Primecoin (XPM) Mining 101
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Yeah, the feedback on the mining process is just absolute garbage. And so is moving the coin around. Makes you really appreciate a well set up pool.
Speaking of pools, fuck their lack of pool support from the get go. For something that was supposed to be “hey look we’re doing something else on top of mining for the greater good! see how awesome you are!” you think it would’ve been a priority to make it a collaborative effort.
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Yeah, the feedback on the mining process is just absolute garbage. And so is moving the coin around. Makes you really appreciate a well set up pool.Speaking of pools, fuck their lack of pool support from the get go. For something that was supposed to be “hey look we’re doing something else on top of mining for the greater good! see how awesome you are!” you think it would’ve been a priority to make it a collaborative effort.
[/quote]I have nothing but love for Primecoin. I have probably spent more time on XPM’s testnet than anyone other than miner dev’s. ;)
The confirmations will go down eventually.
As far as a pool, you need to keep in mind that nothing like yPool has ever existed before. It took awhile to setup and a lot of testing to perfect; all while knowing their efforts would be futile in a matter of weeks when a GPU miner came out.
I have nothing but props for the guys over at yPool, it was a helluva accomplishment in a short time and it’s a well maintained pool.
The GPU miner will be out in a few weeks and pools will start popping up. I doubt you’ll see another CPU pool though, it’s just not worth it when so close to GPU miner.
Edit : But yeah, I understand your frustration … it’s why I made the image.
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But that’s what I’m saying; for something that was supposed to be “for the greater good” ala protein folding or SETI, they should’ve had sanctioned pools ready to run before launch.
I won’t/am not belittle/ing yPool over it. It’s not any fault of theirs at all; just making the best of an obnoxious situation.
Many coins have come and gone, even CPU mining only coins, over the past year. Seems like someone would’ve been paying attention to what makes a satisfied miner.
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I have 3 machines of about the same performance mining XPM. I have pointed one at Ypool and left two mining solo. 3 days passed, solo miners have found one block each (difficulty ~9, that’s ~11 XPM per block). The 3rd machine at Ypool has only made ~2 XPM. Either they’re very inefficient or you guess what.
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Since we’re all here, anyway, is there any better way to display what’s going on remotely than:
[code]watch ‘primecoind listtransactions & primecoind getmininginfo’[/code]
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Since we’re all here, anyway, is there any better way to display what’s going on remotely than:[code]watch ‘primecoind listtransactions & primecoind getmininginfo’[/code]
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[/quote]I can’t help with that, but I’m curious about implementing a real-time display of some of the getmininginfo results. I would love to be able to see how my changes to the sieve affect things in real-time and then possibly being able to work out a formula for optimum settings according to difficulty and per cpu.
