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Re: [ANN][GAP] Gapcoin - Prime Gap Search - New Math Algo - CPU / GPU - Zero Premine
Hi, is anybody mining? Last block not from me was about 1 hour ago, and I can't mine all the time. There were no any blocks from me from about 40 to about 10 minutes ago. Sooner or later I would shut down, it's not a server, it's my home PC. Sorry that I 51% for this time, but the difficulty is incredibly low.
If anybody want to, connect to:
82.66.203.169
gap.supnova.cc
If anybody want to, connect to:
82.66.203.169
gap.supnova.cc
Re: [ANN][GAP] Gapcoin - Prime Gap Search - New Math Algo - CPU / GPU - Zero Premine
BTW, there's a new record for shift 25 (in block 2180503)! 
Merit 34.942847, gap size is 6792. This one is number 4 globally! (first three: 41.93 in block 646118, 36.92 in block 655591, 35.12 in block 1401864)
Congratulations!
Merit 34.942847, gap size is 6792. This one is number 4 globally! (first three: 41.93 in block 646118, 36.92 in block 655591, 35.12 in block 1401864)
Congratulations!
Re: [ANN][GAP] Gapcoin - Prime Gap Search - New Math Algo - CPU / GPU - Zero Premine
Current supply on coingecko (17,634,537) and CMP (17,634,537) was not updated for a some time, because well, no any working blockchain explorer.
So I calculated it for the block 212000 (we at ~2129300 now) and added this info to my table.
about 17 874 521 GAP at the block 2120000.
Finally I was able to launch Qt wallet on linux. Previously I used
gapcoin-0.16.3-aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.gz, because I thought it's the only release for desktop linux,
and gapcoind and gapcoin-cli worked just fine, but not Qt.
But now I had found
gapcoin-0.16.3-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
Now not only I have GUI wallet, but also the same python script calling the daemon works 4-5 times faster it seems
You can find releases here:
https://github.com/gapcoin-project/gapcoin-core/releases
And I have no slightest idea how to build it by myself.
It seems sometimes we have 3 nodes on satoshi9.2 connected.
I can connect to them from Windows machine but not from Linux machine.
But they all disappeared today from my nodes even from Windows machine.
Maybe it has something to do with me adding port=8334 to gapcoin.conf, but maybe not and it's just a coincidence.
Because I could not connect to them from Linux machine at all, I forwarded a port and connected my linux desktop node to my windows node.
I guess now anybody can try to connect to it too (not sure if it will work):
178.141.100.234:8334
Main alive node de-facto is still:
88.66.203.169
About Nvidia miner: it actually works fine, I just forgot to add -a nvidia to .sh
It seems I can launch multiple instances and they do different work, but I'm not sure about it.
If it's indeed so, then from rtx 3060 with decent multi-core CPU we can get at least 8M primes per second, probably even 10-12M and more.
But it seems it's not possible to mine any shift but 32 on GPU miner. -f parameter is ignored. If anybody know how to change prime shift in
GPU miner, please share this knowledge in this thread. Even only working 16 or 64 shift will make mining much more fun.
On 32 shift we have the world record aka the biggest merit in the blockchain, no hope to overdid that.
I tried to build miner from source, CPU version no problem, it's compiled fine and works fine afterwards, but no luck with GPU version, probably because I tried to build CPU branch with GPU settings instead of GPU branch
(I've built some binary file for GPU eventually, but it's not working properly and file is different from released miner). Maybe I will try my luck with GPU branch later.
I think the only way for mining to survive is to somehow get some support from hobbyists, who will mine mostly just for sake of it. Even at 10 sat per GAP,
current daily profit from all mined coins is about $2 (0.6GAP*24b/hx24hx10sat). I can buy some from time to time, but it's basically a donation, I have no intention to sell them and I have no much hope that it will be ever possible to sell them later for profit (or even buy some goods, lol, it's a cryptocurrency after all).
Another thing is halvings. They are happen very fast. Honestly I have no idea how even Bitcoin itself will survive them. I prefer the Monero way with constant tail emission. Of course we have no coordination (and probably no skill to build a new wallet) to hard fork GAP for a constant 0.6 (current) or at least at 0.3 (next halving) per block. Primecoin way to go regarding block rewards is also much better in my opinion.
About "death of the coin". Question is: do we want such project to exist - not in a sense of cryptocurrency, but as a math distributed computing project? I think the answer is yes, so why to launch GAP-2 when we already have it? As long as somebody mine it, as long as coin is more or less alive, we have the blockchain with all results and also a chance to improve them. If anything, we need somebody from Primecoin or Riecoin team to be interested to support the project. Maybe some old whale can send somebody who can have some interest in GAP some tens/hundreds of thousands of GAP, so such hypothetical dev will have some incentive for price to rise.
