I have been waiting for my graphic card so I can modify och compile the new code on my computer. Still waiting.
I have been targeting shift 39 for some time now but with no luck in finding a good merit.
Topic: [ANN][GAP] Gapcoin - Prime Gap Search - New Math Algo - CPU / GPU - Zero Premine (Read 287722 times)
June 22, 2021, 08:25:36 AM
May 06, 2021, 02:50:04 AM
New Gapcoin record
length: 16280
shift: 479
old merit: 26.958752
old start: 1837160733118439423867182346994891162127548709911684382984517002398483960870036 6949710878116871579060625070628107877901041700271202527634022039178084473576298 4726077306347442594307484942323549457652749090645002709235558292986289921920320 45727424911933714770667667
new merit: 31.968393
new start: 1464770814484880302194679937357994935470205415296523009666134039594591058062188 0709086367706958449459408280449740553052536108763199187166565199656594412400209 2297149454294244855324271896290939574797498511512977910260881557
record type:
This Record is a good example of randomness in the blockchain! (This Shift was lightly mined for a couple days only using 32 Core Threadripper, but the generated waves from surrounding shifts made it score a direct battleship hit) Generating Random using Backdoored Encryption is nearly impossible except to play the real world drama outside!
I propose a future Hard-Fork Gapcoin Blockchain using a Dash Coin Gapcoin Clone but using the X16 Algo all different Gapcoin Mining Shifts 16 different combinations using 16 RANDOM Rounds of encryption layers
length: 16280
shift: 479
old merit: 26.958752
old start: 1837160733118439423867182346994891162127548709911684382984517002398483960870036 6949710878116871579060625070628107877901041700271202527634022039178084473576298 4726077306347442594307484942323549457652749090645002709235558292986289921920320 45727424911933714770667667
new merit: 31.968393
new start: 1464770814484880302194679937357994935470205415296523009666134039594591058062188 0709086367706958449459408280449740553052536108763199187166565199656594412400209 2297149454294244855324271896290939574797498511512977910260881557
record type:
This Record is a good example of randomness in the blockchain! (This Shift was lightly mined for a couple days only using 32 Core Threadripper, but the generated waves from surrounding shifts made it score a direct battleship hit) Generating Random using Backdoored Encryption is nearly impossible except to play the real world drama outside!
I propose a future Hard-Fork Gapcoin Blockchain using a Dash Coin Gapcoin Clone but using the X16 Algo all different Gapcoin Mining Shifts 16 different combinations using 16 RANDOM Rounds of encryption layers
You need to improve your Russian before you run it through Google translate. It's hard to understand.
A hardfork is just needed if something is broken or needed for future upgrades. There are not any benefits to clone broken code.
November 23, 2024, 05:12:04 AM
Hey,
huh, seems like the network got stuck cause no one was mining.
Took some time, but should be fine now.
Add my node by running the following command in the console, to get the longest chain :
addnode "82.66.203.169" "onetry"
huh, seems like the network got stuck cause no one was mining.
Took some time, but should be fine now.
Add my node by running the following command in the console, to get the longest chain :
addnode "82.66.203.169" "onetry"
November 22, 2024, 05:11:03 AM
I'm new here, my wallet has been disconnected for 10 days. Can anyone help me connect, at least provide the pairs to connect, to return to the mining calculations and discover new mathematical merits?I don't know anything about programming
November 22, 2024, 05:03:03 AM
my wallet is not connected
October 11, 2024, 05:24:46 AM
Hey,
Yes, the last explorer is now gone since months as the subscription wasn't renew in time...
The last one online was @ https://chainz.cryptoid.info/gap/
82.66.203.169 is mine, yep it's more or less the main one at this point (Not the more stable, ahah). I got the network unstuck in August with this one.
I did forward the port 31469 for this machine, for a better connectivity.
With this port (TCP/UDP) forwarded, you should reach ~12 peers. (I do)
Good.
Indeed, the gpu miner is hardcoded on shift 32. I don't remember, but i wasn't able to edit this and compile at the time.
The Gapminers are very CPU intensive yes. Parts of the calculations are still running on the CPU and couldn't be moved to the GPU, as i know.
8MPPS is a very nice value for a 3060 tho. I think i got only 3, can't test rn.
Or you're running multiple instances of the miner on the same card ?! This may indeed increase the total as well, if the CPU allows it.
FYI: The GPU miner is basically the CPU miner, doing the same job but faster.
The CRT miner is using the Chinese Remainder Theorem.
This way, the miner can mine at higher shifts, less randomly. At first, the limit was 256, then 512, then 1024. To go higher would imply some security issues regarding the PoW.
All this to say : The limit where one miner is better than the other is around shift 128.
You will prefer to use the CRT miner above 128, and the CPU miner below.
There is also a big drop in performance between shift 64 and shift 65.
You can find some stuff here.
It's quite a mess ahah, and would need some explanation ofc. But you can find some additional informations about the Gapcoin and some of my tests.
Also, many messages got removed by the mods over time ........ But you should read the first 100 pages of this post, it's more technical and very interesting. Also with the original dev (not the creator).
All the binaries will be harder to compile over time, unfortunately..
Huh, it would be very cool in another context. But honestly, don't waste any money on the markets without a more global plan.
I injected something between 0.25 and 0.5 btc since 2018, it's probably why it's still not at 1 sat.
You'll just feed some greedy people without any interest in the Maths.
Not much to say about this..
Nota Bene: The reward is also indexed on the difficulty (logarithmic).
Huh. The last OG interested in the project was BitcoinFX. This guy literally responded to the welcome message of Satoshi on this forum.
The last Dev was M. Higgins.
And I was the last lambda guy interested as you seems to be in this project.
None have succeeded in this task to make the Gapcoin project attractive again…
Here is my gapcoin.conf main lines (windows) :
Check out the About section of the QT, M. Higgins added a really cool story (;
Cheers ! 🥂
Current supply on coingecko (17,634,537) and CMP (14,369,569) was not updated for a some time, because well, no any working blockchain explorer.
