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Re: [ANN] microCoin MRC - alcurEX - Scrypt-Jane - nFactor
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cryptofella
on 15/07/2014, 16:23:51 UTC
Thank you for your information, halibit. Is there any person with skills for doing these jobs?

- Proof Of Stake (POS)
- check long wallet startup time

I have not much time this week but i will be back on July 19th. This day i will also add mining instructions (as i told you a few posts before) and give mining support.

Edit: Great to see some miners coming back. Read this thread and you know that halibit did a very great job last week on alcurEX.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=458732.1120

See you,
randywald

It's very nice to have updated info on mining. I'll be waiting.
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Re: [ANN] microCoin MRC - alcurEX - Scrypt-Jane - nFactor - soon in alcurEX exchange
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cryptofella
on 03/05/2014, 18:36:41 UTC

I am started to think what the devs knew about this long time, and just instamined several btc. Why it takes 10 hours to fix and another 35 hours to mine? Very suspicious "mistake".
Kind of like how it is 'suspicious' when a newb puppet account appears with 10 posts so far and every one of them slamming MRC.  Agenda much??  LOL
haha
This just show how much we actually read coins sourcecode. Looks like no matter is it open or not.   Cheesy
Strange what devs don't read it also. Ctrl+C/CTRL+V  forever!

It's usual that those who notice flaws on systems first try to use them on an advantage themselves before reporting. However this bug isn't going to be a big problem. Profit is only very temporary and it's shared for all the miners. Here's a graph of the new reward situation.

http://i62.tinypic.com/357lzs0.png
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Re: [ANN] microCoin MRC - alcurEX - Scrypt-Jane - nFactor - soon in alcurEX exchange
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cryptofella
on 03/05/2014, 16:47:56 UTC
This problem could have been avoided by a simple simulation. Seems we have a fix now: https://github.com/microcoinsource/microcoin

First the code was modified after snguyen's suggestion (which I think not bad at all) that we hard fork after block 315000.
After that the code was reverted back to block 311300, we are now at 311501 already. What does the dev think at all? Want to kill the coin faster because of his incompetence?


There is only a new binary at GitHub. The sourcecode is the old one. What do you mean?
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Re: [ANN] microCoin MRC - alcurEX - Scrypt-Jane - nFactor - soon in alcurEX exchange
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cryptofella
on 03/05/2014, 16:34:00 UTC
This problem could have been avoided by a simple simulation. Seems we have a fix now: https://github.com/microcoinsource/microcoin
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Re: [ANN] microCoin MRC - alcurEX - Scrypt-Jane - nFactor - soon in alcurEX exchange
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cryptofella
on 26/04/2014, 19:57:36 UTC
Breaking news about another n-scrypt coin.
It turned out Vertcoin devs instamined more than 110 000 VTC just 38 minutes after the launch (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=576107.msg6397907#msg6397907).

This is pretty much the situation. I've been following microCoin for a long time and its imo the fairest n-scrypt on the market.
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Re: Big microCoin settings thread
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cryptofella
on 25/04/2014, 22:37:09 UTC
Ok, thank you. I always had good settings but i was confused that it dropped from 95 to 20-25 with n-factor increase. I thought with n-factor increase i would get exactly the half hashrate, so i expected about 40-50 for R9 270, but that seems impossible.

Yeah, n-factor isn't propotional to hashrate. Whan n-factor increases on May the hashrate on GPU will be even lower and we will see more CPU miners. This is good for network security.
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Re: [ANN] microCoin MRC - alcurEX - Scrypt-Jane - nFactor - soon in alcurEX exchange
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cryptofella
on 25/04/2014, 09:28:03 UTC
24 HR VOLUME
13.497 BTC
I like that Smiley

There's definately interest in MRC in the past week.
All 1 and 2 satoshi orders are sold out right now.

