Topic: [ANN][GAP] Gapcoin - Prime Gap Search - New Math Algo - CPU / GPU - Zero Premine - page 31. (Read 287669 times)

Trawling around, I found this - https://superrare.co/Hack6c/creations which is closer in that it's prime-originated:


Parent post: The Primenuum

TIL I can enjoy some Prime Gap music while I browse the art.

Cheers

Graham

This one is most certainly a fine piece of crypto art ...

- https://www.artforcrypto.com/physical/redeye



"Since getting on the blockchain and crypto train Vesa did not sleep properly for four months. Apparently this is a common thing among people who get sucked into the vortex of it all.   So many different opportunities become available, financial fates are changed, hope in the human endeavour stored but also many nefarious traps to be aware of. It's like the first day of school when you realize the environment is much larger than the initial premise of learning about the subjects. This piece is intended for those who recognise the red eye factor. No matter what angle you approach it from."

Shame about the price tag though.

paint_canvas != prime_gaps



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"Crypto / Art used to be something to cherish

Now literally anything could be crypto art

This post is crypto art."

— Anonymous

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Jessie J - Price Tag ft. B.o.B
- https://youtu.be/qMxX-QOV9tI

Things might be looking up !

Thanks for the recommendations, I intend to follow up on them soon.

Good stuff! Thanks!

Please add your Gapcoin address somewhere on the repository, as I've allocated some coins for continuing development etc.,

It will probably take me a week or so to get around to trying all of this though.

I can do compiles, binaries, releases and such if necessary, however I tend to steer clear of most development as I'm well aware that other folks are much much more competent over myself in this regard.

Anyhow, this should undoubtably help Gapcoin with new and more major exchange listings moving forward. I also might be making progress in garnering some new interest from some mathematicians with a more firm understanding of prime gaps relative to cryptocurrency and Bitcoin etc.,

I look forward to continuing to support this growing community and related Gapcoin projects as we finally progress ...

I don't see any reason (aside from peer review) as to why Gapcoin shouldn't eventually share a similar (or higher) market cap to say Litecoin. Gapcoin has a better economic model for starters and that's before we start talking Useful-Proof-of-Work and breaking world records.

Not thus far - I'm confined to a i7 laptop atm and given it's an expensive Dell XPS 15 9560, I'd rather buy than fry.

It should work out of the box, I've even forked the Gapcoin-PoWCore repos so's I can fix the constexpr issue which was preventing successful compilation.

Assuming the requisite packages are installed according to build-unix.md (https://github.com/gjhiggins/gapcoin/blob/v0.9.3-gap/doc/build-unix.md#to-build-from-git), the following should work out of the box for anyone wanting a GUI client on one of the current Ubuntu-flavoured distros:


The next significant task is to get the tests working (some of the test fixtures are Bitcoin-specific and are bound to fail).

You've not missed much. And Slimcoin, like Peercoin, remains PoS v1 which means you don't need the wallet open all the time to stake, just fire it up and wait while it grinds through the stakes.

Cheers

Graham

Thank you!
Super cool news!
Makes me excited!

Thanks Graham!

Hopefully you have been mining Gapcoin along the way?

I will take a look and try spinning up an instance or two from your latest repo. before adding it to the website.

https://gapcoin.club

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I must also find the time to look again at the Slimcoin thread, developments and my old wallet.dat's !

Kindest Regards,

Welcome!

+10 MERIT incoming.

50 merit awarded, per pro (hope you don't mind).

FWIW, I've spent some time with the Gapcoin source code, upgrading it to use OpenSSL 1.1 (so it now compiles on contemporary Linux versions). I took the liberty of reverting the egregious irrelevant changes to the source code caused by j0nn9's over-eager regexp (https://github.com/gjhiggins/gapcoin/commit/551b27b55f9360d5788c047573f41122ddbfb53e) because only a few delicate changes are actually needed to do the job and there are distinct benefits from having a close match, not least in terms of making it easier to take advantage of upstream developments. In consequence, I was able to merge the Bitcoin Core 0.9.3 and Bitcoin Core 0.9.4 upstream releases (https://github.com/gjhiggins/gapcoin/commits/v0.9.3-gap). This work has been done in a separate branch "v0.9.3-gap" in my own forked repository on Github - https://github.com/gjhiggins/gapcoin/tree/v0.9.3-gap

Also, I am working on some GUI improvements/enhancements, again in a separate branch which I hope to commit to the repository towards the end of the week.

Cheers

Graham

I wish I had merit to send you for this post.

"But how are prime gaps useful?

Prime numbers are interesting for lots of mathematicians around the globe, and they're also important to every day cryptography (see RSA).

Researches about prime gaps could not only lead to new breakthroughs in the bounded gap, it may also help proving the Twin Prime Conjecture and maybe even the millennium problem, the Riemann hypothesis. Who knows? "

Source: gapcoin.org

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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem) - finding 'weaknesses' in RSA etc.,

- https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-team-up-on-twin-primes-conjecture-20131119/

- http://online.sfsu.edu/meredith/301/Papers/KazakoffTwinPrimeConjectureMath301.pdf

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis

Top mathematician says he solved the 'single most important open problem' in math after 160 years
- https://www.insider.com/riemann-hypothesis-solved-by-sir-michael-atiyah-after-160-years-he-says-2018-9

Skepticism surrounds renowned mathematician’s attempted proof of 160-year-old hypothesis
- https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/09/skepticism-surrounds-renowned-mathematician-s-attempted-proof-160-year-old-hypothesis

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Why should I care about prime numbers?
- https://www.quora.com/Why-should-I-care-about-prime-numbers?share=1

"That depends on who you are and what you're doing.

