[XPM] [ANN] Primecoin Prerelease Announcement - Introducing Prime Proof-of-Work - page 21.

Sunny King

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Design paper would be available in a couple days.

That's my fork, not Gavin's Wink

Source code will be uploaded at release time.

Quote from: tacotime on June 29, 2013, 10:14:06 AM

Are you integrating GIMPS into a block chain? There would be a couple of problems with that I could foresee, namely that it takes an average of two years to find a new prime and that all new primes usually need to be independently verified (eg in 2003 when a new "prime" was found that ended up being factorable).

There are no real implementation details, so I'm curious. In the Mersenne prime format you could easily stick them somewhere in the block header.

Edit: Apparently Gavin made a fork already of the same name
https://github.com/primecoin/primecoin

Doesn't look like he did much with it, though.

amytheplanarshift

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Very interesting. Watching this closely.

SpaceCadet

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Just mining my own business...

Worth keeping an eye on - it's nice to see some real innovation and not another cut-and-paste! SIFCoin is another recent one that is also CPU only for now (though not as large a departure from the 'norm' as this might be).

Good luck, Sunny - I hope this is a winner for you (and the rest of us)!

testz

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Looks interesting

drawingthesun

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A alt coin by a respected developer and with a totally unique proof of work scheme, this is going to be huge!

tacotime

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Are you integrating GIMPS into a block chain? There would be a couple of problems with that I could foresee, namely that it takes an average of two years to find a new prime and that all new primes usually need to be independently verified (eg in 2003 when a new "prime" was found that ended up being factorable).

There are no real implementation details, so I'm curious. In the Mersenne prime format you could easily stick them somewhere in the block header.

Edit: Apparently Gavin made a fork already of the same name
https://github.com/primecoin/primecoin

Doesn't look like he did much with it, though.

Snail2

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Looks interesting. Maybe something like the SETI project could use some "hashing" power from this coin.

craslovell

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I will keep an eye on this one

azwccc

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Interested in prime POW, any more detail? Just a little plz~

allbits

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Watching this.

mr_random

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Quote from: Sunny King on June 28, 2013, 06:57:54 PM

Maybe I have missed something new among the sea of clones, but who is the first non-hashcash proof-of-work that you are referring to?

Some API would be preserved some would be impacted, especially those mining related. Although I haven't looked into it yet the release is client wallet solo mining only.

Quote from: coinerd on June 28, 2013, 06:13:12 PM

If I understand correctly, this will be the second non-hashcash crypto-currency to achieve beta.

Looking forward to it.

Will you provide backwards compatibility at the daemon for existing crypto currency infrastructures?

(Similar RPC-JSON interface especially?)

Will users be able to compile from source on release or are you just releasing the client wallet on launch day?

I guess I am a little worried a troll will try and clone it if you release all the source on day 1. After a day or so it doesn't matter so much then.

I am curious how you managed to get this to work...

Boing7898

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Looking good! Good luck with this.

TheSwede75

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I hear Jesus is planning a second coming to GPU mine this coin.

r3wt

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always the student, never the master.

so i just got off the phone with satoshi. he's coming out of retirement to mine this coin.

paulthetafy

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Reserved, looks good!

jubalix

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Quote from: TheSwede75 on June 29, 2013, 12:32:35 AM

Quote from: jubalix on June 29, 2013, 12:01:39 AM

reserved

how does this help cpu mine that is agaisnt botnets which may be just directed at the coin

could I suggest a silent release of the complied qt client, to those who have over x amount of PPC or were registered on the PPC forum before a certain date,

this shows people who are at least dedicated to PPC/ your projects.

Eg the day after I purchased BTC I went around buying up PPC!

If i understand PrimeCoin may act as a bridge to PPC

but I don't understand it the hash rate away from BTC idea, see the overall hash available is increasing, so even if the pie is smaller for BTC this does not make it more vulnerable, also with asics now rolling out and by far the majority of new coins being scrypt his is even less an issue though that could change when everything that produces heat mines as well

on that point, it maybe that all heating elements mine eventually kind of putting a floor under the nergy usage as you were going to it anyway.

Imagine the amount of power a hot water element pulls, and could be directed at mining as well.

Would I like my hot water element to be makieng me btc or some otehr CC, why not!

Cause as we all know, there are absolutely no botnet operators on ppc forum. . Nice try

well ok, true, but I think there would be less! maybe, than at large! or rather capture a better selection of no botnet as many botents would then not be able to participate

mullick

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Wow Looks like your set to do it again. Thank you for bringing real innovation back to crypto

NickCoin

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Would be interesting to see how this is received by crypto community.

As far as I'm concerned though, the days of pure POW single block chain hashing structure is numbered.

forsetifox

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Watching this.

billotronic

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Crackpot Idealist

Quote from: TheSwede75 on June 29, 2013, 12:32:35 AM

Quote from: jubalix on June 29, 2013, 12:01:39 AM

reserved

how does this help cpu mine that is agaisnt botnets which may be just directed at the coin

could I suggest a silent release of the complied qt client, to those who have over x amount of PPC or were registered on the PPC forum before a certain date,

this shows people who are at least dedicated to PPC/ your projects.

Eg the day after I purchased BTC I went around buying up PPC!

If i understand PrimeCoin may act as a bridge to PPC

but I don't understand it the hash rate away from BTC idea, see the overall hash available is increasing, so even if the pie is smaller for BTC this does not make it more vulnerable, also with asics now rolling out and by far the majority of new coins being scrypt his is even less an issue though that could change when everything that produces heat mines as well

on that point, it maybe that all heating elements mine eventually kind of putting a floor under the nergy usage as you were going to it anyway.

Imagine the amount of power a hot water element pulls, and could be directed at mining as well.

Would I like my hot water element to be makieng me btc or some otehr CC, why not!

Cause as we all know, there are absolutely no botnet operators on ppc forum. . Nice try

lol duh! they are on the btce troll box with the rest of us loons!

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