Topic: [XPM] Working on a GPU miner for Primecoin (Read 102789 times)
Time for a new thread.
I am working on an OpenCL GPU miner for Primecoin. I fully intend to release it open-source and for free when it's ready.
Progress reports: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Where do I download it?
It's not ready yet. I have a working GPU proof-of-concept, but it's not any faster than straight-up CPU mining. Donate 1 BTC or more and get early beta access a week before others! The address is in the bottom of this post. Thanks!
When will it be released?
If all goes well, there should be a closed beta on July25th 29th okay I underestimated the amount of work a bit, give me a week! The official release will be after a week or two of beta testing.
Why should I trust you?
I am the creator of the GPU miner Reaper. I was the first person to show that GPU mining Litecoins (i.e. scrypt) is possible and also a lot more efficient than on the CPU. I've made my own GPU miners for many coins, including Bitcoin, Litecoin and Yacoin, although not all of them have been released to the public. The Primecoin GPU miner will be free and open-source.
I am also a university math student, and I have made my own implementation of the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm used by Bitcoin (and all its forks) to make transactions. From scratch. (Yes, that includes my own bignum library.) I know a lot about algebra, prime numbers and such.
Why not CUDA?
CUDA is not cross-platform. It only works on Nvidia cards, but AMD cards are the ones with the best performance. OpenCL works on all GPUs.
What operating systems will the miner support?
Windows and Linux.
How fast is the miner going to be?
It is very difficult to say at this point. Some people have/had a bounty for a CUDA miner that is twice the speed of the CPU miner. I think that's definitely achievable.
Donate 1 BTC or more and get early beta access!
To fund the development of the miner, I would appreciate it if you could donate a sum of BTC, it will motivate me to work harder and faster, and thus you'll be able to enjoy the miner sooner. As an additional bonus, every donator of 1 BTC or more gets early access to the beta version at least a week before the miner is officially released.
Donation address: 1FKfgFQeZCpjGDn7ocgj26nk4K2TNiVJyD
After donating, please PM me the transaction ID, or paste it to this thread, so that I know who has donated.
Progress reports: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Where do I download it?
It's not ready yet. I have a working GPU proof-of-concept, but it's not any faster than straight-up CPU mining. Donate 1 BTC or more and get early beta access a week before others! The address is in the bottom of this post. Thanks!
When will it be released?
If all goes well, there should be a closed beta on July
Why should I trust you?
I am the creator of the GPU miner Reaper. I was the first person to show that GPU mining Litecoins (i.e. scrypt) is possible and also a lot more efficient than on the CPU. I've made my own GPU miners for many coins, including Bitcoin, Litecoin and Yacoin, although not all of them have been released to the public. The Primecoin GPU miner will be free and open-source.
I am also a university math student, and I have made my own implementation of the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm used by Bitcoin (and all its forks) to make transactions. From scratch. (Yes, that includes my own bignum library.) I know a lot about algebra, prime numbers and such.
Why not CUDA?
CUDA is not cross-platform. It only works on Nvidia cards, but AMD cards are the ones with the best performance. OpenCL works on all GPUs.
What operating systems will the miner support?
Windows and Linux.
How fast is the miner going to be?
It is very difficult to say at this point. Some people have/had a bounty for a CUDA miner that is twice the speed of the CPU miner. I think that's definitely achievable.
Donate 1 BTC or more and get early beta access!
To fund the development of the miner, I would appreciate it if you could donate a sum of BTC, it will motivate me to work harder and faster, and thus you'll be able to enjoy the miner sooner. As an additional bonus, every donator of 1 BTC or more gets early access to the beta version at least a week before the miner is officially released.
Donation address: 1FKfgFQeZCpjGDn7ocgj26nk4K2TNiVJyD
After donating, please PM me the transaction ID, or paste it to this thread, so that I know who has donated.
https://blockchain.info/address/1FKfgFQeZCpjGDn7ocgj26nk4K2TNiVJyD
Hope the Dev.. will update as soon.
74BTC lmaoooooooo
I am working on an OpenCL GPU miner for Primecoin. I fully intend to release it open-source and for free when it's ready.
Progress reports: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Where do I download it?
It's not ready yet. I have a working GPU proof-of-concept, but it's not any faster than straight-up CPU mining. Donate 1 BTC or more and get early beta access a week before others! The address is in the bottom of this post. Thanks!
When will it be released?
If all goes well, there should be a closed beta on July25th 29th okay I underestimated the amount of work a bit, give me a week! The official release will be after a week or two of beta testing.
Why should I trust you?
I am the creator of the GPU miner Reaper. I was the first person to show that GPU mining Litecoins (i.e. scrypt) is possible and also a lot more efficient than on the CPU. I've made my own GPU miners for many coins, including Bitcoin, Litecoin and Yacoin, although not all of them have been released to the public. The Primecoin GPU miner will be free and open-source.
I am also a university math student, and I have made my own implementation of the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm used by Bitcoin (and all its forks) to make transactions. From scratch. (Yes, that includes my own bignum library.) I know a lot about algebra, prime numbers and such.
Why not CUDA?
CUDA is not cross-platform. It only works on Nvidia cards, but AMD cards are the ones with the best performance. OpenCL works on all GPUs.
What operating systems will the miner support?
Windows and Linux.
How fast is the miner going to be?
It is very difficult to say at this point. Some people have/had a bounty for a CUDA miner that is twice the speed of the CPU miner. I think that's definitely achievable.
Donate 1 BTC or more and get early beta access!
