Topic: [ANN][GAP] Gapcoin - Prime Gap Search - New Math Algo - CPU / GPU - Zero Premine - page 40. (Read 287669 times)

It's a bit frustrating when this happens:
[2018-07-21 17:09:33] Found Share: 27.1042661  =>  stale!
[2018-07-17 18:55:30] Found Share: 29.9036025  =>  stale!


Would be nice if you can have the stale gaps printed to screen so potential records could still be submitted.  Especially if it happened to be a new world record ie: 40+ merit so it wouldn't be lost.

For non-professional miners, CPU mining is more attractive.

Current number of blocks 812300

Last block time Thu Jul 19 11:59:36 2018 (GMT)

Next block halving 840000

Block target time 2.5 minutes

You do the math. 

Welcome! Gapcoin is not a business per say, simply a cryptocurrency like bitcoin, although with a useful PoW function and a faster transaction time, like Litecoin. However, I'm certainly glad to see some new forum users taking a look and realizing that this project certainly has some unique MERITS (did you see what I did there). 

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Some basic updates to the gapcoin.club website today. I've dropped the Gapcoin Club heading and simply replaced it with Gapcoin Cryptocurrency, as I felt that the notion of a club might pertain some potential new adopters to perceive a membership requirement or something else i.e. no barrier to entry.

I've added additional links for 'free' server credits with various hosting companies - so hopefully, as I now commence with extensive traffic exchange promotion we might see an increase in nodes and hash rate etc., we can but try! Basic web banners will go 'live' by this Friday.

Personally I'd simply like to see the Gapcoin project reach its full potential, mathematically speaking.

Mining difficulty is currently low and the most important thing to realize is that we broke a world record prime gap with around only 50+ nodes on the network and without a pool.

Imagine the prime gap records to be discovered with similar computational power to that of the Bitcoin network!

So many copy and paste coins have been created on this forum - many now abandoned or defunct. Gapcoin is clearly developed by a mathematician and actually closely follows Bitcoin's finite economic model, with some further improvements in the logarithmic coin issuance through mining (imho). The total number of Gapcoin's to be mined will be somewhere between 10 to 30 million i.e. probably around 20 million.

The most important thing about this project is the data / optimization of the prime gaps.

In the future, this type of data optimization on a blockchain (not by gapcoin per say) could potentially be used to solve all sorts of real world problems - anything from research into individually tailored medicines, construction, or simply for calculating the ever changing distance between rock and stardom etc.,

In short, the product (i.e. what is produced) and/or the process of data optimization on a blockchain does not necessarily need to be currency.

Gapcoin is a working example of both.

I found this one https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=915439.new#new that talks about CPU power, but GPU... Also, no ICO, no premined... what are your personal goals in the project? (Probably asked before, but I don't know)

Let's try ... "A picture is worth a thousand words" ...



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

Welcome ! (Mr Robot ?) ...  

Get Gapcoin | Real Crypto | Real Math | Real Commodity Money

Useful PoW | Functional Mathematics | Logarithmic Coin Issuance | Unique Blockchain

Not a Token | Not an ICO | No Pre-sale | No Pre-mine

- https://gapcoin.club

- https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange?market=GAP_BTC *
* This is not investment advice and caveat emptor - "Let the buyer beware".

+ It's still comparatively easy to mine gapcoin in-wallet and to find blocks with just a single core CPU. I'd certainly recommend all new users to try mining some first...

Higher total network hashing power means that the gapcoin network will find larger prime gaps.

No worries.

This one made me chuckle ...

Steve Wozniak: Bitcoin is mathematical
- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/steve-wozniak-bitcoin-is-mathematical-3325581

Apologies for my poor formatting, I edited my original post to make the comment credit more clear.

Cheers

Graham

True that.   

Much read. Robots wow ...

Get Gapcoin | Real Crypto | Real Math | Real Commodity Money

Useful PoW | Functional Mathematics | Logarithmic Coin Issuance | Unique Blockchain

Not a Token | Not an ICO | No Pre-sale | No Pre-mine

EDIT: + No Forks (yet!).   

Interesting. Whilst that may be an apparently plausible/popular opinion, it's a long way from the (far more prosaic) reality.

Cheers

Graham
Edit: clarified origin

Two great tweets that present both Gapcoin's lineage and position as an alt coin with useful PoW.
(Note: tweets not directly about Gapcoin though!);


@BryceWeiner
https://twitter.com/BryceWeiner/status/1016822767520395264

" Bitcoin spawned Peercoin.

Peercoin spawned proof of stake.

The creator of Peercoin is also the creator of Primecoin, the only truly ASIC resistant proof of work blockchain to ever be created.

No proof of stake blockchain has ever been more successful than peercoin. "

@BryceWeiner
https://twitter.com/BryceWeiner/status/1016955033647120384

" Beneath the hype.

Long past the pumps.

Cryptocurrency is a brutal, predatory space where unprotected and unsecured networks are destroyed for the slightest bit of value.

If you think any coin that survived four years is a sh1tcoin, think again.

#cryptodarwinism "

 

Probably a 'private' pool or testing one ...

all blocks find go to different address, how set fix adress for solo mining ?

like this: https://chainz.cryptoid.info/gap/#!extraction

Debian Testing I reccommend the Mate desktop

Coolio!  

One wonders if we might someday use a Public Ledger to 'optimize' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Exceptionally_Simple_Theory_of_Everything

Although, they do say that no two Go games are the same ? - https://www.deos.org/ - lolz

Perhaps we just need to know how to make it spin, you know, like a spiral, in nature ?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral

Well, does anyone have a good reason for not using the improbability drive ?  

- https://youtu.be/RXMnDG3QzxE - 216 everywhere ?

Oh dear, little better than a Markov chain. And clickbait headlines are saying that GAI is imminent (which I'll read as: "no more imminent than it was 30 years ago").

Honestly, just semi-random shuffling of a text corpus will get you quite a long way, as I trivially demonstrate in Minki's "Hodlerscope": https://minkiz.co/hodlerscope

Cheers

Graham

I'm not as old-school as my writing style might lead one to believe Happy to be addressed as "Graham" but also perfectly happy to acknowlege societal differences.

Makes sense for a coin daemon on the open subnet but many Linux users are safely NATted away on a local network and I've found that modern routers handle UPNPC quite nicely (although my asynch internet connection suffers a bit from the incoming calls taking up bandwidth but that's the penalty for running a full node on a local network, aiui).

It'll depend on your Linux distro and its C++ version, for my Mint 18.X distro, the correct syntax is, apparently:

        base58Prefixes[PUBKEY_ADDRESS] = std::vector(1,66);
        base58Prefixes[SCRIPT_ADDRESS] = std::vector(1,5);
        base58Prefixes[SECRET_KEY] =     std::vector(1,194);
        base58Prefixes[EXT_PUBLIC_KEY] = {0x04, 0x88, 0xB2, 0x1E}; // xpub
        base58Prefixes[EXT_SECRET_KEY] = {0x04, 0x88, 0xAD, 0xE4}; // xprv

But, YMMV depending on your distro and version of C++. For altcoin archeology/forensics, I've started to use VMs of LInux distros contemporary to the launch date of the coin.

Just to satisfy my curiosity, which Debian version?

Cheers

Graham