Topic: [ANN][GAP] Gapcoin - Prime Gap Search - New Math Algo - CPU / GPU - Zero Premine - page 47. (Read 287669 times)

Goodluck BitcoinFX we will need it..........

If we can get to 30 million Primes per second we would hit a big goal long term if we can maintain it.




Investments are getting squeezed everywhere not much left to squeeze out of some projects for profit, The Federal Reserve seems to have hooked up the bubble in the stock market with Digital Currencies to make sure in a crash they both fall together at least in their minds, which couples with their other line of fraud ICO's and spamming fake crypto projects to dilute energy systems from the Bitcoin eco-system.

Still actively seeking a developer that we can work with and continuing to contact existing pool operators for a new pool.

Also contacted CoinExchange.io to enquire if they might add Gapcoin (GAP) ...


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Within the next month or so I will be commencing with a development fund for Gapcoin also incorporating some mining contracts for investors in the project. Shares will likely be issued via coinprism - https://www.coinprism.com/ - Open Assets Platform.

Agree with FX.

This coin  is probably as good a coin as you'll find to hold on to.

- https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange/?market=GAP_BTC
- https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange/?market=GAP_LTC

- https://novaexchange.com/market/BTC_GAP/
- https://novaexchange.com/market/LTC_GAP/

Wish I could visit my 2010-2011 self to say "you might want to keep just a few of those" !

Disclaimer: This post does not constitute financial advice.

Please help if gapcoin is still somewhere trade? I have some mined coins long, I would gladly get rid of them, if they are worth anything else 

PM sent.

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Also,

Gapcoin Club Tor nodes have been upgraded to either Tor 0.2.9.11 or 0.3.0.8

- https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-0308-released-fix-hidden-services-also-are-02429-02514-02612-0278-02814-and-02911

"Source code for a new Tor release ( 0.3.0.8 ) is now available on the
website. Among other things, it fixes two issues in earlier versions
of the hidden service code that would allow an attacker to cause a
hidden service to exit with an assertion failure."

Gapcoin Club Tor nodes can be found here, if anyone needs them;

- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.18512899

Yes, Gapcoin has more genuine Tor nodes than the recent and 2nd incantation of "Torcoin".  

... and GAP is also helping with research for tornull.org - as mining Gapcoin (even on single core instances is mostly above BE) helping to self-fund the nodes, some of which are also Bridges!

Math + Science + Research and yet most folks on this forum would still seemingly rather invest or support 'vapour-ware' ICO's  *shrugs*  

If you can make a bounty wallet I'll contribute a small amount. Maybe ask that person to just take a brief look at the code and see if there is any obvious way to make an improvement. There is a chart on one of the linked pages that shows a bunch of different algorithms for finding primes, or something, so efficiency seems to be a focus. Maybe even ask if he/she will look over the other math/science coins algorithms briefly, xpm, ric, grc, etc and look for obvious mistakes the original devs might have missed. I have some grc so if you make a bounty wallet in gap and grc to induce experts I'll donate a little bit to start. Maybe a small part of the gap bounties you collect can be used to selectively offer faucets on university math websites.

I've dropped Dana Jacobsen an email to gauge if they might have any interest in helping with the Gapcoin project.

- https://archive.org/details/danajacobsennumbertheory - print "Just another Perl hacker,";
- who also codes in C, C+GMP and is somewhat legendary in this field, I'd imagine.

TBH I have collated a database of university math / science depts, ready to be contacted as we progress, hopefully.

Would be incredible to get that person to take a look at all of the math and science coins and suggest tweaks to the algorithms.

It is a matter of computational certainty.

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Dana Jacobsen - https://github.com/danaj

Wallets
 won't change unless you change databases..................Using Gapcoin
 as the 2d bridge to the 3d Quantum world.

You don't want to enter Quantum computers without a strong fall back
base.  It will help a lot with error correction and logic gates if you
can build your own Quantum Logic Gates using Prime Gaps to
directly generate Quantum systems from Gap blockchain. 