So I calculated it for the block 2120000 (we at ~2129300 now) and added this info to my table.
about 17 874 521 GAP at the block 2120000.
So I calculated it for the block 2120000 (we at ~2129300 now) and added this info to my table.
about 17 874 521 GAP at the block 2120000.
Yes, the last explorer is now gone since months as the subscription wasn't renew in time...
The last one online was @ https://chainz.cryptoid.info/gap/
It seems sometimes we have 3 nodes on satoshi9.2 connected.
I can connect to them from Windows machine but not from Linux machine.
But they all disappeared today from my nodes even from Windows machine.
Maybe it has something to do with me adding port=8334 to gapcoin.conf, but maybe not and it's just a coincidence.
Because I could not connect to them from Linux machine at all, I forwarded a port and connected my linux desktop node to my windows node.
I guess now anybody can try to connect to it too (not sure if it will work):
178.141.100.234:31398
EDIT: I removed this node from my linux machine, because with it mining continues even if there is no connections from outer nodes. I do not want forks.
Main alive node de-facto is still:
88.66.203.169
I can connect to them from Windows machine but not from Linux machine.
But they all disappeared today from my nodes even from Windows machine.
Maybe it has something to do with me adding port=8334 to gapcoin.conf, but maybe not and it's just a coincidence.
Because I could not connect to them from Linux machine at all, I forwarded a port and connected my linux desktop node to my windows node.
I guess now anybody can try to connect to it too (not sure if it will work):
178.141.100.234:31398
EDIT: I removed this node from my linux machine, because with it mining continues even if there is no connections from outer nodes. I do not want forks.
Main alive node de-facto is still:
88.66.203.169
82.66.203.169 is mine, yep it's more or less the main one at this point (Not the more stable, ahah). I got the network unstuck in August with this one.
I did forward the port 31469 for this machine, for a better connectivity.
With this port (TCP/UDP) forwarded, you should reach ~12 peers. (I do)
About Nvidia miner: it actually works fine, I just forgot to add -a nvidia to .sh
It seems I can launch multiple instances and they do different work, but I'm not sure about that.
If it's indeed so, then from rtx 3060 with decent multi-core CPU we can get at least 8M primes per second, probably even 10-12M and more.
But it seems it's not possible to mine any shift but 32 on GPU miner. -f parameter is ignored. If anybody know how to change prime shift in
GPU miner, please share this knowledge in this thread. Even only working 16 or 64 shift will make mining much more fun.
On 32 shift we have the world record aka the biggest merit in the blockchain, no hope to overdid that.
It seems I can launch multiple instances and they do different work, but I'm not sure about that.
If it's indeed so, then from rtx 3060 with decent multi-core CPU we can get at least 8M primes per second, probably even 10-12M and more.
But it seems it's not possible to mine any shift but 32 on GPU miner. -f parameter is ignored. If anybody know how to change prime shift in
GPU miner, please share this knowledge in this thread. Even only working 16 or 64 shift will make mining much more fun.
On 32 shift we have the world record aka the biggest merit in the blockchain, no hope to overdid that.
Good.
Indeed, the gpu miner is hardcoded on shift 32. I don't remember, but i wasn't able to edit this and compile at the time.
The Gapminers are very CPU intensive yes. Parts of the calculations are still running on the CPU and couldn't be moved to the GPU, as i know.
8MPPS is a very nice value for a 3060 tho. I think i got only 3, can't test rn.
Or you're running multiple instances of the miner on the same card ?! This may indeed increase the total as well, if the CPU allows it.
FYI: The GPU miner is basically the CPU miner, doing the same job but faster.
The CRT miner is using the Chinese Remainder Theorem.
This way, the miner can mine at higher shifts, less randomly. At first, the limit was 256, then 512, then 1024. To go higher would imply some security issues regarding the PoW.
All this to say : The limit where one miner is better than the other is around shift 128.
You will prefer to use the CRT miner above 128, and the CPU miner below.
There is also a big drop in performance between shift 64 and shift 65.
You can find some stuff here.
It's quite a mess ahah, and would need some explanation ofc. But you can find some additional informations about the Gapcoin and some of my tests.
Also, many messages got removed by the mods over time ........ But you should read the first 100 pages of this post, it's more technical and very interesting. Also with the original dev (not the creator).
I tried to build miner from source, CPU version no problem, it's compiled fine and works fine afterwards, but no luck with GPU version, probably because I tried to build CPU branch with GPU settings instead of GPU branch
(I've built some binary file for GPU eventually, but it's not working properly and file is different from released miner). Maybe I will try my luck with GPU branch later.
(I've built some binary file for GPU eventually, but it's not working properly and file is different from released miner). Maybe I will try my luck with GPU branch later.
All the binaries will be harder to compile over time, unfortunately..
I think the only way for mining to survive is to somehow get some support from hobbyists, who will mine mostly just for sake of it. Even at 10 sat per GAP,
current daily profit from all mined coins is about $2 (0.6GAP*24b/hx24hx10sat). I can buy some from time to time, but it's basically a donation, I have no intention to sell them and I have no much hope that it will be ever possible to sell them later for profit (or even buy some goods, lol, it's a cryptocurrency after all).
current daily profit from all mined coins is about $2 (0.6GAP*24b/hx24hx10sat). I can buy some from time to time, but it's basically a donation, I have no intention to sell them and I have no much hope that it will be ever possible to sell them later for profit (or even buy some goods, lol, it's a cryptocurrency after all).
Huh, it would be very cool in another context. But honestly, don't waste any money on the markets without a more global plan.
I injected something between 0.25 and 0.5 btc since 2018, it's probably why it's still not at 1 sat.
You'll just feed some greedy people without any interest in the Maths.