Maybe I will try to make the rich list next, but of course, it is much harder task than shift/number of blocks/merit list and calculation of current supply, so I'm not sure that I'm capable of doing this.
So I calculated it for the block 212000 (we at ~2129300 now) and added this info to my table.
about 17 874 521 GAP at the block 2120000.
Finally I was able to launch Qt wallet on linux. Previously I used
gapcoin-0.16.3-aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.gz, because I thought it's the only release for desktop linux,
and gapcoind and gapcoin-cli worked just fine, but not Qt.
But now I had found
gapcoin-0.16.3-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
Now not only I have GUI wallet, but also the same python script calling the daemon works 4-5 times faster it seems
You can find releases here:
https://github.com/gapcoin-project/gapcoin-core/releases
And I have no slightest idea how to build it by myself.
It seems sometimes we have 3 nodes on satoshi9.2 connected.
I can connect to them from Windows machine but not from Linux machine.
But they all disappeared today from my nodes even from Windows machine.
Maybe it has something to do with me adding port=8334 to gapcoin.conf, but maybe not and it's just a coincidence.
Because I could not connect to them from Linux machine at all, I forwarded a port and connected my linux desktop node to my windows node.
I guess now anybody can try to connect to it too (not sure if it will work):
178.141.100.234:8334
Main alive node de-facto is still:
88.66.203.169
About Nvidia miner: it actually works fine, I just forgot to add -a nvidia to .sh
It seems I can launch multiple instances and they do different work, but I'm not sure about it.
If it's indeed so, then from rtx 3060 with decent multi-core CPU we can get at least 8M primes per second, probably even 10-12M and more.
But it seems it's not possible to mine any shift but 32 on GPU miner. -f parameter is ignored. If anybody know how to change prime shift in
GPU miner, please share this knowledge in this thread. Even only working 16 or 64 shift will make mining much more fun.
On 32 shift we have the world record aka the biggest merit in the blockchain, no hope to overdid that.
I tried to build miner from source, CPU version no problem, it's compiled fine and works fine afterwards, but no luck with GPU version, probably because I tried to build CPU branch with GPU settings instead of GPU branch
(I've built some binary file for GPU eventually, but it's not working properly and file is different from released miner). Maybe I will try my luck with GPU branch later.
I think the only way for mining to survive is to somehow get some support from hobbyists, who will mine mostly just for sake of it. Even at 10 sat per GAP,
current daily profit from all mined coins is about $2 (0.6GAP*24b/hx24hx10sat). I can buy some from time to time, but it's basically a donation, I have no intention to sell them and I have no much hope that it will be ever possible to sell them later for profit (or even buy some goods, lol, it's a cryptocurrency after all).
Another thing is halvings. They are happen very fast. Honestly I have no idea how even Bitcoin itself will survive them. I prefer the Monero way with constant tail emission. Of course we have no coordination (and probably no skill to build a new wallet) to hard fork GAP for a constant 0.6 (current) or at least at 0.3 (next halving) per block. Primecoin way to go regarding block rewards is also much better in my opinion.
About "death of the coin". Question is: do we want such project to exist - not in a sense of cryptocurrency, but as a math distributed computing project? I think the answer is yes, so why to launch GAP-2 when we already have it? As long as somebody mine it, as long as coin is more or less alive, we have the blockchain with all results and also a chance to improve them. If anything, we need somebody from Primecoin or Riecoin team to be interested to support the project. Maybe some old whale can send somebody who can have some interest in GAP some tens/hundreds of thousands of GAP, so such hypothetical dev will have some incentive for price to rise.
Maybe I will try to make the rich list next, but of course, it is much harder task than shift/number of blocks/merit list and calculation of current supply, so I'm not sure that I'm capable of doing this.
Re: [ANN][GAP] Gapcoin - Prime Gap Search - New Math Algo - CPU / GPU - Zero Premine
⭐ Merited by wizz13150 (1)
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Thanks for this and for all other stuff you're doing. I did not check this thread until just now, so I made the table anyway, for myself. I copy-pasted the data manually, so there may be some slight errors.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Phmuef-UlIDdqvkLD-o1ugHgtpQPfAfGK64d5OI4zlE
Re: [ANN][GAP] Gapcoin - Prime Gap Search - New Math Algo - CPU / GPU - Zero Premine
So with python2 and pyjsonrpc I can collect data about how many times blocks with each shift had been mined, but it works veeeeeery slow. Almost 1 min for 1000 blocks, so something like 1.5 days for the whole blockchain. And I don't know any better. I do not want to try this, for now at least. First time in my life i'm writing something in python.
