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Re: [ANN] - NEW BURST OP - MINE WITH YOUR HDD - ATs, AE, P2P MARKETPLACE, and MORE!
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Cobra
on 13/04/2016, 16:24:49 UTC
I wish a docker container was created for burst mining. (creating this is a little over my head at this time)

It would very easy to kick off a docker run command with passing in a mounted volume variable where plots are located. Possibly an option to set/restrict CPU/memory use and off it goes mining. Another option that would be more advanced is a web interface to view status....similar to the mrpsion mining system that existed long ago.
I have an unraid setup currently and have run an ubuntu docker with manually installing a miner. I am currently running Uray java R4 miner on Linux which seems to be working fine although I do not see an option to specify max deadline in the conf file so it does try to submit higher than accepted on burst.ninja.

I tried DCCT miner and it looked to be running but did not provide any feedback when submitting to pool. I am just looking for most efficient setup for an unraid/docker config and surprised nobody has created a template yet using docker.

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Re: [AMBER] X13 POW/POS| 10k AMBER=0,01% SHARES | BUY, HOLD & GET DIVIDENDS in BTC/$
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Cobra
on 28/01/2016, 15:50:51 UTC
I don't know why you guys keep trying to blame Dev for the Amber price.

You're your own worst enemies!

Stop all the crying.  You're never happy, so just leave...please.

People just want the original agreement of dividends in BTC to be honored. I hope that we can put the past behind us and move forward and those who want dividends in BTC will get them without question/delay.
If people would have known there was going to be a skewed voting process like last time they would have not invested in the first place. If that process is used again it will be the nail in the coffin for this coin.

Those who voted for Amber vs BTC will be awarded this "medallion of loyalty", it was a nice gesture but sort of a slap in the face to the real investors who just want the original terms to be honored.
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Re: [ANN][DCR] Decred - Hybrid PoW/PoS | btcsuite Devs | Tons of New Features | Go
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Cobra
on 28/01/2016, 15:12:26 UTC
Everything I have read so far has said an Nvidia optimized miner is not done yet but it will work with cgminer.

I am looking for the best solution for an Nvidia GTX970. I see that ccminer 1.5.78 sp-mod is the best version to take advantage of Maxwell chips in this card.
I see that this version supports the algo NEOS blake (256 14-rounds) Is that different than what Decred is using? Thanks

Edit: nevermind, sounds like this is close but not the same thing.
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Re: [AMBER] X13 POW/POS| 10k AMBER=0,01% SHARES | BUY, HOLD & GET DIVIDENDS in BTC/$
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Cobra
on 22/01/2016, 17:50:44 UTC
When can we expect our AMBERs for q3?

Within 2 hours or so.

AmberDEV, does this mean shareholders who voted BTC will now get Amber instead of BTC for all previous dividends owed?

I am content with that for the time being if BTC is not an option at all currently. Like others here I am not all that happy how things turned out but something is better than nothing.

Will these people be able to remain on the BTC list for future dividends? If not please change the title of this thread as it is no longer accurate.
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Re: [AMBER] X13 POW/POS| 10k AMBER=0,01% SHARES | BUY, HOLD & GET DIVIDENDS in BTC/$
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Cobra
on 19/01/2016, 16:00:49 UTC
Great summary of the current situation, Slydrule.

I am holding and have not sold a single coin. As many here probably feel the same that our hand feels "forced" to hold and receive dividends exclusively in Amber without a choice. Since that is the side that won the vote should everyone that voted for BTC also be expecting a dividend payment in Amber? If so when? Will this be the new status quo for upcoming quarters with the only way to move forward with a dividend that is in Amber?

The title of this OP should be modified so it does not read "Buy, Hold, & Get dividends in BTC/$" when it is actually not the case anymore. I hope there are plans and firm dates to get back to the original plan for upcoming quarters versus relying on this method of voting. This voting method was not in place when many here invested and now all of the sudden it is a big variable impacting many. In the beginning it was very simple....invest....get dividends as stated in the title now a whole new level of complexity is added.

We all have different opinions on this topic but I just wanted to voice mine as a shareholder.
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Re: [ANN][EGC] EverGreenCoin | X15 PoW/PoS | NO premine / NO ICO | Foundation
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Cobra
on 14/01/2016, 14:30:23 UTC
while the idea of the solar staker looks good to me, I think that a single solar array powering multiple devices (including PCs) is much more convenient and efficient.

one PC consumes at least 400 W, so you need something like 2x 250w  mono-crystalline solar panel,  add the solar charger, the converter, and you easily pay at lest $500 Smiley


There is no need for a full PC for a dedicated staking machine. There are other projects already doing this with a Pi running linux and a web gui for the user. You could add a small battery to a setup like this and the cost for all hardware would still remain very low.
http://www.voltaicsystems.com/blog/powering-a-raspberry-pi-from-solar-power/ The example here uses a 9 watt solar panel.

This seems like more of a fun hobby to do something like this over a product non -geeks may want to use. When the device only uses 5 volts of power in first place most people will not complain about that or look for alternative power solutions.
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Re: December 2015 "Fastest Crypto" Bake-Off
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Cobra
on 11/10/2015, 13:47:36 UTC
I'm beginning to get the feeling this is more of a witch-hunt rather than a real desire to understand and dissect.

Of course it's a witch hunt.  Anything with an IPO is going to be under 10x more suspicion than a coin you can mine.  I mean come on, do you know who you're talking to here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=443196.0

I assume I will get categorized as the same from you (shill, henchman, cheerleader) but a few things to point out. I have seen quite a few different crypto solutions since January 2012 (before hearing of eMunie in June 2013) and I can say with confidence that I feel eMunie is the only one that I have come across that addresses all of the flaws of BTC AND has ability to scale to be a mainstream solution for the public or your average non-technical consumer. It will hold a public IPO after the product is 90% complete and close to launch versus hold an IPO and start development from scratch.

eMunie really redefines mining in general to instead of that you are rewarded fairly for participating or running services for the network (distributing ledger, chat service, mail service, profile service, ratings service, decentralized marketplace) Someone that joins eMunie years down the road will have a clear path to participate and be rewarded with eMunie in addition to earning interest on their balance. I like to think of it as a hybrid between POS and POW for the end user.

I also do not post very frequently with Senior level member still as I approach my 4th year here shortly. For many people in this forum part of the fun is evaluating the best solution and have probably ran a wallet for hundreds of different coins. The current environment is more like horse racing than anything else. We all are betting on different horses here. In my case I am picking a Perfecta of eMunie for the Win and maid safe to come in second. Those two projects have something in common in that they are both carry themselves with integrity, years of dedication, and an attitude of designing the product in the best way without cutting corners. Personally I would like to see the two of them work together and think they would make a good combination. This is why it can take years, especially in the case of eMunie with 1 developer.

I have enjoyed keeping up on the other solutions out there.  I also paid the 10 protoshares back in the day to get a preferred ID in Bitshares in 2014, at the time I guess I got bored with that and the workaround needing to resync the blockchain to get it moving again. In the eMunie testing has it ever got stuck on various beta's sure. many times. But that is the difference it is not released to the public and would not without extensive testing to make sure that will not happen. Our current test network just hit 2.4 million transactions without getting stuck. That is the type of testing BTS should do before they release. Some of the other coins I have looked into are Burst, (proof of capacity based) it has lasted over a year and it is unique and why it had my interest. It was fun to learn, fun to mine, and enjoyable way to pass the time. Does it have the ability to compete with other solutions...no, not at all but fun none the less. Also tested Storj, potential exists there too but just prefer maidsafe myself. I have tested ETH mining out and hard to believe they are on a live network. It does not seem all that fair to give the tech guru an advantage to mine it now without simple GUI available and a year later with Serenity release be full POS coin where the average user must "buy in" to use it. I do give credit to Bitshares over ETH in that regard of just having a Windows wallet available originally.

The point is that many of us here do look for the BEST solution and willing to give each of them a chance. It is a great idea on this OP to spur some competition and pass the time, why not. It would only be one factor that people may use in their evaluation of different solutions. I am happy to see the focus in the alt coin section sort of evolve toward the more unique solutions in general away from the copy/paste coins. eMunie, BTS, VNL, XMR, DASH all have their thriving community of users. Let the all around best solution win. (achieve a level equal to or above BTC) that should be the overall goal here for all of them.


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Re: What 2.0 Currency will be the most successful?
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Cobra
on 06/10/2015, 02:47:05 UTC
Get elected and get paid by the system to upgrade your rig to the size nodes required at any point in time.
There is no such thing as people who can't participate.  They just have to be trusted by the stakeholders.
BitShares is the system that pays everybody, rich or poor, who is trusted enough to sign our blocks to get the equipment they need.

This was the reason (DPOS) I lost interest in August 2014 after you confirmed this is how the system worked via email to me. At the time the network had just launched and established itself with the 101 nodes. I have 0 faith in a system where I have to try to run a campaign for votes or get people to like me and vote for me. The task of running a node should not matter as long as the task at hand is performed properly by the hardware there should be no need for human interaction in the process or chances for delegates to collude on voting. I can see being voted out if you cannot meet certain levels of performance but they should be given a timeframe or deadline to upgrade as needed. (why not other nodes are there to fallback on).

The human aspect should not have anything to do with being selected as a delegate in my opinion. Why can't that process be automated or the system automatically kicking out delegates that do not meet performance levels and selecting new random nodes without voting?  If you have a standby list of delegates that you need to climb up to reach the 101 would some not wait years?

A random selection of new delegates would solve the problem of fairness for all and give new users an opportunity to participate without voting. Let the nodes perform a task and take the human element out of it. Even if a delegate is doing their job properly a rotation should exist where they can only be in the 101 for so long.

I guess the bottom line is that this system is centralized and not much focus is put on fairness for all.  With eMunie any user who chooses to run services and perform work in the network will be rewarded accordingly regardless of when they start, 1 day or 3yrs down the road. Decentralized........Fast.......Fair.
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Re: [ANN] Expanse (EXP) - Fair Launch, No ICO, Community DAO, based on Ethereum
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Cobra
on 14/09/2015, 15:20:52 UTC
How to verify on the correct chain?

you can type this in the console to get current block number: exp.blockNumber
Verify that number with the block you see on http://exp.suprnova.cc

Until a block explorer is available this is the best you can do.
The above command should be included in the OP as well.
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Re: [ANN] Expanse (EXP) - Fair Launch, No ICO, Community DAO, based on Ethereum
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Cobra
on 14/09/2015, 04:00:36 UTC
From the testing I have done the lack of peers seems related to Windows 10. I can't get connected to more than 2 peers even with adding many manually.
I have noticed similar behavior with other coins on this OS as well with lack of peers and have not found a solution. (even with firewall disabled on machine)

When I do the same thing on Win 8.1 I have no problems getting peers with the same config, TCP and UDP port 47286 forwarded.


I run Windows 10 on all my machines, except one that runs Ubuntu Linux. Seems, like an issue with Windows 10.

I have 4 peers now on Win10. I don't think the node discovery works as well on this OS and the manual additions do not have an immediate impact like on 8.1.

I've been going back and forth between 3 to 4 peers, after the nodes are added. Could be something with the default network configurations of Windows 10.

Just out of curiosity......are these the nodes you seem to be connected to? I wonder if only Win10 machines are connecting to each other.
18.97.7.22:42786
54.72.37.197:40308
74.196.59.103:42786
68.197.12.14:42786



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Re: [ANN] Expanse (EXP) - Fair Launch, No ICO, Community DAO, based on Ethereum
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Cobra
on 14/09/2015, 03:47:37 UTC
From the testing I have done the lack of peers seems related to Windows 10. I can't get connected to more than 2 peers even with adding many manually.
I have noticed similar behavior with other coins on this OS as well with lack of peers and have not found a solution. (even with firewall disabled on machine)

When I do the same thing on Win 8.1 I have no problems getting peers with the same config, TCP and UDP port 47286 forwarded.


I run Windows 10 on all my machines, except one that runs Ubuntu Linux. Seems, like an issue with Windows 10.

I have 4 peers now on Win10. I don't think the node discovery works as well on this OS and the manual additions do not have an immediate impact like on 8.1.
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Re: [ANN] Expanse (EXP) - Fair Launch, No ICO, Community DAO, based on Ethereum
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Cobra
on 14/09/2015, 03:42:13 UTC
From the testing I have done the lack of peers seems related to Windows 10. I can't get connected to more than 2 peers even with adding many manually.
I have noticed similar behavior with other coins on this OS as well with lack of peers and have not found a solution. (even with firewall disabled on machine)

When I do the same thing on Win 8.1 I have no problems getting peers with the same config, TCP and UDP port 47286 forwarded.
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Re: [EMUNIE] One small step for transactions, one giant leap for crypto
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Cobra
on 31/08/2015, 14:20:59 UTC
blah blah blah
it all sound like trust your money with a no name person on the street

Right, you cunt! Stirring up Dan isn't cool. This is a great project and we don't want him pulling the plug...Again...

who is dan? is that dan the scammer? is that dan the want to be get rich quick scammer in alt coin world?

Maybe you have Dan Hughes confused with someone else.  Anyone that has previously invested in eMunie and lost patience in the project was given a full refund a long time ago. Nobody was scammed here.  People of course will make up their own mind but I am happy to give it the "not a scam" label after observing the daily progress eMunie has made first hand over the last 2+ years. This is not something he is working on in his spare time. He works on this all day, every day for 15+ hours each day. I have also met Mr. Hughes in person over a year ago and confirm he is the real deal.

One of the main differences in the way eMunie will launch compared to other new solutions is that when a public IPO takes place the product will also be ready to roll out to the average consumer (with a fully working and feature filled GUI) vs. requiring another year of Dev time or to use a live network as a test net. 

A native debit card crypto solution like this will make the need for 3rd party solutions irrelevant. It is also a great step forward to see this working with existing point of sale systems. Interesting times ahead.

The above statement is just my opinion, people can look at the facts and make up their own mind.
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Re: [PRE-ANN] WARP - Easy to use - New fair distribution method
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Cobra
on 19/08/2015, 14:05:59 UTC
this is awesome coin

Better than Axiom?  Roll Eyes
must have lost interest in that one, or stuck due to 3rd party Dev issues.

Edit: Nevermind, this is not the real Axiom Dev. Just someone with too much time on their hands trying to entertain themselves.
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Re: [AXIOM] AxiomMemHash and SHABAL-256 with Schnorr Signatures - POW / POS
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Cobra
on 31/07/2015, 15:36:33 UTC
Those with no connection, do you happen to be on windows 10?

Is anything in the works to correct connection issues with Windows 10? I am seeing the same issue as bt2084 did on page 55 with the same error message.  Even after adding all of the nodes (including the 5 new ones) can only get 3 connections on Win10 regardless of the nodes added.

Edit: after manually adding recent nodes it did pick them up. Not finding nodes automatically though

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Re: Announcing ZiftrCOIN Release
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Cobra
on 18/06/2015, 21:40:10 UTC
can some 1 pls explain me how to mine this ? I currently downloaded the windows wallet and sgminer ,


What do I need to enter to get it to gpu mine ?

Thanks for any help!

just like all other coins. (if u downloaded the link i posted above) u need to enter the pool in the .bat of .conf file where u got ur workers, and change username.worker and the password to ur own what u created on the pool?

in the windows wallet u can also mine just go to the tab: mining ?

Is this ur first day at mining? if it is, i would suggest to use google.


Pool: http://zrc-stratum.suprnova.cc/ create account there and use the info at the getting started page

Thanks im not really that new done a bit of bitcoin n darkcoin mining in past,

jus forgot how everythin worked Cheesy

Also the miner didnt have mining page jus saw it after updating,

I am geting some crapy 75 kH/s is this normal on a gpu ? gota gtx 670

Thx again guys

If you've got an Nvidia card, look for a release of ccminer supporting ZR5, preferably an older one, because they likely dropped support for something that old.

Thanks Wolf. Confirmed ccminer 1.6 with (2) GTX 970's getting about 4900 kh/s.
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Re: [ANN] Sia - Decentralized Storage - Working Beta - Launches June 7th, 2015
by
Cobra
on 16/06/2015, 15:10:29 UTC
need a pool!

need a pool
need a ios app for accessing the files
need a android app for accessing the file
need a in wallet payment system (the actual solution is not usable for the normal user)
need to be listed at a exchanges, that somebody can buy sias
.....

so much is needed to make this a success.

It just started, these things will come in time. This is one of the first solutions to make good use of storage in a live environment (not counting datacoin).  Other competing solutions are still in development now, so i give them credit to be able to use the storage space now in a production network. You should know pools will come out in time as they did with Burst because custom pools must be created for something like this from scratch.

How long has Burst been around to simply have a system of mining where you fill the hard drives with nonces and not use that space for anything else?  With the recent update it sounds like there is no hope in sight of making anything happen with PoC2 either to make use of the space. People will surely prefer a coin like this that has some utility over mining coins you can do nothing with but maybe speculate on some assets.

While it sounds like they are making big changes for the next release of the wallet the current wallet does not seem that hard to use at all.
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Re: [ANN] Sia - Decentralized Storage - Working Beta - Launches June 7th, 2015
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Cobra
on 13/06/2015, 02:03:32 UTC
I found a block today on an overclocked Asus GTX 970 (4GB memory). Running the newer miner with the -s 0.2 and -c 1 set it is reaching 450 MH/s.

When running this I noticed it only uses 70% GPU.  Of course I am not using a "custom coded" miner so for kicks launched the same instance 3 times and the collective hashrate looks higher than if I was running individually 250/244/72 MH for each. 566 MH/s total and GPU use goes to 90% I am not sure if this is more effective or not but will run overnight and see what happens.

HI guy
New bat file
Set up
Sia_GPU-Miner.exe -s 0.2 -c 1

Is that what?

Thank you

Yes, that is what I am using. Nice work Wolf on the optimization. If it does not work you may be using the wrong exe, the one I have is named gpu-miner.exe I think you may have a different version which does not support those options. Not sure which page of this thread I downloaded it on.
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Re: [ANN] Sia - Decentralized Storage - Working Beta - Launches June 7th, 2015
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Cobra
on 12/06/2015, 17:58:59 UTC
I found a block today on an overclocked Asus GTX 970 (4GB memory). Running the newer miner with the -s 0.2 and -c 1 set it is reaching 450 MH/s.

When running this I noticed it only uses 70% GPU.  Of course I am not using a "custom coded" miner so for kicks launched the same instance 3 times and the collective hashrate looks higher than if I was running individually 250/244/72 MH for each. 566 MH/s total and GPU use goes to 90% I am not sure if this is more effective or not but will run overnight and see what happens.
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Re: [ANN] Sia - Decentralized Storage - Working Beta - Launches June 7th, 2015
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Cobra
on 12/06/2015, 16:11:45 UTC
Could someone share what are the chances hitting a block with 400MH/s

At the moment I think you have decent odds. I found a block a few hours ago with 450 MH/s. I will be happy if 1/day keeps up.