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tamara163

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Quote from: elmad on February 20, 2014, 07:34:09 PM

NEW VERSION CPU MINER, ABOUT 10% IMPROVEMENT*

https://github.com/elmad/darkcoin-cpuminer-1.3-avx-aes

I improved the cpu miner for another 10% and updated the project on github. I tried different processors and I've seen an improvement from 8% to 11%.
Remember, this version works only for processor that support the AES-NI instruction set.

Here the list of Intel processors supporting it:
http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced/?AESTech=true

And for AMD, the series:
Bulldozer-based, Piledriver-based and Jaguar-based.

Let me know what is your improvement with your cpu. Binaries for Windows version will come (some tip can accellerate the process Tongue

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*Donations are very appreciated Cheesy

+ 5-9 khash/s on the thread!!
i7 3630QM-Ubuntu13.10
350-390 khash/s
Thank you!!!
I WANT MORE!!!

HammerHedd

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Quote from: Sigi on February 20, 2014, 09:53:17 PM

Two more. That's it, I'm taking a break. Cool

XwBidPQVnGFEzqfJbTybS9gyXX2yu1JbfM

The Blue and gold one!

+5 DRK to you, my friend!

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Quote from: eduffield on February 20, 2014, 09:20:24 PM

Quote from: xorpheus on February 20, 2014, 07:26:41 PM

Quote from: cflocation on February 20, 2014, 04:10:22 PM

Quote from: tbitt on February 20, 2014, 04:04:00 PM

Quote from: cflocation on February 20, 2014, 04:01:28 PM

I must say I started mining this coin yesterday and everything runs 50% plus cooler. I need to get my killawatt out and see the draw compared to a normal scrypt coin. So far I love it!

Thanks Devs

I also put few of my card to mine this coin and it's true that cards run a lot cooler.
Please post results from that killawatt reader.

Ok here are the results. This miner is a 4x270

Normal Coin: 887 - 892
Darkcoin: 550-552

That's a huge difference on my power bill

Yep. Mining scrypt my rig pulls 1150W doing 2.1Mh/s. On darkcoin it uses 650W doing 6.2Mh/s.

As someone else has pointed out earlier though, this reduced power consumption could simply be because there's way more code optimisation to be done yet and the GPUs are only doing 50% of what is possible. I can make my GPUs run cooler mining scrypt coins too (and more efficiently) if I want to.

Here's another point of view... assuming that we can't push any more performance out of the GPUs while mining darkcoin, it could be argued that it is less efficient because you need to purchase 2 cards to do the work that 1 card should be capable of, in terms of raw computing power.

I was thinking about this earlier, does anyone know how hot GPUs run mining bitcoin? If that runs cooler I would tend to think the extra power draw and heat is because scrypt pretty much rewrites the entire ram available as fast as possible over and over again, whereas Bitcoin/Darkcoin would only use a small amount of ram.

Also, isn't heat (from a physics perspective) considered a by product, or mark of inefficiency? An incandescent lightbulb uses part of the energy input to make heat, which is inefficient. An LED light makes much less heat, and is much more efficient (as a measure of energy input vs light output).

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Quote from: Lebubar on February 20, 2014, 09:54:51 PM

Quote from: MyFarm on February 20, 2014, 09:50:06 PM

Quote from: Lebubar on February 20, 2014, 09:45:32 PM

Quote from: MyFarm on February 20, 2014, 09:37:19 PM

Anyone else here getting the feeling the price of Darkcoin is about to explode?

Normally I don't make posts like this, but I'm feeling a breakout tonight. I'm liking what I see in the charts.

Hmm can you explain...
Crystal ball?
The video with 96 views 2 hours ago?
Ilumination?
The successfull test of DarkSend yesterday?

Tongue

From a technical analysis perspective, we've gone and formed ourselves a pennant formation: http://stockcharts.com/school/doku.php?id=chart_school:chart_analysis:chart_patterns:flag_pennant_continu

Oohhhh nice nice....
Do you think that trading with crypto follow the same rules than forex?

