Topic: Gridcoin (GRC) - first coin utilizing BOINC - Official Thread - page 278. (Read 597505 times)

what motherboard are you getting?

Hi traderman,
Thanks! Happy to join!

Thanks for the video and suggestions. At this moment it looks like I am going to get R9 280X..it seems to have best power/price ratio.
Also if we are talking about mining GRC, is the CPU I will get more important than with mining LTC...because of the BOINC part?

Regards,
Andrew.

Hi All!
I have been CPU mining for almost 48 hours now, however I haven't yet received any reward.
Coul anyone please check my previous post on this page and check if the setup I have is correct one?

Thanks,
Andrew.

Is there no Mac client?

Working on the new GRC Upgrade feature now so users can type "upgrade" from the gridcoin command line to automatically upgrade the client.

This will alleviate the need to delete the program files (x86)\gridcoin directory between upgrades.

I realize some people do not want to automatically upgrade their files, so this will be optional, you have to manually type "upgrade" or from the program directory you can type "grcrestarter upgrade" outside of the client to upgrade on your own schedule.

This also fixes the bug where you have to unblock the download, the program will do it automatically.

Best Regards,
Rob Halford

I think as the difficulty goes up, for the average user it will be better to go the pool mining route.

And I was going to ask if I should pool mine or solo mine, hehe I guess only time will tell.
Oh and everyone, keep in mind that I did this with only 150 kH/s in few hours.

Thanks all--
Boing, Yes if things stay the way they are you should receive 140-168grc in the next 48 hours.
Let everyone know if you do, and that should bring more confidence to pool mining since you mined one pool block, we'll see if it equals about 1 solo block.

Rob H.

And he's very active on another forum too!  He's been very awesome since the release of this coin, it's already grown and added so much to it.  So many updates it can be hard to keep up with but I appreciate that a lot in a coin.

A lot more interest in this coin now then there was a couple weeks ago, soon more people will realize gridcoin > curecoin and it's already out.

Hi Boing,

The thing about being in the pool is you will be paid for approximately 2 more days * the shares in the pool (lookback is determined by current difficulty), so even if you shut off pool mining, using historical information over the last 2 days, you should receive about 120 payments * the rbpps.  Youll see over the next 2 days about 120grc.  Are you user #1 in the pool FzXJFiqSedAUgsFUUczdr6m76T3TNrovUV?

Yeah, the payout is not all up front- you get paid as other pool members find blocks.

Best Regards,
Rob H.

I just found my first share while mining with poolmining=true but I didn't get any GRC in my wallet, why?
EDIT: Got only 1.51 GRC from mining for hours... I'll go back to solo mining.

On the 4.73 release - I immediately hit a problem and worked around it in Windows 8. 

Posting here to save others hassle

Problem: When I installed from .msi and fired up 4.73, a new mining console comes up.  Very snazzy - good - but frequently crashed after a couple minutes at most - bad.  Worse, the "Boinc MD5" on the new console displays something like 'Invalid checksum', so it's unable to see my copy of BOINC.  The 'old' mining console also displays Mining Module Registered Version 26, but Boinc Processing Power is 0, Threads is 0.  I tried all the usual tricks of registering the dll and tlb, no love. 

Solution:  From reading the beta threads - there's a problem in the new console where if you install BOINC in anything other than the default directory, the new console can't see BOINC.  I guess it's not using a registry setting.

Thankfully the new console now also has a setting (good call Rob) to find non default locations for BOINC.  You need to find your copy of gridcoin.conf (for me in windows 8, it was C:\Users\nappingpilot\AppData\Roaming\Gridcoin) and add the settings to wherever you've set BOINC and BOINC's data folder to.  For me, it was the following, your mileage will vary:

boincappfolder=F:\Gridcoin\BOINC\
boincdatafolder=F:\Gridcoin\BOINC\Data\

Restart client, restart BOINC, fire up miner, bam!  Good to go, back in business.  All the crashes are gone now too, it's stable for the past 45 minutes.  Keep up the fine work, dev team!

All,

New release available:   4.73  in the prod and beta section of www.gridcoin.us.

In this version,  the colors and style sheets have been updated.  (Remaining white areas are inherited from the current windows theme; eventually we will have our cross-os programmer fix those on both platforms).

We had a user running a flash drive with boinc running in a nonstandard location ask if we could make a feature to honor that location, so we added two new keys that you can enter into your config, the main one being:
boincappfolder=C:\Program Files\Boinc\

Please set that key with your personal value if boinc is not located in "Program files" in windows.  Note: please use a trailing backslash as above.  Note: The App folder is where "boinc.exe" is located on your machine. 


Best Regards,
Rob Halford

Hello all,

Yes, I think we do have a lot of room to improve in the marketing area.  We bootstrapped ourselves with the most basic logo, and then a volunteer created the latest one, and it was an improvement.
I'm willing to pay 1000GRC for a more professional logo that everyone accepts.  Any takers want to spend a small amount of time designing the first iteration and displaying it here and if we can have general acceptance, then finish the finer-details, and Ill pay for the winner.

Regarding the forum, I would like to eventually have a ticket system for issues and a more structured set of threads dont get me wrong.  I just want to make sure all of our users receive the critical updates and we make it through to become a more mature coin first.

Regarding the current wallets colors, I am fixing that now.  Yesterday's release was partially incomplete.

Rob H.

And also having hosted forum on Cryptocointalk is a bad idea!
Aysyrs forum was good enough!!

I agree, GRC have unbelievable dev, but marketing is poor so far.
I am sure lot of people are willing to help 
FTC FTW! GRC FTW!

You are right, I think the project needs a sound branding, consistent colorset etc.
Do you know some apt designer?

I also vote for gridcoin at this link, https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annpoll-which-coin-would-you-like-added-to-cryptsy-349420, could you please give me some gridcoin as a reward?

Great thanks to you. My Gridcoin address is: FzZY7vBMrrQdkabKWbdWuyjtHsyRMg18Pn

You can sugest bter.com or btc38.com to add Gridcoin.

Hi Grid,
thanks for your quick reply.
I have gone through all the info you suggested and was able to do this progress towards my CPU mining:
1. wallet and mining console work fine, BOINC runs OK and console sees its processing power, threads and credits.
2. modified gridcoin.conf so it looks like this:
     server=1
     rpcuser=user
     rpcpassword=pass
     rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
     rpcport=9332
     cpumining=true
3. went through the setup to CPU mine you posted. Added project from projects in wallet to BOINC, set user name to my GRC address and named that address "Default" in wallet.
4. Boinc is online and running the selected project.

However I would like to check if what is written above is how it should be done and also would like to ask this:
a. How do I check that I am really mining? Am I correct in thinking that if the button "Test CPUMiner" in Mining Console returns something else then just blank "Output:" then I am actually mining?
b. How are the coins for CPU mining awarded? Do I first need to mine the block myself, or is that only in GPU mining?
c. Mining Console shows "Boinc KH/ps = 0" this should be higher if I'm really mining, right?
d. Can I run other Boinc projects simultaneously with the one required for CPU mining?

Thanks for your help,
Regards,
Andrew.