The Quantum operations could just be ported off the blockchain for security much like the NSA uses DPI (deep packet inspection) tools.    

You can say with good certainty that if the difficulty reaches 38.07 almost every block will either produce a new record or beat an old record of some length?  

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My first inclination would be to try and have a landing page that spells out the benefit of having more people on the network, then send targeted traffic to the page, like per mil ads in science journals. Would be a cheap campaign and might lead to a vast effect. I am probably not going to do that, but if somebody with an interest in math who wants to learn about advertising wants to try I might chip in a little for ads.

Also, from your link I see the 17th highest merit ever prime gap was found by Gapcoin. But also there is one person on the list Dana Jacobsen who has some skill in finding high merit gaps. Eventually, if the coin gets more organized, it may be wise to see if somebody like that knows something that can sharpen the algorithm.

I will say that I'm not incapable of completing a new windows Gapcoin wallet release including updated SSL etc., however a new competent developer is required to move the project forward.

Gapcoin becoming fully 'decentralized' without a working pool for sometime now has been interesting. Mining in the wallet should remain an essential focus for an attempt at a new world record prime gap - along with pooled mining.

Right now, we really need a new trusted pool to muster some fresh interest and to start the new thread topic etc., I have been asking various long-term community pool operators if they would take a look at running a new Gapcoin pool.


@gjhiggins is currently unable to assist with Gapcoin development due to other time constraints.

Any pooled mining at a set 'shift' difficulty increases the total network difficulty and the potential for finding new prime gap records.

For example, I'm currently solo mining using the crt-512 shift CPU miner and with a network difficulty between 21 to 22 - hitting a new block will often therefore carry a merit of 24 and above.

Pooled mining with the crt shifts (which gives opportunity for higher merits) did not exist with noncepool (gapcoin's only ever working pool). However, pooled mining could be made to work in this regard, as long as miners know which shift to mine with and at which port provided by the pool etc.,

Although, with an increased network hashrate and difficulty - blocks with higher merits will be found automatically.

" if the difficulty reaches 35.4245 38.07, every block will be a new world record:

Top 20 Prime Gaps - http://primerecords.dk/primegaps/gaps20.htm "

So, currently we need to reach a difficulty of around 30 to 35 and/or one of the (solo) miners at a higher shift needs to be 'lucky'.

With a couple of pools, CPU and/or GPU solo mining and real CPU cloud mining instances in operation - it is highly feasible to smash a new prime gap record with gapcoin mining.

Your post before that probably added a lot of knowledge to the thread for tech types but ...

hardfork = no please.

I don't know what all that quantum optics python stuff is but if it requires a hardfork and prevents previous wallets then I vote against it.

https://github.com/bastikr/QuantumOptics.jl

Linux Quantum Optics for Julia Programming Language

If we could hard fork this into Gapcoin that would brilliant

Obviously
 no one is a developer of G.A.P. everyone contributes as he sees fit and
 is able.

But the spirit of the new thread is not for promotion purposes but to
update the "Essentials" into the first page to get someone interested in
 started to keep things moving with minimal input or investment.  

In a perfect world I would want Gmaxwell to "backport" code.  We do not
need a full time programmer just someone who knows C++ enough to
cherry-pick from Litecoin and Bitcoin Core and backport to Bitcoin Core
9.2

Someone could do it in their free time, I would prefer to keep the loose
 decentralized structure instead of feel "comfort" from a
developer ignoring the sense of urgency to contribute their skills in a
 manner of their choosing with the knowledge that it would be done
without much fighting or hijacking, but obviously Bitcoin shows that
that is what is likely even with decentralized models for implementing
code.  And sometimes malicious actors try to get their code in as well.


If we get the new Thread than we can wait around for a New Programmer
who will see the price of G.A.P. and invest themselves as a real
entrepreneur would do.  There is no Fed.Gov pig trough here to feed off
it will succeed or fail due to our collective skills or lack thereof.  

Furthermore, Maybe Jonn9 will awake from his Coma and return and thus
the need for a developer will be negated, but what good is a developer
without a proper vision?  