Certainly. Of course, technical analysis is full of confirmation bias so I could very easily be wrong

meebs

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Quote from: eduffield on February 20, 2014, 09:20:24 PM

I was thinking about this earlier, does anyone know how hot GPUs run mining bitcoin? If that runs cooler I would tend to think the extra power draw and heat is because scrypt pretty much rewrites the entire ram available as fast as possible over and over again, whereas Bitcoin/Darkcoin would only use a small amount of ram.

You aren't kidding.. I just checked my 270's and they are only utilizing 150-200 MB's each..

I wonder how the 260x hashes on this algorithm.. anyone here have one?

slyA

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Quote from: Sigi on February 20, 2014, 09:53:17 PM

Two more. That's it, I'm taking a break. Cool

XwBidPQVnGFEzqfJbTybS9gyXX2yu1JbfM

Those are both sexy.

TanteStefana

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The Future Of Work

Quote from: BitcoinSteve on February 20, 2014, 09:31:49 PM

so whats different about this coin, if you can tell me I will buy 100 of them now

This is the only coin that will obfuscate the transactions from the wallet. No third party that has to be trusted with your information to obfuscate it for you (mixing services) such as fedoracoin. It's an actual coin, not a coin as a way to turn other coin's transactions into obfuscated transactions like zerocoin, which hasn't had an established coin implement their technology yet, and I don't think they're ready to do so yet anyway.

DarkCoin has an untrusted solution, that means you don't have to trust any entity. No one can cheat. It works the same and as part of the blockchain. That is why Darkcoin is above the rest and will remain so even when the source is opened. It isn't so easily implemented into an existing coin, though it can be in time, so it means a lot being the originator and the first.

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Quote from: MyFarm on February 20, 2014, 09:50:06 PM

Quote from: Lebubar on February 20, 2014, 09:45:32 PM

Quote from: MyFarm on February 20, 2014, 09:37:19 PM

Anyone else here getting the feeling the price of Darkcoin is about to explode?

Normally I don't make posts like this, but I'm feeling a breakout tonight. I'm liking what I see in the charts.

Hmm can you explain...
Crystal ball?
The video with 96 views 2 hours ago?
Ilumination?
The successfull test of DarkSend yesterday?

Tongue

From a technical analysis perspective, we've gone and formed ourselves a pennant formation: http://stockcharts.com/school/doku.php?id=chart_school:chart_analysis:chart_patterns:flag_pennant_continu

Oohhhh nice nice....
Do you think that trading with crypto follow the same rules than forex?

But don't worry I think like you, DRK will go up but tonight? I'm not sure...

EDIT : @Sigi. I love the blue one... E-X-E-L-E-N-T

Sigi

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https://i.imgur.com/ZB2uBUq.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/T6YFgnI.jpg

Two more. That's it, I'm taking a break. Cool

XwBidPQVnGFEzqfJbTybS9gyXX2yu1JbfM

slyA

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Quote from: eduffield on February 20, 2014, 09:40:09 PM

Anyone else impressed that we're the ONLY crypto that is up today above #20?

We're also the only crypto in the top 20 not on any major exchange. Neither coinedup. btc38, cryptsy or bter. This is the calm before the storm.

MyFarm

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Quote from: Lebubar on February 20, 2014, 09:45:32 PM

Quote from: MyFarm on February 20, 2014, 09:37:19 PM

Anyone else here getting the feeling the price of Darkcoin is about to explode?

Normally I don't make posts like this, but I'm feeling a breakout tonight. I'm liking what I see in the charts.

Hmm can you explain...
Crystal ball?
The video with 96 views 2 hours ago?
Ilumination?
The successfull test of DarkSend yesterday?

Tongue

From a technical analysis perspective, we've gone and formed ourselves a pennant formation: http://stockcharts.com/school/doku.php?id=chart_school:chart_analysis:chart_patterns:flag_pennant_continu

HammerHedd

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Quote from: xorpheus on February 20, 2014, 07:26:41 PM

Quote from: cflocation on February 20, 2014, 04:10:22 PM

Quote from: tbitt on February 20, 2014, 04:04:00 PM

Quote from: cflocation on February 20, 2014, 04:01:28 PM

I must say I started mining this coin yesterday and everything runs 50% plus cooler. I need to get my killawatt out and see the draw compared to a normal scrypt coin. So far I love it!

Thanks Devs

I also put few of my card to mine this coin and it's true that cards run a lot cooler.
Please post results from that killawatt reader.

