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Re: [ANN][RIC] Riecoin: constellations POW *CPU* HARD FORK successful, world record
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rascal71
on 12/02/2016, 01:14:54 UTC
Thanks for the clarification guys. I had no idea there were superblocks. So happy I'm solo mining now.

Hey Rascal, you mentioned that you were working on a proxy for other coins. Hows that going?

Well it's more or less complete I guess but I sort of hit a road block with getting some of the algos to build correctly so I wanted to try to iron that out first but I might just release it anyway and work out the rest later, plus I'm still debating on if I'm going to leave the dev fee or just take it out.
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Re: [ANN][RIC] Riecoin, new constellations POW **CPU-ONLY** NEW 0.9.2 CLIENT
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rascal71
on 12/02/2016, 00:47:33 UTC
I think something is up with Rascal's mining proxy. Not accusing him of anything, its probably just a bug. Maybe someone more technically minded on coinbase/stratum and other tech can chime in.

Every so often I mine a block worth 45.3333333 here is an example. https://chainz.cryptoid.info/ric/tx.dws?e5a7eb4eae84dd53d78e27f880a40a93b09b41206b4740b2fe9a67207662fc8e.htm

This is the actual block link.
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/ric/block.dws?410814.htm

Can anyone shed some light on this?

Around superblocks the reward is diminished a bit, and the coins instead go to whoever finds the superblock (which has a higher difficulty). The idea being that this does not change the number of RIC that will be generated, while allowing (and giving an incentive) to find higher prime constellations.

In case of block 410814, the corresponding superblock is 410832, which ranked #2 in the hall of fame: https://chainz.cryptoid.info/ric/halloffame.dws

Urp - I've fallen behind on time to be able to do the code integration for stratum.  I apologize.  If someone wants to fork the miner and do it, you've got my blessing...  I still hope to do it if nobody else can, but I've got a bunch of day job things between.

don't worry, I read some people had problems compiling my fork so I'll review that and try to generate all the binaries.

Anything new this week Gatra?

This is the final implementation that I have for the superblocks:
Difficulty adjustments were performed every 288 blocks which should take 12 hs, so once every 14 adjustments (ie once a week) we will have a special interval. In these special intervals the difficulty will be adjusted a little bit down for all blocks except one which will be the superblock. The expected behavior is that 287 blocks will be shorter (136 seconds instead of 150), lending 14 seconds each to the superblock which will in total accumulate almost 70 minutes. This is the most elegant solution I could find since every interval will still have 288 blocks and be targeted to last 12hs.
So, if in a few days you get blocks with a reward of 45,33333333 instead of 50, then it is expected behavior. Don't complain: your block had less reward because it was easier to find, it's still fair. And if you get a block with 1389,33333333 RIC, then congratulations: you solved the superblock.

This is implemented, under testing, and working fine so far. Now what remains is to decide the block number for the hard fork (around 135000?), generating all the binaries and issuing alerts for everyone to upgrade.

Regards!
Gatra

Yeah, this is info buried in the thread, quoted above.
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Re: [ANN][RIC] Riecoin: constellations POW *CPU* HARD FORK successful, world record
by
rascal71
on 19/01/2016, 21:20:56 UTC
Why do not you ask those who have developed the miner for gpupool.com to release their source code or who has released the binary of "Riecoin_mining_proxy" without source?
I did ask for the mining proxy's code. The gpupool code is not relevant because it has (at least in my eyes) no real value to the community, because the author did not improve the mining algorithm, something everyone could benefit from.

Let's not all be too hasty, might be a bit of language barrier here as well but Simba84 has provided a 0% pool for Riecoin and an improved miner so obviously he shows support, now I have not tried the miner personally but maybe the right thing to do would at least make it work for any pool so that all might benefit and evaluate the results for themselves.

The source actually already is available, it's only gatra's fork of the python stratum server, minus some of the other coin algo's stuff coded in there so I could get the darn thing to build on windows, the hardest part to figure out how to get around the epoolreactor requirement when using windows since we only want to use python, instead of it being a twisted internet service type of application.