Bitcoin drops 10 % and microCoin rises 50 % overnight. microCoin seems like a best storage of value right now.
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Re: Big microCoin settings thread
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cryptofella
on 24/04/2014, 23:05:38 UTC
What kh/s are normal for R9 270, 280X, 290 and 290X? That would be very useful for me because my R9 270 did only about 20-25 kh/s as i tested it the last time. Thank you! :-)

See comparison with scrypt here:
https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison

As you can see 270 gives about half what 290X gives at it's best. My 290X is giving 50 khash with the current n-factor so yours looks good. However, those results could always be improved. You can find suitable memclocks from the link above also and you may want to use AMD Catalyst for tuning. There are a lot of Litecoin related tutorials that could be applied to microCoin as well. DuckDuckGo is our friend here.

Please post your config if you managed to find some improved values.
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Re: [ANN] microCoin MRC - alcurEX - Scrypt-Jane - nFactor - soon in alcurEX exchange
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cryptofella
on 23/04/2014, 10:33:48 UTC
people decided to put 10btc wall for 2sat right before the big thing. wierd

Peolpe are just too nervous these days. They can't wait few days.
Btw, It would cost 1.6662 BTC to get on number one on votes at Cryptsy. However, alcurEx will be even better pr than Cryptsy.
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Re: [ANN] microCoin MRC - alcurEX - Scrypt-Jane - nFactor - soon in alcurEX exchange
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cryptofella
on 22/04/2014, 16:26:18 UTC
The volume of BTC slowed down, and so did the conversation on here.

It's quiet before the storm.
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Re: [ANN] microCoin MRC - alcurEX - Scrypt-Jane - nFactor - soon in alcurEX exchange
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cryptofella
on 22/04/2014, 12:59:32 UTC
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Big microCoin settings thread
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cryptofella
on 22/04/2014, 12:51:05 UTC
Hi dear microCoiners,

MicroCoin is starting to get big and I think it's good to share our miner settings to make sure everyone is getting all the possible power from their rigs.

Current diff is about 0.2. You can calculate how many hours it takes to solve a block:

Code:
Difficulty*2^32/khashes/3.6*10^-6

I'm using this miner for GPU:
https://github.com/Thirtybird/YACMiner/releases/download/3.5.0-yac2/yacminer-3.5.0-yac2-x86.zip

My .bat file for R9 290X is following:
Code:
yacminer --scrypt-chacha --nfmin 4 --nfmax 30 --starttime 1389028879 --worksize 128 -g 1 --lookup-gap 3 --buffer-size 3532 -R 10496 -o 127.0.0.1:3333 -u user -p password --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-memclock 1500 --scan-time 2 --expiry 4

I'm getting 50 khash per card with this.

Also a CPU miner can be found from there:
32: https://github.com/Thirtybird/cpuminer/releases/download/v2.4.0/minerd-yacoin_stratum_x86_2_4_0.zip
64: https://github.com/Thirtybird/cpuminer/releases/download/v2.4.0/minerd-yacoin_stratum_x64_2_4_0.zip

Feel free to post your own configs as well.

~cf~
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Re: Investing $100,000/200 bitcoins into my new Crypto
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cryptofella
on 22/04/2014, 08:21:02 UTC
I'll be following this. Are you going to use a new hashing algorihtm? And how you are going to use the fiat. I see you are a coder yourself but are you going to hire more developers or is it for marketing?
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Re: [ANN] microCoin MRC - alcurEX - Scrypt-Jane - nFactor - soon in alcurEX exchange
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cryptofella
on 21/04/2014, 19:56:55 UTC
btw, are we going to make a page with the settings for the most popular GPUs?

There already is this post:

Hello Guys,

I can share some mining configs with you.

First you have to download Yacminer - https://github.com/Thirtybird/YACMiner/releases/download/3.5.0-yac2/yacminer-3.5.0-yac2-x86.zip
These configs works on systems with more than 4GB RAM.

