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No there isnt any asic mining gapcoin. Actually not many are mining the coin right now. And those who do either do not care about the price right now and simply are mining speculating that one day the price will be right or simple they like what the coin is doing, breaking world records.

This coin is not supposed to be that attractive to people who dont care about tech, mathematics or generally bitcoin protocol. Its the community's job to make it attractive.

It would be indeed a good thing to see if j0nn9 is alive and if he is working on something. But generally speaking what do you guys expect from him? To start putting stupid things on the code/title just to make the coin more attractive? He delivered a coin that does what it is supposed to do. Though some bug fixes wouldnt be that bad Cheesy

I personally dont care about the prices. You can simply put 0.01 right now and buy a few thousands. So i am accumulating a bit and also i am mining just to support it.

Finally, what this coin needs is awareness in the mathematics communities. This way you support gapcoin, you are participating in a project that will probably help science and you also spread the word about the bitcoin protocol. So guys, just spread the word. Nothing more. More miners mean more people interested, building stuff, even more awareness and so on...

My thoughts exactly.

Got some recent records for the 8000-9998 length list. Time to attempt some for the 10000-14998 list, I'm estimating --shift in the high 300's will get there. The max shift for the coin is 1024 which makes the 15000 and 20000 lists within reasonable reach as well though I think --shift 512 may be the highest allowed in the pool from what I read.

EDIT: Gapcoin.org is broken for the 10000-14998 range, can someone fix again? ---> http://gapcoin.org/primegaps-length.php

Should also have the two new ranges(8000-9998 & 10000-14998) represented once posted on http://www.trnicely.net ---> http://gapcoin.org/primegaps.php

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Gapcoin will join the 10000-14998 records list with two new gaps, only took 24 hours.

Gap length 10006
https://bchain.info/GAP/block/c5da14c692b06ea5e939476d8b33f8eb3f772a286dd1f8fa2dc80a8c4e17be48

Gap length 10464
https://bchain.info/GAP/block/e64c591490569adab1e01636ec1e2fe684859b27427d48e94129ab3d6f5c5aa2

Thanks to whoever fixed gapcoin.org/primegaps-length.php. I may attempt a record in the 15000 range in the not too distant future so hopefully it's not too difficult to keep adding lists.

How do you attempt particular records?

I don't have solid proof this is always true but I seem to have had the best luck on large shift block hits when mining solo at night (during night time the large firepower pool miners don't mine as hard making the rounds longer though I've gotten large shift records on both solo and pool).

All you do is append --shift (bigger number than default 25). Example: ./gapminer-cpu -o mine3.gap.nonce-pool.com -p 3385 -u -x --stratum -t 16 --shift 256. The default sieve and sieve primes have worked fine for me when being speculative with large shifts. A shift of 256 has gotten me into the 8000-9998 list several times. Did some calculations and shift 380 & 381 got into the 10000-14998 range which if you solve any block with difficulty 22-23 you have a very good probability of a world record every time with where the records are. Keep in mind, these higher shifts will severely punish your pps rate since you're looking for larger overall gaps AND all the numbers you're testing are bigger: shift 25 are 85 digit numbers vs shift 256 are 155 digit numbers.....which is why solo mining probably gives you better odds (with a solo target you're putting all your chips in the middle to solve the block, not accumulate shares/coins).

If nscythe or skif (the two powerhouse pool miners) are reading this, they could probably set a couple hundred new world records within a week with these higher shifts if they really wanted to. Gapcoin taking over more of the record lists I would think could only help it.

EDIT: Just set another record a few minutes ago with length @ 11202 (on block #109634). You can see it was set with shift 391 from the block record -- https://bchain.info/GAP/block/9248f5e0765cd8618f55aea2c3c46270b0304eb14be32a6ae879d9198134cfb9

Thank you for explaining this to me

I guess the same works for solo mining right? Just adding --shift option on the miner..

Would it be a good idea if someone could create a pool just trying to break records without caring about the pps? I would help a bit too if port 80 was open.

Yes, you can change shift on either pool or solo.

I think it's a good idea for a new record setting pool but would probably need a software update for both the pool and client ie: the pool doling out different shifts and somehow gathering useful client work shares to speed up block solving across shifts. Currently the shift is only set at the client side and I don't believe can be over ridden by the pool currently. But again I think it's a good idea, plus to get the overall merit world record we're going to need to be searching higher than shift 25 anyways in my opinion.

I'm testing --shift 400 on the pool. Assuming it finds some blocks how about anyone interested in world records go --shift 400 on the pool?