Topic: Request: If you have some free CPU power then try mining Gapcoin (Read 2675 times)

Yes. You will need to follow and compile gapcoind from the guide. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS currently recommended ...

- https://gapcoin.club/linux-gapcoind-setup.php

You must utilize cpulimit if mining on a cloud VPS !

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Soon ...

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and Seeking New Developers for GapMiner - A standalone Gapcoin (GAP) CPU, GPU, rpc, pool miner ...

Can we use VPS in mining Gapcoin? thanks!

STOP MINING GAPCOIN.

STOP SEARCHING FOR PRIME GAPS OF LARGEST KNOWN MERIT.

STOP DOING MATH.

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h/t - https://twitter.com/rabcyr_alt/status/1328145726354976771

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P.S. Trying some reverse psychology here. 

Work is in progress and yes we still have a lot to do to bring this project up-to-date.

Gapcoin will compile and run on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS just fine.

The Gitlab repo. is not yet a 'trusted' source for the project!

However, could you clarify if your compile issue was related only to the newer boost libraries?

All developers are of course welcome to get involved and contribute to the Gapcoin project.

Q. What is the use of this coin?

A. Gapcoin is a cryptocurrency (like Bitcoin BTC), it functions as a store of value and digital cash.

Gapcoin's PoW (mining process) also discovers Prime Gaps in new blocks whilst processing transactions.


Q. is there any exchange available to sell this coin because if someone mine this coin then they need to sell it somewhere or use it right?

A. Yes. https://freiexchange.com/market/GAP/BTC and soon https://c-patex.com/ and more ?

EDIT: adding: https://freebitcoins.com/xchange/market/Bitcoin-Gapcoin

Gapcoin was listed on poloniex, cryptopia and other now defunct crypto exchanges.

Other exchanges can list Gapcoin, although most of this industry now focuses on profit driven scams instead of interesting crypto / science projects.

Exchanges often want listing fees, which the Gapcoin community will not currently muster.

Did you know that when Bitcoin launched it was essentially valueless and no exchange services existed, whatsoever!


Q. Are there any investors at all for this project?

A. Personally, I don't give a hoot in regards to attracting 'whale' investors and/or promoting 'pump n dump' schemes or BS tokens.

Gapcoin is a cryptocurrency science project and a digital cash.


Q. That website is not very good to me and has nothing to attract whale investors.

A. gapcoin.org was the 'original' website started by the aforementioned developer, who sadly passed away.

https://gapcoin.club is my basic website offering, helping to maintain and to continue the project.

As we rebuild the community a better website may follow.


Q. Is there any whitepaper available for the project or any place for recent project update?

A. The original developer did not release a whitepaper for Gapcoin, which is essentially a Bitcoin based altcoin with some nice mathematically functional "bells and whistles" optimizations, for finding Prime Gaps.

- https://web.archive.org/web/20060802094251/http://www.twttr.com/ - twitter in 2006

- https://web.archive.org/web/20090303195936/http://bitcoin.org/ - bitcoin in 2009

*Shrugs*

Perhaps some new larger exchanges will eventually get around to listing Gapcoin and then other things might happen, including a better website etc.,

Unless you are volunteering to create a better one ?

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Gapcoin has already outlived a plethora of altcoins. It's almost a museum piece (like this forum!) 

This longevity alone might indicate that this ones a keeper against all odds, mathematical world records aside.

 

The project site does not look very presentable, this can definitely scare off many participants and investors

To automatically start mining when starting a wallet, you can write the following lines in the gapcoin.conf file
gen=1
getmin=true
genproclimit=here is the number of threads
to stop mining you can enter the "setgenerate false" command in the wallet console
but still I prefer the project zettelkasten  https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-zettelkasten-zttl-new-algo-burgerhash-v6-cpu-solo-mineable-3207356

some say that Rizen 5 is good for cpu mining, have anyone here tried to use ryzen to mine this coin? I hope that this coin will become profitable, i have dozen of gpu's but gpu mining in my opinion is a;ready dead specially to those country who has higher price of electricity.

RIP

Currently you can mine in the wallet with CPU or at the pool https://gap.suprnova.cc with CPU and/or GPU.

The latest linux build has an additional Mining Tab, so yes quite literally click > Start (mining).