Code:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding: utf-8
import pyjsonrpc
http_client = pyjsonrpc.HttpClient(
url = "http://localhost:31397",
username = "username_here",
password = "password_here"
)
blockcountvar = http_client.call("getblockcount")
shift_array = [0]*1024
current_block = 0
while current_block < blockcountvar:
hashvar = http_client.call("getblockhash",blockcountvar)
block_data = http_client.call("getblock",hashvar)
current_shift = block_data["shift"]
shift_array[current_shift] += 1
current_block += 1
for x in range (16,1024):
print ("shift %d:" % (x))
print shift_array[x]
#werks
# coding: utf-8
import pyjsonrpc
http_client = pyjsonrpc.HttpClient(
url = "http://localhost:31397",
username = "username_here",
password = "password_here"
)
blockcountvar = http_client.call("getblockcount")
shift_array = [0]*1024
current_block = 0
while current_block < blockcountvar:
hashvar = http_client.call("getblockhash",blockcountvar)
block_data = http_client.call("getblock",hashvar)
current_shift = block_data["shift"]
shift_array[current_shift] += 1
current_block += 1
for x in range (16,1024):
print ("shift %d:" % (x))
print shift_array[x]
#werks
Re: [ANN][GAP] Gapcoin - Prime Gap Search - New Math Algo - CPU / GPU - Zero Premine
It's sad that such great project is dying. Interesting combination of distributed computing and cryptocurrency. Useful (in some sense) PoW. At least Riecoin still is slightly more alive. And I guess the owner of only existing exchange is some sort of fan of both these math coins, because they are both are still listed here. What a great exchange.
I cannot help GAP in any way. Maybe I can buy some, but without any interest in crypto community, without any update of software, without blockchain explorer, it's all pretty useless. If only some great mind would find this project to support it with some work just for sake of it. Maybe some GAP whale, lol.
Also it seems that 'math guys' for some strange reason are mostly anti-crypto in general, so there is not enough interest from this side. There are some forums about gap merits, but it seems they are not very interested in Gapcoin.
I hope somebody knows how to actually extract data about PoW calculations of network. The difficulty is very low, but amount of time == amount of PoW eventually, and this network is very old, so maybe some new records was hit during such long time? According to Wikipedia, we still have a world record, from year of 2017. At least this is one great thing.
I cannot help GAP in any way. Maybe I can buy some, but without any interest in crypto community, without any update of software, without blockchain explorer, it's all pretty useless. If only some great mind would find this project to support it with some work just for sake of it. Maybe some GAP whale, lol.
Also it seems that 'math guys' for some strange reason are mostly anti-crypto in general, so there is not enough interest from this side. There are some forums about gap merits, but it seems they are not very interested in Gapcoin.
I hope somebody knows how to actually extract data about PoW calculations of network. The difficulty is very low, but amount of time == amount of PoW eventually, and this network is very old, so maybe some new records was hit during such long time? According to Wikipedia, we still have a world record, from year of 2017. At least this is one great thing.
MOTO has pretty good block explorer on cryptopia: https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/BlockExplorer?coin=MOTO (not fully functional)
And HunterMinerCrafter one, of course: http://37.153.97.65:3000/ (does not work right now)
And HunterMinerCrafter one, of course: http://37.153.97.65:3000/ (does not work right now)
If other people do not want to give up on this coin, perhaps it's a good moment to speak up. A simple 'hi' will do or perhaps show support by buying some
HI!
Welcome.
Zero commissions, I guess?C-cex need "some" more traded volume on MOTO/BTC 
So we need
MOTO: 0.01 BTC (0.00%)
at least 5.9 BTC traded until 17/06/2015
So we need
MOTO: 0.01 BTC (0.00%)
at least 5.9 BTC traded until 17/06/2015
I didn't ever know they brought MOTO back.
Re: [ANN][GAP] Gapcoin - Prime Gap Search - New Math Algo - CPU / GPU - Zero Premine
Hi there,
It's nice to see that some of you using higher shifts to find new records.
Im currently working on new version of the Miner wich should speed up
mining with higher shift by using the Chinese Reminder Theorem (CRT).
I tried long to improve mining by using the CRT,
but couldn't find a solution with gives a real speed improve.
The thing is, to improve the mining speed with the CRT you have to use
an higher shift, as higher the shift as bigger the improvement you make by using the CRT.
But with higher shift the mining speed also decreases, so that you make
no big improvement at all.
But if you targeting higher shifts anyway, than the CRT could make a difference!
I'm currently testing my implementation within testnet,
but It will still probably take some time till it's ready.