Another thing is halvings. They are happen very fast. Honestly I have no idea how even Bitcoin itself will survive them. I prefer the Monero way with constant tail emission. Of course we have no coordination (and probably no skill to build a new wallet) to hard fork GAP for a constant 0.6 (current) or at least at 0.3 (next halving) per block. Primecoin way to go regarding block rewards is also much better in my opinion.
Not much to say about this..
Nota Bene: The reward is also indexed on the difficulty (logarithmic).
About "death of the coin". Question is: do we want such project to exist - not in a sense of cryptocurrency, but as a math distributed computing project? I think the answer is yes, so why to launch GAP-2 when we already have it? As long as somebody mine it, as long as coin is more or less alive, we have the blockchain with all results and also a chance to improve them. If anything, we need somebody from Primecoin or Riecoin team to be interested to support the project. Maybe some old whale can send somebody who can have some interest in GAP some tens/hundreds of thousands of GAP, so such hypothetical dev will have some incentive for price to rise.
Huh. The last OG interested in the project was BitcoinFX. This guy literally responded to the welcome message of Satoshi on this forum.
The last Dev was M. Higgins.
And I was the last lambda guy interested as you seems to be in this project.
None have succeeded in this task to make the Gapcoin project attractive again…
Here is my gapcoin.conf main lines (windows) :
Code:
listen=1
server=1
daemon=1
port=31469
rpcport=31397
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcuser=rpcuser
rpcpassword=rpcpassword
maxconnections=24
server=1
daemon=1
port=31469
rpcport=31397
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcuser=rpcuser
rpcpassword=rpcpassword
maxconnections=24
Check out the About section of the QT, M. Higgins added a really cool story (;
Cheers ! 🥂
October 10, 2024, 04:59:16 AM
Current supply on coingecko (17,634,537) and CMC (14,369,569) was not updated for a some time, because well, no any working blockchain explorer.
So I calculated it for the block 2120000 (we at ~2129300 now) and added this info to my table.
about 17 874 521 GAP at the block 2120000.
Finally I was able to launch Qt wallet on linux. Previously I used
gapcoin-0.16.3-aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.gz, because I thought it's the only release for desktop linux,
and gapcoind and gapcoin-cli worked just fine, but not Qt.
But now I had found
gapcoin-0.16.3-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
Now not only I have GUI wallet, but also the same python script calling the daemon works 4-5 times faster it seems
You can find releases here:
https://github.com/gapcoin-project/gapcoin-core/releases
And I have no slightest idea how to build it by myself.
It seems sometimes we have 3 nodes on satoshi9.2 connected.
I can connect to them from Windows machine but not from Linux machine.
But they all disappeared today from my nodes even from Windows machine.
Maybe it has something to do with me adding port=8334 to gapcoin.conf, but maybe not and it's just a coincidence.
Because I could not connect to them from Linux machine at all, I forwarded a port and connected my linux desktop node to my windows node.
I guess now anybody can try to connect to it too (not sure if it will work):
178.141.100.234:31398
EDIT: I removed this node from my linux machine, because with it mining continues even if there is no connections from outer nodes. I do not want forks.
Main alive node de-facto is still:
88.66.203.169
About Nvidia miner: it actually works fine, I just forgot to add -a nvidia to .sh
It seems I can launch multiple instances and they do different work, but I'm not sure about that.
If it's indeed so, then from rtx 3060 with decent multi-core CPU we can get at least 8M primes per second, probably even 10-12M and more.
But it seems it's not possible to mine any shift but 32 on GPU miner. -f parameter is ignored. If anybody know how to change prime shift in
GPU miner, please share this knowledge in this thread. Even only working 16 or 64 shift will make mining much more fun.
On 32 shift we have the world record aka the biggest merit in the blockchain, no hope to overdid that.
I tried to build miner from source, CPU version no problem, it's compiled fine and works fine afterwards, but no luck with GPU version, probably because I tried to build CPU branch with GPU settings instead of GPU branch
(I've built some binary file for GPU eventually, but it's not working properly and file is different from released miner). Maybe I will try my luck with GPU branch later.
I think the only way for mining to survive is to somehow get some support from hobbyists, who will mine mostly just for sake of it. Even at 10 sat per GAP,
current daily profit from all mined coins is about $2 (0.6GAP*24b/hx24hx10sat). I can buy some from time to time, but it's basically a donation, I have no intention to sell them and I have no much hope that it will be ever possible to sell them later for profit (or even buy some goods, lol, it's a cryptocurrency after all).
Another thing is halvings. They are happen very fast. Honestly I have no idea how even Bitcoin itself will survive them. I prefer the Monero way with constant tail emission. Of course we have no coordination (and probably no skill to build a new wallet) to hard fork GAP for a constant 0.6 (current) or at least at 0.3 (next halving) per block. Primecoin way to go regarding block rewards is also much better in my opinion.
About "death of the coin". Question is: do we want such project to exist - not in a sense of cryptocurrency, but as a math distributed computing project? I think the answer is yes, so why to launch GAP-2 when we already have the original? As long as somebody mine it, as long as coin is more or less alive, we have the blockchain with all results and also a chance to improve them. If anything, we need somebody from Primecoin or Riecoin team to be interested to support the project. Maybe some old whale can send to somebody who can have some interest in GAP some tens/hundreds of thousands of GAP, so such hypothetical dev will have some incentive for price to rise.
Maybe I will try to make the rich list next, but of course, it is much harder task than shift/number of blocks/merit list and calculation of current supply, so I'm not sure that I'm capable of doing this.
So I calculated it for the block 2120000 (we at ~2129300 now) and added this info to my table.
about 17 874 521 GAP at the block 2120000.
Finally I was able to launch Qt wallet on linux. Previously I used
gapcoin-0.16.3-aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.gz, because I thought it's the only release for desktop linux,
and gapcoind and gapcoin-cli worked just fine, but not Qt.