The most I would feel comfortable with for a QT wallet would be
integrated GPU and CPU mining which is no small feat considering the
lack of interest in any vision for such a direction.  It would need to
be customize to control integrated only GPU mining with proper
manipulation and Only CPU mining or full blown GPU/CPU mining which is
the end goal using the Solid framework the QT computer code brings to
the table.

Cheaply we would be better served to focus on someone who could update
Github code base with new SSL cert rather than trying to focus on
Windows or Mac niche realms.  Unfortunately there are not enough
resources to do such things for G.A.P.
Someone who is a carbon system will demand too much compensation for
such trivial additions to the G.A.P. program.  But updating the Github
code would benefit the most bang for the buck.  


I know if someone came along and tried moving Gapcoin to the newest
Bitcoin Code dumping the integrated Miner I would be gone.  Probably
keep my coins but Daemons is not something that interests me and the
work load is not worth the effort.

Daemons and QT are not opposites however they complement each other, I
just wish to not adopt the one or the other approach as Bitcoin has,
both can grow together and fulfill different needs which makes both
stronger.  

Gmaxwell could update this in his sleep if he wanted to, but we need a
strong QT developer if anything who knows C++ as well.

Gapcoin has already found lots of record gaps. Yom Ki fixed up some script to automatically submit found gaps and they do seem to show up, you can search "Gapcoin  2017" on Nicely's site, http://www.trnicely.net/#TPG

Regarding a dev, it would be great to get gjhiggins, he has added a lot of value to slimcoin even if not yet reflected at exchange.

Regarding pools, I do not understand exactly how that works, but the goal of the coin is to find gaps and you should clarify whether pools or individual miners will have a net better result in terms of gaps. Even though I'm not a miner I would tend to support individuals over pools, unless pools offer some advantage in finding gaps. As I've said, I don't mine and don't know which is better etc.

Regarding exchange in wallet, you are right. But there is another thing to keep in mind. The current 'exchange' system is not suitable for when coins go mainstream. There has to be some way found to provide very easy liquidity, conversion from one currency to another, without the need for 'payment processors', merchant service companies etc. It isn't practical to connect all coin wallets, hundreds of coins, but groupings of coins, like science and math coins, seems smart.

Thanks to whoever extended the block explorer hosting! I was going to renew it (again) and was delighted that someone else had already contributed in this regard.

Considering the future possibility for new bounties ...

TBH I'm personally not really in support of built-in wallet exchanges or other kinds of wallet additions, certainly not in the main branch anyway.

A wallet is a wallet IMHO and any connectivity to 3rd party apps / services etc., is mostly rather hideous in reality! However, a separate branch with built-in exchange functionality is certainly a possibility, if the community supports it. I'm not a developer for Gapcoin.

I think that our basic essential community requirements (moving forward) included;

1. A new known dev. who can bring the code base more up-to-date and compile a windows wallet with the latest SSL + we could also use a Mac wallet ofc.

@PeterTheGrape - I'm wondering if @gjhiggins - https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/gjhiggins-254673 - would have the time and/or inclination to work on Gapcoin. It seems that many folks from this thread have also had a long-term mutual interest in Slimcoin - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/slimcoin-first-proof-of-burn-currency-decentralized-web-1141676 , myself included, (with @gjhiggins now being the main Slimcoin projects take-over dev.) In fact, I'll drop him a PM after this post! I see no reason why my existing Gapcoin servers would be able to be extended to host a Slimcoin daemon as well.

2. A working pool or two and perhaps a new faucet.

With these aspects in place I'd be OK with starting a new thread and commencing with promotional activity for the new world record attempt.

I'll soon add a second stage to the existing cloud mining guide to suggest limiting the default Gapcoin daemon miner to only utilize around 65% CPU - as Digital Ocean, Linode and Vultr don't seem to flag instances that are running Gapcoin with such a CPU restriction in place. It's not mining anyway, it's math and science. 

To stand a real shot at a world record prime gap we only need to focus / increase the network hashing power for a relatively limited duration.
 

Thank you , that got me going

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