Topic: [ANN][BLC] Blakecoin Blake-256 for GPU/FPGA With Merged Mined Pools Stable Net - page 191. (Read 409641 times)

0.8.6 is out please don't send any Blakecoin's until you update to latest version


0.8.6 is out for windows
http://blakecoin.org/Blakecoin-0.8.6-WIN.7z

0.8.6 is out for Linux
http://blakecoin.org/Blakecoin-0.8.6-LIN.7z

Github updated to 0.8.6

new node to add:
addnode=146.185.135.24

please report any issues asap and it is always a good idea to make a backup before any upgrade just in case

no mining pro like the cg?

Great, cheers. The bugfix just affected the checkblake call, which is just an info ... having lost a whole night's run a couple of days back due to using the wrong version of the script (ie without midstate), I added this as confirmation that the returned hash was valid (though it will usually be rejected by blakecoind since its a fixed diff=256 share). Anyway I've just done another push (was too hasty with the original bugfix, though this is an even more minor fix).

Got four blocks running overnight the lower diff helped enormously, back up to 85k now though

And try to get some sleep  

using python 2.7.4 here and python path is added was running just not any accepted yet will try the new version and report any issues but was running on windows 7 x64 without much fuss

I've just pushed up a new version of blakeminer.py which fixes a (minor) bug when running under windows (at least I think it does as I'm only testing on linux, but the script runs OK on windows now).

You need to install python version 2.7 from http://www.python.org/download (I'm using 2.7.3 on windows but the most recent 2.7.5 should be OK) , then install the dependencies as described in https://github.com/kramble/FPGA-Blakecoin-Miner/blob/master/MiningSoftware/README.txt and you should be good to go. Just check you set the correct COM port in blakeminer.py (and the username, password details), open a windows DOS prompt in the MiningSoftware folder (shift-right-click on it and select Open Command Window Here), then type "python blakeminer.py" (you may need the full path to the python executable, I'm not sure if the installer sets it in your PATH by default).

Best of luck

PS I did a 16 core build overnight, but the FMAX is only 21MHz so it will actually hash slower than the 12 core version (Xilinx ISE can be a real PITA to work with, it may days/weeks of trying different options to get a good result).

Originally I was going to do more of the hardware aspect of networking, but security, wifi and virtualization is the future of networking industry. So, I made a switch towards that. I need to pick up my Java, PHP and C++ programming skills. I hear the nightmare of doing network security jobs. Previously admins purposely messing up the network before leaving and/or putting security holes to get back at their old company if they got fired.

my advice is to move into doing Devops as pure networking is a dying industry with the pressure from cloud and visualization, Java/C/C#/PHP and other common programming languages are always worth getting the basics done it has helped me quite a bit having these skills 

you can get quite a few freelance jobs doing network security but expect things to be broken or already hacked by the time you get called in 

I took a 6 class program in Cisco at my college that focused on WANs, LANs, Switches, Topologies of Network types (STP, OSPF, RIP2, etc) and more....I only have network certificate, but working on getting a BS in IT Networking, focusing on either Wireless or Security. I do freelance computer repairs, network setups and anything that I have a skill for in the field....

thanks for kind words it always helps with motivation 

funny thing is that my degree is in Computer network management but due to lack of work in that area in UK I have mostly been working as a freelance games developer or network analyst   

Blakecoin is part of my hobbies as I enjoy working with electronics and c programs in my spare time 

if anyone out there wants to help with open source ports of software for Blakecoin e.g GPU miner or pool software then please get in touch via pm I could use the help

kramble has been very supportive and helpful on the FPGA side of things and I am very grateful for all his efforts

No rush. Hope you get more people with the right skills to help you. I wish I could help out, but my only computer skills is Cisco Networking, computer troubleshooting and other IT networking related skills. This is pretty original, last type that is original is Scrypt-Jane. Guess I got get some 6 core or higher CPU's to mine for this coin. Maybe Xeon or AMD server class CPU's.

nope please look again its Python miner and works on windows
https://github.com/kramble/FPGA-Blakecoin-Miner/tree/master/MiningSoftware

due to the changes that have been made it makes it hard for the pool server software to work out of the box its needs a new proof of work module for the Blake algorithm (done but not fully tested) and any sha256d hashing the pool server software uses needs to be replaced with Blake e.g sha256(sha256(data)) is now blake256(data), feeleep has been working on it but think that most of the others pool operators are waiting for p2pool for Blakecoin to be released or they want me to do it for them  

I did not premine and I am quite a small miner 20 cpu core(8 machines) and 2 FPGA's(Lancelot boards) and the pool operators are unlikely to offer any donations for working on the problem even though they may charge you a % for mining with them so I am unsure how much work I want to put into getting their software working, I think that once p2pool is released that will solve the pool issue but I might help feeleep get a pool working as he has shown some effort to work on the problem unlike most others who expect me to solve it for them  

so my todo list looks like this:

1. p2pool
2. fix any small bugs and help feeleep
3. GPU miner
4. try and fix any build issues on Linux and Windows

I have been working non stop past week so I am trying to get it done in a timely manner

maybe I should have done a pure clone coin would have been much less work  

sorry if I sound a little grumpy about pool stuff but got a lot of pm's demanding work from me which is unfair and I have not had much sleep past week or so  

I need the windows mining fpga app,this link is the code..

Will there be a mining pool any time soon? The difficulty is just too high to solo mine.

yeah it is compiled with mingw-w64 so it should be a little faster but it would be best to use march=native on the specific platform for best results and with mingw-w64 if possible

True, at least I'm finally mining. Probably because the cpu I'm test mining with doesn't have the cache and pipelines of the Core2. This cpu is a stripped down version of a Core2. Strange that the "--no-longpoll --no-stratum" doesn't work, but I guess the miner goes to default getwork network more likely. I'm going to try on a Core I5, AMD Phenom II x4 and a Core2 Duo cpus next.

Does ig0tik3d's CPUminer works, it seems a little faster than the original one

it is compiled for core2 that may be why it is slow on that cpu might be worth compiling from source for maximum hashrate still 1300 to 1900 kh/s per core is not bad 

"--no-longpoll --no-stratum" error    not sure why it is doing that

at least you are mining now 

I will try to get the new 0.8.6 wallet out today so please check this thread soon 

Now it's finally hashing, that's without -q. It took 10 minutes before it started. It's hashing 1300 to 1900 kh/s per core on Intel T4500, but with long pauses before hashing again. The "--no-longpoll --no-stratum" comes up with an error of unknown command --. So, I omitted those commands.

With -q, it just stops at a blinking cursor. Without -q, it show binding thread to cpu, then just stops at a blinking cursor.