[XPM] [ANN] Primecoin Release - First Scientific Computing Cryptocurrency - page 113.

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Quote from: Chemisist on July 12, 2013, 12:14:19 PM

I just pushed a patch to the master primecoin branch increasing pps rate to ~1800 pps on my core i7-950, ~2100 pps on my core i5-2500k and ~600 pps on my core 2 duo t9300 (laptop).

Main post is here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2715288.

A compiled linux binary is available at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1y7mwwc4asgfqfb/Eo2sKCsZor.

Verified working on the main chain (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2715862)

Temporary branch is available at https://github.com/Chemisist/primecoin until the pull request is completed on the master branch.

Hey! Are you going to offer a compiled version for win7 64 as well? or is it only for linux?

thanks in advance

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I just pushed a patch to the master primecoin branch increasing pps rate to ~1800 pps on my core i7-950, ~2100 pps on my core i5-2500k and ~600 pps on my core 2 duo t9300 (laptop).

Main post is here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2715288.

A compiled linux binary is available at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1y7mwwc4asgfqfb/Eo2sKCsZor.

Verified working on the main chain (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2715862)

Temporary branch is available at https://github.com/Chemisist/primecoin until the pull request is completed on the master branch.

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Quote from: itod on July 12, 2013, 12:06:29 PM

Quote from: jlspartz on July 12, 2013, 11:59:19 AM

I'm not a gpu farmer but I think its better to have people that invested in crypto reap the benefit than botnet owners. I like cpu mining but once a coin becomes big botnets step in. So i see gpu mining as good progression.

Is it really possible that somebody has it's cores maxed to 100% and not noticing he has a bot? Bot-nets are dangerous for stealing passwords, but will they be dangerous for mass-mining?

Yes, some botnets mine in the shadows of masses like litecoin. A large increase there is not noticed like on smaller coins. Plus the botnets are used for DDOSing the exchanges. So they are very harmful to the crypto community.

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Quote from: jlspartz on July 12, 2013, 11:59:19 AM

I'm not a gpu farmer but I think its better to have people that invested in crypto reap the benefit than botnet owners. I like cpu mining but once a coin becomes big botnets step in. So i see gpu mining as good progression.

Is it really possible that somebody has it's cores maxed to 100% and not noticing he has a bot? Bot-nets are dangerous for stealing passwords, but will they be dangerous for mass-mining?

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Less than a week old and already number 11 for coin market cap. Good job sunny!
http://coinmarketcap.com/

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Quote from: LordMeowMeow on July 12, 2013, 12:01:06 PM

Quote from: anonppcoin on July 12, 2013, 11:52:26 AM

Quote from: LordMeowMeow on July 12, 2013, 11:50:02 AM

Hey guys, I am getting ~300 pps and been mining for hours. Still no XPMs. Is this normal? (and yes I've read the threads!)

Yes. If you're paranoid you can reload the blockchain.

ty, how do I do that? google/reinstalling primecoin isn't helping.

300pps several hours without XPM is more normal than normal...

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Quote from: anonppcoin on July 12, 2013, 11:52:26 AM

Quote from: LordMeowMeow on July 12, 2013, 11:50:02 AM

Hey guys, I am getting ~300 pps and been mining for hours. Still no XPMs. Is this normal? (and yes I've read the threads!)

Yes. If you're paranoid you can reload the blockchain.

ty, how do I do that? google/reinstalling primecoin isn't helping.

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Quote from: itod on July 12, 2013, 11:53:43 AM

Quote from: jlspartz on July 12, 2013, 11:24:27 AM

Quote from: itod on July 12, 2013, 11:15:25 AM

Quote from: donut on July 12, 2013, 10:03:24 AM

Anyone working on a GPU miner yet? Here's some help: http://www.macs-site.net/CudaPrimes.htm

Hopefully not, because:
1) Primecoin looks to be GPU-resistant, it will be very hard to implement calculating it's long integers on something that is design to deal only with vertices
2) GPU rigs are the cancer for mining, eliminating 99% of regular people who are not OK with the idea of monster cases with external GPUs all over the place, laptop users with no external cards, etc. Non-existence of GPU miner is the main reason for Primecoin's unusual popularity. People are successfully mining even on Raspberry Pi's.

It can be done on GPUs. Look up CUDA Lucas. Its used for finding mersenne primes. Verifies primes over 10 million digits long in days.

Oh, I see it now. Primecoin CPU mining is doomed, in a few weeks legions of BTC-ASIC-kicked-GPU-farmers will jump on Primecoin and no one will ever find a block again.

I'm not a gpu farmer but I think its better to have people that invested in crypto reap the benefit than botnet owners. I like cpu mining but once a coin becomes big botnets step in. So i see gpu mining as good progression.

