Hey @BlueDragon,
can you please increase the limit of auto payout in your pool?

Updates on Photon.....


Merged mining is in development by BlueDragon747 and also by me on my own. I am probably far behind. I have never been much for mining in pools sticking to solo mining.

Last weekend I made 'test' sha coins to learn exactly how the merged mining of bitcoin and namecoin is done. I still have a lot to learn but it is coming together and once I understand that I will start to examine how this can be done with the Blake 256 algo.  Without getting too technical there are some specific differences between the algorithms. Since Blake Coin and Photon are in part based on Bitcoin but also rely on 'number crunching' which is totally different it is not as easy as cloning a coin !!

 

I also got the developers tools for bitcoin and litecoin mobile wallet development and have looked them over.  I think I could make a mobile wallet for a scrypt 1024 or sha 256d coin pretty easy right now although I have yet to do so with one of the many 'test' coins I run that have never been released to the public. Once again changing over to Blake 256 is another jump.

 

From looking over the various open source mobile wallets I see I will say they offer much less security than I realized and (I am speaking only for Android operating system here) a mobile wallet may be a 'battery drainer' to a certain extent.

 

We are in the early stages of building an independent blockchain and system with a different algorithm that has some actual technical advantages vs. the bitcoin sha 256d algo.  Nothing will probably ever replace bitcion but cryptocurrency is the future, there will be alternatives and I refuse to believe those alternatives will be something like doge which is very poorly designed in every way. 

 

Finally I am pleased to say that I have not had any direct contact with Atomic Exchange but it appears Photon is back open for trading vs. Litecoin --- A good match.

 

With the large block award Photon was designed to be a coin for everyone to mine and to last.  The large number of coins allows for future growth.

Blake Coin is much more rare so when I was making Photon I looked to the 'powers of two' and felt going big out of the box was the right way.

 

Also remember that with Blake Coin and Photon there are NO REDUCTIONS IN COIN AWARDS PLANNED EVER.

 

Some of us remember the 'glory days' of when bitcoin was 50 a block, at some point we will look back at when Litecoin was 50 a block ect......when bitcoin was 25 a block.....ect.....

 

Both Bluedragon747 and I agree that cutting the award in half for the people who get involved in the future is unfair.  I believe that by keeping the same block award in effect you are creating the best , fair long term distribution possible. By avoiding halving of awards in 2 , 4 or x years time no one can claim 'pyramid scheme' or 'only good for those who got in early'.

 

Photon has a dedicated developer (me) , a fair award system, and eventually will have all the other things that bitcion and litecoin currently have.

 

This is being done for everyone --- not to make me wealthy or famous.  With no premined coins I have to hash away for my coins the same as everyone else.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with me I am not seeking public attention as an individual, I like my privacy. I have declined invites to attend coin events in the past and unless my personal feelings about a lot of things change I will decline similar things in the future. This is not about me.

 

I will continue to update and maintain the coin and wallets and you should not expect Photon or even Blake Coin to be 'replacements' for bitcoin or litecoin instead consider them as long term viable alternatives. One thing that you can benefit from is the low difficulty of both coins now.  In the future it will be much higher, in particular if merged mining catches on and when new technology is developed.

 

Someone asked me in a private message that if difficulty were to go up on Photon a lot it would not be 'profitable' to mine.  Very true.  If you are looking for a coin to mine to 'exchange' into bitcoin or litecoin Photon is not for you. (At least not at present market demand and rates)   If you are looking to mine a coin that will have long term support, development  , and has real obvious advantages to other coins Photon (and Blake Coin) are excellent choices to mine and HOLD (not sell). 

 

Unless you run some type of large mining operation I am not telling you to mine Photon 24/7 but instead keep it in your mining schedule regularly.  If you have the patience (by this I mean a few years not a few months) for an alternative to what is currently available you may be glad you chose to mine. 

 

Stay tuned and please support Atomic LLC --- They are an American Company based out of New Jersey fully licensed and allow exchange of bitcoin and some other cryptocurrencies for American Dollars (with a verified account) and offer trading of many other currency pairs (NO VERIFICATION REQUIRED)  Another thing about Atomic is they have excellent security in place (read the reports on this don't take my word for it) AND they do not just list every coin out there..... Don't get me wrong I like to see everyone (well almost everyone's coin) get a chance to be traded at an exchange.  I notice Atomic is run honest.  I do not see 'junk' listed there for trading.  I do not see 'inflated volume' or 'bots' trading taking up positions so you can never get an order filled or executed.  Even if you want nothing to do with Photon after reading this you would be making a mistake to not include Atomic as an excellent place to conduct business that offers many choices and advantages you cannot get elsewhere.

