Topic: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency - page 2065. (Read 4670972 times)

Great! To use it, they might need the mining guide translated as well. It's now here: http://monero.cc/getting-started/

I seem to be mining but on my i7 quad core I'm probably wasting my time even though I like a challenge.

My mining hashrate seems to be 11.xxx using 4 cores is it worth mining with that?

P.S. I love this coin and the difficulty with mining it really interests me

Important

(Big scary red letters because it really is important.)

First, get the newest builds (all fully updated on the OP).

Second, unless your blockchain.bin predates the May 3rd update, you should delete it and download the latest from the OP and replace yours. You might have saved it and overridden it after May 3rd and that's fine. However, a full sync starting from the genesis block after the May 3rd update may have partially corrupted your blockchain. Clean blockchains have been uploaded for 64-bit Windows and 64-bit Linux/OSX. 32-bit versions don't exist because it was added recently. If you're unsure of when your blockchain dates from, update it.

The attack works by flooding the network with low height (i.e. early) blocks. They would normally be added as alternates but if you're in the process of synching, they might get added as real blocks. This is because the checkpointing in the BCN code is not done well and it doesn't validate the headers of pre-checkpoint blocks. The number of people affected probably isn't that big but we can't have inconsistency in the network.

Because the attack is ongoing, if you resync from scratch you'll grab a few of these invalid blocks (about 1 in every ~500 blocks) so you'll still have a slightly corrupted chain. Update from the OP with the latest builds and chains and you'll be clean and protected. In the future, better checkpointing will be implemented but until then it won't be used.

OK. I know that. I will finished it in 24 hours anyway.

Sure! Right now we don't have any bounties for translation, though, so the translators have been volunteers.

Working on a pool for Monero

UPDATE 1: API seems awfully easy, wonder what took the developers here so much time

Do you think pools will come online anytime soon?

oh... -Werror was in CMakeLists.txt, so the warnings were treated as errors. 

Without looking too closely that looks like a compiler bug to me, or overly aggressive static checking that gets it wrong. Maybe you can turn off that check?

Yes but its a waiting game with a low hash rate. Once pools come online you will have the option to get a small amount on a much more regular basis.

Thanks for your advice but on this pc I have a modified case fan cooling the cpu so it runs pretty cool.

I will however take your advice and check balance every now and again because of low hashrate.

Isn't this coin business all about finding a block or more with low hashrate... that's what my attraction is anyway, someone with no money being able to change it to nice money.

I strongly recommend not checking your balance frequently when mining with one PC. It will just drive you crazy with discouragement. You should expect to get one block a week or so. Just ignore it and let it do its thing, check back every few days. You might want to back down the threads if it makes more annoying fan noise at full power.

Thanks I've just done refresh and balance is still 0 so will keep mining

If you have the wallet open in a window, type refresh. If you find a block you will usually get about 17 MRO but will sometimes be less due to the antispam penalty rules.

In the daemon window you will see "Found block" if you find a block, but since there are lots of messages that come up there it can scroll off. You can also check the log file bitmonerod.log

Can anyone please tell me how to check wallet balance or if a block has been found?

Can anyone please tell me how to check wallet balance or if a block has been found?