Topic: [ANN][BLC] Blakecoin Blake-256 for GPU/FPGA With Merged Mined Pools Stable Net - page 13. (Read 409641 times)

I will address the second point first.  I have heard rumors but I haven't seen anything that is solid yet.  If you have better information then please share it if you can.  I was under the impression that the blake256r8 ecosystem was not capitalized enough to justify the tapeout costs of an ASIC.  I have been mining on eu3 and I never see more then 20 miners at a time.  If an ASIC is made then I will be very disappointed since I really don't want/can't get involved in a arms race.  Until the dark day arrives, then I am trying to spend up GPU and FPGA

Your first point is useful to me and thanks.  WebGL is a JavaScript binding and probably not what I am looking for but it is interesting nonetheless.  This is the post that I was referring to.  http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4618.40

Asics for blake256?! This is news to me, where is there info on this? I know decred will have asics coming out in 6 months or so, but that is 14 round blake256. Will those support changing the number of rounds and be compatible with blakecoin block headers? If not, would you consider switching BLC to blake256r14 so we can take advantage of the decred asics?

well cgminer is a good ref for stratum but with opengl hmm maybe not

Chiguireitor(UMO dev) did do some work on a webgl miner some time back and tbh that would be best place to start but I dont think he released the source (probably due to beta/alpha code) might be an idea to drop him a line here or via his twitter @johnvillarz and see if he can help point you in right direction before you go too deep 

on side note next year might start to see asic's for blake256r8 so not sure too much work on GPU/FPGA is best time spent unless its for learning or fun 

This is going to be strange question but it related to blakecoin.  If you were going to start today and attempt to incorporate a previously unsupported compute processor into mining blake; what would be the mining software that you would start with as a base?  cpuminer, cgminer, poclbm, bfgminer, something else?  If the answer is start from clean paper design, is there good modules for UI and stratum/getwork that can be used?

At work, I stumbled into a cache of e-waste medical imaging cards and some of them are AMD based on the R600 series GPU.  At the present time, the R600 series is not supported by any official AMD driver for OpenCL since they were CAL cards.  Mesa and the Gallium tracker doesn't have support for these chips, just some of the later HD4000 series cards.  I have looked for a CAL miner that I might hack in blake256r8 support but some of those were private back in the day and I can't find source.  I saw in a couple of posting here in bitcointalk that I need to find again about some experiments to use OpenGL Shader Language which both the Mesa 3d drivers and last official AMD driver supports.  The post included sample SHA256D code which gives me some good refernce to start from.  BD had posted sometime back optimized modules in different languages for using blake so that is sometime to look at as well.

Why use old and obsolete GPU when a better card is available anywhere?  These cards on paper have more shaders then many of the Nvidia cards that I have so for a practical reason it might be worth exploring.  I like learning and the idea that a GLSI is technically mire cross-platform than OpenCL is technically interesting to me.  It is certainly not going to make me wealthy but that was never the point.  Using discarded equipment and learning about blockchains and cryptocurrency WAS the point.

Sorry if sounded a little preachy there..some other coworkers with Antminers have no idea why I work with unusual equipment.

-thanks for an info about the drivers- I already checked them and downloaded from Guru3D

-not many people these days do not have Facebook - nice to find one here
-heating is one of reasons to put these 3 in a rig - we got a winter here so they can mine and heat the house

  thanks a lot!

for old 5/6 series cards Amd stopped support 15.12 onwards *does display and install but moves 5/6 series cards to legacy which does not do opencl  

if I remember correctly 15.11.1 works and does win 7/8/8.1/10 on these cards can get from guru3d here or other stable drivers are 14.4 and 14.9 I think

they may be old but great way to heat your place in the winter months  

you dont really need to use twitter I am fine with posting or pm here and I dont like Facebook myself

thanks a lot!
I did dig out my 3 old HD5970 and will try them out- they could be still working so will get them to work.
I do not use twitter or Facebook but looks like will have try Twitter

  all the best from Poland

no problem your account should be unlocked now  

if you use twitter @blakecoin also is pretty quick for any support  

Hi!
 I did mine on Merged EU3. Unfortunatelly due to defected keyboard locked my account. It says email was sent to my email account- I didn't get there since few days. I did try to recover a pssword- again email didn't get there.
My email is [email protected]
Is there a way to unlock the account? I did changed keyboard so can log in with correct password
 I hope you can help

  Best regards
            Mariusz


ps. sorry, I do write here but couldn't find a way to contact BlueDragon747 anywhere else

Yes BlakeTrader was cool, but I see crypo as a whole gravitating towards the decentralized exchange concept and feel that the blake256 family should be compatible with the future.   

This was the first coin, as far as I know, to have an automated exchange, Blaketrader, and even though that concept has developed further, it would be impressive to restart that, maybe a little more photogenic than the old site, and then allow other coins to copy the software to create similar sites with a creative commons type opensource. If somebody wants to bounty that I'll try to chip in a little.

Made some updates on Blakecoin site with merged coins wallet links and new logo/icon from the community  

This has to be the only 2013 fair release with an active dev that is still ~100,000 usd or less.

Are there any others?

 

add

not only active dev but real supporters, an actual real cryptocurrency with no hype except this post


              

No, there are no signed contracts with anybody.


Even if your joking, please do not spread rumors that are not true  

yes, they have signed contract with microsoft and apple ..

I believe in this project!! Are there any signed contracts or negotiations with big companies?

??
there is no airdrop ...

don't count on it

Cryptopia allows trading of Blakecoin
www.cryptopia.co.nz  

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