But now I had found
gapcoin-0.16.3-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
Now not only I have GUI wallet, but also the same python script calling the daemon works 4-5 times faster it seems
You can find releases here:
https://github.com/gapcoin-project/gapcoin-core/releases
And I have no slightest idea how to build it by myself.
It seems sometimes we have 3 nodes on satoshi9.2 connected.
I can connect to them from Windows machine but not from Linux machine.
But they all disappeared today from my nodes even from Windows machine.
Maybe it has something to do with me adding port=8334 to gapcoin.conf, but maybe not and it's just a coincidence.
Because I could not connect to them from Linux machine at all, I forwarded a port and connected my linux desktop node to my windows node.
I guess now anybody can try to connect to it too (not sure if it will work):
178.141.100.234:31398
EDIT: I removed this node from my linux machine, because with it mining continues even if there is no connections from outer nodes. I do not want forks.
Main alive node de-facto is still:
88.66.203.169
About Nvidia miner: it actually works fine, I just forgot to add -a nvidia to .sh
It seems I can launch multiple instances and they do different work, but I'm not sure about that.
If it's indeed so, then from rtx 3060 with decent multi-core CPU we can get at least 8M primes per second, probably even 10-12M and more.
But it seems it's not possible to mine any shift but 32 on GPU miner. -f parameter is ignored. If anybody know how to change prime shift in
GPU miner, please share this knowledge in this thread. Even only working 16 or 64 shift will make mining much more fun.
On 32 shift we have the world record aka the biggest merit in the blockchain, no hope to overdid that.
I tried to build miner from source, CPU version no problem, it's compiled fine and works fine afterwards, but no luck with GPU version, probably because I tried to build CPU branch with GPU settings instead of GPU branch
(I've built some binary file for GPU eventually, but it's not working properly and file is different from released miner). Maybe I will try my luck with GPU branch later.
I think the only way for mining to survive is to somehow get some support from hobbyists, who will mine mostly just for sake of it. Even at 10 sat per GAP,
current daily profit from all mined coins is about $2 (0.6GAP*24b/hx24hx10sat). I can buy some from time to time, but it's basically a donation, I have no intention to sell them and I have no much hope that it will be ever possible to sell them later for profit (or even buy some goods, lol, it's a cryptocurrency after all).
Another thing is halvings. They are happen very fast. Honestly I have no idea how even Bitcoin itself will survive them. I prefer the Monero way with constant tail emission. Of course we have no coordination (and probably no skill to build a new wallet) to hard fork GAP for a constant 0.6 (current) or at least at 0.3 (next halving) per block. Primecoin way to go regarding block rewards is also much better in my opinion.
About "death of the coin". Question is: do we want such project to exist - not in a sense of cryptocurrency, but as a math distributed computing project? I think the answer is yes, so why to launch GAP-2 when we already have the original? As long as somebody mine it, as long as coin is more or less alive, we have the blockchain with all results and also a chance to improve them. If anything, we need somebody from Primecoin or Riecoin team to be interested to support the project. Maybe some old whale can send to somebody who can have some interest in GAP some tens/hundreds of thousands of GAP, so such hypothetical dev will have some incentive for price to rise.
Maybe I will try to make the rich list next, but of course, it is much harder task than shift/number of blocks/merit list and calculation of current supply, so I'm not sure that I'm capable of doing this.
October 02, 2024, 08:16:43 PM
Quote
Thanks for this and for all other stuff you're doing. I did not check this thread until just now, so I made the table anyway, for myself. I copy-pasted the data manually, so there may be some slight errors.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Phmuef-UlIDdqvkLD-o1ugHgtpQPfAfGK64d5OI4zlE
September 30, 2024, 12:21:39 PM
but it's still 7 minutes for 10000 blocks
Hey, i don't think you can improve this significantly.
I tried to read directly from the blocks, but failed lol. It's out of my skillset.
But here is a link of a raw dump as csv from block 1600000 (24 February 2022) to 2123698 (29 September 2024), if it helps :
https://mega.nz/file/hNBhlaRD#7W0rszV4EAJCu7KOyEFKVr6Rwd0IsCPNBR5uDIWpcNE
Dumped block example :
Code:
{
"hash" : "8338ca5d603cb092a8801cae8de62d53c8bed5f71cc007acb84215fe2fea38d2",
"confirmations" : 433198,
"strippedsize" : 200,
"size" : 200,
"weight" : 800,
"height" : 1600000,
"version" : 2,
"versionHex" : "00000002",
"merkleroot" : "7b8b1cc25ecab74192845127ed82a45e596d67a29f4c31b2f8cf3a6f4fb69836",
"tx" : [
"7b8b1cc25ecab74192845127ed82a45e596d67a29f4c31b2f8cf3a6f4fb69836"
],
"time" : 1645704890,
"mediantime" : 1645704572,
"nonce" : 101,
"difficulty" : 21.90408874,
"shift" : 64,
"adder" : "2245420651",
"gapstart" : "1094875564289667875541388914785213712361758890573529802407454521238655692173188869014596521191019",
"gapend" : "1094875564289667875541388914785213712361758890573529802407454521238655692173188869014596521196119",
"gaplen" : 5100,
"merit" : 23.06243761,
"chainwork" : "000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001b6d3752ba3300",
"nTx" : 1,
"previousblockhash" : "8aa9f6a6ffa389acfabd752104388e0035f7f2abd609fd9878698ccb75b9da26",
"nextblockhash" : "89e5364c59072595ecb68a1572394e9172395f9a9b7bcb624bfbf8dabff3e34e"
}
"hash" : "8338ca5d603cb092a8801cae8de62d53c8bed5f71cc007acb84215fe2fea38d2",
"confirmations" : 433198,
"strippedsize" : 200,
"size" : 200,
"weight" : 800,
"height" : 1600000,
"version" : 2,
"versionHex" : "00000002",
"merkleroot" : "7b8b1cc25ecab74192845127ed82a45e596d67a29f4c31b2f8cf3a6f4fb69836",
"tx" : [
"7b8b1cc25ecab74192845127ed82a45e596d67a29f4c31b2f8cf3a6f4fb69836"
],
"time" : 1645704890,
"mediantime" : 1645704572,
"nonce" : 101,
"difficulty" : 21.90408874,
"shift" : 64,
"adder" : "2245420651",
"gapstart" : "1094875564289667875541388914785213712361758890573529802407454521238655692173188869014596521191019",
"gapend" : "1094875564289667875541388914785213712361758890573529802407454521238655692173188869014596521196119",
"gaplen" : 5100,
"merit" : 23.06243761,
"chainwork" : "000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001b6d3752ba3300",
"nTx" : 1,
"previousblockhash" : "8aa9f6a6ffa389acfabd752104388e0035f7f2abd609fd9878698ccb75b9da26",
"nextblockhash" : "89e5364c59072595ecb68a1572394e9172395f9a9b7bcb624bfbf8dabff3e34e"
}
I'm also dumping the blockchain to compare and submit to the Gap List used by mathematicians, on a regular basis.
