[XPM] [ANN] Primecoin Release - First Scientific Computing Cryptocurrency - page 103.

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Quote from: azwccc on July 14, 2013, 03:26:08 AM

Quote from: Sunny King on July 14, 2013, 02:30:02 AM

This phenomenon is a one-off occurrence, could last another week. It likely would not happen again in the future.

Even when GPU miner is out?

I don't think debut of gpu miner would immediately cause 1000x mining power increase, so probably not gonna be anywhere near this dramatic.

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Quote from: Sunny King on July 14, 2013, 02:30:02 AM

This phenomenon is a one-off occurrence, could last another week. It likely would not happen again in the future.

Even when GPU miner is out?

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Quote from: Stonedblues on July 14, 2013, 02:57:46 AM

Quote from: ig0tik3d on July 14, 2013, 02:34:24 AM

http://ypool.net/

anyone tried their V0.2 miner? and the pool?

I'm trying it now but only getting 156pps where I was getting 3500pps in the wallet, but ppl have said that pps doesn't mean squat so I will see how many coins I make in the pool.

I think I figured out why, its only mining on one core. I fixed it. 770pps on my main computer running 7 cores.

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Quote from: Yuri. on July 14, 2013, 02:58:20 AM

What exactly is the block reward? Hard to measure value without knowing this

15-something at the moment

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What exactly is the block reward? Hard to measure value without knowing this

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Quote from: ig0tik3d on July 14, 2013, 02:34:24 AM

http://ypool.net/

anyone tried their V0.2 miner? and the pool?

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I had that too my 7850 still giving me 324k/hs but my 7950 went down from 610 to 580. Strange but I've not been able to check recently because I'm waiting for my new cpu for the rig, I think I killed the last one. Huh

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Quote from: matt4054 on July 14, 2013, 02:49:37 AM

Quote from: Foamy on July 14, 2013, 02:42:00 AM

I have it running on my mining rigs. Cheapie amd quad cores pulling 4200 each but its dropping my mining speed by 8%
worth it? maybe, I will let it run for a few days and see if they make anything. Cheesy

I have also noticed a 5-20% hashrate drop on some of my rigs, others unaffected.
SHA-256 hashing not affected, only scrypt (which is the only useful one for GPUs nowadays I guess).

It doesn't affect my low hashrate rigs (<300 kh/s scrypt), only higher hashrates are affected.
Sometimes, lowering CPU priming to n-1 cores leaves the hashrate unaffected, but not on my 7970s, they go from about 700 to 585.

I have also noticed that the higher the intensity (in cgminer), the more sensitive it is to CPU usage.

The problem happens on Windows x64, Linux untested. I tried to lower the priority of the primecoin process in the task manager, without success in preserving the hashrate.

Any other feedback about this?

It barly affects the rig with a dual core APU but the ones with the quad core CPU loses 8% gpu mining performance.

Btw, APU is pulling 1600.

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Quote from: Foamy on July 14, 2013, 02:42:00 AM

I have it running on my mining rigs. Cheapie amd quad cores pulling 4200 each but its dropping my mining speed by 8%
worth it? maybe, I will let it run for a few days and see if they make anything. Cheesy

I have also noticed a 5-20% hashrate drop on some of my rigs, others unaffected.
SHA-256 hashing not affected, only scrypt (which is the only useful one for GPUs nowadays I guess).

It doesn't affect my low hashrate rigs (<300 kh/s scrypt), only higher hashrates are affected.
Sometimes, lowering CPU priming to n-1 cores leaves the hashrate unaffected, but not on my 7970s, they go from about 700 to 585.

I have also noticed that the higher the intensity (in cgminer), the more sensitive it is to CPU usage.

The problem happens on Windows x64, Linux untested. I tried to lower the priority of the primecoin process in the task manager, without success in preserving the hashrate.

Any other feedback about this?

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Quote from: Foamy on July 14, 2013, 02:11:32 AM

Does anyone know what to launch the wallet with so it automatically starts mining? In windows.

gen=1 in primecoin.conf
primecoin.conf should be in the primecoin data directory, along with wallet.dat, blocks, etc.

Ty

Quote from: Sunny King on July 14, 2013, 02:36:34 AM

Quote from: Foamy on July 14, 2013, 02:34:18 AM

Quote from: nave on July 14, 2013, 02:13:14 AM

Quote from: Foamy on July 14, 2013, 02:11:32 AM

Does anyone know what to launch the wallet with so it automatically starts mining? In windows.

I have my mining rigs set to reboot every 6 hours and want to set the primecoin wallet to auto start.

like. "D:\Program Files (x86)\Primecoin\primecoin-qt.exe" -something?

