Topic: Stealthcoin (Read 17981 times)

The download doesn't work 

Hey sleep.  I actually ran across your WhileIdle thread and was very interested!  I was planning on parsing through your code to see how you were polling for user activity. And then stealing your method!   I have been trying to use the user32.dll API to query the GetLastInputInfo.  So far I have had the problem of the API always returning 0 instead of the tick from the last input.  I am suspecting that it has to do with the separate desktop space that the service resides in.

I unfortunately am writing in VB and have no experience in C# so we can't really combine efforts.  But if you have any advice for me I would appreciate any assistance.  Likewise if you have anything you need help on let me know and I'll be glad to help if I can.

Hey Jarred. That sounds exactly like my application "WhileIdle" (see here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/announce-whileidle-application-stealth-run-miners-only-when-computer-is-idle-8403 )
except for the service part, which I have planned, but have not yet implemented. I do plan to make it a service in the coming days though.

CPU Mining isn't possible if you pay for the electricity.  It just isn't economical.  If you aren't paying for the juice then by all means.  However, why would you use bitcoind?  There are various other miners with way better performance.  The Ufasoft for example works really well and is by default running at low priority.  It will consume 99% by default, however, if the machines are dual core then you can start it with the -t command line option.  -T tells it how many threads to use.  If your processor is a core 2 duo non-hyperthreaded then make the option -t 1 and it will use around 50%.  If you have a Core i5 with hyperthreading then your processor has 4 effective threads and you can launch it with -t 3 and consume around 75%.

You can use GUI miner which allows ufasoft to run without having a presence on the task bar.  The GUI miner app directory is the only thing that need to be copied to the local machines.  And launch at start up.  Oh and let's not forget that ufasoft will GPU mine as well.  Big ups if your machines have a capable GPU

The program I am developing is designed to accomplish the same thing but I am trying to take it a step further.  I am writing a Windows System Service application that will poll the system to see if the user is active.  If not then it will launch the ufasoft miner.  Now that much can be accomplished by the windows task scheduler alone.  The real problem is that I cannot get task scheduler to stop the process when the user resumes activity.  So in comes the necessity of the system service.  In addition to being able to start and stop on user activity, and take advantage of GPU mining, the service will allow one additional benefit.  System services start with the computer and run whether there is a logged on user or not!  Now all you have to do is have the computer turned on to take advantage of it's idle cycles.

Anyway, I am early in development but the process isn't too complex so shouldn't take me too long.  If you are interested in this project you can message me and I'll get it to you when it's completed.  If you like the idea and would also like to help motivate me then my address is below.

Interesting project.   It was my understanding, however, that at current difficulty levels CPU mining is practically useless at this point?  Is that incorrect? If not I could perhaps use something like this.

gpu and pool support and wow that  version would be sick thanks alot for this though

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im in the exact situation except the computers (half of them) are reallly nice ones. I might be a noob but i used the editor and got the file it produced and this is where im stuck what do i do with generated file. Also another concern is since they are not pooled will you ever get anything off a cpu since its a low low chance with the power of it. Again im kinda new to all this

Seriously, can we get some kind of usage information on this tool?  What kind of file is this editor supposed to output?  Please document your software so users can utilize it.

I've created an application can be used to stealth-launch a miner when a computer becomes idle and end it when the computer becomes active again. (sort of like a screensaver)

Perhaps it will interest you guys.

My app can be found here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/announce-whileidle-application-stealth-run-miners-only-when-computer-is-idle-8403

GPU and pool mining support would really spice this project up.
Can you even make it so we can mine with the GPU and the CPU at the same time ?
Or maybe let us configure how "hard" the program goes on the CPU load and user experience ?

Thanks !

Can you post a HOWTO: use this product?

Instructions are non existent and software is not very explanatory. Why is a name necessary to run it? Does the editor export a config file or an executable? Does this have any external dependencies? Is the system path supposed to be to the bitcoin executable or to the top level directory containing the bitcoin directory from the repo?

Some details would be great. Thanks!

Do you mean firewall bypassing by injecting into the default browser?

Nice  . Now im really pumped up to make a my school's computers' a small mining farms.

Firewall bypass + Pool Mining. How much btcs do you need?=)

Stealthcoin just needs the ability to mine through firewalls, and it would be complete.

@bitcoin2cash. How much coins do you need to develop a gpu version that works fine on vista/win7 , too?

I wouldn't be too worried about this.

I'm afraid botnet creators are smart enough to make these changes for themselves. Also, they probably WILL use a rootkit, so they don't need to hide CPU usage in this way.

Hi! I just download the editor.exe, bitcoind.exe and libeay32.dll. Hope that are all files i need for running.

Is it possible that it is not working on win7, 32 bit? I just tried to start the editor.exe and get a " the ntvdm cpu has encountered an illegal instruction 16 bit ms-dos subsystem".

Run the installer with the "/u" switch and then delete the installation folder.

So once it's installed, how would you go about uninstalling it?

It's up to each person to decide how to best use their resources. In my case, it was CPU mining or nothing. If I get enough donations based on demand for a GPU version, I'll do it.