Hello all, As some already know, tpruvot has implemented Decred mining on his ccminer fork. He's one of the most respected nvidia developers in the crypto space, and has a long standing history for quality work and open source commitment. https://github.com/tpruvot/ccminer He is also contributing towards pool stratum support, and is running a small pool, further helping mining decentralization. http://yiimp.ccminer.org/site/mining He also happens to be a friend, and one that has failed to register for the airdrop! That said, and given his contributions ahead of any bounty or any RFP being produced for this work, I ask that c0 and the community consider rewarding his efforts in some way. For example, a Decred bounty to the equivalent size of an airdrop participation seems like a very reasonable amount, especially considering that airdrop participants were not required to engage in any shape or form other than the registration procedure, while tpruvot has contributed quite a bit already. I'm making this also a poll, though to facilitate discussion I kept the voting options to the bare minimum (a simple yes or no for starters). Thank you for any inputs!
Im voting yes, since i have 5 nvidia GPUs. I got more hashpower and less cpu usage with it. Great job.
Should i vote ? tx Myagui Else, there are 2 versions, the official 1.7.2 is like cgminer with only the getwork/longpoll support, and the 1.7.3 which is a kind of getwork over the stratum protocol (jobs are pushed via a keepalive socket connection to reduce the server load and the traffic) It was possible to do that with the extranonce stratum feature and decred extradata field. Yiimp pool (open source) is compatible with this "stratum" implementation. but... its still in a "draft" state.. endian of the hex data sent could be modified. For the story, in other coins, the stratum protocal requires to build a custom message / merkle root with some extra data as input, because its not possible to add them in the bloc itself.... Decred chain doesn't need that. ccminer thread : https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=770064 cpuminer-multi : https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=841401 yiimp : http://yiimp.ccminer.org/ PS: cpuminer stratum will come after the final ccminer 1.7.3
Hey there, i posted at least 3-4 times in sp's thread about joining the forum & posting your bounty. I guess you dont go there often. Anyways thanks for the miner. I voted yes and i will be sending you a little btc donation sson & some DCR when GUI wallet comes out. Welcome to DCR world, i hope you become our resident miner dev.
Thanks, i "follow" sp thread.. But sometimes its hard and i skip pages... I had pleasure to work again on Blake256-14 and some headache also with the "reversed" endian, compared to the other blake coins. Was the right time to release it, with the new vanilla algo. I just hope we could agree on the future 'stratum' protocol with the other developers. Else i'm bluffed by the efficiency of this Go wallet/daemon. I've already some little feature requests to do, like the support of --miningaddr on dcrwallet and aliases in the .conf for the common modified keys : 'rpcpass' vs 'rpcpassword' and addpeer= vs addnode= The other weird thing is the presence of "spent/send" transactions in the past... When you use "listtransactions * 200" ... This * made me mad, you can only use it with the --terminal mode
@tpruvot Thanks for working on decred. This is your BTC address. right? 1AJdfCpLWPNoAMDfHF1wD5y8VgKSSTHxPo
Thanks for your work. One day of mining sent to you https://blockchain.info/tx/8ad1fe47bcf66d3de1a226805460f1a9678bd823b318faeac23b4610d35a8c5a Will send some DCR when GUI wallet comes out.
I only see Windows binaries, and I run Linux. Normally, I try to support cross-platform apps... But I see this as a very good effort, and giving it a bounty not only supports this project, but gives a message to others out there with other projects. So I voted yes. But a Linux binary would be nice. (Not sure what sources to compile for decred either...)
I never publish linux binaries, and will not... Releases are tagged, so click on "download sources" and read the Readme and Install files. Or just git clone... And use ./build.sh Tested on most common distributions...
BTW, not that there's any profit it in, but I am running/testing ccminer on AWS, so it works perfectly well with compute 3.0 cards (but of course, it's much faster on the newer generation GPUs). @Lee Sharp : This is one of the few programs that even I can compile, so it must be simple!
With so many tags, I was not sure which one was for Decred. When I get some free time <stop laughing!> I will have to look into it.
Nice! but why does not solo mining work? [2016-02-18 20:38:35] NVAPI GPU monitoring enabled. [2016-02-18 20:38:35] 1 miner thread started, using 'decred' algorithm. [2016-02-18 20:38:35] HTTP request failed: Recv failure: Connection was reset [2016-02-18 20:38:35] get_work failed, retry after 30 seconds [2016-02-18 20:39:05] JSON decode failed(1): '[' or '{' expected near '§' and do i need the --cert "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Dcrd\rpc.cert" and the wallet for decred is auto started as server server flag?