Just wanted to let you know, that I'm working on something.
I also want to thank you all for the great support from all of you!
The website now parses all gaps from http://www.trnicely.net/ till 20k, which is currently
not very efficient implemented, so I set the refresh interval to 4 hours,
once the new miner is finished, I'll take care of it.
It's nice to see that some of you using higher shifts to find new records.
Im currently working on new version of the Miner wich should speed up
mining with higher shift by using the Chinese Reminder Theorem (CRT).
I tried long to improve mining by using the CRT,
but couldn't find a solution with gives a real speed improve.
The thing is, to improve the mining speed with the CRT you have to use
an higher shift, as higher the shift as bigger the improvement you make by using the CRT.
But with higher shift the mining speed also decreases, so that you make
no big improvement at all.
But if you targeting higher shifts anyway, than the CRT could make a difference!
I'm currently testing my implementation within testnet,
but It will still probably take some time till it's ready.
Just wanted to let you know, that I'm working on something.
I also want to thank you all for the great support from all of you!
FYI - gapcoin.org isn't showing a new record of length 9100 though maybe it needs time to refresh
The website now parses all gaps from http://www.trnicely.net/ till 20k, which is currently
not very efficient implemented, so I set the refresh interval to 4 hours,
once the new miner is finished, I'll take care of it.
Don't forget we have this https://github.com/motocoin-dev/motocoin-site in case if somebody want to restore it.
Also, it's still possible to download builds from github: https://github.com/motocoin-dev/motocoin/releases
Also, it's still possible to download builds from github: https://github.com/motocoin-dev/motocoin/releases
Re: [ANN][GAP] Gapcoin - Prime Gap Search - New Math Algo - CPU / GPU - Zero Premine
No there isnt any asic mining gapcoin. Actually not many are mining the coin right now. And those who do either do not care about the price right now and simply are mining speculating that one day the price will be right or simple they like what the coin is doing, breaking world records.
This coin is not supposed to be that attractive to people who dont care about tech, mathematics or generally bitcoin protocol. Its the community's job to make it attractive.
It would be indeed a good thing to see if j0nn9 is alive and if he is working on something. But generally speaking what do you guys expect from him? To start putting stupid things on the code/title just to make the coin more attractive? He delivered a coin that does what it is supposed to do. Though some bug fixes wouldnt be that bad Cheesy
I personally dont care about the prices. You can simply put 0.01 right now and buy a few thousands. So i am accumulating a bit and also i am mining just to support it.
Finally, what this coin needs is awareness in the mathematics communities. This way you support gapcoin, you are participating in a project that will probably help science and you also spread the word about the bitcoin protocol. So guys, just spread the word. Nothing more. More miners mean more people interested, building stuff, even more awareness and so on...
This coin is not supposed to be that attractive to people who dont care about tech, mathematics or generally bitcoin protocol. Its the community's job to make it attractive.
It would be indeed a good thing to see if j0nn9 is alive and if he is working on something. But generally speaking what do you guys expect from him? To start putting stupid things on the code/title just to make the coin more attractive? He delivered a coin that does what it is supposed to do. Though some bug fixes wouldnt be that bad Cheesy
I personally dont care about the prices. You can simply put 0.01 right now and buy a few thousands. So i am accumulating a bit and also i am mining just to support it.
Finally, what this coin needs is awareness in the mathematics communities. This way you support gapcoin, you are participating in a project that will probably help science and you also spread the word about the bitcoin protocol. So guys, just spread the word. Nothing more. More miners mean more people interested, building stuff, even more awareness and so on...
My thoughts exactly.
I didn't check it for long time, so I don't know how long ago MOTO was added, but it's so. 
https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange
If WilliamLie2 is somewhere around, I hope he will add the new exchange to the OP. It's not a lot of work. Engrish,yay
https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange
If WilliamLie2 is somewhere around, I hope he will add the new exchange to the OP. It's not a lot of work. Engrish,yay
I need some working nodes, my Motocoin wallet won't connect.
If someone can add some nodes here, it would be great.
Thanks.
Here we go.
37.153.97.65:13107
91.77.184.72:13107
46.165.208.140:38554
109.171.80.246:52201
5.138.49.154:56022
213.97.213.246:61109
185.3.135.50:53775
82.213.142.244:49443
88.198.12.244:53546
212.234.48.207:63031
HMC seems absent, but I have a feeling he will return... And good news in being added on the exchange! 
What he can do, anyway? He is a programmer, not a marketer. Everything works as he intended. Bots secure the chain on daily basis and supply new blocks regularly while people still can mine by hand.
Also, on a side note about some coin with a sad history: MOTO is true pool-less coin on the moment, lol.