A new windows release is in the pipeline, however CPU mining in the (windows) wallet is also easy ...

- https://gapcoin.club/windows-gui-setup.php ...

"To start mining for Gapcoin in your wallet go to:

Help > Debug window > Console and type in the following command at the prompt:

setgenerate true

Note that this will start the mining process using 100% of your CPU processing power! This is not currently advised if you are using a laptop computer or a tablet, if you intend to use your PC to complete day-to-day tasks or you are already GPU mining other crypto-currencies."

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In the original Bitcoin release, as described by Satoshi in the Bitcoin whitepaper, nodes (wallets) were used to generate coins by CPU mining ...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20090303195936/http://bitcoin.org/

"You can get coins by getting someone to send you some, or turn on Options->Generate Coins to run a node and generate blocks. I made the proof-of-work difficulty ridiculously easy to start with, so for a little while in the beginning a typical PC will be able to generate coins in just a few hours. It'll get a lot harder when competition makes the automatic adjustment drive up the difficulty."

The same applies to Gapcoin, plus as the difficulty rises we will discover new world record prime gaps as part of the mining process.

Gapcoin is a math / scientific Bitcoin based altcoin, if anyone thinks this is a shitcoin, they don't understand Bitcoin PoW technology at all.

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@ Nakamoto "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink".

If mining is done in the wallet, meaning if it inbuilt, then it's simple, you only have to download the wallet and click mine, or open a few ports and then your good to go, hope the new team will clarify.

Never did mining gapcoin but if still profitable i would like to start why not! But what is more important to me is to watch a video tutorial , never mined any coin!

So sad that many people nowaday didn't see what this coin is all about, imagine they've started 2015 we were consider the team as part of pioneer in developing this kind of technology, I hope Gapcoin team will see the good spot in this present market.

Hello, This is a very nice project. I wonder if Gapcoin can mine in raspberry PI.

Thanks for the reply.  

Gapcoin is first and foremost an (open source) math / scientific project and then a cryptocurrency.

~ What is our 'brand' supposedly selling exactly? Prime Gaps of the highest merit as world records?

Gapcoin is currency / 'money'.

There will be no ICO.

We don't want or need VC 'money'.

Yes the 'market' will likely discover the project of its own accord, hopefully due to an increased understanding of what Bitcoin / blockchain / timechain technology can do, on its own merits.

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For Gapcoin, it's the satoshi way or the highway ...

snapshot ... bitcoin.org ... 3rd March 2009 ...
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090303195936/http://bitcoin.org/

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2 π r
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k02KIOUU8Hw&list=PLD141E36B4DAC5F13&index=1

Just come across this project today, it is a good project from the look of things but the website needs significant improvement, I do not know why some of these developers don't take their brand serious, though it is going to be difficult without ICO or VC money but consistent development the market is going to discover the project

Linux and Windows CPU pool mining guide can be found here:
- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.54566909

You can still try to solo mine blocks in the wallet with CPU using the built in miner:
- https://gapcoin.club/windows-gui-setup.php

" How to start mining for Gapcoin in the QT Wallet.

To start mining for Gapcoin in your wallet go to:

Help > Debug window > Console and type in the following command at the prompt:

setgenerate true "

e.g.

> setgenerate true

In-wallet (CPU) solo mining is still possible due to relatively low mining difficulty.

GPU solo mining (RPC / stratum) to the wallet and in the pool is also working.

Good luck!

How can I start to mining these Gapcoin? Do you have any guide line for set everything in the right way? I like to try mining new coins waiting for their PUMP
If it is not stressfull for my cpu i will sett all my laptops to this kind of mining

" How mathematicians do it...

Combinatorists do it as many ways as they can.
Combinatorists do it discretely.
(Logicians do it) or [not (logicians do it)].
Logicians do it by symbolic manipulation.
Algebraists do it in groups.
Algebraists do it in a ring.
Algebraists do it in a field.
Analysts do it continuously.
Real analysts do it almost everywhere.
Pure mathematicians do it rigorously.
Topologists do it openly.
Topologists do it on rubber sheets.
Dynamicists do it chaotically.
Mathematicians do it forever if they can do one and can do one more.

