Topic: [ANN][GAP] Gapcoin - Prime Gap Search - New Math Algo - CPU / GPU - Zero Premine - page 42. (Read 287669 times)

- https://gapcoin.network/downloads - https://gapcoin.network/downloads/Gapcoin_blockchain.zip - new - updated 23/06/2018
- Alt. ca.gapcoin.network/downloads/Gapcoin_blockchain.zip

## Operating System - Default gapcoin datadir - Typical path to configuration file i.e.
## Windows - %APPDATA%\Gapcoin\ - C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Gapcoin\gapcoin.conf
## Linux - $HOME/.gapcoin/ - /home/username/.gapcoin/gapcoin.conf

Always Backup your wallet.dat first.

gapcoin.conf for clearnet (example)

Having no connections over night , first time launch, tried some of the nodes I found here but not working. Any one with conf file copy that works , please. Thanks

Welcome one! welcome all !?!

Let's recap ...

- Gapcoin launched in 2014 ...
- Fair launch. No Pre-mine. Based on Bitcoin Core code base.
- Not a token. Not an ICO. No pre-sale.
- Currently still operates on a fully decentralized basis and unlike Bitcoin you can still mine Gapcoin with a fairly standard PC using your CPU and the wallet (just like you could with Bitcoin in 2009-2010 before pooled mining was invented). Gapcoin had a pool at one time, but it closed down.
- Difficulty adjusts every block and increases logarithmically. Which means slightly more coins are produced, when more people are mining!
- Every new block (with increased mining difficulty) has the potential to be a new world record prime gap.
- As of December 2017, the largest known merit value (prime gap) and first with merit over 40, was discovered by the Gapcoin network. (quick - someone call Norris McWhirter).

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- https://youtu.be/fxEqIt-NUSY

@j0nn9 - An open question from the Gapcoin community ...

Do you now have plans to continue with Gapcoin's development and/or with the future release of updated software, now or in the future ?

Kindest Regards,

Indeed. Gapcoin's value is undoubtedly, backed by Math ...  

We can assert that all prime gap records attained by Gapcoin do add to the value of the entire blockchain.

However, this perceived relationship between proof-of-work and value is somewhat unquantifiable in reality.

In terms of Gapcoin, if we consider 'the block' which currently holds the record for the prime gap of maximum known merit - do said coins at this address hold a value above other coins on the chain? In reality, probably not. Things are only worth what someone is willing to exchange them for at any given time. Moreover, auctioning the private key / wallet for the address also carries 'risk' for the buyer, detracting from value or worth.

If we consider transfer of said coins, in this regard, then the only real claim of additional value is perhaps linked to the origin of the coins. It has been asserted already that Bitcoin's of a known questionable origin (or tainted coins) may carry an (actual or perceived) reduced value over coins produced by new blocks or those with a determined 'clean' origin. This concept was developed in Zcash where "All coins are created equal.", due to the ability to hide the origin of coins via shielded addresses.

TBH most folks considering or using Gapcoin as a currency probably won't really care a jot in this regard, in exactly the same way that most users don't know or don't care about the cryptography which underlies Bitcoin.

You are 100% correct though. Gapcoin has two products! Gapcoin's and Prime Gap records ...

In fact, this blockchain has real Agency - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy)

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- https://cointelegraph.com/news/you-can-t-ban-blockchain-it-s-math-a-talk-with-jimmy-wales

Cryptocurrency is not a boat.
Your right to Entropy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory) - (your right to be unpredictable) is not a boat ...

... boat, boat, boat, boat, boat, boat, boat, boat, boat, boat, boat, unicorn, boat, boat, boat ...

I'll offer my hillbilly philosophical view on that.

Fiat has, as one of its main purposes, the managing of scarcity, trying to channel resources in a way that herds desperate people scratching for more resources.

Bitcoin has some improvements over fiat but does not actually produce anything, so even if its users are more progressive it still falls back to the fiat goal of managing scarcity.

Gapcoin and the other math and science coins though do actually produce a commodity through their use.

So even if it isn't apparent yet, coins like gapcoin will eventually be backed by the value of what they produce.

All that is left is for people to accurately value what coins produce, and then evaluate how what gapcoin, for example, produces compares to what a pizzeria or other group produces. 

Wikipedia updated:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_gap
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_gap#cite_note-max_merit-5

"... 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.[5]

Largest known merit values (as of January 2018)[5][6][7]
Merit    gn    digits    pn    Date    Discoverer
41.938784    8350    87    See above    2017    Gapcoin ..."

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- https://youtu.be/bmZ2bpJKXUI?t=5m21s - Mind the GAP     

- https://github.com/gapcoin/gapcoin/issues/8  

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As a Tor exit node operator (and contributor to tornull.org) I spend several hours a week responding to incidents of 'hate speech' being unfortunately perpetrated (by 'unknown' individuals) and whilst free speech is one thing these comments are most certainly deplorable. Hopefully, the developer or github will take appropriate action.

- https://youtu.be/POxMp61Ksbk

Gapcoin, like bitcoin is for everyone, everywhere.
... and especially on Bamboleo Wednesday's ...

- https://youtu.be/MC76lj-xsDw

Pi - Patterns
- https://youtu.be/BNOQUPmgbnY

Pi- Wall Street Quant on Number Theory and Patterns in the Stock Market
- https://youtu.be/FRgb4S1-tZ0

OK. Back to basics then, anyone?

- https://web.archive.org/web/20100327210623/http://www.bitcoin.org:80/faq

"... What is Gapcoin’s value backed by?

Gapcoin is valued for the things it can be exchanged to, just like all the traditional paper currencies are.