Config for 290x - yacminer --scrypt-chacha --nfmin 4 --nfmax 30 --starttime 1389028879 --worksize 128 -g 1 --lookup-gap 3 --buffer-size 3532 -R 10496
Config for 290 - yacminer --scrypt-chacha --nfmin 4 --nfmax 30 --starttime 1389028879 --worksize 128 -g 1 --lookup-gap 3 --buffer-size 3420 -X 32
Config for 280x - yacminer --scrypt-chacha --nfmin 4 --nfmax 30 --starttime 1389028879 --worksize 128 -g 1 --lookup-gap 3 --buffer-size 2590 -R 7680
Config for 280 - yacminer --scrypt-chacha --nfmin 4 --nfmax 30 --starttime 1389028879 --worksize 128 -g 1 --lookup-gap 3 --buffer-size 2394 -X 32
Config for 270x - yacminer --scrypt-chacha --nfmin 4 --nfmax 30 --starttime 1389028879 --worksize 128 -g 1 --lookup-gap 3 --buffer-size 1648 -R 4864
Config for 7950 - yacminer --scrypt-chacha --nfmin 4 --nfmax 30 --starttime 1389028879 --worksize 128 -g 1 --lookup-gap 3 --buffer-size 2394 -X 32
Config for 7970 - yacminer --scrypt-chacha --nfmin 4 --nfmax 30 --starttime 1389028879 --worksize 128 -g 1 --lookup-gap 3 --buffer-size 2590 -R 7680

Tips on tuning your GPU to mine Microcoin
--buffer-size XXXX (-B XXXX):
This setting sets the size of the OpenCL buffer to allocate to each thread. This option overrides --thread-concurrency, and should be used instead of it if your miner supports it. This value should be based on the amount of available memory on your GPU. This setting is NOT affected by lookup-gap meaning that other tuning parameters that you want to test will not force you to recalculate your buffer-size. The only setting that will make you want to change this is the --gpu-threads (-g) setting. As buffer-size is the amount of memory to allocate per thread, if you increase the number of threads you are launching, you will want to decrease the buffer-size of each thread to ensure all of the memory resides in Dedicated GPU memory instead of rolling over to Dynamic.
As the NFactor for Microcoin increases, the amount of memory that is needed to perform a single calculation rises. The more memory that can be allocated per thread, the better the performance that typically can be achieved.
SUMMARY: adjust this value first - Run GPUz of HWInfo to monitor the amount of dedicated memory used on the card until it moves into the dynamic column, then reduce it back down. YACMiner will tell you at the start how much memory has been allocated per thread

--lookup-gap X:
This tunes a compromise between ram usage and performance. Performance peaks at a gap of 2, but increasing the gap may allow you to run at a higher rate as more shaders in the card get utilized. Setting lookup gap overrides the default of 4.
SUMMARY: Start at 2, and try 4 through 8. Adjust your intensity setting (-R/-X/-I) to higher values as the lookup-gap increases.

--worksize XXX (-w 256):
Has a minor effect, should be a multiple of 32 up to 256 maximum. This sets the smallest size of work being sent to the GPU, and on older cards and/or drivers affects the values allowed in Raw Intensity.
SUMMARY: Higher values are better for cards with higher shader counts and 7XXX series cards and newer. Lower values for older cards give finer ranges of Raw Intensity to maximize performance.

--rawintensity XXXX (-R XXXX) This setting allows for a much more preceise intensity setting and can recognize significant gains when mining Microcoin
Note: make sure to use much lower raw-intensity values when you increase cpu threads (-g).
The original Intensity setting is currently used to spawn GPU threads as a simple 2^value setting.

  I:8  =     128 threads
  I:8  =     256 threads
  I:9  =     512 threads
  I:10 =    1024 threads
  I:11 =    2048 threads
  I:12 =    4096 threads
  I:13 =    8192 threads

Notice how the higher settings increase thread count tremendously.
It's now much easier to control thread intensity specifically and it potentially allows for a uniform way of setting the intensity on your system.

Valid values for raw-intensity are safest to be set as a multiple of --worksize. Newer drivers and/or cards may allow for adjustment in smaller increments - in some cases, this can be adjusted in in increments of 1.

