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November 19, 2017, 01:56:20 PM
LBC found the #54 of the puzzle transaction yesterday.

https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/trophies

Congrats on finding the private key. I don't think you know but you can also claim BitCore and Bitcoin GOLD with that private key. I see you or somebody already claimed Bitcoin Cash.

I sweeped both your BitCore and BitcoinGold funds before somebody else got to it. Post a BitCore and BitcoinGold address in this thread and I will send them back to you.

Here are those transaction ids

https://chainz.cryptoid.info/btx/tx.dws?172551.htm

http://btgexp.com/tx/f78617a5e6bf438c7a310639f6d8fe10c194a74be6ac98b2c329024a4d1df745


EDIT: Please post your addresses where you want the coins sent in the 32btc contest thread since its unmoderated.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-puzzle-transaction-32-btc-prize-to-who-solves-it-1306983

Thanks



I don't really get the trophy page of the LBC site. I can't see what the private key is they found.
So what is the private key of the last address they found. #54??
legendary
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November 19, 2017, 03:19:11 AM
Im trying to run LBC on my new 7820X:

$ ./LBC -x
Will use 8 CPUs.
Testing mode. Using page 0, turning off looping.
Benchmark info not found - benchmarking... 'kardashev-skylake-avx512' not found/executable.

LBC just downloaded .blf file but not kardashev-skylake-avx512.

LBC version 1.195

Any suggestions what's wrong ?

Sure, 171110-beafd74c1e70cb254a6b3cfcc6e1f8d0.kardashev-skylake-avx512.bz2 was missing on the download server, because that would break all clients who do have a Skylake (sans the avx512) and still run a client < 1.195.

I have uploaded the binary now, so it should run for you, and whoever does have a skylake and client < 1.195 might want to update now.
newbie
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November 18, 2017, 02:06:27 PM
Im trying to run LBC on my new 7820X:

$ ./LBC -x
Will use 8 CPUs.
Testing mode. Using page 0, turning off looping.
Benchmark info not found - benchmarking... 'kardashev-skylake-avx512' not found/executable.

LBC just downloaded .blf file but not kardashev-skylake-avx512.

LBC version 1.195

Any suggestions what's wrong ?
legendary
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November 16, 2017, 03:09:03 PM
LBC found the #54 of the puzzle transaction yesterday.

https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/trophies

Congrats on finding the private key. I don't think you know but you can also claim BitCore and Bitcoin GOLD with that private key. I see you or somebody already claimed Bitcoin Cash.

I sweeped both your BitCore and BitcoinGold funds before somebody else got to it. Post a BitCore and BitcoinGold address in this thread and I will send them back to you.

Here are those transaction ids

https://chainz.cryptoid.info/btx/tx.dws?172551.htm

http://btgexp.com/tx/f78617a5e6bf438c7a310639f6d8fe10c194a74be6ac98b2c329024a4d1df745


EDIT: Please post your addresses where you want the coins sent in the 32btc contest thread since its unmoderated.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-puzzle-transaction-32-btc-prize-to-who-solves-it-1306983

Thanks

legendary
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November 16, 2017, 08:13:13 AM
LBC found the #54 of the puzzle transaction yesterday.

https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/trophies
Congrats!  0.54 BTC so about $4000 right now.  I see your are estimating 40 to 135 days for the next one.  Happy hunting!
legendary
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November 16, 2017, 06:11:26 AM
LBC found the #54 of the puzzle transaction yesterday.

https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/trophies
legendary
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November 15, 2017, 10:57:58 AM
Rico, what about 2 or evern 3 GPUs and how it depend on GPU speed (how it's better to have 1080ti compared to some medium GPUs? does it have sence) ?

Arulbero wrote already something about this topic in this thread (scroll back for "CPU limited", "GPU limited" situation).

At the moment a 1080Ti maxes out with some 45 Mkeys/s
a 1050Ti maxes out at some 37 Mkeys/s

"maxes out" = GPU limited situation. The GPU can't deliver more.
In this case - if your CPU is stronger - a 2nd GPU will help.

Let's say you have a 14 core Haswell ~2GHz and two 1050Ti, then you will get around 70 - 74 Mkeys/s
Theoretically, if you have a mainboard with two such Haswells and 4 x 1050Ti, you will get double that keyrate.

Same with other GPU/CPU combinations.

7820X + 2 x 1080Ti gives you at the moment 85/86 Mkeys, because each 1080Ti maxes out at some 43 Mkeys/ with that CPU.