Cantor did it diagonally.
Fermat tried to do it in the margin, but couldn't fit it in.
Galois did it the night before.
Möbius always does it on the same side.
Markov does it in chains.
Newton did it standing on the shoulders of giants.
Turing did it but couldn't decide if he'd finished. "

- http://www.workjoke.com/mathematicians-jokes.html

 

Correct.

Also here: https://coinpaprika.com/coin/gap-gapcoin/ (updating).

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"In 2017 (confirmed in early 2018) the Gapcoin network found a new prime gap of maximum known merit! The merit M=G/ln(P1) of this gap is M=41.93878373153988, the largest merit of any known prime gap, and the first prime gap to be discovered with a merit exceeding 40. Source : https://faculty.lynchburg.edu/~nicely/ ...

... if the difficulty reaches (or spikes above) 41.94, every block will be a new world record!"

- https://gapcoin.club

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Perhaps some new crypto exchanges will consider adding Gapcoin when we break our own record Prime Gap merit and contact Guinness World Records  ...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_gap#Numerical_results

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Keep your BTC, we want your CPU and GPU hash power!

Imagine the ASIC's ! 

So this is a take over team? is this Gapcoin ? https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/gapcoin it's really not promising based on the overview but you are right this is much better than those token hype that does ICO so keep it up hope you got many pools and miners to mine Gapcoin

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" ?

The gapcoin blockchain holds and discovers new Prime Gaps through useful proof-of-work, it works!

No such thing as an economic point of no return here ... just hard math and a sound Bitcoin based crypto-currency project.

Unlike fake tokens, BS ICO's and pump 'n' dump schemes we have not paid for exchange listings.

Gapcoin is testament to the ridiculousness nature of the entire crypto industry and a world ignorant to its true potential.

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*Satire* *Meme*

- https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/yeah-science-bitch

Since 2015 this gapcoin is only listed on two very low exchanges that probably 80% of crypto users haven't heard about before, this is not so good, it shows nothing but lack of good development so far, it's been way too long already

Gapcoin should be listed (re-listed) on additional markets in the future.

At one time this genuine altcoin was listed on coinmarketcap and traded with relatively high volumes on Cryptopia, Poloniex and other exchanges.

Gapcoin was de-listed mainly due to a lack of continuing development and perhaps some uncertainty and clarity in regards to the project being stalled and/or future proof etc.,

Useful proof of work (finding prime gaps) helps to ensure that Gapcoin has a practical purpose and a longevity above its market (monetary) functions.

Is this coin is still circulated on the market? seems that the development has been started on 2015 and it was 5 years from now, and also cpu mining is now in the brink of faceoff because so many coin now offered a mobile phone mining, so I wonder if this project still attract miners up today.

Whats that toxicity for?

Yes. Development continues, here ...

- https://github.com/gapcoin-project

- https://github.com/gapcoin-project/gapcoin/tree/v0.9.4-gap

Realize that Gapcoin has always run (and continues to run) like clockwork!

If the developer passed away then is this crypto still being developed?

Hah! You are this guy:


Makes total sense because very few people take poetic liberties when formulating a response in the bowels of the Altcoin ANN section. I would reward your peculiar wordsmithing with a merit but as I consider BitcoinFX a friend (in the loose, internet-driven sense of the term) that would be impolite, albeit not as much as your response.

Instead, be happy that your accomplishments have been memorialized in one of the greatest tribute threads to ever caress the forum and let that serve as motivation to continue with your cryptic buggery.


Sorry BitcoinFX for hijacking your thread for a moment. I will use my bump power to bump it to the top of the ANN section to make up for my intrusion.

How come nobody give two shits about that? How do you think is what you say reflected in its valuation? Literally no one gives a salamander about what gapcoin is because the space is on the brink of decay and the more weeks pass the higher the chance that even leading crypto echelons like ETH will never recover. Its over. Stop paying attention to crypto trends and shelve back to your normal crud routine.

I think the main post is ok, but creating this promoting posts seems so weird. 

You are welcome to head over to the main thread, which is slightly more active ...

and yes we should all be sorry ... Gapcoin has a genuinely ...

