If you guys have some free time you can easily port a GPU miner for this coin. Search for CPUMINER with OpenCL and modify the kernel to mine this Lyra2 algo with the current parameters.
Just look at the other algorithm C source codes and opencl kernels and make the necessary changes, you can use debug the program to make sure you are on the right path.
However at this moment it seems like a waste of time because nobody knows what speeds GPUs will hash at because of the matrix issue, and nobody knows when the algorithm will be changed. Maybe if it got listed on Poloniex or Bittrex and had large buy support.
This won't work, because the input for the algo is 80 bytes, not 64 bytes as in all the current available gpu miner implementations.
Current implementations use lyra2 as a chained algo, input is 64 bytes because it's in the middle of the chain. ZCoin uses pure lyra2, so it's the only algo or the first in the chain and it needs to hash 80 bytes.
Yes I am just noticing this, the height is the extra part. Wouldn't the fastest and easiest way to do this is just to re-use the current Lyra2rev2 algo and just null the blake256,keccak,skein,cubehash, bmw256 hashes and transfer the target argument from the last hash to the lyra2 part?
This way you don't have to rewrite everything from scratch.
Still won't work.. you need a GPU function for Lyra2 that hases 80 bytes, not 64 bytes
Example:
Hashin:
80bytes80bytes80bytes80bytes
Using a correct, 80 bytes hash results in:
adasebadasebadasebadasebada
Using a wrong 64 bytes hash results in:
adasebadase
The result is incomplete.
