[GPUC] GPU Coin | Mandatory Wallet Update

[kcheel]

I've been mining this coin continuously since launch with my Asus R9 270x, only have about 180k coins.  I settled on buying the 270x as my old Radeon 4890 was not cutting it for games anymore, but was really looking at a 280x when prices were sky high.  I bought the 270x at $240 off amazon and then promptly lost my job the next day.  First few days I spent mining random coins until I found the announcement that this coin would be launching soon.  I spent the rest of the time making sure my card wasn't a dud, it kept giving me artifacts on the desktop for a few days, but finally settled down and only firefox/palemoon show artifacts, but from what I have read that is due to the browser itself.  I would love to see this coin become profitable, it just feels like a good concept

If you happen to be running the 14.x beta catalyst drivers they are solid but do cause artifacts on desktop and in browsers. Known bug with the driver. I'm only running them cause I have the THIEF game that uses the mantle API and boy does it offer a performance increase!!!

waltsmith

I am running 13.12

I found a config for regular scrypt that the 270x can hit 500kh/s stable, I just can't get it to translate to scrypt-n, best I get is 230kh/s which is 20kh/s lower than I would like, but I'll deal with it.  I also found a workaround to driver crashes/low hashrates.  Device Manager > disable adapter and then re-enable it and your low hashrate should go back to normal once you reload vertminer/cgminer/sgminer.

I am fairly new at this mining stuff and wish I had gotten into mining back when Bitcoin launched when I first heard about it.  I attempted it, but at the time felt it was just too difficult and dropped off.  I think, at the time, Bitcoin was worth $0.10.  I am really kicking myself about that.

I wouldn't mind seeing your scrypt config.  I am getting 480 on my 270's and 490 on my 270x's right now, so pretty close but wouldn't mind a bit more. 

[madbit1000]

I've been mining this coin continuously since launch with my Asus R9 270x, only have about 180k coins.  I settled on buying the 270x as my old Radeon 4890 was not cutting it for games anymore, but was really looking at a 280x when prices were sky high.  I bought the 270x at $240 off amazon and then promptly lost my job the next day.  First few days I spent mining random coins until I found the announcement that this coin would be launching soon.  I spent the rest of the time making sure my card wasn't a dud, it kept giving me artifacts on the desktop for a few days, but finally settled down and only firefox/palemoon show artifacts, but from what I have read that is due to the browser itself.  I would love to see this coin become profitable, it just feels like a good concept

If you happen to be running the 14.x beta catalyst drivers they are solid but do cause artifacts on desktop and in browsers. Known bug with the driver. I'm only running them cause I have the THIEF game that uses the mantle API and boy does it offer a performance increase!!!

waltsmith

I am running 13.12

I found a config for regular scrypt that the 270x can hit 500kh/s stable, I just can't get it to translate to scrypt-n, best I get is 230kh/s which is 20kh/s lower than I would like, but I'll deal with it.  I also found a workaround to driver crashes/low hashrates.  Device Manager > disable adapter and then re-enable it and your low hashrate should go back to normal once you reload vertminer/cgminer/sgminer.

I am fairly new at this mining stuff and wish I had gotten into mining back when Bitcoin launched when I first heard about it.  I attempted it, but at the time felt it was just too difficult and dropped off.  I think, at the time, Bitcoin was worth $0.10.  I am really kicking myself about that.

I wouldn't mind seeing your scrypt config.  I am getting 480 on my 270's and 490 on my 270x's right now, so pretty close but wouldn't mind a bit more. 

You wont get any higher on scrypt-n usually the figures are only around 40-50% of scrypt values.

[paintray98]

I've been mining this coin continuously since launch with my Asus R9 270x, only have about 180k coins.  I settled on buying the 270x as my old Radeon 4890 was not cutting it for games anymore, but was really looking at a 280x when prices were sky high.  I bought the 270x at $240 off amazon and then promptly lost my job the next day.  First few days I spent mining random coins until I found the announcement that this coin would be launching soon.  I spent the rest of the time making sure my card wasn't a dud, it kept giving me artifacts on the desktop for a few days, but finally settled down and only firefox/palemoon show artifacts, but from what I have read that is due to the browser itself.  I would love to see this coin become profitable, it just feels like a good concept

If you happen to be running the 14.x beta catalyst drivers they are solid but do cause artifacts on desktop and in browsers. Known bug with the driver. I'm only running them cause I have the THIEF game that uses the mantle API and boy does it offer a performance increase!!!

waltsmith

I am running 13.12

I found a config for regular scrypt that the 270x can hit 500kh/s stable, I just can't get it to translate to scrypt-n, best I get is 230kh/s which is 20kh/s lower than I would like, but I'll deal with it.  I also found a workaround to driver crashes/low hashrates.  Device Manager > disable adapter and then re-enable it and your low hashrate should go back to normal once you reload vertminer/cgminer/sgminer.