I'm trying to find both time and funds to improve the generators (https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/crowdfunding), but interest is low, so for the time being we have to cope with these CPU/GPU limitations.

legendary
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November 15, 2017, 07:55:53 AM
For everyone else to estimate speed:

A 4GHz Kaby Lake core does about 1 Mkeys/s

A GPU client gives you a 7x speedup compared to a CPU-only client. (Now - soon this may be 14x)

So let's say you have a quad-core Kaby Lake 4GHz and a GPU -> 28 Mkeys/s

It's only a rough estimate, but should help you to assess what to expect from your hardware.
legendary
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November 15, 2017, 06:32:04 AM
Now I'm slecting MB and CPU only. Not GPUs. But I limited myself only with 1151 socket as 2066 CPUs/MBs overload my budget and also I don't like AMD. The second step will be GPUs but it's a little later.
What you say about https://ark.intel.com/ru/products/126686/Intel-Core-i7-8700-Processor-12M-Cache-up-to-4_60-GHz  with MB https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B250-KRAIT-GAMING.html ? I'm not very familiar with modern HW so maybe there are better options. Any more advices ? Thanks.

So you're from Russia - or so? ;-)

Cannot speak for the mainboard - didn't even look it up. The CPU is ok, my guesstimate would be 5.5 Mkeys/s.
newbie
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November 15, 2017, 04:44:12 AM
Guys, can you advice what is the best speed/price ratio from Core i5-i7 CPU family for launch LBC soft? Im going to participate and luckly it's time to upgrade my HW. Thanks.

Depends on your budget.

The https://ark.intel.com/products/123767/Intel-Core-i7-7820X-X-series-Processor-11M-Cache-up-to-4_30-GHz is a nice CPU with lots of potential.
Seems a 1950X Threadripper is even better.

Don't go for Vega{56,64} yet - lot's of trouble - AMD guys seem to need more time to provide sane drivers.

If I was to choose some MAX configuration, still in reasonable reach for the well funded individual, I'd probably go for a

1950X system with two 1080Ti GPUs - should give me 90-100 Mkeys/s now and XXXXX in the future.

If you want better price/performance ratio now, at the expense of less future potential, replace the 1080Ti with 1050Ti.

Rico thanks for answer.

Now I'm slecting MB and CPU only. Not GPUs. But I limited myself only with 1151 socket as 2066 CPUs/MBs overload my budget and also I don't like AMD. The second step will be GPUs but it's a little later.
What you say about https://ark.intel.com/ru/products/126686/Intel-Core-i7-8700-Processor-12M-Cache-up-to-4_60-GHz  with MB https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B250-KRAIT-GAMING.html ? I'm not very familiar with modern HW so maybe there are better options. Any more advices ? Thanks.
legendary
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November 15, 2017, 04:10:49 AM
Guys, can you advice what is the best speed/price ratio from Core i5-i7 CPU family for launch LBC soft? Im going to participate and luckly it's time to upgrade my HW. Thanks.

Depends on your budget.

The https://ark.intel.com/products/123767/Intel-Core-i7-7820X-X-series-Processor-11M-Cache-up-to-4_30-GHz is a nice CPU with lots of potential.
Seems a 1950X Threadripper is even better.

Don't go for Vega{56,64} yet - lot's of trouble - AMD guys seem to need more time to provide sane drivers.

If I was to choose some MAX configuration, still in reasonable reach for the well funded individual, I'd probably go for a

1950X system with two 1080Ti GPUs - should give me 90-100 Mkeys/s now and XXXXX in the future.

If you want better price/performance ratio now, at the expense of less future potential, replace the 1080Ti with 1050Ti.
newbie
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November 15, 2017, 02:48:46 AM
Guys, can you advice what is the best speed/price ratio from Core i5-i7 CPU family for launch LBC soft? Im going to participate and luckly it's time to upgrade my HW. Thanks.
legendary
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November 15, 2017, 02:38:24 AM
The collider generated (and checked) over 10000 trillion keys, which is double the addresses.

I released a new version of the LBC client (1.195) - this fixes one or two bugs in Skylake and Skylake-avx512 detection.
Everyone who has either a Skylake CPU or a Skylake-avx512 CPU should update to this version, because later today I plan to put the Skylake-avx512 generator binaries for download. If you do have a Skylake CPU and an older version than 1.195, your LBC will break by downloading a skylake-avx512 binary although you only have a skylake.
Same applies if you have a Kaby Lake (as these are virtually the same as Skylakes and therefore want to use the same binary)

Code:
$ LBC -u
New client '1.195-LBC.bz2' found.
Finished update run - system up to date.
legendary
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November 13, 2017, 04:06:43 PM
Oh ok I didn't realize it was complaining about OpenCL since it was running on CPU only mode. I will fix it when I get to enable the GPU. For the 3000 Gkeys I am working on it Wink

It's a tribute to the unified generators (earlier we had different generators for CPU and GPU, now the binary supports both), it needs to dynamically link against a OpenCL library - but you can install a dummy one:

https://github.com/OCL-dev/ocl-icd

Most linux distributions have that as a package.
sr. member
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November 13, 2017, 08:03:39 AM
Quote
Code:
./kardashev-sandybridge: /usr/local/cuda-8.0/targets/x86_64-linux/lib/libOpenCL.so.1: no version information available (required by ./kardashev-sandybridge)

Still it is able to compute keys at 0.79 Mkeys/s (it's a AMD Athlon X2 340 ultra cheap cpu) but I guess it's complaining because the cpu is AMD?

