Topic: [ANN][GAP] Gapcoin - Prime Gap Search - New Math Algo - CPU / GPU - Zero Premine - page 49. (Read 287669 times)

Indeed. Work is continuing behind the scenes (at a slow pace due to having other commitments).

We can probably look to start a new thread once the website is upgraded with some more content.

If anyone wants to help support the project and the new infrastructure then donations / contributions are welcome here:

- gapcoin.club - GAP - GfPgFXmuH1XFTBtjHcVH1Bju4SbaeqWYeR
- gapcoin.club - BTC - 177yXWw8RhG94ThYdYnjT3kb8E7kjR4gMP
 

We now have 8 dedicated addnode=.onion's for Gapcoin

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

Two of the nodes are running as public Tor Relays;

- gapcoinclub0 - https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/ECB19658A16F608C8ED7B3AE44720ADE76AF063B
- gapcoinclub1 - https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/7584319D0E19DAE85621223E2A22F92123EAB815
  

It would be good to have a thread with the gapcoin.club website on the original post and which fx could update. J0nn9, like a lot of devs, seems to have burnt out on doing 100% of the work, but everything still seems to work well. The most important thing is to have a page that shows all the records, including realtime the latest ones.

UN7 and FX and YomKi, all of you seem to have a lot of tech knowledge, maybe this coin can live.

Look at how primecoin is rising and then look at the primecoin website http://primecoin.io/ Same Riecoin http://riecoin.org/updates.html They are all good coins but gap might be the better of the three.

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     Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Bitcoind x86
binary for CentOS    on: August 03, 2010, 09:05:08 PM
Quote from: sgtstein on August 03, 2010, 05:30:37 PM

I have successfully built it with 4.8, 4.7 never would but with 4.8
bitcoind locks up whenever it dumps the initial block download to disk.
Undecided


"I urge you not to use BDB 4.8.  The database/log0000* files will be
incompatible if anyone uses your build and then goes back to the
official build." ~ Satoshi



Here is a good example of a small piece of what is going on shaping
mental designs.  Their likely end game is to so thourghly destroy this
space with fraud and thefts and crime that people will demand their
other government run micro-chip blockchains.....................


Enter the Dragon - End Fight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unfPOkaedD0

"Rememeber the Enemy only has images and illusions behind which he hides his true motives, destroy the image and you will break the enemy"

It seems for Debian/Gnu the GPU does not build from Github, I read further back and Jonn9 never released it, only a windows version and a linux.zip.  I tried the GPU commands for ./gapminer no luck, I think for it to work I need the execute inside ./gapminer-gpu to fire up my Nano card.

Obviously I have no problem CPU mining this as the reward self-regulates, but if we want to break records we need working GPU mining and "working" GPU instructions.  Reading through this thread is pretty harsh, not missing much, starting a new thread couldn't hurt.

I find that most of this "culture" revolves around secret untold ways for people to master as their greed takes hold over them, designed this way by the digital organ harvest masters. 

Happy Sabbath GapCoiners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I buried 1.1 Million G.A.P. never to heard from again........................................and I will continue burning more till the rooster crows, or the fat lady sings........................

If Jonn9 doesn't show up to do some editing, we should also start a new thread that we/you can control and edit information as it becomes available for the first page. 

And use your website as well, as the old one while it still works. 

But list as much relevent of the old information as possible.................

TBH it takes a while to get up to full speed across all the rows. Although, I don't think that the 'true' pps value is being reflected here.

What I do know is that these are (more or less) the optimal CPU settings for finding the most blocks with my system, using the Chinese Remainder Theorem to speed up mining with the 512 large shift.

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If this community gets more organized and we have a couple of new pools running with tons of generic CPU miners to push the difficulty up + solo miners running the CRT then we could smash the record.

The CRT miner did not exist when the pool was running at full-tilt. If a pool can be set-up to accept shares of differing shifts on different ports then this will be very interesting!

I've just run some numbers on the approximate cost of generating 1 GAP against avg. electricity prices and hardware etc., and based on CPU mining at the current difficulty level (against a BTC price of more than $1000) 1 GAP coin should really have a min. value of no less than around 500 satoshi's.

Anyone selling at less than 500 satoshi either has free hardware and/or free electricity, or perhaps mined / accumulated a lot after the pool closed down, or before the first block halving etc., GPU mining wouldn't of made that much difference.

Its all relative, although something to think about.

Was this just a general comment on life, or do you believe finding large prime gaps to be relevant to this?

