Topic: [XPM] Working on a GPU miner for Primecoin - page 24. (Read 102800 times)

Nice! Just ordered 7950

I am excited for the finished product 

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Oh my god hathmill MY HEAD IS SPINNING

Lets see, if people are afraid GPU will kill XPM they will sell now, so then I will be able to get a whole lot of XPM for my 1 BTC. Then again, LTC is going up slowly against BTC so I might be better off keeping my LTC, then selling it for BTC to buy XPM. Then again XPM is going up against LTC, so perhaps selling LTC for BTC to buy XPM when price crashes because everyone will sell XPM because there is a GPU mining software might be a good idea. Hm, then again if difficulty goes down because price is crashing, I might as well just mine it with my CPU, but whats the point if prime goes down the crapper because GPU killed it. But perhaps it wont kill it, and if difficulty goes down AND I have a GPU miner myself one week in advance I might reeking in a whole lot more XPM on mining then I would get from buying. Then again difficulty might not go down so much and XPM might not crash and then I might be better of buying this GPU mining sw.

But, I also have to have to deduct the Litecoins I will no longer be mining. Then again, I presume a whole lot of people will stop mining Litecoins in favor of Primes so then its better to be first. So I guess I should donate 1 BTC and probably since Litecoins will go down the drain because of this, I should sell my LTC, to buy 1 BTC to donate.

Hm, maybe I will just wait and see what happens and donate 1 day before release of code to people that donated, that way I will be sure that I did not donate in vain. Then again, what kind of a crappy support would that be.

Also what is the moral implications of doing this? Before I do _anything_ I have to ask reddit for advice.

Oh wait... BTC is dropping like a stone and is almost worth nothing compared to what I already have invested, but have stored in USD because I thought it would drop. So all of this thinking was just totally unnecessary and why not help kill XPM just as I am killing Litecoins with the GPU miner I have running there.

Yeah, primecoins cool so I am going to help bring it down and crush it by donating a few Litecoins in Bitcoins.

Hope this was of help for everyone else who have a hard time making up their mind.  

He probably won't have estimates for a few days.

Can you give us a idea of what speeds to expect with 6950, or 6970's?

Moving to mingw was probably a good idea anyway, so you can compile it on both windows and linux, right?

Small progress report time!

Most of the first day was spent setting up the dev environment... libblkmaker doesn't compile under Visual Studio, I had to move to use MinGW for everything. Everything's fine though. This was predictable, and didn't delay development.

So the fact people are working for themselves and are not sharing or giving you  lazy ass the fruit of their work makes you sick ?
ok....

otherwise i am not saying that i agree with his way to ask for donation while the product is still not finnished.
Why don't you just work on you gpu miner and then sell it when it's working ?

that sounds better to me .

Sell all your xpm now, rebuy after the crash.
Or consider reality.  There wasn't a huge dump when each block was pumping out 22 xpm early on CPU mining, but you think there will be when GPU miners are pulling in 10 xpm blocks?  Remember difficulty scales in both directions.  As more primes are found the rewards just get smaller.  GPU miners might have an edge over CPU miners, but they will also be reducing their own rewards.

Wow, lucky guy

If you feel this way, then make it yourself.

I own signed copies of all books in the series. Amazing books!

So.. For nVidia and otherwise exactly like the miner announced in this thread but with more details and progress.

I disagree with your post, but I love your avatar   Neuromancer was one of my favorite games back in the day...

I anticipate a crash in the XPM price when the difficulty spikes in anticipation of the dumping from gpu miners.

You mean https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/xpm-cuda-enabled-qt-client-miner-for-primecoins-source-code-inside-wip-258982 ?
1) This in nvidia only
2) Not ready for use yet
3) Unknown effectivity

Idea: Those whining could put together 1BTC and spread the beta miner to the public.
But i guess those whining the loudest would keep it for themselves. 

Wouldn't surprise me. Always interesting things to see in the crypto world.