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Quote from: jlspartz on July 12, 2013, 11:24:27 AM

Quote from: itod on July 12, 2013, 11:15:25 AM

Quote from: donut on July 12, 2013, 10:03:24 AM

Anyone working on a GPU miner yet? Here's some help: http://www.macs-site.net/CudaPrimes.htm

Hopefully not, because:
1) Primecoin looks to be GPU-resistant, it will be very hard to implement calculating it's long integers on something that is design to deal only with vertices
2) GPU rigs are the cancer for mining, eliminating 99% of regular people who are not OK with the idea of monster cases with external GPUs all over the place, laptop users with no external cards, etc. Non-existence of GPU miner is the main reason for Primecoin's unusual popularity. People are successfully mining even on Raspberry Pi's.

It can be done on GPUs. Look up CUDA Lucas. Its used for finding mersenne primes. Verifies primes over 10 million digits long in days.

Oh, I see it now. Primecoin CPU mining is doomed, in a few weeks legions of BTC-ASIC-kicked-GPU-farmers will jump on Primecoin and no one will ever find a block again.

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Quote from: LordMeowMeow on July 12, 2013, 11:50:02 AM

Hey guys, I am getting ~300 pps and been mining for hours. Still no XPMs. Is this normal? (and yes I've read the threads!)

Yes. If you're paranoid you can reload the blockchain.

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Quote from: gateway on July 12, 2013, 11:43:38 AM

Not sure if this has been asked, but any way to get the prime numbers out of the client or a way to grep them from the logs? .. also is their a way to reference them to already existing found ones more in the math community side of things?

primechain and primeorigin are in the getblock output.

Refer to this thread for existing world records of these chains:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/xpm-primecoin-record-books-253409

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Hey guys, I am getting ~300 pps and been mining for hours. Still no XPMs. Is this normal? (and yes I've read the threads!)

{
"blocks" : 22275,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 3,
"primespersec" : 292,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}

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Did anyone noticed that the primecoin-gt.exe v.0.1.1 has a timestamp of 01/29/2011?

Wow just installed this one and it found a block within the first 5 minutes!

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Quote from: gateway on July 12, 2013, 11:43:38 AM

Not sure if this has been asked, but any way to get the prime numbers out of the client or a way to grep them from the logs? .. also is their a way to reference them to already existing found ones more in the math community side of things?

I'd like to know this also. I know they know what primes are being produced because there is some news on new chains being found, but where is that info?

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Its the first coin that could have people using NVidia cards instead.

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Not sure if this has been asked, but any way to get the prime numbers out of the client or a way to grep them from the logs? .. also is their a way to reference them to already existing found ones more in the math community side of things?

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Quote from: itod on July 12, 2013, 11:15:25 AM

Quote from: donut on July 12, 2013, 10:03:24 AM

Anyone working on a GPU miner yet? Here's some help: http://www.macs-site.net/CudaPrimes.htm

Hopefully not, because:
1) Primecoin looks to be GPU-resistant, it will be very hard to implement calculating it's long integers on something that is design to deal only with vertices
2) GPU rigs are the cancer for mining, eliminating 99% of regular people who are not OK with the idea of monster cases with external GPUs all over the place, laptop users with no external cards, etc. Non-existence of GPU miner is the main reason for Primecoin's unusual popularity. People are successfully mining even on Raspberry Pi's.

Without GPU's, the only people who will make any money will be the people with botnets or EC2 instances.

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Yea GPUs are good for primes
check it http://www.primegrid.com/

open cl and cuda apps

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If anyone's interested, I just made a bash script to run from an Ubuntu Server instance that does all the work for you in setting up a CPU miner.... I know it's just a couple commands but some people seem to be getting hung up on that!

https://github.com/lucasjkr/PrimeMiner/

It's a cludge, I know - no error checking or anything else, but it's a very simple process:

A) Start a new instance and install Ubuntu Server 12 or 13 on it.
B) install git "sudo apt-get install git-core"
C) get the script "git clone https://github.com/lucasjkr/PrimeMiner.git"
D) make script executable "chmod 700 ./PrimeMiner/makeminer.sh"
E) execute script "./PrimeMiner/makeminer.sh"

Enter your admin password, sit back and wait.

PS - i know entering the password is bad form, but for myself, i'm only running these on instances that do nothing else, so I'm not concerned if some how someone was able to capture the password. Your mileage may vary. But I'm happy with this so far. Suggestions will be of course appreciated!

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Quote from: itod on July 12, 2013, 11:15:25 AM

Quote from: donut on July 12, 2013, 10:03:24 AM

Anyone working on a GPU miner yet? Here's some help: http://www.macs-site.net/CudaPrimes.htm

Hopefully not, because:
1) Primecoin looks to be GPU-resistant, it will be very hard to implement calculating it's long integers on something that is design to deal only with vertices
2) GPU rigs are the cancer for mining, eliminating 99% of regular people who are not OK with the idea of monster cases with external GPUs all over the place, laptop users with no external cards, etc. Non-existence of GPU miner is the main reason for Primecoin's unusual popularity. People are successfully mining even on Raspberry Pi's.

It can be done on GPUs. Look up CUDA Lucas. Its used for finding mersenne primes. Verifies primes over 10 million digits long in days.

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