For
 Economy probably the most realistic solutiion would be to start a LLP
offshore company in Antigua (just joking) that offers customized sifts
and hash rates for N.A.S.A. and or others to break encryptions.  

Now you might seem like I am anti-encryption, I am not I am anti weak
encryption and if we can break the current system we can force it to
move to higher standards than the current extremely weak ones of today.  

great work.
i want advanced guide for cloud mining (security).
that is cool

The next gapcoin.club guides will be for GPU mining, an advanced guide for cloud mining (security), compiling the GUI for ubuntu 16.04 LTS and a how to for Gapcoin on Tor.

If you look back in the thread there are some settings / commands for GPU mining.

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As much as its great to have the Gapcoin network (and mining) fully decentralized at present, we are going to need a pool or two up and running to stand the best change at hitting a world record prime gap.

My main focus at present is a new working pool, some basic promo and outreach to the mathematics / academic communities.

Interested mining pool operators and developers are welcome to PM me.

Gapcoind - Linux Desktop and/or Server Setup

+ Get $10 FREE Credit to try Cloud Mining Gapcoin at DO (that's 2 months worth of mining on a single core CPU - and yes at the current network difficulty of around 21 - 22 each instance can find at least a couple of blocks per day.)

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

Perhaps someone would give the set-up a go to check that nothings 'borked'.  

@UsernameNumber7 Thanks! Useful input here, moving forward.

Don't forget;

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=822498.msg9295189;topicseen#msg9295189

setgenerate generate ( genproclimit ) ( sievesize ) ( sieveprimes ) ( shift )

Set 'generate' true or false to turn generation on or off.
Generation is limited to 'genproclimit' processors, -1 is unlimited.
See the getgenerate call for the current setting.

Arguments:
1. generate         (boolean, required) Set to true to turn on generation, off to turn off.
2. genproclimit     (numeric, optional) Set the processor limit for when generation is on. Can be -1 for unlimited.
                    Note: in -regtest mode, genproclimit controls how many blocks are generated immediately.
3. sievesize        (numeric, optional) Sets the size of the prime sieve.
4. sieveprimes      (numeric, optional) Sets the amount of primes used in the sieve.
5. shift            (numeric, optional) Sets the header shift.
                    Note: sieve size can only have 2^shift size.

Note: shift also should be in range [14, 512]

Shift, should be the most sensitive parameter, because it controls the bit size of the primes.
Second would be sieve primes.

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I've run some tests for the built-in wallet miner. Shifts above 28 seem to have a lower performance when CPU mining.

The most optimal range is seemingly the 25 or 26 shift range. I think that the 26 range has a higher gaps per. day / primespersec ratio.

2^25 = 33554432
2^26 = 67108864

So,


or


Generation is limited to 'genproclimit' processors, -1 is unlimited. ^^ i.e. Num CPU Threads   

CUSTOM
 QT WALLET MINER CONFIGURATION TUTORIAL

It is possible to create our own in-wallet miner customized.  We can use
 the GapMiner as a test bed to try various sifts and shifts before we
generate our wallet.  We can do this with many different saved profiles
of generated wallet QT's.  Just by renaming them.  And using Terminal Cd
 Gapcoin1 or Cd Gapcoin2 /src/qt than ./gapcoin-qt to start up whichever
 wallet Sift we wish to Mine with.

This is by far the simplest solution.  

First go to home folder and delete the git Cloned gapcoin folder if you
have already built the QT wallet.

freshly git clone of Gapcoin


Find the gapcoin folder once its done click, src click, find open
RPCRawTransaction.cpp click,

Change line 299 to

const CScriptID& hash = boost::get(address);

Click Save and close


in Gapcoin/SRC find and open Miner.cpp

scroll down

to the mining shift and mining sift and sieve information.  Input your
set paramaters based on your GapMiner trials.  Click save and close. (I
recommend only changing the shift at this point unless you played with
your own settings using GapMiner)

Finish the rest of the Wallet QT generation

cd gapcoin
git submodule init
git submodule update
./autogen.sh
./configure
make

Remember not to touch the .gapcoin hidden folder in Debian/Gnu.  DO NOT
TOUCH IT.  If you have already sync'd the blockchain and your wallet is
loaded this will not be touched at all by this operation.