--xintensity XX (-X XX)
When you have enough GPU memory allocated to fully utilize all shaders on your GPU, use this for intensity control as it will spawn threads as a multiple of how many shaders are on your GPU. This setting will be best starting at 4, and increases can be had by going up to 32 or as high as 128. Very large values for this may cause instability or driver crashes for very little gain - consider 128 to be the max.
Optional parameters for tuning:
--gpu-threads X (-g X):
Some people who have systems where the GPUs have large amounts of memory and low amounts of system memory will need to run multiple CPU threads so that all of the GPU memory can be allocated. This is because the OpenCL buffer is built in system memory and passed to the GPU. This defaults to 1, however values of 1, 2, 3 & 4 can all produce similar results.
SUMMARY: Run 1 unless your card has more than 2GB of memory and you cannot allocate all of that memory with just 1 thread.
Other available parameters that have better alternatives:
--thread-concurrency XXXXX:
This option may be depreciated in your mining software depreciated. It is still available for those people who like to do math on really high numbers that have to change when any other parameter needs to change. I strongly recommend utilizing the --buffer-size option instead. This setting adjusts the size of the OpenCL buffer to allocate to each thread. This value should be based on the amount of available memory on your GPU. This setting is affected by lookup-gap as well, utilizing the following formula for lookup-gaps of 1,2 & 4

MB per thread = thread-concurrency * 128 / (1024 * lookup-gap)
A good example of this: lookup-gap of 2, thread-concurrency of 8192 = 512 MB

As the NFactor for a Microcoin increases, the amount of memory that is needed to perform a single calculation rises. The more memory that can be allocated per thread, the better the performance that typically can be achieved.
SUMMARY: Use --buffer-size instead

--intensity XX (-I XX)
Just like in bitcoin mining, Microcoin mining takes an intensity, however the scale goes from 0 to 20 to mimic the "Aggression" used in mtrlt's reaper. The reason this is crucial is that too high an intensity can actually be disastrous with Microcoin because it can run out of memory and you will receive HW errors. High intensities start writing over the same ram and it is highly dependent on the GPU, but they can start actually DECREASING your hashrate, or even worse, start producing garbage with HW errors skyrocketing.
SUMMARY: Setting this for reasonable hashrates is mandatory. This setting is not recommended for Microcoin - use --raw-intensity

All the info is from Ultracoin forum.

But yes, creating a new thread would be good for coin. Call it "Big microCoin Settings thread" for example.
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Re: [ANN] microCoin MRC - alcurEX - Scrypt-Jane - nFactor - soon in alcurEX exchange
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cryptofella
on 20/04/2014, 14:30:30 UTC
+1 And it's good that they aren't rushing with the ex. Proper testing is really important for security.
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Re: [ANN] microCoin MRC - alcurEX - Scrypt-Jane - nFactor - soon in alcurEX exchange
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cryptofella
on 20/04/2014, 10:22:58 UTC
So we can reach 5th place at marketcap. Yeah, souds realistic.
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Re: [ANN] microCoin MRC - alcurEX - Scrypt-Jane - nFactor - soon in alcurEX exchange
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cryptofella
on 20/04/2014, 10:00:53 UTC
Doge and MRC has the same total supply so it's easy to compare the prices. Doge peaked 300 sat on it's best days. MRC could do the same.
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Re: [ANN] microCoin MRC - alcurEX - Scrypt-Jane - nFactor - soon in alcurEX exchange
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cryptofella
on 20/04/2014, 08:56:37 UTC

This is good news for us. Also I have watched MRC/LTC buy orders at Poloniex. There seems to be steady growth of a few litoshis every day after the last pump. These facts compared I think the price will tank again on Wednesday. Biggest sell wall in Mintpal is at 10 satosthi. If we get past that only the sky is the limit.
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Re: [ANN] microCoin MRC - alcurEX - Scrypt-Jane - nFactor - soon in alcurEX exchange
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cryptofella
on 18/04/2014, 14:47:10 UTC
There was talk on alcurex thread that shareholders are able to test it on friday evening. I'm hoping it's soon open.
so the price won't fall. damn) so I'll try to buy for 2sat

That seems to be the case. But microCoin is still as low as 61th at coinmarketcap. One can buy now at 2 or 3 sat and still profit a lot.
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Re: [ANN] microCoin MRC - alcurEX - Scrypt-Jane - nFactor - soon in alcurEX exchange
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cryptofella
on 18/04/2014, 13:58:40 UTC
There was talk on alcurex thread that shareholders are able to test it on friday evening. I'm hoping it's soon open.