Quote from: mstfck on December 03, 2013, 04:40:42 PM

Quote from: Teka on December 03, 2013, 04:37:51 PM

Quote from: maxsolnc on December 02, 2013, 09:39:53 PM

Quote from: mpjetta on December 02, 2013, 09:37:15 PM

Quote from: mstfck on December 02, 2013, 07:07:14 PM

I think you can point jhProtominer at Datacoin-qt, not sure.

If anyone wants to try:

Help -> Debug console -> Console and type in: setgenerate true 0

Then point the miner at the ip:port.

Will test aswell soon

-mstfck

I tried to point jhProtominer at a local datacoind without luck. I am trying all this stuff on linux CLI, and don't have a QT wallet built yet as I am on a mac.

All the versions of jhProtominer that I found are trying to use the "x.pushthrough(xpt) protocol" , I thought DTC required the getwork method now?

just now - yes, only getwork.

Would that mean that a whole new miner has to be built or....?

No, the first bitcoin pool miners were made with getwork.
But i am pretty sure we can use a x.pushthrough proxy for mining. More efficent, and i am looking into 'getblocktemplate' instead of getwork. It is more easier to use, and provides more information.

I found a jhPrimeminer source that can be used to mine datacoins. https://github.com/hg5fm/jhPrimeminer.

The only changes I had to make were adding transaction.h and transaction.cpp to the project and setting useGetBlockTemplate = false. I compiled using x64-AVX in Visual Studio 2012 Express.

To start mining you need to open the debug console on your server wallet and put "setgenerate true 0". Now you can point your miner at the wallet and start mining.

I tested on testnet with a few PCs and watched the mined blocks roll in. I have been running on mainnet on all my PCs for about 24 hours and I mined one block so far.