[XPM] The Unofficial Primecoin Overview Thread (all information in one place!) - page 4.

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Quote from: mechs on August 29, 2013, 12:15:03 AM

Quote from: jungle_dave on August 28, 2013, 05:31:00 PM

Compliments on the great concept behind Primecoin!!

It must be very popular now, its taking 2 hours and counting to sync

Hope there are a few coins left for me to mine.

We still in the early innings with primecoin, no worries there!

The coins are here alright, but getting them is a hell of a lot harder than it was a month ago !

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Quote from: jungle_dave on August 28, 2013, 05:31:00 PM

Compliments on the great concept behind Primecoin!!

It must be very popular now, its taking 2 hours and counting to sync

Hope there are a few coins left for me to mine.

We still in the early innings with primecoin, no worries there!

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Compliments on the great concept behind Primecoin!!

It must be very popular now, its taking 2 hours and counting to sync

Hope there are a few coins left for me to mine.

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Added a 7th exchange (https://bter.com/) for trading XPM.

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Some minor updates re: rd's miner - the new beta v3.1 seems to work better with AVX than mumu's for me
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/sq24hzo993afy9c/l7icP0KiuM

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Quote from: Tamis on August 23, 2013, 09:19:26 AM

Quote from: paulthetafy on August 23, 2013, 08:10:32 AM

Spot prices are good, but even the cheapest is not profitable now. Expect about a break even at best.

True, but it's still cheaper than the server he's renting !

Now the fact is that difficulty has stabilized so people keep on mining. The horrible ypool get 20% of the blocks, where are mining the others with profit ?
Are they all desktop computers or are we missing the right vps providers ? I've been wondering about that quite a lot lately...

There's a fair number of normal home users who have a handful of desktops, then there are a few people with massive server farms, either through work or that they own themselves (think 100-1000 machines). I think that makes up the lions share. Some people bought VPS's on monthly plans and are still running them (probably already paid for), but dont know how profitable they are anymore.

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Quote from: paulthetafy on August 23, 2013, 08:10:32 AM

Spot prices are good, but even the cheapest is not profitable now. Expect about a break even at best.

True, but it's still cheaper than the server he's renting !

Now the fact is that difficulty has stabilized so people keep on mining. The horrible ypool gets 20% of the blocks, where are mining the others for profit ?
Are they all desktop computers or are we missing the right vps providers ? I've been wondering about that quite a lot lately...

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Quote from: Tamis on August 23, 2013, 08:04:39 AM

Quote from: FoldingTime on August 23, 2013, 06:22:45 AM

Anyone got anything cheaper or more cost effective?

Of course, but no one will tell you

I will though, at this price you are better taking EC2 spot instances !

Spot prices are good, but even the cheapest is not profitable now. Expect about a break even at best.

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Quote from: FoldingTime on August 23, 2013, 06:22:45 AM

Anyone got anything cheaper or more cost effective?

Of course, but no one will tell you

I will though, at this price you are better taking EC2 spot instances !

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Quote from: Dumbo on August 22, 2013, 06:49:37 PM

There are 100s of us here ...we can just pool together and rent out some small VPS companies.

I have been looking into bulk buying dedicated servers, however, to get the full discount you need to hire them for a full 1 year Sad

Without the full discount I can get a Xeon E3-1230v2 (4 core @ 3.3GHz - turbo at 3.7GHz) , 16GB for $80 each per month if we bulk buy. If you can keep it a full 1 year then get a 10% rebate at the end.

I have one of these running at the moment and get between 1.1 and 1.2 chains per day.

With the current difficulty I put this down as breakeven at best so not really worth the investment.

Anyone got anything cheaper or more cost effective?

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Why the GetWork protocol not implemented in XPM? Is it hard to achieve?

