Topic: [ANN][RIC] Riecoin: constellations POW *CPU* HARD FORK successful, world record - page 311. (Read 684945 times)

get out...get out seriously. You havent even read what this coin is...Go ask for free Dogecoins and let this one alone.

ughhhh. Not another Hype-Coin. Besides a tweak to the algorithm there is (yet again) nothing of real value with this new coin. Wow you can find prime numbers. PrimeCoin does that. Problem is everyone is scratching and scraping to get on the next "Bitcoin" so any new coin that gets released everyone and their grandmother jumps on it.

Sure, people will make money once accepted into exchanges but after x amount of time this coin will be like all the rest. Just a few pennies in a sea of endless alt coins.

This is part of the problem. Week after week anyone with a basic programming and marketing knowledge can make the next hypecoin. There is no innovation here. You can find prime numbers? a little different way? whoop-de-do.

How do you expect your coin to get passed the hype-trade?

The 3 major players are as follows:

BTC
LTC
PrimeCoin

That is it. Ride the hype! Go for it! make some money! but for long term investors? Like myself? NO THANKS.

Good Luck with your coin though. Really.
These type of coins are really really irritating!

Wohoo, gotta see if this prime number coin is useful for advancements in math.


Look out before your post gets deleted.

This question will be better explained in a few days when I release the details of how the PoW works.
But yes, we'll be searching for large primes, and as the difficulty increases the size of the primes will grow larger. In fact that's how the retarget works: every 288 blocks a new size for the required primes is calculated in order to have 1 block every approx 2.5 minutes.

In contrast, Primecoin puts an upper bound on the size of the primes in its chain.

What is the utility of hashing prime numbers?  Or are you searching for large primes (as opposed to cunningham chaims of Primecoin)?

can this be launch earlier 

I am really looking forward to this!

Like it

Thank you! This is very interesting and I can say without a doubt that I will be pointing my CPU farm at this on launch.

YAY!!

waiting for it...

Details of how the PoW algorithm works will be released this week, but the source code will be provided at launch time.

great,i like it

Any technical details?

Finally! Great 

riecoin

Launched between 20:00 and 23:59 UTC on Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2014

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New client v0.10.2 Mandatory update: hard-forked at block 160704
Hard fork was successful! It allowed us to break the world record for the largest prime sextuplet with 654 digits
Sources are in github (github.com/riecoin/riecoin) and binaries in sourceforge (https://sourceforge.net/projects/riecoin/files/riecoin%200.10.2/).
More details here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9396060

Download optimized solo cpu miner v3.1.1:https://sourceforge.net/projects/riecoin/files/cpuminer%20rminerd%203.1.1/

General parameters:

• PoW: new idea, prime numbers, not Cunningham chains
• Blocks every 2.5 minutes
• Block reward of 50RIC, halving every 840000 (about 4 years)
• Cap: about 84 million RIC
• Difficulty adjustments every 576 blocks (24hs) 288 blocks (12hs)
• RPC port 28332, or 38332 for testnet
• P2P port 28333, or 38333 for testnet

Website: http://riecoin.org/ (currently down beacuse of DDos)

The process of money creation in Bitcoin - referred to as mining - involves executing software that utilizes your hardware running sha256 hashes until a certain criterion is met. This part of the mining process is called generating a "Proof of work". The whole mining process also has a critical role in processing transactions and providing security to the network. It is estimated that all the processing power devoted to Bitcoin mining represents more computing power than several of the largest supercomputers in the world combined. Wouldn't it be great to be able to use all that massive power for something else?

Even special purpose hardware was designed for Bitcoin mining. Some consider this a waste of resources, while others argue that supporting a decentralized currency is hardly a waste. We believe that the mining process required for currency to work does not need to include hashing functions as a Proof of Work, and that a "more useful" calculation can be done instead.

That's the point of Riecoin: the mining process, besides fulfilling its function to the operation of the network, generates series of prime numbers as a by-product. This prime numbers are of interest to mathematicians and the scientific community. Riecoin is proof that it is possible to effectively harness all that massive computing power to something useful other than hashing functions.

Fair launch:

Since this is a new PoW, it is very hard to define a starting difficulty that avoids instamining. To overcome this and contribute to a fair launch, the first 576 blocks will have no reward and the next 576 will linearly increase and reach the full reward at block 1152, after 4 difficulty adjustments were performed. Besides avoiding instamining, this should allow time for those who want to compile their own clients.
Expect the starting difficulty to be hard.
Source code will be provided a few days before launch, but the PoW functions will be replaced by stubs. The idea is that everyone would be able to examine the code and confirm that there's nothing strange and it is indeed pretty similar to bitcoin's. Everyone would be able to compile it, see if they have the correct dependencies, etc, but it won't run. At launch time, when the final code is released, everyone could easily check that the only thing that changed is the PoW code, so you'd only have to check the diff of a few lines of code and recompile.

Mining

A basic miner is embedded in the client (use "setgenerate true"), but a fork of cpu-miner that is much more optimized will be released too. Optimized mining requires a sieve, which in general create a RAM access bottleneck, so it's hard to predict how much improvement would you get by using the GPU. I'd bet someone will find a way to implement an efficient GPU miner. Same thing with ASICs. But if they make an ASIC for this, they would be making an ASIC that could be used to find interesting prime number structures.


LINKS

Cool intro video: http://vimeo.com/87464754

Forums:
- http://www.riecointalk.com/
- https://cryptocointalk.com/forum/875-riecoin-ric/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheRiecoinCommunity

Twitter: @riecoin

Android apps/widgets: new!
- Paper wallet (in Play store)
- Riecoin widget (in Play store)
- Riecoin shooter (in Play store)


Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/riecoin

There was an article on NewScientist! http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25123-virtual-currency-riecoin-tackles-prime-number-enigma.html#.Uw-hrfmSzcA
And slashdot: http://science.slashdot.org/story/14/02/22/1938218/riecoin-a-cryptocurrency-with-a-scientific-proof-of-work

Listed at:
- http://www.worldcoinindex.com/
- http://coinmarketcap.com/
- http://www.cryptocoinrank.com/Riecoin

Exchanges:
- CryptoDAO:
                BTC/RIC:https://cryptodao.com/site/index/RIC/BTC
                LTC/RIC:https://cryptodao.com/site/index/RIC/LTC
                ETH/RIC:https://cryptodao.com/site/index/RIC/ETH
                USD/RIC:https://cryptodao.com/site/index/RIC/USD
- POLONIEX
- btc38.com

Pools:
- uBlock.it new!
- ric.nonce-pool.com (stratum)
- RiePool (stratum)
- xpoolx (stratum)
- http://ypool.net/ (xpt) they also have an online wallet and a faucet
- ric.upcpu.com (xpt)
- gpupool (not technically pooled mining, research before using)

Stratum miner:
- https://github.com/gatra/fastrie

Stratum pool server backend:
- https://github.com/gatra/stratum-mining

Block crawlers/explorers:
- https://chainz.cryptoid.info/ric/
- https://bchain.info/RIC/
- http://darmstadt.goxadidi.dk/cgi-bin/block/block_crawler.py/ seems offline

Tools:
- Paper wallets
  - https://cryptap.us/ric/paperwallet.html
http://www.lotwin.com/lottery/downloads.aspx accepts Riecoin!
There's a wiki here: http://www.reddit.com/r/RieCoin/wiki/index

Faucet and other services by cryptap.us: New!
- Faucet
- copay for RIC
- Online wallet
- Dice game


And there's a miner for the parallela board! https://github.com/MichaelBell/fastrie/tree/master/xptMiner

More links and info at riecoin.org