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Topic: [XPM] [ANN] Primecoin Release - First Scientific Computing Cryptocurrency - page 129. (Read 688812 times)

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Is my browser broken or is there No bid, No ask, no trading in the past for XPM/BTC?
mcxnow started carring it earlyer, plenty of trades happening there.
https://mcxnow.com/exchange/XPM
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2 days without a block on my i5... and on my phenom x4, 1 day... 2 machines mining for 3 days, and just 50 XPM....

That's low...
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Is my browser broken or is there No bid, No ask, no trading in the past for XPM/BTC?
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I've mined some, is there any exchanges yet?
sr. member
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has anyone compiled the new version for windows? im stunned otherwise id do it meself.
legendary
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has anybody tried to compile primecoind him/herself on linux (in my case Ubuntu 12.04)?

Yes, you need to install the "...-dev" packages as well because they contain the .h files.
primecoind works well (I need to git pull again to get newest version), but I wasn't able to build primecoin-qt.
Maybe later today...

Onkel Paul
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I am looking to buy XPM
Check out my thread if you are interested in selling Smiley
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2705232
//DeaDTerra
legendary
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If I find this confusing, how do I make the original wallet to forget the moved block (but not all the blocks) ? I looked it up but didn't find answer. Thanks.
You can manually edit the wallet to remove the key, but I don't recommend it.

Just ignore it.
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Okay, can we get instruction on how to extract coin from our DigitalOcean droplet.  It has been so long since I have had to do console/coding like this Sad.

Sure. I do it this way:

  • ssh into remote instance
  • ./primecoind listtransactions –> copy the address mentioned in the output at "address"
  • ./primecoind dumpprivkey {{paste copied address here}} –> copy the private key returned
  • on your local computer holding the "master wallet" -> ./primecoind importprivkey {{paste copied private key here}}
  • now address holding the minted coins appears in your local wallet

No need to send coins over the blockchain this way, immature coins can be imported immediately.

So does this basically merge the wallets, or do I need to worry about what I already have in the 'master wallet'?
It's kind of a manual merge. Technically you just add a new address to your existing "master wallet" just like you could with any other address, too. In our case, that address is the one your newly minted coins were credited to. (Minted coins are always credited to a new address internally.)

All other addresses in your "master wallet" will remain untouched as will your remote wallets.

After importing the privatekeys, I see the blocks still show in the original wallet. I guess both wallets think they own the blocks. So.. if I spend some of the coins in the block involved, do both wallets register the transaction?

If I find this confusing, how do I make the original wallet to forget the moved block (but not all the blocks) ? I looked it up but didn't find answer. Thanks.
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O.O FOXBUTT MINED A BLOCK!

(my headless netbook server with an Atom)



YOU BASTAAAARRRDDDD!!  Grin
legendary
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I also run my primecoin daemons with the datadir in ram memory to reduce orphans. Every millisecond counts to get a solved block out to the network, don't want any messing about with slow hard drives.
I'm getting a lot of orphans (~1 per hour) so I've been comparing debug.log with blockchain records based on UTC time... In most cases I'm ~1 second late so peer lag is to blame. But a few cases have been within the second, so you're absolutely right that efficiency getting solved blocks out is key.
When running p2pool it is recommended that you don't have too many bitcoind connections.

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There's a compromise here: the more connections, the faster your node will be notified of new blocks and avoid wasting work, the faster it can include transactions with fees in the coinbase and the faster it will propagate a P2Pool block minimizing chances it would become orphan.  Orphans will quickly rise if you have very few connections (they are the means to be notified of other shares after all).
But the less connections, the less bandwidth used and the lower the latency.

I know we aren't using p2pool but maybe this applies here as well. Too many connections increases chances of your found block getting propagated, but also increases latency. So you need to find a balance.

I've reduced my primecoind connections to 15 with maxconnections=15 command in primecoin.conf.

