On the linux machine I entered slimcoin setgenerate true 8 (it's a maschine with 16 cores). From your experience, how long it takes until I get to mine a block?
I model it as a ratio of my hashrate to the network hashrate ...
You can do the arithmetic yourself by interrogating the daemon, e.g. on my laptop:
./slimcoind setgenerate true 1
./slimcoind getmininginfo
{
"blocks" : 859396,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 0.01022192,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 1,
"hashespersec" : 387,
"networkghps" : 0.00019512,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}
Letting Python handle the expression of my hashespersec as a proportion of total networkghps:
>>> 0.00019512 * 1000000000 / 387
504.1860465116279
I'm contributing one fivehundredth of the hash rate so
on average I can expect somewhere around 1 block in 500. Slimcoin's block target rate is one block every 90 seconds, which is 40 an hour, so say 12 hours if I'm lucky and don't suffer too much latency from being out in the sticks.
I am getting some vicarious satisfaction from the Snow Leopard version, quietly ticking away on a 2012 vintage MacBook known for overheating at the slightest excuse (like being placed on a lap, f'rinstance). I burned 250 SLM out its wallet and just parked it. Doesn't stake much at all but it does (irregularly) get mint-by-burn blocks - last month (Dec) it got five mint-by-burn blocks in total, ranging between 14-17 SLM per block.
My plans for the future: Slimcoin is a Peercoin fork. I tried to merge it with Novacoin before but Novacoin is too different of a project to be merged at this point. There is a project called Peerunity which is the more maintained and newer version of Peercoin. I will try to merge it into Slimcoin. I will obviously test the newly merged client but hopefully this merging will solve any bugs.
Cheers,
Graham
. Thanks for your support, you've been very helpful!