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Quote from: balanghai on August 23, 2013, 04:32:05 AM

anyone offering their home servers for contracts? Grin

I can offer a Pentium IV Cheesy

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anyone offering their home servers for contracts? Grin

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Quote from: mechs on August 22, 2013, 10:13:33 PM

Quote from: Dumbo on August 22, 2013, 06:49:37 PM

There are 100s of us here ...we can just pool together and rent out some small VPS companies.

Only two choices - keep signing up for VPS and milking them until account frozen or pay up for a dedicated server. THe first method more time-consuming but also more profitable. Dedicated servers expensive.

You can't milk VPS, they will cut you almost instantly ! Sometimes I could not even finish downloading the blockchain and was already suspended...

You can buy a server off ebay for example. There are cheap ones but you need to choose well and have space for them as they are known to be noisy and generate heat.

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Quote from: Dumbo on August 22, 2013, 06:49:37 PM

There are 100s of us here ...we can just pool together and rent out some small VPS companies.

Only two choices - keep signing up for VPS and milking them until account frozen or pay up for a dedicated server. THe first method more time-consuming but also more profitable. Dedicated servers expensive.

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There are 100s of us here ...we can just pool together and rent out some small VPS companies.

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Quote from: Dumbo on August 22, 2013, 06:29:46 PM

Linode kicked me out Tongue

The best bet may be a less popular company since they probably kick people off when other users complain their droplets slow. Less users means less likely for someone to complain.

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Linode kicked me out Tongue

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Quote from: Tamis on August 22, 2013, 09:33:12 AM

Quote from: mechs on July 28, 2013, 10:47:36 PM

Common VPS Miners compatible with primecoin:
Server4you: http://www.server4you.com/ <---currently best price/performance I have found
Amazon EC 2: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
Digital Ocean: https://www.digitalocean.com/
Linode: https://www.linode.com/
Ramnode: http://www.ramnode.com/
Warrior VPS: https://www.warriorvps.com/
Hetzner Online Server Auction: https://robot.your-server.de/order/market (not a VPS but useful way to buy server power cheap)

Nice thread !

But regarding ramnode it should be edited. Here is what they replied to me when I asked them a while ago what was their attitude regarding primecoin mining :

Hi *****,

Please refer to our acceptable usage policy -- https://clientarea.ramnode.com/aup.php

Regards,

Elliot S.
Skype: RamNode
Twitter: @RamNode

the TOS is clear :

"HARDWARE RESOURCE USAGE

Client agrees not to run any processes on his or her VPS which create a CPU load above .9 on the VPS for an extended period of time or which cause a high CPU load on the host node for an extended period of time. In other words, client agrees not to use the equivalent of a full core for him or herself for an extended period of time."

Mining there will get your account suspended...

Thanks will remove it. I have a feeling all the VPS might eventually suspend you unless you get a dedicated server since it "steals" resources from other users on the same server.

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Quote from: mechs on July 28, 2013, 10:47:36 PM

Common VPS Miners compatible with primecoin:
Server4you: http://www.server4you.com/ <---currently best price/performance I have found
Amazon EC 2: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
Digital Ocean: https://www.digitalocean.com/
Linode: https://www.linode.com/
Ramnode: http://www.ramnode.com/
Warrior VPS: https://www.warriorvps.com/
Hetzner Online Server Auction: https://robot.your-server.de/order/market (not a VPS but useful way to buy server power cheap)

Nice thread !

But regarding ramnode it should be edited. Here is what they replied to me when I asked them a while ago what was their attitude regarding primecoin mining :

Hi *****,

Please refer to our acceptable usage policy -- https://clientarea.ramnode.com/aup.php

Regards,

Elliot S.
Skype: RamNode
Twitter: @RamNode

the TOS is clear :

"HARDWARE RESOURCE USAGE

Client agrees not to run any processes on his or her VPS which create a CPU load above .9 on the VPS for an extended period of time or which cause a high CPU load on the host node for an extended period of time. In other words, client agrees not to use the equivalent of a full core for him or herself for an extended period of time."

Mining there will get your account suspended...

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