When the first user publicly announces that he will make a pizza for anyone who gives him enough Gapcoins, then he can use Gapcoins as payment to some extent - as much as people want pizza and trust his announcement. A pizza-eating hairdresser who trusts him as a friend might then announce that she starts accepting Gapcoins as payment for fancy haircuts, and the value of the Gapcoin would be higher - now it would be backed by pizzas "and" haircuts. When Gapcoins have become accepted widely enough, he could retire from his pizza business and still be able to use his Gapcoin-savings.

Currently, Gapcoin is in beta development stage, and some new features need to be implemented before the system is well suited for real use. The system already works on the basic level, though, and you can trade with it if you want to. ..."

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Now, "Write the expression for the volume of a thick crust pizza with height "a" and radius "z". *

- https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/qwq1u/in_honor_of_pi_day_what_is_your_favorite_math_joke/c415cxa/

    

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SWIM added ...

Q. "What do prime numbers and stoners have in common?"

A. "The higher they are, the more spaced out they get"

- https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/3qkaoy/what_do_prime_numbers_and_stoners_have_in_common/

  

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* Explanation: The formula for volume is π·(radius)2·(height). In this case, pi·z·z·a.

- https://gapcoin.club/linux-gapcoind-setup.php

- http://138.197.159.202/downloads/Gapcoin_blockchain.zip

This .zip will work OK in windows. However, you have reminded me that the current blockchain download link could use an upgrade. This chain is around 24hrs worth of syncing behind the current block count, depending on your network speed ofc.

New seed nodes and an updated blockchain download link ... soon.

Highly appreciate your generosity to share the invaluable, informative article for Gapcoin community, Sir.

Is there a blockchain download for this anywhere?  I mined this when it first came out.  Saved the wallet but rebuilt the machine.  I have to sync from scratch. 

 According with what the miners say i should get double the coins i get now. Any clues of what i may do wrong?

Gapcoin Club - New Prime Gap of Maximum Known Merit - Press Release - March 2018
- https://gapcoin.club/new-prime-gap-of-maximum-known-merit-press-release.php

Hello all,

Am currently having a look at the GPU Miner to see if it is possible to enable NVIDIA operation (seeing as NVIDIA embraced OpenCL finally); as well as looking into the stratum side as well, seeing as there was a running pool some time ago. Will make changes available to all.

Just a small whinge; whoever 'SwissKnife1000' is (unsure if he is a forum member or proper mental).. remove your 'commits' from the Gapcoin repository as they are embarrassing. I'm not quite sure who posts obnoxious remarks like that with their name next to it, but some of the commits suggest rather obvious procedures; just a shame to see the equivalent of graffiti on a worthwhile project. Pull them down or actually give the issues a go - the OpenSSL one is about 5-10 minutes of work.

B

Gapcoin on Tor config updated.

See : https://gapcoin.club/downloads/gapcoin.conf.tor.txt

## gapcoin.conf example for Gapcoin on Tor - gapcoin.club

## Operating System - Default gapcoin datadir - Typical path to configuration file i.e.
## Windows - %APPDATA%\Gapcoin\ - C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Gapcoin\gapcoin.conf
## Linux - $HOME/.gapcoin/ - /home/username/.gapcoin/gapcoin.conf


## Gapcoin on Tor - https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/gapcoin

## For Tor Visit - https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html
## Tor Manual - https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en

Nice one! Welcome back @j0nn9 !

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(source) World Record listed at: http://www.trnicely.net/#MaxMerit

"However, Bertil Nyman's maximal gap of 1132, following the prime 1693182318746371 (discovered 24 January 1999), continues to exhibit the greatest known value (0.92063858855742) of the Cramér-Shanks-Granville ratio G/ln²(p_1); this ratio is 0.210642105494715467 for the new Gapcoin gap. The limit superior of this ratio has been conjectured to be unity (or some even larger value); see the discussion in "New prime gaps between 1e15 and 5e16".

Thanks to Dana Jacobsen for alerting me to the discovery of this gap."

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(source) - Prime Gap Searches Crowdfunding - http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=22478

Quote : 2017-07-27, 22:53 "Dana Jacobsen" : ... "The gapcoin project makes a number of claims, such as "[...] 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." which is stretching things pretty severely. Finding new jumping champions helps bound the absolute gap size for some practical computations. It's possible the results will lead to some insight or data about gap size conjectures. It drives development of open source number theory software, which can be used for other tasks." ...

Quote : 2017-07-28, 07:52 "Dana Jacobsen" : ... "The Gapcoin project forum has regular discussion of how they want to get "math departments" interested in running Gapcoin mining software. It's a rather bizarre place, with a third of the people interested solely in ways to pump the price, a third who cannot form coherent thoughts but apparently the government is spying on them, and a third really wanting it to Help Science in some way while also mining coins." ...

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Bitcoin 101 - "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi

So, Gapcoin currently has a world record prime gap - achieved even without the support of a crypto mining pool - imagine the results with network hashing power equal to that of the Bitcoin network, for example. Not to shabby for a network limping along with sometimes less than 30-ish (stable) nodes!

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Hiatus - I'm currently busy completing work for a Zcash related project (preferring my digital-cash with actual Entropy these days!).  

Keen to keep my Gapcoin infrastructure online and to upgrade with developments as we progress, hopefully.

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P.S. "The government spies on everyone" , "There are known knowns" ~ SWIM

@j0nn9

Can we get the records list updated?  There should be some new ones.

http://gapcoin.org/primegaps-length.php

I think you are already late to the train. Because in previous 2 weeks it raised up to 200%. But anyway you could buy it, because I think that to the end of summer it will be 1000$