If you want to generate a new custom wallet miner you need to change the
 git clone gapcoin folder and rename it to gapcoinshift45 or
gapcoinshift175 ect....just remember if you want to use one of them you
need to use in Terminal

Cd gapcoinshift45/src/qt

./gapcoin-qt

To start your wallet every time, but you will work off the same
wallet.dat file and same blockchain ect...........


Also be careful of Berkely Database upgrading automatically from 4.8 which will require a re-install and removal again of the newer Berkely database.  This will show up with ./configure part of the operation. 

Indeed. Gapcoin is a solid crypto-currency with a useful PoW, unlike Bitcoin.

It also has an economic model to rival other crypto's, if we can start to build-up any kind of economy using GAP.

"The big improvement in comparison to Bitcoin is that instead of burning electricity for it's own sake, Gapcoins Proof of Work function actually does useful work by searching for large prime gaps - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_gap "

"Specifications:
PoW: custom, prime gaps
Block target time 2.5 minutes
Block reward proportional to the current difficulty
Block reward halving every 420000 (about 2 years)
Cap: about 10 - 30 million GAP
Difficulty adjusts every block and increases logarithmically (it will probably take years to get to 50)

Fair launch:
Gapcoin was not designed to enrich the early adopters or the coin creators! Unlike Primecoin, the more people that mine Gapcoin, the more coins per block will be produced. (Coin supply will increase logarithmically with the difficulty, this means it will grow in the beginning, but later, it won't change that much.)

There wasn't any premine!"

If the network hash power gets high enough then we do eventually stand a good chance at breaking the world record prime gap! Which would certainly be a news worthy event.

When Gapcoin did have a working pool, folks were mining only at the lower shifts. With a couple of new pools, some regained popularity and bulk solo miners using the higher CRT shifts, then we might stand a very good chance at a new world record and if not then the blockchain will certainly be full of useful mathematical data.

We already see regular connections from Universities across Europe, the US and Asia who are clearly interested in harvesting the math results that Gapcoin generates.

Nice work BitcoinFX, together we can hopefully move this thing along........I am more and more impressed with Jonn9's work though.  The windows side is the only one that needs a "developer" otherwise Gapcoin is more advanced  compared to other shitcoins. 

My Debian/Gnu updated the SSL cert automatically when I built it. 

I am looking for the commands to start the GPU, I got the AMD kernal installed........

Gapcoin now has 5 8 addnode=.onion addresses for connectivity via the Tor network.

addnode=gapjxn4tu4gxmqxv.onion
addnode=gapqwfoecvhkoifb.onion
addnode=gap2nsvhispcyuw3.onion
addnode=gapr7miih6qnvpa5.onion
addnode=gapjp4zaoxeefepi.onion
addnode=gaptbn4uyvv7ln7d.onion
addnode=gap5eiwtcw35ympv.onion
addnode=gapxnu2mgche3y7v.onion

If you want to connect Gapcoin via Tor, then here is a gapcoin.conf client example;


Note that the Tor Expert Bundle uses SOCKS port 9050 instead.

You can just connect the wallet via the Tor Browser Bundle (although it is not really advised for privacy as it will potentially effect the anonymity of browsing, but it will work). Instead you should use and configure the Tor Expert Bundle.

Tor (torrc additions) client only for TBB, example;


Note that you obviously need to start the TBB first (and keep it open / running) and then start the Gapcoin wallet. The reverse being correct for shut down.

LongLivedPorts is the 'default' TBB / Tor ports list + Gapcoin port 31469 - the default ports list is present to help ensure that the client does not stand out.

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This information will be added to the new gapcoin.club website in due course along with a more up-to-date copy of the Gapcoin_blockchain.zip - however a fairly recent copy is available from cryptochainer.com

- http://108.61.216.160/cryptochainer.chains/chains/Gapcoin_blockchain.zip
 

Which version did you compile ?

- https://github.com/gapcoin/GapMiner/

Pre-built static Linux binaries for the GPU miner are here:

- https://github.com/gapcoin/GapMiner/releases/

I don't think the CRT mining was working with GPU mining.

You might also find that the sieve runs on the CPU and that mining uses 100% CPU when GPU mining. GPU mining is only around 6x faster.

I'm not going to say "I'm an active developer" for Gapcoin, although I am trying to generate new interest in this project.

Finding a new fully competent developer is certainly on the to do list.

The Gapcoin network is stable, the although the wallet could use some feature and compatibility updates + new OpenSSL - Bitcoin v0.9.2 (which Gapcoin Core is built on) was actually a reasonable release with some necessary security fixes.

- https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.9.2