I've mined with a pretty substantial amount of hashing power for about 12 hours and didn't find a block. I tried .4 for about 8 of those, .3 for about 4 of those, I also tried one wallet per rig with the same 8 character mining name and the same mining key (newest wallet), no block.
A lot of things could be happening here. Since there is no way to verify whether or not your mining setup is working till you're finding a block I'm basically possibly pissing hash away. A lot of people are basing profitability based off of cryptocompare, but I definitely don't think that's right. I'm pretty sure the amount you make is a lot lower then that. I should be hitting a block every half a hour. Given there are 12 blocks per hour and I've already been through 12 hours of those, it's safe to say something is fucked up.
Just a FYI, don't waste your time on this. Unless someone comes up with a guide down to the letter, this is a silly waste of time and energy. AMD seems to work, but that may be due to a large amount of AMD users... not necessarily because the miners/wallet are broken for Nvidia.
At this point I'm pretty certain if you get "Sending Error JSON RPC id () : Invalid payload" in your pascalcoin log then mining is not working.
The issue has to come from the java proxy.
That's incorrect. Not blaming you, but there is definitely a lot of misinformation flying around right now.
Alright, here's the CUDA miner with the working proxy:
https://github.com/Vorksholk/PascalCoin-CUDA/releases/download/v1.02/CUDA_Pascal_v1.02.zipVirusTotal:
0/55 https://virustotal.com/en/file/a7c451c3a19c4052cdf10d974da057f51bdb957734bb47c29115044741540648/analysis/1477111465/These instructions are slightly different than the previous GPU miner! Take note!1. You must already have PascalCoin installed. If you don't have it, download it from sourceforge here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pascalcoin/. Once it is installed, run the PascalCoinWallet.exe provided in the download.
2. You must be using a 256-bit secp256k1 key. This is the default behavior of the PascalCoin wallet.
3. Your miner name must be exactly 8 characters long. The miner expects that the input is exactly 176 total bytes (which is achieved by using a secp256k1 key and a 10-character name)
NOTE: NOT 10 like before! 8 characters, because the last two will be used to identify each GPU!4. You must have RPC enabled in your client (any port of your choosing, default is 4009)
5. You must run the proxy miner (PascalProxyv1.jar) in the same directory as the PascalCoinCUDA_ProxyMiner_smXX.exe file you run (everything is where it needs to be if you just extract the provided zip).
To run the proxy, just double-click on it on Windows, or in Linux do
java -jar /path/to/PascalProxyv1.jar
How does this work? The proxy connects to the PascalCoin wallet, grabs the current mining data, and then creates a headerout.txt file for the miner(s) to use. In return, the miner(s) write their shares to files called datainXX.txt, where XX is the GPU number (starting at 00, and going through 99). The miners use the device argument (0 if none is provided) to determine which device to use, and that's the file they write out to. The proxy waits for changes in those datainXX files, and then ferries the results back to the PascalCoin wallet.
You will notice that the PascalCoin wallet log constantly says
"Sending Error JSON RPC id () : Error: Proof of work is higher than target" whenever you find a share. This is because the proxy's behavior is to submit any target 24000000 share, and since the target is 29xxxxxx, only about 1 in 2^5 = 32 shares will be an actual block. At a target of 2Axxxxxx, that'd be 2^6 or 64 shares. At a target of 2Bxxxxxx, that'll be 2^7 or 128 shares. etc.
Whenever I can get around to it, the OpenCL miner will work with this proxy.
Bottom line: you no longer need to rely on my modified PascalCoin wallet. You can use the official one from the developer, and run the proxy. The proxy won't work with old versions of the miner, but it will work with the version included in the zip linked above.
I spent a lot of time looking over everything in that thread, I'm leaning more towards payment calculators and estimations being insanely fucked up. People aren't calculating how likely they are to find a block correctly. All the AMD ethbabies from Ethereum and Equihash are riding it right now. I don't think net hashrate on the block explorer is correct... Nor is Cryptocompare or What reporting it correctly either. I think that's inherently a bug with dealing with this coin as it was never completely tested and vetted under load, something is buckling.
It does make me wonder if investors like finding the most fucked up coin they can just to make miners squirm for a good couple days before things get remotely ironed out.
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