Topic: [XPM] [ANN] Primecoin Release - First Scientific Computing Cryptocurrency - page 183. (Read 688812 times)
July 07, 2013, 11:43:48 PM
Man, if PrimeCoin managed to punish for using cloud instances and server-class CPUs, that's an incredible feat, must have obfuscated it quite well! Curious to see how this develops.
July 07, 2013, 11:42:50 PM
Well whatdayaknow, I got my first mined block just now, hah.
Hey guys, I got notification from the icon saying I got one block. But I couldn't find it in "transaction" or the "unconfirmed" amount.
What is the problem? Orphan?
You could type "listtransactions" in the debug console just to be sure.
July 07, 2013, 11:41:02 PM
Well whatdayaknow, I got my first mined block just now, hah.
Hey guys, I got notification from the icon saying I got one block. But I couldn't find it in "transaction" or the "unconfirmed" amount.
What is the problem? Orphan?
July 07, 2013, 11:39:01 PM
Well whatdayaknow, I got my first mined block just now, hah.
Hey guys, I got notification from the icon saying I got one block. But I couldn't find it in "transaction" or the "unconfirmed" amount.
What is the problem? Orphan?
July 07, 2013, 11:31:49 PM
Sunny, theoretically, won't the primes get bigger as we find more of them, so that it's impossible to maintain a uniform time in between blocks? So that in fact, if the network hash rate remains constant over some period of time, difficulty will adjust lower?
Difficulty is measured by chain length, not by prime sizes. Block spacing is maintained via continuous difficulty adjustment.
Sunny, I keep observing periods where the block spacing is ~30seconds instead of ~60seconds, yet the difficulty isn't increasing by a corresponding factor.
Example period where block spacing is ~30seconds:
Code:
block 665 creation time = July 8, 2013, 04:11:39 difficulty = 7.03636408
block 675 creation time = July 8, 2013, 04:17:56 difficulty = 7.03710973
block 675 creation time = July 8, 2013, 04:17:56 difficulty = 7.03710973
It has been a long time since blocks were spaced according to your specification so it would appear the variable difficulty should be set higher.
July 07, 2013, 11:29:32 PM
CPUID checks. Hostname checks. Server specific information checks. It's not hard.
With the code on github it would have to be obfuscated somehow. Care to point out what you think it is? I would be astonished if he intentionally broke virtual CPUs. That is just rewarding botnets and punishing everyone else.
July 07, 2013, 11:28:10 PM
Well whatdayaknow, I got my first mined block just now, hah.
Nice, grats. Anyone have an equation for the block reward? I've skimmed through, didn't find anything though.Seems it's going down gradually, but I'm not sure of the full trajectory.
I got 20.33 for my block, but it was fairly early on.
July 07, 2013, 11:27:49 PM
Yay!
{
"blocks" : 787,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"primespersec" : 1,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}
Mining on laptops is fun.
{
"blocks" : 787,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"primespersec" : 1,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}
Mining on laptops is fun.
July 07, 2013, 11:20:46 PM
CPUID checks. Hostname checks. Server specific information checks. It's not hard.
With the code on github it would have to be obfuscated somehow. Care to point out what you think it is? I would be astonished if he intentionally broke virtual CPUs. That is just rewarding botnets and punishing everyone else.
July 07, 2013, 11:19:53 PM
Well whatdayaknow, I got my first mined block just now, hah.
July 07, 2013, 11:15:43 PM
Ok lol! Apparently this was much easier to figure out than I made it.. cause i was also ina hurry to leave for work earlier.. but yea!
You don't need to create any config file for this at all.. It just works without a config.. maybe you will need to reboot after the first time you try to open it.. but.. it only worked for me after i deleted the .conf i tried to create completely.. haha! oops!
Thnx a lot to the people that responded though!
You don't need to create any config file for this at all.. It just works without a config.. maybe you will need to reboot after the first time you try to open it.. but.. it only worked for me after i deleted the .conf i tried to create completely.. haha! oops!
Thnx a lot to the people that responded though!
July 07, 2013, 11:13:39 PM
CPUID checks. Hostname checks. Server specific information checks. It's not hard.
this is why i scuffed at the guy that said this is a dead coin because someone has 100 EC2's on it....
July 07, 2013, 11:08:57 PM
CPUID checks. Hostname checks. Server specific information checks. It's not hard.
July 07, 2013, 11:07:59 PM
I'm pretty sure that hosting instances are nerfed in the release binaries so that nobody can get an unfair advantage with it. 
Uh, how?
July 07, 2013, 11:03:16 PM
I'm pretty sure that hosting instances are nerfed in the release binaries so that nobody can get an unfair advantage with it.
July 07, 2013, 11:00:02 PM
keep in mind theres some degree of luck when mining. Even a crap pc has a slight chance of stumbling on the correct number and completing the correct calculation. A faster pc will go through more of those calculations, thus increasing its odds of finding the correct one.
my faster PC has been mining for several hours with no luck, my slower pc has already clinched two rewards. go figure.
my faster PC has been mining for several hours with no luck, my slower pc has already clinched two rewards. go figure.
Same!! My crappy $300-$400 Toshiba laptop has gotten two blocks with a dual-core AMD processor, my i5-2500k has gotten one block, and my 8350 has gotten zero.
As well, I have two Large elastic instances from digitalocean. Each scores >10000 on Geekbench, yet and each one reports somewhere between 0 and 2 primes per second. :sig:
July 07, 2013, 10:59:17 PM
Probability mathematics/physics is a really damn confusing thing.
July 07, 2013, 10:57:17 PM
Well, thanks for the information guys! I shall happily be awaiting my first block and seeing how this crypto goes.
July 07, 2013, 10:57:11 PM
keep in mind theres some degree of luck when mining. Even a crap pc has a slight chance of stumbling on the correct number and completing the correct calculation. A faster pc will go through more of those calculations, thus increasing its odds of finding the correct one.
my faster PC has been mining for several hours with no luck, my slower pc has already clinched two rewards. go figure.
my faster PC has been mining for several hours with no luck, my slower pc has already clinched two rewards. go figure.
Same!! My crappy $300-$400 Toshiba laptop has gotten two blocks with a dual-core AMD processor, my i5-2500k has gotten one block, and my 8350 has gotten zero.
July 07, 2013, 10:55:17 PM
keep in mind theres some degree of luck when mining. Even a crap pc has a slight chance of stumbling on the correct number and completing the correct calculation. A faster pc will go through more of those calculations, thus increasing its odds of finding the correct one.
my faster PC has been mining for several hours with no luck, my slower pc has already clinched two rewards. go figure.
my faster PC has been mining for several hours with no luck, my slower pc has already clinched two rewards. go figure.
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