Now, of course I did write a loader for it and added a simple dev fee and to be honest I'll have to back track quite a bit if someone wanted an exact copy of the current proxy but as I had mentioned before I had been working on some simple web stats for the proxy and it more or less has morphed into a complete integrated mining pool now.

I have even sort of coined the name 'WIMP' for windows integrated mining pool.

Payouts are made p2pool style right in the coinbase with a similar time based pplns payout system.
Moving forward I have solved most of the compilation issues with other algo's like scrypt and x11 etc... so pool can support most all coins.

I'm probably a week or two from completion but all code will be open source and available on github but I won't clog up the this thread with all that discussion.

Here's a little teaser, all the found blocks are real and can be found in the riecoin block chain if you want to view the payouts, even shows up as p2pool in the block explorer.

http://s14.postimg.org/as9ldzoul/pool5.jpg
http://postimg.org/image/as9ldzoul/

Note: the weird looking address is pool even accepts mining key.
 
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Re: [ANN][RIC] Riecoin: constellations POW *CPU* HARD FORK successful, world record
by
rascal71
on 02/01/2016, 21:40:05 UTC

I gave this a try and got the proxy up and running and talking to the the wallet. When I try to get miners to connect they do and then just sit there with this as the last message..  Connected to server using x.pushthrough(xpt) protocol.

Windows firewalls are off. No antivirus firewalls or anything like that.

I think I'm using the wrong miner for the mining proxy.. Can you pls give me a link to the one I should be using with this?

Whoops, wrong link. That one is compiled with gmp 5.1.3

This one is compiled with gmp 6.0.0 http://www.mediafire.com/download/cx8q7m603mpqj6u/xptminer-stratum-gmp-6.0.0.zip

Sorry folks.

This miner posted in the thread here. Most likely need to add the -m switch when launching the miner for stratum connection.
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Re: [ANN][RIC] Riecoin: constellations POW *CPU* HARD FORK successful, world record
by
rascal71
on 30/12/2015, 08:42:13 UTC

HI rascal71 ,Can not download

I'm guessing it's a problem with megafileupload?
I have a newer version with a web interface for folks to view some statistics.
I can find some other place to upload it if that's the issue.
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Re: [ANN][RIC] Riecoin: constellations POW *CPU* HARD FORK successful, world record
by
rascal71
on 30/12/2015, 08:18:53 UTC
here's nomp node.js pool server code for riecoin

https://github.com/rascal71/node-open-mining-portal

Merry xmas Riecoin!

Thanks, I'll take a look at it.
Would you like me to link to your pool from the OP and from the riecoin.org site, or is still beta?

Unfortunately pool is only temporary as server expires at the end of the month, so if you are mining on the pool please switch to one of the other pools before then, additionally new miners ip's need to be white listed now due to the nasty DDOS port flooding going on.

Otherwise pool works great, Riecoin can now be added to any existing standard NOMP pool, or as a little bit better replacement for the python stratum for MPOS.

Cheers

Friendly reminder to please switch to one of the other pools for the last couple of folks still mining on the pool.
Mining port will close at 8am on the 31st. Pool will shut down shortly after final payouts are made.
Cheers.
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Re: [ANN][RIC] Riecoin: constellations POW *CPU* HARD FORK successful, world record
by
rascal71
on 27/12/2015, 10:45:58 UTC
Here's a new windows SOLO mining proxy!

http://www.megafileupload.com/ikL7/riecoin_mining_proxy.zip

It's a custom version of the python stratum server designed to run between xptminer and the daemon's getblocktemplate.
You need to at least provide user/pass and an address for payouts to the proxy, unless you want it all to go to me  Smiley
Then connect your miner(s) to the proxy with any username or password.
The standard donation is %0.5 and can be easily overridden for those that can't spare any extra.
Obviously there will be some doubt in a windows executable from a newbie like me, run it in a sandbox if you like.

