Quote from: pokeytex on April 30, 2016, 11:29:55 AM

Quote from: georgem on April 30, 2016, 11:22:17 AM

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Quote from: georgem on April 23, 2016, 02:51:24 PM

Should be very easy to adjust mining software since SpreadX11 (both the X11-part and the Spread anti-pool-mechanism-part) stay exactly the same, just a new byte has to be introduced, and somekind of GUI or CMD input read in so that miners can type in or set their vote. (Or simply let them write in their vote in the conf file, and it will be used from then on.)

Right now I'm creating an experimental build for testnet that will allow us to CPU-mine and set our vote and observe how the percentage changes over time (1440 votes per day).

Should be fun. I hope to have it finished in a few hours.

I'm not a big fan of having to modify miner software especially since some paid for optimized closed source miners which will probably not get updated.

Would it be possible for the wallet to add the voting part when a block is found (from via the .conf or something?) while using current mining softwares?

I hear you, but we will have to adjust the miner software at some point anyway.
Not just because of the mining voting, but because servicenodes themselves will require an adjustment/fork of the blockchain.

And whenever something in the blockchain changes, the miners have to be changed too... so this is nothing new.
What we can do is reduce the amount of forks to a minimum.

When servicenodes go testnet and are successful we will create three new miners (in-wallet-CPU miner, and a GPU miner for AMD, and a GPU one for Nvidia).

Any chance for an FPGA miner? Specifically Cairnsmore1 unit bitstreams? Shocked

Pretty please with sugar on top? Roll Eyes

Sure, if SPR price rises we can hire any expert to fund any crazy project you can come up with, why not.
I am barely starting to understand openCL for GPU, and I am also looking at the programming of small devices like the TREZOR.
But for everything that goes farther than that we can hire experts at some point.

Stay tuned! Grin