I've PMd indyjo and he's told me he's performing errands relative to the business side of the project. Good luck with that!
In case anybody wants to test the client side of it, I've put my computer accepting "jobs". I dunno if what we did the other sunday can be replicated. If you want to try "buying" power, surely my computer will be there to do it this Saturday-Sunday period. Instrutions on how to buy computing power are clear in the github site.
I myself am debugging functioning of python in a mixed installation: Cygwin's python 3 calling Windows 64 native blender software.
Yup, I myself could try requesting and providing computing power on the same machine or something like that, I might try! But it's always good to involve others.
Cheers,
S.
Topic: [It's over, THX!] Call for participation: Test BitWrk and earn BTC this Sunday! (Read 2350 times)
September 20, 2014, 06:03:40 PM
September 15, 2014, 02:44:37 AM
No problem! BitWrk is currently open for testing, both buying and selling, without connection to the Bitcoin system (i.e., for free). There are always a couple of sellers available, and I encourage everybody to use them for rendering. You might want to gain some experience for the next test.
With regard to GPU rendering, I have no experience with that yet. Please try, the potential is huge!
With regard to GPU rendering, I have no experience with that yet. Please try, the potential is huge!
September 14, 2014, 06:28:39 PM
oh i lost the chance!
will there be more trials in the future?
the blender rendering is done with GPU or CPU?
can I do much with a 280x?
will there be more trials in the future?
the blender rendering is done with GPU or CPU?
can I do much with a 280x?
September 14, 2014, 02:41:47 PM
Great stuff having been part of this testing.
I guess my detailed reporting to you mainly by PM made it clear it also helps to learn how things cannot be done.
To update everyone interested, it's that I had a mixed Cygwin / Windows native setup between Python3 and Blender. The script as it is was resulted somewhat confused with filenames.
I'd like to investigate on my side on how to make even this exotic setup to work! Maybe that would be eventually helpful to this project.
Funny thing is that, given my rather shallow experience programming, and a little more managing computer systems, I did not know how to get involved in new bitcoins projects. This is like my first opportunity!
No wonder that's how BTCT has performed investiture for me as a Junior member just today!
Good week to y'all.
I guess my detailed reporting to you mainly by PM made it clear it also helps to learn how things cannot be done.
To update everyone interested, it's that I had a mixed Cygwin / Windows native setup between Python3 and Blender. The script as it is was resulted somewhat confused with filenames.
I'd like to investigate on my side on how to make even this exotic setup to work! Maybe that would be eventually helpful to this project.
Funny thing is that, given my rather shallow experience programming, and a little more managing computer systems, I did not know how to get involved in new bitcoins projects. This is like my first opportunity!
No wonder that's how BTCT has performed investiture for me as a Junior member just today!
Good week to y'all.
September 14, 2014, 12:29:59 PM
Here is the pay-out transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/0e3d0af3189ef2a8c051a1579fe180e00d53210e3a0baaa3853107b10acc305f
September 14, 2014, 11:36:29 AM
Ok, folks, it's over! Thanks for your participation!
Unfortunately, not every participant was lucky in getting the software to do Blender rendering correctly, so a few people might not be listed. That's not to say that their contribution didn't count! Getting to know failure situations was a main motivation for the test.
Here are the final results for accounts that did have some success:
Hope you had as much fun doing this as I had. Maybe for the next time, the test should be 24h long. What do you think?
Unfortunately, not every participant was lucky in getting the software to do Blender rendering correctly, so a few people might not be listed. That's not to say that their contribution didn't count! Getting to know failure situations was a main motivation for the test.
Here are the final results for accounts that did have some success:
| Account | Final balance | Comment |
| 1MwvTNehPz7U5XYn3h1G7LVPANv3GFq6JR | mBTC 965.88084 + mBTC 1.6406 blocked in ongoing transactions | That's my account |
| 143TMvtqCwaiCj4HcLry94bq8MzSgH7Nru | mBTC 14.23 | |
| 1149qGAWUau1P9qf61Nnyu62m5pJXDXT4x | mBTC 12.402 | |
| 1FZc8afGhbZ9R6muNwbrQUTapoFkswBy26 | mBTC 5.4189 | |
| 18wvyrNnzwqdFCErA2ncuime8Nw3R2VCwo | uBTC 150 | |
| Fees collected | uBTC 277.66 |
Hope you had as much fun doing this as I had. Maybe for the next time, the test should be 24h long. What do you think?
September 14, 2014, 09:28:46 AM
Port now appears open!
September 14, 2014, 09:19:34 AM
bummer! It does appear closed from that website.
I'm trying to diagnose and will either post or PM you around half past.
I'm trying to diagnose and will either post or PM you around half past.
September 14, 2014, 09:08:31 AM
One small question. Since I may or may not be present at the time the test finishes, would it be okay for me to program my computer to simply kill the bitwrk process when maximum time is due?
Are you sure that port forwarding works? I get "connection refused" on port 2300. You might want to double-check with http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/
And yes, it's absolutely ok to just switch everything off!