No, it's complaining because your OpenCL installation is slightly broken.
Reinstalling OpenCL helps. clinfo should work, if you have a Nvidia GPU, nvidia-smi should work, then you are probably good to go.

The performance you see is because you run a CPU-only generator.

In this project, you have to earn your merits and perks. One of them being to be allowed to use a GPU. Which comes after you delivered 3000 Gkeys CPU-only.


Oh ok I didn't realize it was complaining about OpenCL since it was running on CPU only mode. I will fix it when I get to enable the GPU. For the 3000 Gkeys I am working on it Wink
legendary
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November 12, 2017, 04:05:55 AM
I was wondering if this will run on ARM cpus, I tried to set it up on a Raspberry Pi and I have an error during benchmarking:

ARM is not supported, only 64bit x86 compatible (x86_64 a.k.a. AMD64)

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Code:
./kardashev-sandybridge: /usr/local/cuda-8.0/targets/x86_64-linux/lib/libOpenCL.so.1: no version information available (required by ./kardashev-sandybridge)

Still it is able to compute keys at 0.79 Mkeys/s (it's a AMD Athlon X2 340 ultra cheap cpu) but I guess it's complaining because the cpu is AMD?

No, it's complaining because your OpenCL installation is slightly broken.
Reinstalling OpenCL helps. clinfo should work, if you have a Nvidia GPU, nvidia-smi should work, then you are probably good to go.

The performance you see is because you run a CPU-only generator.

In this project, you have to earn your merits and perks. One of them being to be allowed to use a GPU. Which comes after you delivered 3000 Gkeys CPU-only.
sr. member
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November 11, 2017, 10:38:43 PM
Hi, I stumbled across this project while researching math behind the process of generating BTC addresses. Very interesting project!

I was wondering if this will run on ARM cpus, I tried to set it up on a Raspberry Pi and I have an error during benchmarking:

Code:
Benchmark info not found - benchmarking... ./kardashev-generic: 1: ./kardashev-generic: Syntax error: ")" unexpected
Generator validity check failed. Expected: 5 or 7, Got: 0
With output:
--

I have also tried to set it up on a mining rig I have and it works but I have this warning message when launching the script:

Code:
./kardashev-sandybridge: /usr/local/cuda-8.0/targets/x86_64-linux/lib/libOpenCL.so.1: no version information available (required by ./kardashev-sandybridge)

Still it is able to compute keys at 0.79 Mkeys/s (it's a AMD Athlon X2 340 ultra cheap cpu) but I guess it's complaining because the cpu is AMD?
legendary
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November 11, 2017, 10:35:09 AM
Rico gave me a link to show the hooks documentation. It opened up a "secret manual" that I had never seen before!
...
Can anyone else verify the problem?

To quote my answer:

I seem to be old school
When books were a thing
Big technical books. Consisting of several "Parts"
Clicking on manual reveals Parts I to IV
Hooks are documented in Part II - User Manual
newbie
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November 11, 2017, 10:30:35 AM
Rico gave me a link to show the hooks documentation. It opened up a "secret manual" that I had never seen before!

Here is the problem with the website I am seeing. Steps to reproduce:
1. Click  https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/man/user#hooks
2. Verify that you see the hooks information
3. Click trophies from the left bar
4. Click Manual from the left bar

Expected behavior: The hooks documentation is visible
Actual behavior: The hooks documentation is not visible on the page

I am using Chrome on Mac.

Can anyone else verify the problem?
legendary
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November 11, 2017, 07:22:06 AM
At this point the container thinks it is done with it's task and stops. The service will replace it with a new container. This is also how Open Shift, Kubernetes, etc work.

So there was just a "groundhog day" (Bill Murray movie) scenario. A fresh container would be made from the image. It would get the update, but think it was finished.

This explanation makes perfect sense, and yes, a preceding ./LBC -u solves that particular problem.



On other topics.

We did test yesterday the first AVX512-enabled generator, seems to bring a slight speedup compared with avx2 binaries (Haswell, Syklake)
I'm looking into some other issues of the client and will make one more update to offer a skylake-avx512 generator "soon(tm)".
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