[XPM] [ANN] Primecoin Release - First Scientific Computing Cryptocurrency

[Markov]

Any GPU miner yet?
Maybe I'll be in better luck with that

[ManBearPig]

I must be lucky today, I got 3 in the last 40 minutes!

6 total in the last 9 hours, even my laptop grabbed one with 85 PPS.

[mr_random]

What would be the best pool software to build a mining pool for this coin?

dont you need a miner before you can point a miner to a pool???

Good point  

[Buffer Overflow]

Any GPU miner yet?
Maybe I'll be in better luck with that

There's no guarantee they will mine any faster when they do arrive.

[Markov]

Any GPU miner yet?
Maybe I'll be in better luck with that

There's no guarantee they will mine any faster when they do arrive.

I know but I can't get less than 0 so anything more is useful for me.
I know my CPU is not a thunder anymore but still it's frustrating, I don't understand what I'm doing wrong to have nothing...

[btc4ever]

Can anyone explain in plain english how the block reward is affected by difficulty, and what that has to do with Moore's Law?

ie, let's say that mining power continues to increase for the next 5 years.   What happens to the block reward?

and what happens if it plateaus and/or declines?

What sort of block reward can we expect to see in a week, month, year, assuming increasing adoption?


And apparently the block reward never stops either, right?  A built-in inflation.....  Seems like that could tend to make bitcoin more valuable over the long-run with its known limited supply.   thoughts?

[cloudstrife07]

yay! After 24 hours of mining, i manage to get 10 blocks worth 200XPM and 4 orphans.

[craslovell]

yay! After 24 hours of mining, i manage to get 10 blocks worth 200XPM and 4 orphans.

What cpus are you mining with?

[Joe_Bauers]

Very cool, though you had me at "Sunny King"    I will definitely be checking this out...

[spirale]

Mined for something like 17 hours now. No blocks for my i3. At least my AMD Sempron found one. 19.82 XPM.

[OnkelPaul]

Got one block (19.57 XPM) after maybe 3-4 hours of mining. Not too bad for an i3-2100... Let's see if more are on the way...
The use of prime-related problems is definitely a new welcome twist to cryptocurrencies  

Onkel Paul

[nearmiss]

8 blocks with 7 threads of my i7-3720QM after ~20hrs.  shrug.

[cloudstrife07]

yay! After 24 hours of mining, i manage to get 10 blocks worth 200XPM and 4 orphans.

What cpus are you mining with?

5 blocks from i5 3450, 3 blocks from pentium g2010, 2 blocks from i5 2500.

[Stinky_Pete]

Both my Gulftown 6-cores are giving an average of about 1 payout every 3 hrs. But the dual-Xeons (12 cores) have yet to produce a thing.  Probabilities?

[BTC-Market]

Running 3 instances on 3 ordinary office PCs, got around 200 XPM in about 16 hours. My PPS is 128 / 27 / 73 on each PC respectively.

[mustyoshi]

I've probably averaged 10 primes per sec since the coin started and not a single block.

[paulthetafy]

There certainly seems to be some unknown quantity determine which processors produce better results. My i7 8 core laptop does 40-60pps but my i7 8 core desktop does 150 pps. That seems skewed. Then my 4 core amd does about 20. Between them I've found 5 blocks in 16 hours

[mik3]

Damn this luck sucks, we need a pool. I just found a block after 16 hours doing ~100PPS.

[Moebius327]

yay! After 24 hours of mining, i manage to get 10 blocks worth 200XPM and 4 orphans.

how do you check for orphans?

[teknohog]

Gentoo ebuild of the daemon here, for the true believers. Modified from bitcoind 0.8.2 ebuild.

https://github.com/teknohog/ebuilds/tree/master/net-p2p/primecoind