September 14, 2014, 08:59:19 AM
I almost posted the previous, but yes, answering your questions, all appears to be good, I'm running Windows 7.
detailed info in almost-published message below:
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Hooray. It appears to be working.
If anyone is on a rush still trying to make it, remember these have to be in order:
-Router with open port
-Firewall, with open port.
- my antivirus also complained that python3 appeared viruslike... just put the exception and voila!
+ and of course, bitwrk, python3, blender all installed. (it appears to take less than 20 minutes, it took *me* a lot since the message in the early hours, for I also did some major software upgrade this morning.
My experience is that my first mandate to sell timed out with default options. But now I "overpermitted" a long amount of trades for a long period of time (3 hours).
One small question. Since I may or may not be present at the time the test finishes, would it be okay for me to program my computer to simply kill the bitwrk process when maximum time is due?
Seems like there are like 9 minutes remaining for the test to begin, right?
All good here, but I'll keep on checking this thread again and again for the coming 40 mins.
S.
September 14, 2014, 08:52:53 AM
I would like to help. is it time yet? (I guess we have still 30 minutes, and I upgraded to python3 and also imported successfully the pvt key from the also just installed bitwrk... )
Still, it seems I still need to install blender, right?
Please confirm if it's all good. I should be able to report ten minutes before the hour.
S.
Still, it seems I still need to install blender, right?
Please confirm if it's all good. I should be able to report ten minutes before the hour.
S.
Hi Samperio, thanks for your efforts! Yes, you need to install Blender and have a port open. What kind of system are you running (Mac, Linux, Windows?).
Any questions, I'll talk you through.
September 14, 2014, 08:29:39 AM
I would like to help. is it time yet? (I guess we have still 30 minutes, and I upgraded to python3 and also imported successfully the pvt key from the also just installed bitwrk... )
Still, it seems I still need to install blender, right?
Please confirm if it's all good. I should be able to report ten minutes before the hour.
S.
Still, it seems I still need to install blender, right?
Please confirm if it's all good. I should be able to report ten minutes before the hour.
S.
September 14, 2014, 08:02:21 AM
One hour to go! 
Currently my account is the only one with a non-zero balance. You can track it here: http://bitwrk.appspot.com/account/1MwvTNehPz7U5XYn3h1G7LVPANv3GFq6JR
Currently my account is the only one with a non-zero balance. You can track it here: http://bitwrk.appspot.com/account/1MwvTNehPz7U5XYn3h1G7LVPANv3GFq6JR
September 14, 2014, 04:19:03 AM
Only 4.5 hours left!
September 13, 2014, 02:48:26 AM
Why don't you get a professional load test rather than 2 or 3 users who actually download your software... this seems quite fishy to me.
I want to make this more of a community project. Actual users might turn up unexpected results. And it's more fun! 
September 13, 2014, 02:44:39 AM
Not sure I'd be downloading anything from an untrusted site. Also no mention of verifiability or payout?
Good point!- Full source code is available, and compiling yourself is easy.
- Use a VM or another user account if you don't trust the software. I actually recommend that!
- Account balances are public. Maybe some people could post their account IDs. Here is mine: http://bitwrk.appspot.com/account/1MwvTNehPz7U5XYn3h1G7LVPANv3GFq6JR
- Payout will take some time, because it is still a manual process, but it should be done within the same day.
September 13, 2014, 02:36:07 AM
and how much can we earn?
Up to 1 BTC will be shared among particpiants, but could be less, depending on how much compute power there will be available, and on how prices develop. September 13, 2014, 02:16:48 AM
Why don't you get a professional load test rather than 2 or 3 users who actually download your software... this seems quite fishy to me.
September 13, 2014, 02:10:02 AM
Not sure I'd be downloading anything from an untrusted site. Also no mention of verifiability or payout?
September 13, 2014, 02:00:07 AM
You will be able to add the key to your Bitcoin wallet access that address.
How to receive money?
In BitWrk, users are identified by a bitcoin address, so it is easy for me to know where to send money to.
Users need to import the private key into their Bitcoin wallet. It is stored in a file called privatekey.wif. That file can be found in the following locations:
- Windows 7 and 8: C:\Users\
\.bitwrk-client\privatekey.wif - Mac OS X: /Users/
/.bitwrk-client/privatekey.wif - Linux: /home/
/.bitwrk/privatekey.wif
To import it into your Bitcoin wallet (taking the Satoshi client as example):
- Open privatekey.wif in a text editor
- Select the file's contents and copy it to your clipboard (Ctrl-C, Cmd-C)
- In the Bitcoin client, select *Help->Debug window* from the menu
- Go to tab *console*
- In the command line on the bottom of the page, enter: importprivkey
"BitWrk" rescan=false - Your Bitcoin wallet will now contain an address labeled "BitWrk". It will receive all future transactions to that address.
- If you want to include past transactions too, use "rescan=true" instead of "rescan=false". It will take a while, during which Bitcoin will be unresponsive.
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