For posterity, here is my Powershell code to Compare the dumped values to the Gap List :
Code:
# Script to compare gaps to the up-to-date PrimeGapList
# Comparison from a Dump formatted for Troisi
# ex: 24870 2022-03-14 Gapcoin 28.058336 8801393720369171138807534378484094148199678813285045428660226799169766010648198304648629482463204306059854541052756367705300199390163670465161859720297775763621878627880034299171594029366567540559025279446203633719720558636541192240085556163486233788883525676598009670804662649198274483578163346149528131010232947964561361460116860454085789818741262035884363732876225001181914637776561
# PrimeGapList and Files Path
$Path = "F:\Alex\" # Path to edit
# Generate a timestamp for the file name (6 characters for hour, minute, second)
$timestamp = (Get-Date -Format "HHmmss")
# Set the file name with the timestamp to avoid overwriting previous files
$PotentialRecordsFile = "$Path\PotentialRecords_$timestamp.txt"
# Download and Get the Prime Gap List
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/primegap-list-project/prime-gap-list/master/allgaps.sql" -OutFile "$Path\LastPrimeGapList.txt"
$PrimeGapList = Get-Content "$Path\LastPrimeGapList.txt"
# Parse the PrimeGapList into a hashtable for faster lookups
$GapDictionary = @{}
foreach ($line in $PrimeGapList) {
if ($line -match "VALUES\((\d+),") {
$gapSize = $matches[1]
$values = $line -replace "INSERT INTO gaps VALUES\(", "" -replace "\);", ""
$fields = $values -split ","
$GapDictionary[$gapSize] = $fields[7] # Store Merit value in hashtable
}
}
# Ask the user to input the number of lines to compare
$numberOfLines = Read-Host "Entrez le nombre de lignes à comparer"
# Get Dump to Compare based on user input
$ToCompare = Get-Content "$Path\Dump_Mersenne.csv" | Select-Object -Last $numberOfLines
#$ToCompare = Get-Content "$Path\Dump_Mersenne.csv" | Select-Object -last 50000
# Create the file with the timestamp in the name
Set-Content -Path $PotentialRecordsFile -Value "Potential Gapcoin Records"
$c = 1
$s = 1
$TotalLines = $ToCompare.count
# Initialize timing variables
$startTime = Get-Date
$recordCount = 0
# Look for each line to compare
foreach ($line in $ToCompare) {
$fields = $line.Split(",")
$GapSizetoCompare = $fields[0]
$MerittoCompare = $fields[2]
$Discoverer = $fields[3]
$Date = $fields[4]
$Digits = $fields[5]
$Prime = $fields[6]
# Reformat the date to 'YYYY-MM-DD'
$FormattedDate = Get-Date $Date -Format "yyyy-MM-dd"
# Get the merit from the dictionary
if ($GapDictionary.ContainsKey($GapSizetoCompare)) {
$Merit = $GapDictionary[$GapSizetoCompare]
# Calculate progress and time remaining
$elapsedTime = (Get-Date) - $startTime
$blocksPerHour = $s / $elapsedTime.TotalHours
$remainingBlocks = $TotalLines - $s
$timeRemaining = [System.TimeSpan]::FromHours($remainingBlocks / $blocksPerHour)
$progressInfo = "($s/$TotalLines, PRecords: $recordCount, Blocks/h: $([math]::Round($blocksPerHour, 0)), ETA: $([math]::Round($timeRemaining.TotalHours, 1)) hours)"
# Compare, display in console, and write in file if potential records
if ($MerittoCompare -gt $Merit) {
$Diffe = $MerittoCompare - $Merit
# Troisi format: GapSize YYYY-MM-DD Discoverer Merit Prime
$TroisiRecord = "$GapSizetoCompare $FormattedDate $Discoverer $MerittoCompare $Prime"
Write-Host "Le Gap $GapSizetoCompare est un Record potentiel : $TroisiRecord Diff:$Diffe Digits=$Digits $progressInfo" -ForegroundColor Green
Write-Warning "$line"
# Writing in Troisi format to the file
$TroisiRecord | Add-Content $PotentialRecordsFile
# " " | Add-Content $PotentialRecordsFile
$c++
$recordCount++
}
}
$s++
} # End ForEach
pause
# Comparison from a Dump formatted for Troisi
# ex: 24870 2022-03-14 Gapcoin 28.058336 8801393720369171138807534378484094148199678813285045428660226799169766010648198304648629482463204306059854541052756367705300199390163670465161859720297775763621878627880034299171594029366567540559025279446203633719720558636541192240085556163486233788883525676598009670804662649198274483578163346149528131010232947964561361460116860454085789818741262035884363732876225001181914637776561
# PrimeGapList and Files Path
$Path = "F:\Alex\" # Path to edit
# Generate a timestamp for the file name (6 characters for hour, minute, second)
$timestamp = (Get-Date -Format "HHmmss")
# Set the file name with the timestamp to avoid overwriting previous files
$PotentialRecordsFile = "$Path\PotentialRecords_$timestamp.txt"