By the way, I have no proof this works or not. I've got no orphans though.
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Hi,

has anybody tried to compile primecoind him/herself on linux (in my case Ubuntu 12.04)?
I tried to do so, installed the required packages and as recommended "BerkeleyDB.4.8" (I followed primecoin-0.1.0-linux/src/doc/build-unix.md)
The first attempt to run make ended with errors regarding db_cxx.h (db.h:14:20: fatal error: db_cxx.h: No such file or directory).
I set the variables regarding the BerkeleyDB that are used by makefile.unix to
BDB_LIB_PATH=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.8/lib/ and
BDB_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.8/include/
without success.
make still ends with errors and I might be too newbish to find out what's wrong...
Can anybody help?

Kind regards
masterOfDisaster


If someone could post IPv6 addresses of nodes, that would be great, too. Maybe the IPv6 flag has been used for compiling primecoind and I only lack of nodes...


I use gentoo and have too add "BDB_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/db4.8/ BDB_LIB_SUFFIX=-4.8" too my make command
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It was only the wind.
Anyone know the Primecoin prefix so we can use vanitygen? I don't know where to look for it in the source.

23

Thanks. Could you tell me where to find it in the source?

Code:
PUBKEY_ADDRESS = 23,  // primecoin: pubkey address starts with 'A'
SCRIPT_ADDRESS = 83,  // primecoin: script address starts with 'a'

Lines 275,276 in src/base58.h


Thanks a lot.
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It looks like the primespersec value is calculated by counting up how many primes are found in one minute (with some minor corrections if the time between primespersec calculations isn't exactly one minute), and then resetting the primes counter. It would be much more accurate if it either operated on a longer time period, or even just never reset the primes counter.

In debug.log you will see a more meaningful prime/h which updates at 2 minute intervals.
This message?
Code:
printf("%s primemeter %9.0f prime/h %9.0f test/h\n", DateTimeStrFormat("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", nLogTime).c_str(), dPrimesPerMinute * 60.0, dTestsPerMinute * 60.0);
That's just the same counter of primes found in the last minute extrapolated to an hour.
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I've noticed some of the new "release" versions by helpful people may have minor bugs that it won't notifying you even if you mine a block, neither does it show the hint on the UI except you may find the immature amount increased.

To make sure you know how many blocks you have mined, use "listtransactions" to see the details.  This way there is no confusing messages.  
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It was only the wind.
make sure your current block is incrementing if you're using the client I compiled, one of my local copy wasn't wanting to increment blocks.

Here's a complete zip file with all needed dlls, and it follows current block properly.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6dwcc5p1koj86vz/release5.zip
release5 is working only on PC with i5. All other PC with celeron, sempron, athlon etc doesn't work with this client(((((((((((((((

Check out the other thread, I have a few different build flavors you can try. This one might do: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2704112
Were tested all versions of updated client. APPCRASH on all versions of windows (W7 embedded standart x32, w7 home basic x32, w7 proffessional x64, w8 proffesional x64) with processors celeron, sempron, athlon x2, phenom x6. Works only on i5.

No shit. The crashes are likely due to invalid opcode exceptions.
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Blocks take a LONG time to mature, "primecoind getbalance" is always lagging behind!

If your balance stays at 0, use "primecoind listtransactions" so you can see maturing blocks (if you have them)
Use this to show your balance including immature funds:
Code:
primecoind getbalance "*"

Thx, that works! Smiley
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It looks like the primespersec value is calculated by counting up how many primes are found in one minute (with some minor corrections if the time between primespersec calculations isn't exactly one minute), and then resetting the primes counter. It would be much more accurate if it either operated on a longer time period, or even just never reset the primes counter.

In debug.log you will see a more meaningful prime/h which updates at 2 minute intervals.

edit: I was wrong primes/h is calculated as dPrimesPerMinute * 60.0
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Blocks take a LONG time to mature, "primecoind getbalance" is always lagging behind!

If your balance stays at 0, use "primecoind listtransactions" so you can see maturing blocks (if you have them)
Use this to show your balance including immature funds:
Code:
primecoind getbalance "*"
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