Or can i make a bat to do it?

In the client under settings there's a checkbox to start it with Windows.

I know how to make the wallet start with windows...

I want to make it automatically start mining when it does start. Instead of having to put in setgenerate true every time I start the wallet.

You need to add 'gen=1' to primecoin.conf in order to let it automatically mine.

Ty

I have it running on my mining rigs. Cheapie amd quad cores pulling 4200 each but its dropping my mining speed by 8%
worth it? maybe, I will let it run for a few days and see if they make anything. Cheesy

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Quote from: ig0tik3d on July 14, 2013, 02:34:24 AM

http://ypool.net/

~~Is the source of the client available? Or just a binary with unknown content?~~

[edited] have to drink more coffee and read the text. there's a source

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Quote from: Foamy on July 14, 2013, 02:34:18 AM

Quote from: nave on July 14, 2013, 02:13:14 AM

Quote from: Foamy on July 14, 2013, 02:11:32 AM

Does anyone know what to launch the wallet with so it automatically starts mining? In windows.

I have my mining rigs set to reboot every 6 hours and want to set the primecoin wallet to auto start.

like. "D:\Program Files (x86)\Primecoin\primecoin-qt.exe" -something?

Or can i make a bat to do it?

In the client under settings there's a checkbox to start it with Windows.

I know how to make the wallet start with windows...

I want to make it automatically start mining when it does start. Instead of having to put in setgenerate true every time I start the wallet.

You need to add 'gen=1' to primecoin.conf in order to let it automatically mine.

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http://ypool.net/

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Quote from: nave on July 14, 2013, 02:13:14 AM

Quote from: Foamy on July 14, 2013, 02:11:32 AM

Does anyone know what to launch the wallet with so it automatically starts mining? In windows.

I have my mining rigs set to reboot every 6 hours and want to set the primecoin wallet to auto start.

like. "D:\Program Files (x86)\Primecoin\primecoin-qt.exe" -something?

Or can i make a bat to do it?

In the client under settings there's a checkbox to start it with Windows.

I know how to make the wallet start with windows...

I want to make it automatically start mining when it does start. Instead of having to put in setgenerate true every time I start the wallet.

Sunny King

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The growth of mining power on the primecoin network is enormous that I am speechless right now. This is due to a combination of more computers joining the network and continued miner improvements.

Some people raised the question that why difficulty is not adjusted fast enough. The difficulty adjustment speed is calibrated to maximize security while keeping a reasonable adjustment speed. If it adjusts too fast it would be easier to manipulate difficulty for the purpose of reducing the cost of 51% attack, and other oscillation inducing mining exploits.

The current difficulty is approaching the step-up to difficulty 8 (about to happen today). This means within the first week the difficulty already adjusted by about 30x, from initial difficulty 7 at the release, not all that slow at all. However, the mining power on the network has grown about 1000x from the first day of the network. That's why we are seeing the block spacing gradually dropping to the seconds range. The orphan rate on the network is expected to stay relatively high for the next couple of days, while difficulty plays catchup to the growth of mining power on the network.

This phenomenon is a one-off occurrence, could last another week. It likely would not happen again in the future.

So let watch and celebrate the cross to difficulty 8 today

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under the getmininginfo command, we get:

"blocks" : 34918,

this tends to change very quickly, like maybe even every 30 seconds or less. Is that how it should be?

Also, is "currentblocksize" : 1000, the size of every primecoin block?

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Quote from: Foamy on July 14, 2013, 02:11:32 AM

Does anyone know what to launch the wallet with so it automatically starts mining? In windows.

I have my mining rigs set to reboot every 6 hours and want to set the primecoin wallet to auto start.

like. "D:\Program Files (x86)\Primecoin\primecoin-qt.exe" -something?

Or can i make a bat to do it?

In the client under settings there's a checkbox to start it with Windows.

Foamy

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Does anyone know what to launch the wallet with so it automatically starts mining? In windows.

I have my mining rigs set to reboot every 6 hours and want to set the primecoin wallet to auto start.

like. "D:\Program Files (x86)\Primecoin\primecoin-qt.exe" -something?

Or can i make a bat to do it?

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Quote from: glongsword on July 14, 2013, 01:26:18 AM

Sunny King made some changes to the Github half an hour ago. You may want to pull it again and recompile it if you're using linux. https://github.com/primecoin/primecoin

New stuff?

I'll check it out...

Mikaelh's miner did increase block rate.

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Terminated.

New version increases pps but not sure about block generation rate Angry

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