# Download and Get the Prime Gap List
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/primegap-list-project/prime-gap-list/master/allgaps.sql" -OutFile "$Path\LastPrimeGapList.txt"
$PrimeGapList = Get-Content "$Path\LastPrimeGapList.txt"
# Parse the PrimeGapList into a hashtable for faster lookups
$GapDictionary = @{}
foreach ($line in $PrimeGapList) {
if ($line -match "VALUES\((\d+),") {
$gapSize = $matches[1]
$values = $line -replace "INSERT INTO gaps VALUES\(", "" -replace "\);", ""
$fields = $values -split ","
$GapDictionary[$gapSize] = $fields[7] # Store Merit value in hashtable
}
}
# Ask the user to input the number of lines to compare
$numberOfLines = Read-Host "Entrez le nombre de lignes à comparer"
# Get Dump to Compare based on user input
$ToCompare = Get-Content "$Path\Dump_Mersenne.csv" | Select-Object -Last $numberOfLines
#$ToCompare = Get-Content "$Path\Dump_Mersenne.csv" | Select-Object -last 50000
# Create the file with the timestamp in the name
Set-Content -Path $PotentialRecordsFile -Value "Potential Gapcoin Records"
$c = 1
$s = 1
$TotalLines = $ToCompare.count
# Initialize timing variables
$startTime = Get-Date
$recordCount = 0
# Look for each line to compare
foreach ($line in $ToCompare) {
$fields = $line.Split(",")
$GapSizetoCompare = $fields[0]
$MerittoCompare = $fields[2]
$Discoverer = $fields[3]
$Date = $fields[4]
$Digits = $fields[5]
$Prime = $fields[6]
# Reformat the date to 'YYYY-MM-DD'
$FormattedDate = Get-Date $Date -Format "yyyy-MM-dd"
# Get the merit from the dictionary
if ($GapDictionary.ContainsKey($GapSizetoCompare)) {
$Merit = $GapDictionary[$GapSizetoCompare]
# Calculate progress and time remaining
$elapsedTime = (Get-Date) - $startTime
$blocksPerHour = $s / $elapsedTime.TotalHours
$remainingBlocks = $TotalLines - $s
$timeRemaining = [System.TimeSpan]::FromHours($remainingBlocks / $blocksPerHour)
$progressInfo = "($s/$TotalLines, PRecords: $recordCount, Blocks/h: $([math]::Round($blocksPerHour, 0)), ETA: $([math]::Round($timeRemaining.TotalHours, 1)) hours)"
# Compare, display in console, and write in file if potential records
if ($MerittoCompare -gt $Merit) {
$Diffe = $MerittoCompare - $Merit
# Troisi format: GapSize YYYY-MM-DD Discoverer Merit Prime
$TroisiRecord = "$GapSizetoCompare $FormattedDate $Discoverer $MerittoCompare $Prime"
Write-Host "Le Gap $GapSizetoCompare est un Record potentiel : $TroisiRecord Diff:$Diffe Digits=$Digits $progressInfo" -ForegroundColor Green
Write-Warning "$line"
# Writing in Troisi format to the file
$TroisiRecord | Add-Content $PotentialRecordsFile
# " " | Add-Content $PotentialRecordsFile
$c++
$recordCount++
}
}
$s++
} # End ForEach
pause
Then, it's submitted here for verification (It's here to put your name on a record) :
https://primegaps.cloudygo.com/
Anyway, the mined shift ratio won't significantly change from the available datas on the Gapcoin Project website, if it's what you're looking for.
I'm nearly the only one to mine at shift 1024, and the network hashrate is very low for 1-2 years now.
As mentionned before, the shifts 25, 32 and 64 are overmined at this point.
Any other (higher) shift have records to improve.
Of course, as Gapcoin is "randomly" searching for Prime Gaps, a miracle can still happens in any shift.
Come on Discord for faster answers, or to discuss.
The creator and the dev are dead, indeed.. The Gapcoin network is not.
We got some of the most OGs of the OGs interested in this project, in the past.
I'm still proud to be part of this.
Cheers ! 🥂
September 25, 2024, 04:17:50 PM
I think the project is dead at this point.
Everyone has either vanished or just given up with it.
Sad as it was a really interesting project.
Everyone has either vanished or just given up with it.
Sad as it was a really interesting project.
September 24, 2024, 05:35:57 PM
So with python2 and pyjsonrpc I can collect data about how many times blocks with each shift had been mined, but it works veeeeeery slow. Almost 8 minutes for 10000 blocks, so about 24 hours for the whole blockchain. And I don't know any better. First time in my life i'm writing something in python.
I also tried to use getblockhash only for block 0 and call hashvar = block_data["nextblockhash"] after that, but it's still 7 minutes for 10000 blocks, even though there are less calls to gapcoind in this case.
I also tried to use getblockhash only for block 0 and call hashvar = block_data["nextblockhash"] after that, but it's still 7 minutes for 10000 blocks, even though there are less calls to gapcoind in this case.