Block chain height is currently 18161

It appears you have the correct nodes.

I have not tried bluedragons pool , i only solo mine.

Have never had any issue with the miner.

What operating system are you using ?
What gpu?
Are your drivers up to date ?


(updated just got home , network looks to be working well for me here is a photo of a block I hit earlier)

https://twitter.com/PhotonCoin/status/450398876747718656

USING CORRECT MINER:
{
"pools" : [
   {
      "url" : "stratum+tcp://photon1.blakecoin.com:3334",
      "user" : "precrime3.nigel",
      "pass" : "x"
   }
],

"intensity" : "11",
"auto-gpu" : true,
"expiry" : "120",
"failover-only" : true,
"gpu-threads" : "1",
"log" : "5",
"no-restart" : true,
"queue" : "3",
"scan-time" : "30",
"worksize" : "256",
"temp-hysteresis" : "4",
"blake256" : true,
"vectors" : "1",
"no-submit-stale": true,
"kernel-path" : "/"
"rpcport" : "8984"
}

wallet conf:
listen=1
    gen=0
    rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
    rpcuser=username
    rpcpassword=password
    rpcallowip=localhost
    rpcport=8984
    port=34556
    gen=0
    server=1
    daemon=1
    listen=1
    addnode=162.243.101.139
    addnode=72.23.74.166
    addnode=62.219.234.143
    addnode=78.26.209.208
    addnode=162.243.101.139
    addnode=77.121.61.203
    addnode=72.67.200.189
    addnode=107.170.78.146

Wtf is going on? Got blakeminer, set pool config to photon, changed gpu threads to one, and I'm happily hashing at 500 mh/s. When ever I quit tho, I press q, and it says "thread 0 disabled", screen turns off then is BSOD. Wtf? Also wallet does not work, no block source found. Will post conf files for wallet and cgminer later.

No the difficulty retargeting system has not been changed !!

it's in previous page
please just read the posts

it seems you've changed the difficulty retarget from 20 blocks to 16
am i right?

I've already have a blake pool running, so a photon pool would be set up in a matter of minutes.

I wonder why these Blakecoin(s) doesn't get the attention they deserve.. Maybe too early ?

its there

also here

http://www.mediafire.com/download/684hf76zz97ak45/Photon+cgminer-blake256.7z

Quite alive , BlueDragon747 has a pool working for Photon, thanks for the offer though.

The blake 256 algo has proven difficult for setting up pools , p2pool will not work, our goal is to merge mine the coins......

Let me know if this project is still alive, at least I couldn't find a Pool for it, I can start one for you if needed

technical interesting coin. but needs more marketing/future expansion roadmap

I think a mistake was made on the post edit, i'm not seeing the windows qt wallet in the first post at all.

edit: oh, you meant the cryptocointalk thread, not this.

The main post has been updated with the lastest win qt wallet

If you were running the original Photon client (from launch) you must upgrade or you will be cut off the network.

If you are running the second client (which changed the p2p port) this is an optional but recommended upgrade.

Checkpoints were added. 

I am taking a few days off of Photon development but will always be lurking in the shadows and on twitter.

So many numbers stirring round in my head after getting merged mining to work on testnet of Namecoin and Bitcoin.

Now........ to find a way to get it working with Blake Coin and Photon.......     

There will be markets again , lots of them,  have patience.

If your only goal is to mine a coin (any coin) and convert it to bitcoin Photon is not a good choice.

I still have PHO...but no market

Photon is not going anywhere, I assure you of that.

I have the resources, skill and experience to keep a coin running.

Just because you cannot 'exchange' it right now don't hit the panic button.

I have been approached and discussed adding Photon to other exchanges but for now will hold off.

The project is young still.

Many things are in the works.

I am in no real rush or hurry, I like to do things the right way and fairly.

Yes, I actually run an honest coin.

Yes Atomic is actually an honest exchange.

There are no fake buy orders or 'pumps'

Keep mining , I am.

I'm happy you're not removing it forever !

PHO is down because I'm working on the system!!! Please don't spread fud!!!

PHO WILL BE BACK UP ALONG WITH A WHOLE NEW SYSTEM