If you're a mathematician, you should care because it's a very important part of mathematics. If you're a computer scientists, especially one that works on cryptography, then you should care as well. If you're just a normal person who finds mathematics interesting and beautiful, then you should care because prime numbers is one of the most interesting and beautiful area of mathematics.

If you're none of the above, feel free not to care "

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Possibly numerous applications within applied mathematics ...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_mathematics

"Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical methods by different fields such as science, engineering, business, computer science, and industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a combination of mathematical science and specialized knowledge. The term "applied mathematics" also describes the professional speciality in which mathematicians work on practical problems by formulating and studying mathematical models. ..."

In regards to my previously posted links think anything to do with things that spin or rotate etc., again spirals and helices ...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral

Imagine the ASIC's ...

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This is why J0nn9 said: "Who knows?"

The fact that this so called 'bitcoin community' is still largely ignoring this work / coin is completely dumbfounding to me.

How are we ever going to wake up Hal if we can't even get folks to mine a cryptocurrency that actually breaks world records ...

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Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster (Official Video)
- https://youtu.be/gAjR4_CbPpQ

Not everyone. I gave up on making profit a long time ago lol. I prefer to support coins with causes I support. Folding @ home is a good example, so is this coin. I love tinkering around with different coins anyway. This is math - so I'm naturally interested.

Thanks for all the info. Is there any actual use for "gaps". i.e. having a record of all of them etc. I couldn't find any "tangible" use. I like coins that actually provide something, especially when I can mine with just an old computer. 3 blocks now so that's fun.

That almost always ends up killing a coin. People want a "leader", especially for others to do everything for them while they sit back and make money while crying about how nothing is happening.

That may be why I missed it. So many coming out it was hard to keep track of them all.

Yep. Just goes to show people are only here to make money.

Well said. I love math, always have. I have a tendency to lean towards coins such as this. Plus folding@home as well. I'm actually mining gapcoin and primecoin at the moment - I'll be more than happy to point my GPU rigs to gapcoin once a GPU miner is released that is stable.

Numerous reasons, perhaps ...

Cryptocurrency in general makes some folks glaze over, let alone complex mathematics.

Most people probably don't realize (or care) that this coin does what it says on the tin (although we could still use peer review).

The original developer no longer being with us became a sticking point, although it is certainly possible to move forward.

Gapcoin was launched almost during peek altcoin season and thus interest was somewhat fleeting to other crypto's along with the hash power.

We have been delisted from exchanges without any real reason other than a lack of trading volume and development.

ICO's and scam projects have been seemingly more attractive to 'investors'. Gapcoin has seen so many other projects come and go from this space and remains incredibly resilient none the less.

In theory, as more altcoins fail, Gapcoin should eventually become acknowledged. Both as a great alternative cryptocurrency and a work of mathematical / blockchain genius.

Various universities and colleges have been seen running the Gapcoin blockchain, mainly to extrapolate results.

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The way the Logarithmic Coin Issuance dovetails with the blockchain is actually the most impressive part, economically speaking.

It basically means that slightly more coins go into circulation with more hash power being added to the network. Which remains an incentive. Hence;

Cap: about 10 - 30 million GAP
Difficulty adjusts every block and increases logarithmically (it will probably take years to get to 50)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_spiral

In terms of monetary value each block contains both the block reward and the value of the prime gap discovered in the block. This obviously increases and decreases with the hashing power. I've been in Bitcoin on and off from the very start and Gapcoin is a very difficult concept to explain ...

Gapcoin is basically Bitcoin, with some fundamental laws of nature built in.

In terms of finding prime gaps against the network difficulty, it almost functions like a spiral or a helix ...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix



seashell spiral ...



If we imagine the blockchain running through the centre of the spiral, increasing hashpower moves us further from the middle to discover larger prime gaps.



Also see: Gapcoin Related Topics / Further Reading;

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_gap

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number 21  

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_cube

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_remainder_theorem

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_(mathematics)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_optimization

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_constant

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_logarithm

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_logarithm

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrational_number

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio

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The entire design is vastly superior to both primecoin and riecoin.

It is currently unknown if any upper bounds in terms of mining for prime gaps with Gapcoin might exist, because we don't know what the largest prime gap is ... However, fixed variables in the source code (accepted under consensus) are unlikely to cause any issues in the future with continuing to utilize Gapcoin as a cryptocurrency, in this regard. It's almost akin to the assumption that quantum computers will 'break' Bitcoin etc.,

Why is that? I know of primecoin but don't think I ever heard of this one before.

But you can mine it.

Sorry you think that.

Gapcoin is a genuine math altcoin started in 2014, unfortunately the project has largely gone unnoticed and ignored for a variety of reasons.

Everything has to start somewhere, even Bitcoin ...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20090303195936/http://bitcoin.org/

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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_gap

"As of December 2017, the largest known merit value and first with merit over 40, as discovered by the Gapcoin network, is 41.93878373 with the 87-digit prime 2937032340680225901587237661044194634257090755748117620985887982178957288586767 28143227. The prime gap between it and the next prime is 8350."

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Indiana Jones & the last crusade, choose wisely
- https://youtu.be/c3RN9zz77Cs *NSFW*

this coin looks so dodge

I was toying around with some primecoin gpu miners to see if they might work. No luck. I can’t get the gapcoin gpu miner to work, perhaps my 7950 gpu is too old. I’d be happy to try to build a pool if my hardware is up to par. I’m not smart enough to make a miner I don’t think. I’ve done plc programming and such.