Code:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding: utf-8
import pyjsonrpc
http_client = pyjsonrpc.HttpClient(
url = "http://localhost:31397",
username = "username_here",
password = "password_here"
)
blockcountvar = http_client.call("getblockcount")
shift_array = [0]*1024
current_block = 0
while current_block < blockcountvar:
hashvar = http_client.call("getblockhash",current_block)
block_data = http_client.call("getblock",hashvar)
current_shift = block_data["shift"]
shift_array[current_shift] += 1
current_block += 1
for x in range (16,1024):
print ("shift %d:" % (x))
print shift_array[x]
#werks
# coding: utf-8
import pyjsonrpc
http_client = pyjsonrpc.HttpClient(
url = "http://localhost:31397",
username = "username_here",
password = "password_here"
)
blockcountvar = http_client.call("getblockcount")
shift_array = [0]*1024
current_block = 0
while current_block < blockcountvar:
hashvar = http_client.call("getblockhash",current_block)
block_data = http_client.call("getblock",hashvar)
current_shift = block_data["shift"]
shift_array[current_shift] += 1
current_block += 1
for x in range (16,1024):
print ("shift %d:" % (x))
print shift_array[x]
#werks
September 20, 2024, 09:15:16 AM
Any working nodes? Cannot connect to any, 0.16.3 gapcoind. (SOLVED)
Also have learned about NVIDIA fix today, wanna test it.
EDIT: 82.66.203.169 is connected now, but I cannot download any blocks, stuck on 2118350. Tried to start from early state or even from 0, no blocks anyway. (SOLVED somehow)
EDIT2: connected fine now, blockchain is up to date. Any additional nodes are welcome. Today I'm mining some of "rare shifts", so to speak, according to
https://gapcoin-project.github.io/gapgraphs/shiftfrequency/ which is not updated since 2021 it seems. Want more up-to-date data, maybe I should learn how to write some script to automatically receive those data from blockchain. It should be something like getblockcount, then getblockhash, then getblock, check "shift" field, then -1 etc.
And about NVIDIA miner - no luck. Exactly same error as with old fermat.cl. GeForce RTX 3060 12gb. If it only works with 25 shift it is not so needed anyway.
If anybody want to mine, difficulty is very low now. I can try some pretty high shifts and still be over 50%. Well, your GAP does not cost much satoshis, and I'm not sure how stable and united the network is to send your GAP to exchange (big thanks again for exchange, it helps the coin to survive), but it's still fun. Maybe I should buy a little, but I'm too lazy for that. I like to mine more.
Also have learned about NVIDIA fix today, wanna test it.
EDIT: 82.66.203.169 is connected now, but I cannot download any blocks, stuck on 2118350. Tried to start from early state or even from 0, no blocks anyway. (SOLVED somehow)
EDIT2: connected fine now, blockchain is up to date. Any additional nodes are welcome. Today I'm mining some of "rare shifts", so to speak, according to
https://gapcoin-project.github.io/gapgraphs/shiftfrequency/ which is not updated since 2021 it seems. Want more up-to-date data, maybe I should learn how to write some script to automatically receive those data from blockchain. It should be something like getblockcount, then getblockhash, then getblock, check "shift" field, then -1 etc.
And about NVIDIA miner - no luck. Exactly same error as with old fermat.cl. GeForce RTX 3060 12gb. If it only works with 25 shift it is not so needed anyway.
If anybody want to mine, difficulty is very low now. I can try some pretty high shifts and still be over 50%. Well, your GAP does not cost much satoshis, and I'm not sure how stable and united the network is to send your GAP to exchange (big thanks again for exchange, it helps the coin to survive), but it's still fun. Maybe I should buy a little, but I'm too lazy for that. I like to mine more.
September 18, 2024, 04:10:17 AM
Hey,
3 new improvements :
3 updates by Gapcoin (merit +3.05) gaps 5680 to 27180
Improved record 5680 merit=29.2577 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 23882 merit=26.9184 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 27180 merit=30.6498 found by Gapcoin
Submitted to the PrimeGapList as well.
Cheers ! 🥂
3 new improvements :
3 updates by Gapcoin (merit +3.05) gaps 5680 to 27180
Improved record 5680 merit=29.2577 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 23882 merit=26.9184 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 27180 merit=30.6498 found by Gapcoin
Submitted to the PrimeGapList as well.
Cheers ! 🥂
September 05, 2024, 05:10:04 AM
Hey,
Dumped the results.
Gaps discovered or merits improved: April 13 2022 - September 05 2024 submitted to and accepted by the Prime Gap List
Commit
About previous Gapcoin submissions:
https://gapcoin-project.github.io/category/#primegaplist
48 updates by Gapcoin (merit +37.76) gaps 5366 to 16340
Improved record 5366 merit=27.6860 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5424 merit=27.9433 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5596 merit=28.8309 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5660 merit=29.1477 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5730 merit=29.5111 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5754 merit=29.6423 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5788 merit=29.8209 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5820 merit=29.9770 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5858 merit=30.1821 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5864 merit=30.1330 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5882 merit=30.2213 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5930 merit=30.5054 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5932 merit=29.7763 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5956 merit=30.6174 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6082 merit=27.4883 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6116 merit=27.6592 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6142 merit=30.8338 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6284 merit=28.4047 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6316 merit=31.6752 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6386 merit=28.8733 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6402 merit=28.9352 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6436 merit=29.0973 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6456 merit=29.1584 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6466 merit=29.2414 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6474 merit=29.2781 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6482 merit=29.2925 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6484 merit=29.2995 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6488 merit=29.3422 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6492 merit=29.3141 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6540 merit=32.8140 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6542 merit=29.5386 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6608 merit=29.8519 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6628 merit=29.9705 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6636 merit=29.9815 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6694 merit=30.1957 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6710 merit=30.3149 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6720 merit=30.3502 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6750 merit=33.8964 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6766 merit=30.5132 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6778 merit=30.5780 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6844 merit=30.8576 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6870 merit=31.0033 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6922 merit=31.2146 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 7034 merit=31.7138 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 8144 merit=28.1573 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 8658 merit=29.9311 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 9190 merit=28.6005 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 16340 merit=30.8701 found by Gapcoin
Reminder : To mine with the cpu or gpu miner is pretty much useless/overmined at this point.
The CRT miner is the way to get interesting results :
Download: https://github.com/gapcoin-project/GapMiner/releases/tag/crt-rev5.1
Explanation : https://gapcoin-project.github.io/mining/chinese-remainder-mining/
More informations on discord, just ping @raptoreum (Wizz_^)
Cheers ! 🥂
And thanks everyone to keep Gapcoin alive <3
Dumped the results.