To fund the development of the miner, I would appreciate it if you could donate a sum of BTC, it will motivate me to work harder and faster, and thus you'll be able to enjoy the miner sooner. As an additional bonus, every donator of 1 BTC or more gets early access to the beta version at least a week before the miner is officially released.
Donation address: 1FKfgFQeZCpjGDn7ocgj26nk4K2TNiVJyD
After donating, please PM me the transaction ID, or paste it to this thread, so that I know who has donated.
Progress reports: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Where do I download it?
It's not ready yet. I have a working GPU proof-of-concept, but it's not any faster than straight-up CPU mining. Donate 1 BTC or more and get early beta access a week before others! The address is in the bottom of this post. Thanks!
When will it be released?
If all goes well, there should be a closed beta on July
Why should I trust you?
I am the creator of the GPU miner Reaper. I was the first person to show that GPU mining Litecoins (i.e. scrypt) is possible and also a lot more efficient than on the CPU. I've made my own GPU miners for many coins, including Bitcoin, Litecoin and Yacoin, although not all of them have been released to the public. The Primecoin GPU miner will be free and open-source.
I am also a university math student, and I have made my own implementation of the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm used by Bitcoin (and all its forks) to make transactions. From scratch. (Yes, that includes my own bignum library.) I know a lot about algebra, prime numbers and such.
Why not CUDA?
CUDA is not cross-platform. It only works on Nvidia cards, but AMD cards are the ones with the best performance. OpenCL works on all GPUs.
What operating systems will the miner support?
Windows and Linux.
How fast is the miner going to be?
It is very difficult to say at this point. Some people have/had a bounty for a CUDA miner that is twice the speed of the CPU miner. I think that's definitely achievable.
Donate 1 BTC or more and get early beta access!
To fund the development of the miner, I would appreciate it if you could donate a sum of BTC, it will motivate me to work harder and faster, and thus you'll be able to enjoy the miner sooner. As an additional bonus, every donator of 1 BTC or more gets early access to the beta version at least a week before the miner is officially released.
Donation address: 1FKfgFQeZCpjGDn7ocgj26nk4K2TNiVJyD
After donating, please PM me the transaction ID, or paste it to this thread, so that I know who has donated.
https://blockchain.info/address/1FKfgFQeZCpjGDn7ocgj26nk4K2TNiVJyD
Hope the Dev.. will update as soon.
From a developer I'd expect testing on testnet first. But...
That was the default string in his code and was assigned to the first block that was created. If you read the code you will see what i am talking about. And everyone knows that you need to create the genesis block to start the chain. So i don't think that he did anything wrong. Code:
$ strings -n 20 ~/.primecoin/testnet/blocks/blk00000.dat
L]Sunny King - dedicated to Satoshi Nakamoto and all who have fought for the freedom of mankind
From a developer I'd expect testing on testnet first. But...
Code:
$ strings -n 20 ~/.primecoin/testnet/blocks/blk00000.dat
L]Sunny King - dedicated to Satoshi Nakamoto and all who have fought for the freedom of mankind
Yes, it's in there:
But given that it's possible to put anything in there, there's no reason to believe that it's real.
Code:
$ strings -n 20 blk00000.dat | tail -10
,Olviretki Schleusingenissa kansannayttamo.fi
*Being the Royal Discordian Kilted Hacksmen
4We build websites for primecoin: www.waspdigital.com
"All hail king sunny"
!100% naturally grown prime chains
"All hail king sunny"
"All hail king sunny"
"All hail king sunny"
"All hail king sunny"
=This block was mined with mtrlt's GPU miner version 0.01 Beta
But given that it's possible to put anything in there, there's no reason to believe that it's real.
Fine. let's use an escrow. 
Just wait for the miner to actually be released in closed beta. Then people who were silent will appear with a miner for sale.
I have it. 2 BTC and its yours NOW.
Just wait for the miner to actually be released in closed beta. Then people who were silent will appear with a miner for sale.
I believe he is joking....
Last Chance to Donate, I accept Litecoin:
Code:
LXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Do you seriously expect after 30 pages of this garbage that anybody is going to fall for that absurd ploy?
Last Chance to Donate, I accept Litecoin:
Code:
LdNptzkXBS54eRJTXmRMyVUFFQivN1drk4
vps farming is close to unprofitable as of the last hours... you guys better get moving on this !
Hey mprlt, for 2 BTC Ill post something like
# strings -n 20 ~/.primecoin/blocks/blk00000.dat | tail -n 1
=This block was mined with mtrlt’s GPU miner version 0.01 Beta
PM me if you interest and happy scamming
# strings -n 20 ~/.primecoin/blocks/blk00000.dat | tail -n 1
=This block was mined with mtrlt’s GPU miner version 0.01 Beta
PM me if you interest and happy scamming
While possible, that isn't really definitive proof of anything. Just run this to see what I mean:
Code:
strings -n 20 ~/.primecoin/blocks/blk00000.dat | tail -n 20
Quote
# strings -n 20 ~/.primecoin/blocks/blk00000.dat | tail -n 1
=This block was mined with mtrlt’s GPU miner version 0.01 Beta
=This block was mined with mtrlt’s GPU miner version 0.01 Beta
Nice
hihihihi 
Pls let us know what is the status Mtrlt.
Public status updates are of more value for competitors rather than for customers (err... well, donators). Perhaps Mtrlt informs about his progress privately, avoiding posting here.
Nope nothing here and I donated.
That's exactly what we would expect you to say...
Obviously when this thread goes quiet and there are "
" going around we can put 2 and 2 together. I don't have enough GPUs to make a 1BTC donation profitable, but I'm still curious as to how good the GPU miner really is. Jump to: