I just started using Minera this past weekend, and noticed that after updating, it stopped mining. I'm currently ssh'd in to my rpi, doing all the necessary updates and rebuilding bfgminer. At least it's fixable without a huge learning curve needed, but maybe having a few select people to test each release before pushing it out to everyone would be a good idea? I'll volunteer my own time to this task, if you want.

Just look at all these leecher accounts being created just to get some bluecoins... No doubt people didn't bother to read the rules outlined in the first post. In any case, let's see if this ends up going somewhere.

Mmmmm Steaking* has begun
Now we just need to start using our coins for the greater good, and hopefully adoption will continue to spread, plus the want and need for coins should bump the price up a tad.

*Pun because steak is yummy and stake is a weird word in my opinion.

Received this email this morning regarding my pre-order of a single Wolf/Blizzard -

That answers that question. I guess I'm not getting my asic

edit: In any case, the increased wattage wouldn't bother me that much, and it would have been nice if they had offered for us to make the decision on our own, instead of pulling the rug out from under us. Makes me wonder what other shops are going to do (although last I checked, they had already shipped out most pre-orders of the blizzard)...

Would something like this suffice? -- http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3QcUs

I went with the low-end AMD AM1 platform because it's designed for low-power, dual-core processing, which would be sufficient for handling both the blockchain operations, and routing should you want that feature. I also included an extra gigabit network card since if you're doing any sort of routing, you'll likely want full-duplex functionality. With this sort of configuration, you can have the box directly connected to the network, running openWRT, and have all network traffic pass through the second network adapter - connecting the second nic to a gigabit switch would give you however many ports you would need for your network.

That was the first thing I tried. I randomly get 'runaway execution' errors. Usually that relates to an improper runtime library, from what I've seen in the past, but in this case, the client is in its own folder with its own libraries, so that is likely not the problem. I'm going to try and see what happens in a VM with the wallet, just to see if maybe it's my install of Windows.

Obviously the dev team of this coin doesn't know how to properly program a coin, seeing as the very basic limits are already broken.
TLDR: Don't waste your electricity on this. even if you get it for free - until they realize how to fix it or drop out completely.

Has anyone else had issues with the windows client being able to: A) download the blockchain in its entirety, B) not crash every time it attempts to open the wallet, C) be stable for more than 5 minutes at a time?

So far, I've not been able to send any zetacoin to any exchanges because the client continually states that it is unable to open the wallet, yet, it sees the full balance without issue. Any clues as to how to fix this?

Just make sure it doesn't end up like Duke Nukem Forever did. I'm in, and interested in where this coin is headed

Looks interesting. How does it differ from all the other coins currently out there, though? I'll take a look at the source code, but seeing as I'm no programmer, I probably won't understand it at all.

I'm in.

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Specifically OpenCL v1.2. I'd be interested in the parallella version as well, even though I don't own the hardware (yet). It certainly looks like an interesting platform, especially since the boards can be installed in parallel at any time to increase the amount of processors at your disposal. I have a feeling we'll see quite a few new coins that target the platform - possibly bringing down the walls that ASICs have built up. Sure, it isn't bitcoin, but who cares - the cents to a dollar eventually add up

I created a mining settings wiki for helping people to get the most out of their hardware when mining primecoins!
http://www.xpmwiki.com/

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I just created a wiki for this purpose. Feel free to join, and we can all work together to figure out the best settings for all the miners!

Official Announcement Thread: http://www.ppcointalk.org/index.php?topic=511.0

Site: xpmwiki.com

Awesome! Now we wait for potential developers to pick it up. It's a good idea that you posted the official dev thread as well, since many people are either not aware of primecointalk/ppcointalk, or just have no idea there even is an outlet for dev talk for primecoin.

As one of the donators, I feel a bit cheated. I had assumed that at this point, the gpu miner would be at least a working beta, not the mess we have on our hands, which really does not work. Perhaps mtrlt will release another update with various fixes he's got, but until then, we've just got an alpha at best - not even a good proof of concept. Perhaps it's due to the naysayers that he released it so early in development - and perhaps that's why he's keeping quiet as well.

Ideally, I'd love to see someone take up the code and develop it into a working miner - even if it's just GPU-accelerated - any bit that will help the cpu miner at doing its job would be appreciated.

I'm back to solo mining on my main rig, as it seems that hp11 is finding blocks a bit more steadily than pooled mining (not to mention, beeeeer's miner doesn't seem to generate anything for me).

Good, that's a start to move this thing along. We need to get this thing going, as right now it seems stagnant.

Can we get back to the topic at hand, and leave all this name calling bullshit behind us?

I still cannot get fermet testing to work on my platform. I was able to generate kernels for a short period of time, but they don't seem to work anymore. Perhaps I need to upgrade my Catalyst drivers?

What's everyone else running where it actually works without crashing?

I see this first release as an Alpha. It does what it's supposed to, but you have to understand - when you develop such a precise piece of software, and don't have a set of testing platforms on hand, you have to rely on the community to test and squash bugs. I don't feel cheated for donating - I feel that mtrlt did exactly what he set out to do - he created a semi-working GPU primecoin miner. Sure, it's got its rough edges, but they should be smoothed out over time.

That's my 2 primecents.

Okay, so the way I got it working is kinda weird - first, to generate the kernel modules,  I had to disable the gpu fermet test. then reaper crashes with 'fractional assert'. Next, I changed it back to enable the gpu fermet test. Then reaper runs without issue. Aggression does not seem to affect how aggressive the miner is, however, so my computer is really not usable while mining. speed does not seem to be much better - perhaps ~2x faster than on CPU alone. I suppose a lot of optimization is coming and various fixes for the weirdness to get it working on all platforms. It also only seems to detect one GPU, unless it's seeing both GPU's as a single OpenCL device? Two kernels appear to get generated, so I'm really not sure what's going on.