Ok here are the results. This miner is a 4x270

Normal Coin: 887 - 892
Darkcoin: 550-552

That's a huge difference on my power bill

Yep. Mining scrypt my rig pulls 1150W doing 2.1Mh/s. On darkcoin it uses 650W doing 6.2Mh/s.

As someone else has pointed out earlier though, this reduced power consumption could simply be because there's way more code optimisation to be done yet and the GPUs are only doing 50% of what is possible. I can make my GPUs run cooler mining scrypt coins too (and more efficiently) if I want to.

Here's another point of view... assuming that we can't push any more performance out of the GPUs while mining darkcoin, it could be argued that it is less efficient because you need to purchase 2 cards to do the work that 1 card should be capable of, in terms of raw computing power.

Yet another point of view: Because of the variations in the algorithms, there might be more CPU involvement, and the GPU will never reach "peak efficiency" because it is being re-tasked to run a different algorithm, which will take some number of cycles away from raw computer cycles, or at least running them differently...

[Disclaimer: It's quite possible I'm completely off base here]

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Quote from: MyFarm on February 20, 2014, 09:37:19 PM

Anyone else here getting the feeling the price of Darkcoin is about to explode?

Normally I don't make posts like this, but I'm feeling a breakout tonight. I'm liking what I see in the charts.

Hmm can you explain...
Crystal ball?
The video with 96 views 2 hours ago?
Ilumination?
The successfull test of DarkSend yesterday?

Tongue

tungfa

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Anyone else impressed that we're the ONLY crypto that is up today above #20?
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Whow … steady he goes
nice one , tx for this ….>>>

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Quote from: drawing1211 on February 20, 2014, 09:30:07 PM

Quote from: TanteStefana on February 20, 2014, 09:16:04 PM

Well, my coinbase bitcoins finally cleared. When I bought the bitcoins, I could have bought 185 darkcoins with them. Today, I bought 34.

Isn't there a way where you can buy when you want to buy, directly from your checking or something? It jus sucks to have to wait an entire week for your coin! (bad luck it being a holiday weekend)

There's an instant buy option on Coinbase, you need to add your credit card and there's a limit how much you can buy per day.

Send BTC from your wallet to https://poloniex.com/exchange/btc_drk , goes super quick
buy (bit slow that page)
send back to DRK wallet and all happy !
did it a bunch of times and all good and save…>>

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Dash Developer

Anyone else impressed that we're the ONLY crypto that is up today above #20?

MyFarm

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Anyone else here getting the feeling the price of Darkcoin is about to explode?

Normally I don't make posts like this, but I'm feeling a breakout tonight. I'm liking what I see in the charts.

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so whats different about this coin, if you can tell me I will buy 100 of them now

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Here's another point of view... assuming that we can't push any more performance out of the GPUs while mining darkcoin, it could be argued that it is less efficient because you need to purchase 2 cards to do the work that 1 card should be capable of, in terms of raw computing power.

Not really. In darkcoin one of your cards equals one of another's person cards. Everyone is equal but burns less. In scrypt if you went to reduce performance + watt consumption you would be disadvantaged versus the performance of others. Here everyone is running at what the gpu miner can currently give as max speed.

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I was thinking about this earlier, does anyone know how hot GPUs run mining bitcoin? If that runs cooler I would tend to think the extra power draw and heat is because scrypt pretty much rewrites the entire ram available as fast as possible over and over again, whereas Bitcoin/Darkcoin would only use a small amount of ram.

Bitcoin uses less ram and for that reason is actually slightly harsher on the GPU itself. A plain cgminer 3.7.2 with

cgminer --benchmark

...will show SHA256 hashing speeds/temps. In general more ram use = more time for the GPU to breathe and wait for new processing load (and of course that degrades performance).

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Quote from: TanteStefana on February 20, 2014, 09:16:04 PM

Well, my coinbase bitcoins finally cleared. When I bought the bitcoins, I could have bought 185 darkcoins with them. Today, I bought 34.

Isn't there a way where you can buy when you want to buy, directly from your checking or something? It jus sucks to have to wait an entire week for your coin! (bad luck it being a holiday weekend)

There's an instant buy option on Coinbase, you need to add your credit card and there's a limit how much you can buy per day.

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