Gaps discovered or merits improved: April 13 2022 - September 05 2024 submitted to and accepted by the Prime Gap List
Commit
About previous Gapcoin submissions:
https://gapcoin-project.github.io/category/#primegaplist
48 updates by Gapcoin (merit +37.76) gaps 5366 to 16340
Improved record 5366 merit=27.6860 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5424 merit=27.9433 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5596 merit=28.8309 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5660 merit=29.1477 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5730 merit=29.5111 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5754 merit=29.6423 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5788 merit=29.8209 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5820 merit=29.9770 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5858 merit=30.1821 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5864 merit=30.1330 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5882 merit=30.2213 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5930 merit=30.5054 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5932 merit=29.7763 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 5956 merit=30.6174 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6082 merit=27.4883 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6116 merit=27.6592 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6142 merit=30.8338 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6284 merit=28.4047 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6316 merit=31.6752 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6386 merit=28.8733 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6402 merit=28.9352 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6436 merit=29.0973 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6456 merit=29.1584 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6466 merit=29.2414 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6474 merit=29.2781 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6482 merit=29.2925 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6484 merit=29.2995 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6488 merit=29.3422 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6492 merit=29.3141 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6540 merit=32.8140 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6542 merit=29.5386 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6608 merit=29.8519 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6628 merit=29.9705 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6636 merit=29.9815 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6694 merit=30.1957 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6710 merit=30.3149 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6720 merit=30.3502 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6750 merit=33.8964 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6766 merit=30.5132 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6778 merit=30.5780 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6844 merit=30.8576 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6870 merit=31.0033 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 6922 merit=31.2146 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 7034 merit=31.7138 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 8144 merit=28.1573 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 8658 merit=29.9311 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 9190 merit=28.6005 found by Gapcoin
Improved record 16340 merit=30.8701 found by Gapcoin
Reminder : To mine with the cpu or gpu miner is pretty much useless/overmined at this point.
The CRT miner is the way to get interesting results :
Download: https://github.com/gapcoin-project/GapMiner/releases/tag/crt-rev5.1
Explanation : https://gapcoin-project.github.io/mining/chinese-remainder-mining/
More informations on discord, just ping @raptoreum (Wizz_^)
Cheers ! 🥂
And thanks everyone to keep Gapcoin alive <3
August 31, 2024, 09:31:55 PM
Hey,
I think I was able to get the network unstuck. Also reported on Discord
Add my node by running the following command in the console :
addnode "82.66.203.169" "onetry"
Please use v0.16. Resync if needed. Eventually temporarily ban other v0.9.x peers if needed, while syncing.
I'll let the node run and generate.
Cheers ! 🥂
I think I was able to get the network unstuck. Also reported on Discord
Add my node by running the following command in the console :
addnode "82.66.203.169" "onetry"
Please use v0.16. Resync if needed. Eventually temporarily ban other v0.9.x peers if needed, while syncing.
I'll let the node run and generate.
Cheers ! 🥂
Very nice, we will give it a try.
August 31, 2024, 09:09:35 PM
Hey,
I think I was able to get the network unstuck (It was stuck at block 2108793, 3 weeks ago). Also reported on Discord
Add my node by running the following command in the console :
addnode "82.66.203.169" "onetry"
Please use v0.16. Resync if needed.
I'll let 2 nodes running and generate.
Here is a link to download my bootstrap at block 2108806, 9/1/24 04:07 GMT+2 (Paris) :
https://mega.nz/file/tYoijBzC#ynd5Uxa7aZyAao4rl_mb5lwpOv50mYIrOywI0H3NIE8
Please consider using the CRT Miner at higher shifts (128+) if you're more interested in Maths than the coins.
Here is a link with some docs about the CRT Miner :
https://gapcoin-project.github.io/mining/
I can explain and share further on Discord.
Cheers ! 🥂
I think I was able to get the network unstuck (It was stuck at block 2108793, 3 weeks ago). Also reported on Discord
Add my node by running the following command in the console :
addnode "82.66.203.169" "onetry"
Please use v0.16. Resync if needed.
I'll let 2 nodes running and generate.
Here is a link to download my bootstrap at block 2108806, 9/1/24 04:07 GMT+2 (Paris) :
https://mega.nz/file/tYoijBzC#ynd5Uxa7aZyAao4rl_mb5lwpOv50mYIrOywI0H3NIE8
Please consider using the CRT Miner at higher shifts (128+) if you're more interested in Maths than the coins.
Here is a link with some docs about the CRT Miner :
https://gapcoin-project.github.io/mining/
I can explain and share further on Discord.
Cheers ! 🥂
August 11, 2024, 12:58:37 PM
I added the peer list and managed to get my blockchain synced but I only ever get 1 peer connected. Is FreiExchange the only node mining this coin?
Can you please give us the 1 node you have...
Thanks
The last reliable node on my node list stopped working about 1-2 weeks ago. I'm currently stuck at 14 days behind.
I have 2 laptops on 2 different IPs which I can dedicate to this coin full-time but would rather not fork the chain if it's still chugging along somewhere. Back when I was mining, I had about 70% of the entire network hashrate on my 6 year old laptop so there is a real possibility of forking the chain.
FreiExchange seems to have GAP deposits and withdrawals enabled which implies they are running a node although I haven't tested it.
August 11, 2024, 07:12:48 AM
I added the peer list and managed to get my blockchain synced but I only ever get 1 peer connected. Is FreiExchange the only node mining this coin?
Can you please give us the 1 node you have...
Thanks
August 09, 2024, 02:57:55 AM
you can use gap.suprnova.cc as a node
Unfortunately it seems to be down.
July 22, 2024, 10:25:52 AM
you can use gap.suprnova.cc as a node
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