BitShares PTS (formerly ProtoShares) Mandatory Upgrade & Snapshot Announcement - page 20.

M31

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Quote from: Trillium on December 12, 2013, 06:29:19 AM

Quote from: M31 on December 11, 2013, 08:07:32 PM

I've scanned the i7 version of ypool's miner, as well as the generic version, and both come up virus positive.

Only avast is triggered for the i7 version, but many of the scanners go off for the generic version of the miner (looks like many bitcoin related hits).

http://virusscan.jotti.org/en

Is there an optimized version of qt that I might run solo, other than the original (slow) version? Or am I worrying about nothing and just getting false positives?

Thanks for any help...

Any coin that can be mined traditionally on CPU (ie. SHA based coins including bitcoin) but now days in particular XPM and PTS will be flagged by AV companies (for whatever various reasons we here shall tend to disagree with). The short of the matter is that some clueless victims get miner clients installed on their PCs without their knowledge.

You should upload the official bitcoin or primecoin client to www.virustotal.com as an example, but more importantly read about how to identify and when to expect false positives. Users can also vote on virustotal to indicate whether they think the file is OK or not (such a system is open to malicious abuse though, so always be skeptical).

Thanks Trillium!

I've fired up the ypool miner once again based on this

blade87

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I'm looking for 25 PTS. I will trade any coin I can buy on BTC-e for them.

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Quote from: surfer43 on December 12, 2013, 12:29:39 PM

Is it worth it to solo mine? The price is .02. Should've kept mining when it was released Undecided

I am getting 1 hash per minute. How many protoshares would I get / day?

surfer43

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Is it worth it to solo mine? The price is .02. Should've kept mining when it was released Undecided

Trillium

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Quote from: M31 on December 11, 2013, 08:07:32 PM

I've scanned the i7 version of ypool's miner, as well as the generic version, and both come up virus positive.

Only avast is triggered for the i7 version, but many of the scanners go off for the generic version of the miner (looks like many bitcoin related hits).

http://virusscan.jotti.org/en

Is there an optimized version of qt that I might run solo, other than the original (slow) version? Or am I worrying about nothing and just getting false positives?

Thanks for any help...

Any coin that can be mined traditionally on CPU (ie. SHA based coins including bitcoin) but now days in particular XPM and PTS will be flagged by AV companies (for whatever various reasons we here shall tend to disagree with). The short of the matter is that some clueless victims get miner clients installed on their PCs without their knowledge.

You should upload the official bitcoin or primecoin client to www.virustotal.com as an example, but more importantly read about how to identify and when to expect false positives. Users can also vote on virustotal to indicate whether they think the file is OK or not (such a system is open to malicious abuse though, so always be skeptical).

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Quote from: M31 on December 11, 2013, 08:07:32 PM

I've scanned the i7 version of ypool's miner, as well as the generic version, and both come up virus positive.
Only avast is triggered for the i7 version, but many of the scanners go off for the generic version of the miner (looks like many bitcoin related hits).
Is there an optimized version of qt that I might run solo, other than the original (slow) version? Or am I worrying about nothing and just getting false positives?

False positive. A lot of miners have this problem. Just ignore it.

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I think they are false positives. Due to the recently discovered botnets which used infected computers
to mine BTC or other coins, some of the companies behind the AV softwares have decided
to handle every mining software as malware.

see:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ni7gf/symantec_takes_down_500k_bots_of_botnet_used_for/

gnostication

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I use ypool's miner (actually not written by anyone directly connected to ypool).

That said, it isn't actually open source. Therefore, no checking to ensure the code is clean.

(And mainstream enterprise considers open source to be *less* secure. HAH!)

So who knows at this point in the game? *shrugs*

(Nice work doing your security diligence, all the same.)

M31

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I've scanned the i7 version of ypool's miner, as well as the generic version, and both come up virus positive.

Only avast is triggered for the i7 version, but many of the scanners go off for the generic version of the miner (looks like many bitcoin related hits).

http://virusscan.jotti.org/en

Is there an optimized version of qt that I might run solo, other than the original (slow) version? Or am I worrying about nothing and just getting false positives?

Thanks for any help...

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Quote from: Trillium on December 09, 2013, 02:44:22 AM

I installed OPs software on all my systems at home last night and ran for 12 hours. On systems with more than two threads I ran the program (with different ports and data directories) with genproclimit 2.

ypools latest miner is almost an order of magnitude faster than the one in OP and can use 1gb per thread.

Tamis

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0 active connexions to Protoshares network even after adding nodes !

Is it down ?

dE_logics

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And next time you make a coin, please add [ANN] to the subject.

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Your alts are pretty unique.

I'm sure you'll make a breakthrough someday, but I don't think this's it.

See my signature for my thoughts of the ultimate cryptocurrency.

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Quote from: BitThink on December 10, 2013, 01:00:43 AM

Quote from: Milan77 on December 09, 2013, 07:51:45 PM

I am mining with i7 3770k and 4Gb ram.
Getting 5.5 shares per minute and around 150-160 collisions.
Using ptsminer 0.7 with option AVX, 8, 26

Am I missing something or that is maximum (at stock CPU speed) Huh

Thanks.
Milan

I think that's a reasonable value, according to my own experience.

Now it dropped to 2,4 shares/minute and 155 collisions, and it is stable there, all 8 cores are at 100% usage and that is it.
Isn't it little too low value now ?

gnostication

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I understand that as difficulty goes up, mining becomes less cost effective.

I'm more interested in getting as many shares as I can at a price lower than retail. I don't care about making an immediate profit on them by selling out. (I consider it a medium-long term holding.)

Therefore, mining is a useful way to get in at < retail. I'm just trying to figure out how much longer we'll have at the game before it dries up. I haven't found anywhere the number of blocks that PTS will have.

I guess it doesn't matter and I should just push hard now, without considering the longer-term mining potential? *shrugs* I'm sure I'll have some clock time dedicated to mining it for as long as it lasts....

BitThink

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Quote from: ?? on ??

Block reward seems to be around 23 now (starting from 50), so with 5% reduction every new difficulty, it still leaves a months of meaningful mining. But I wager a lot of miners will lose interest unless there is actual usage (transactions) after that.

Reward reduction is faster than difficulty increasing, but more miners leaving will bring better income for the remaining miners, so the system will keep working.

I don't think we will see the actual usage in the near future. I think bitShares exchange will not likely be available in 2014, that's the reason why PTS was supposed to be mined for 2 years.

FreeTrade

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News - Distribution At Block 32000 - MemoryCoin 2.0

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=1310.0

gnostication

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I know I've seen something that says we are close to having all the PTS that ever will be generated.

I guess I could do the calculations, but I'm just wondering if anyone knows off the top of their heads what the last block # will be?

This will help me see how much to put into the mining efforts at the moment.

Thank you.

BitThink

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Quote from: Milan77 on December 09, 2013, 07:51:45 PM

I am mining with i7 3770k and 4Gb ram.
Getting 5.5 shares per minute and around 150-160 collisions.
Using ptsminer 0.7 with option AVX, 8, 26

Am I missing something or that is maximum (at stock CPU speed) Huh

Thanks.
Milan

I think that's a reasonable value, according to my own experience.

Milan77

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I am mining with i7 3770k and 4Gb ram.
Getting 5.5 shares per minute and around 150-160 collisions.
Using ptsminer 0.7 with option AVX, 8, 26

Am I missing something or that is maximum (at stock CPU speed) Huh

Thanks.
Milan

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