Code:
C:\riecoin_mining_proxy>riecoin_mining_proxy.exe -h
usage: riecoin_mining_proxy.exe [-h] [-o RPC_HOST] [-r RPC_PORT] [-u RPC_USER]
                                [-p RPC_PASSWORD] [-s STRATUM_PORT]
                                [-a ADDRESS]
                                [--give-author DONATION_PERCENTAGE]

Stratum solo mining proxy for Riecoin

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -o RPC_HOST, --host RPC_HOST
                        Hostname of riecoind RPC (default = 127.0.0.1)
  -r RPC_PORT, --rpc-port RPC_PORT
                        Port of riecoind RPC (default = 28332)
  -u RPC_USER, --user RPC_USER
                        riecoind RPC interface username
  -p RPC_PASSWORD, --password RPC_PASSWORD
                        riecoind RPC interface password
  -s STRATUM_PORT, --stratum-port STRATUM_PORT
                        port to listen for stratum miners (default = 3333)
  -a ADDRESS, --address ADDRESS
                        generate payouts to this riecoin address
  --give-author DONATION_PERCENTAGE
                        donate this percentage of work towards development of
                        the riecoin solo mining proxy (default = %0.5)

C:\riecoin_mining_proxy>riecoin_mining_proxy.exe -o 127.0.0.1 -u user -p pass -a RKC8bE13h9tPLUX6UpW3aQhqfVm23rGPJz

[img=http://s30.postimg.org/x00poyhkd/mining_proxy.jpg]
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Re: [ANN][RIC] Riecoin: constellations POW *CPU* HARD FORK successful, world record
by
rascal71
on 24/12/2015, 16:12:01 UTC
Otherwise pool works great, Riecoin can now be added to any existing standard NOMP pool, or as a little bit better replacement for the python stratum for MPOS.

Gave a try at compiling but there seems to be some missing files, f.i. which bignum.h or uint1024 are required?

edit: I could hack something that compiles from the version at https://github.com/Nexusoft/PrimeSoloMiner no idea if that works though ^_^

Hmm, all the files are there. Just did a fresh git pull and it compiles without issue.

Code:
git clone https://github.com/rascal71/node-open-mining-portal.git nomp
cd nomp
npm update
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Re: [ANN][RIC] Riecoin: constellations POW *CPU* HARD FORK successful, world record
by
rascal71
on 24/12/2015, 09:33:49 UTC
here's nomp node.js pool server code for riecoin

https://github.com/rascal71/node-open-mining-portal

Merry xmas Riecoin!

Thanks, I'll take a look at it.
Would you like me to link to your pool from the OP and from the riecoin.org site, or is still beta?

Unfortunately pool is only temporary as server expires at the end of the month, so if you are mining on the pool please switch to one of the other pools before then, additionally new miners ip's need to be white listed now due to the nasty DDOS port flooding going on.

Otherwise pool works great, Riecoin can now be added to any existing standard NOMP pool, or as a little bit better replacement for the python stratum for MPOS.

Cheers
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Re: [ANN][RIC] Riecoin: constellations POW *CPU* HARD FORK successful, world record
by
rascal71
on 19/12/2015, 19:17:40 UTC
here's nomp node.js pool server code for riecoin

https://github.com/rascal71/node-open-mining-portal

Merry xmas Riecoin!
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Re: [ANN][RIC] Riecoin: constellations POW *CPU* HARD FORK successful, world record
by
rascal71
on 18/12/2015, 03:33:13 UTC
temporary riecoin pool

http://198.27.67.130:8888

nice! did you modify the node.js server for RIC or are you using the python stratum-mining?
can you confirm you found blocks?

Yes, it's modified node.js server. Pool is finding blocks and seems to be working fine. Will make code public after it runs a few days.
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Re: [ANN][RIC] Riecoin: constellations POW *CPU* HARD FORK successful, world record
by
rascal71
on 17/12/2015, 12:50:49 UTC
temporary riecoin pool

http://198.27.67.130:8888