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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: Announcing ZiftrCOIN Release
by
StephenMorse
on 16/04/2015, 20:29:51 UTC

hi, you have probably missed the "solomine" in my message, right? Wink
i switch to solomine in the wallet mining tab, select gpus and start mining, after 12 hrs there is several accepted shares, which means i have found some blocks, but there is no rewards for those blocks.
how sad...

nvm i have switched to pool now until this is solved.

Yes, I did! I think I know the issue, you need to put 'usepok=0' in your config file. Your GPUs were probably mining with work with the PoK bit set, but doing work without PoK (proof of knowledge).

so, with usepok=0 the solomining works.
maybe i got that switch wrong.
can someone please explain to me what it really does and when i should use it? Smiley


I've written up a post about this on reddit, so I'll refer you to that Wink

http://www.reddit.com/r/ziftrCOIN/comments/2xlgsz/how_does_the_ziftrcoin_mining_algorithm_work/

The TL;DR is that you can mine while proving knowledge of the transactions that you are mining to get a 5% higher reward. As wolf0 pointed out, though, no miners currently support mining with PoK on (except for the CPU QT wallet miner, which is really slow).