Useful Proof-of-Work | Functional Mathematics | Logarithmic Coin Issuance | Unique Blockchain | Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)

Not a Token | Not an ICO | No Pre-sale | No Pre-mine | No Air-drop | No Chain Forks (yet!)

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IMHO the gapcoin project deserves a higher market cap than say Litecoin.

Both Bitcoin's and Litecoin's PoW are totally 'useless', although we may not fully understand currently if it might have some use later on for finding 'patterns' or discovering 'weak keys' etc.,

Gapcoins PoW is useful now.

EDIT: 5th June 2020 updated info.

Indeed. However, the Riemann hypothesis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis - has now been 'solved' ...

- http://phys.lsu.edu/~fmoxley/bbm.pdf

this thread seems pretty abandoned!  sorry to say....

Gapcoin CPU mining ... still profitable after 4 years ...

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We did it! ...

NEW PRIME GAP OF MAXIMUM KNOWN MERIT
- http://gapcoin.club/new-prime-gap-of-maximum-known-merit-press-release.php

The Gapcoin network (Jonnie Frey, developer), a Bitcoin derivative which employs a hashing algorithm to search for prime gaps of high merit, has discovered a new prime gap of maximum known merit, a gap of G=8350 following the 87-digit prime P1=293703234068022590158723766104419463425709075574811762098588798217895728858676728143227. The merit M=G/ln(P1) of this gap is M=41.93878373153988, the largest merit of any known prime gap, and the first prime gap to be discovered with a merit exceeding 40. The endpoints of the gap have been certified as primes deterministically, using the Akiyama-Kida-O'Hara UBASIC implementation (1988-1992) of the APRCL2 test, due to Adleman, Pomerance, Rumely, Cohen, H. W. Lenstra, and A. K. Lenstra (1984-1987).

- The original developer recently made an appearance to pay a bounty for the new world record ...
- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.33012722

I have updated the Gapcoin_blockchain.zip download so that anyone can easily get started mining in the wallet within an hour or so.

... The largest decentralized prime gap search + new world record and attempt ongoing! - Join us! ...

GPU solo mining is also available, but here be dragons! So, test with older cards / rigs first or until new miners are released.

Pool operators and software developers welcome!

 

EDIT: 5th June 2020 updated links and info.

Many alt. coins have come and gone, but Gapcoin remains resilient and is perhaps moving towards a resurgence.

Although, the developer is awol development is continuing. Thus, the request remains ...

If you have some free CPU power then try mining Gapcoin!

- https://gapcoin.club/linux-gapcoind-setup.php + Get some free credit to try mining Gapcoin in the cloud (whilst you still can!)

- https://gapcoin.club/windows-gui-setup.php - An easy in-wallet windows mining guide.

Gapcoin (GAP) is actively traded at cryptopia FreiExchange: https://freiexchange.com/market/GAP/BTC

... The largest decentralized prime gap search + new world record and attempt ongoing! - Join us! ...

EDIT: 5th June 2020 updated links and info.

Indeed. Riecoin (and ofc Primecoin) have already achieved some new records relating to Prime Numbers.

Gapcoin is specifically searching for Prime Gaps - see: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_gap - which is quite different to both Riecoin and Primecoin.

"But how are prime gaps useful?

Prime numbers are interesting for lots of mathematicians around the globe, and they're also important to every day cryptography (see RSA ).

Researches about prime gaps could not only lead to new breakthroughs in the bounded gap, it may also help proving the Twin Prime Conjecture and maybe even the millennium problem, the Riemann hypothesis. Who knows?"

 

Or try Riecoin holder of world record 

As the thread title requests - If you have some free CPU power then try mining Gapcoin !

Gapcoin is a prime number based p2p cryptocurrency and the largest, decentralized prime gap search.

The original developer has sadly passed away, however the project is ongoing at: https://gapcoin.club

With increased hashing power (and continued development) the Gapcoin network will discover new Prime Gaps.

See: https://gapcoin.club/primegaps.php

Lets try to get cryptocurrency back in the news for all the right reasons again. Do it for the math and not just for the money.  

Gapcoin thread here at bitcointalk.org - see: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/anngap-gapcoin-prime-gap-search-new-math-algo-cpu-gpu-zero-premine-822498

Thank you.

EDIT: 5th June 2020 updated links and info.