I am fairly new at this mining stuff and wish I had gotten into mining back when Bitcoin launched when I first heard about it.  I attempted it, but at the time felt it was just too difficult and dropped off.  I think, at the time, Bitcoin was worth $0.10.  I am really kicking myself about that.

I wouldn't mind seeing your scrypt config.  I am getting 480 on my 270's and 490 on my 270x's right now, so pretty close but wouldn't mind a bit more. 

I found the config here: http://www.reddit.com/r/dogemining/comments/1yx086/500_khash_with_270x_no_hw_stable/ and tested it, it worked for me, I just don't like running my 270x's memory that high for too long

[zmhaha]

so far, I have not dumped a single GPUC. Either from the IPO or mining. Sitting on 10mil.

The CEO and dev team kept all their promises and launched the site successfully and sold dozens of GPUs.
In this perspective, it is good and we rarely see any coin does that.

But I do feel bad about the marketing, PR, and promotion.
Nothing works unless people know about it.
Once the right amount of effort and most, if not all, steps to promote the coin have been taken, and the coin still behaves like this, nobody is gonna blame the team for anything because it was our choice to believe in the business model, and believe in you.

But so far, I don't understand what kind of work the CEO and the dev team have been doing so that it is eating all of their time such that the main thread is rarely updated, and the marketing & PR is just non-exisistence. Come on, you are saying the prices down because of Cryptorush issue???

If you have some kind of plan about how to do marketing & PR, can't you at least let your believers & investors know about it???
Like what, when and how type of things, not so hard to tell unless you don't have it to tell.
Are you really that busy and must all of your time be devoted on things that are so much more important than this?

Ok you got 70BTC in IPO, and brought in 44 280x. Where is the rest of the BTC? I thought you said everything was gonna go to the GPU stock. Sure you would not bring in all the stock all at once but at this rate, the coin will be dead before you sell out the first batch so that would be a legit reason to move on and take the rest of the IPO BTC?

Also what has the none-IPO premine been doing? Sitting there? Hire some experienced coin marketer & PR for GPU's sake.

[glockjs]

Wow. So the store price is linked to atomic's highest buy price??? WTF Fix that before you murder your own coin

[loicatraile]

so far, I have not dumped a single GPUC. Either from the IPO or mining. Sitting on 10mil.

The CEO and dev team kept all their promises and launched the site successfully and sold dozens of GPUs.
In this perspective, it is good and we rarely see any coin does that.

But I do feel bad about the marketing, PR, and promotion.
Nothing works unless people know about it.
Once the right amount of effort and most, if not all, steps to promote the coin have been taken, and the coin still behaves like this, nobody is gonna blame the team for anything because it was our choice to believe in the business model, and believe in you.

But so far, I don't understand what kind of work the CEO and the dev team have been doing so that it is eating all of their time such that the main thread is rarely updated, and the marketing & PR is just non-exisistence. Come on, you are saying the prices down because of Cryptorush issue???

If you have some kind of plan about how to do marketing & PR, can't you at least let your believers & investors know about it???
Like what, when and how type of things, not so hard to tell unless you don't have it to tell.
Are you really that busy and must all of your time be devoted on things that are so much more important than this?

Ok you got 70BTC in IPO, and brought in 44 280x. Where is the rest of the BTC? I thought you said everything was gonna go to the GPU stock. Sure you would not bring in all the stock all at once but at this rate, the coin will be dead before you sell out the first batch so that would be a legit reason to move on and take the rest of the IPO BTC?

Also what has the none-IPO premine been doing? Sitting there? Hire some experienced coin marketer & PR for GPU's sake.

Im also an IPO investor and i agree completely with this post.. the GPUcoin team delivered everything as they promise however.. it´s almost a joke how the CEO doesn´t care for the community and what are their thoughts. The idea of this coin is good..i still believe it ..but it won´t hold a month from now if he doesn´t concentrate everything in the heart of the coin, us.
 So far i have seen this here:

-Good coin idea
-Honest CEO and team

-Extremely slow responses and updates
-No integration of the community in future plans
-Very slow promotion and marketing

[nauticatom]

You know, I just thought of a great idea to get this coin rolling, all the people that read, follow, and support this coin, but rarely or have never posted here, please post and introduce yourselves! We all would love to meet you and hear any comments that you may have. Also, I personally have had 4 280x's pointed exclusively at GPUC since launch, and yeah, i'm talking I solved like 5 blocks at oakpool when the reward was still 1 coin. But, the troubles we have had are just not helping buy pressure at all. I'm considering pointing two of my cards at litecoin, dogecoin, vertcoin or some such other high volume coin that I can mine and dump and move the BTC over to put buy pressure up on gpucoin, not even necessarily buying it outright, just putting up the highest bid, and letting the dumpers sell to me. I'll probably get more coin, and boost the price. The only hesitation I have is that the network hash is so low right now. But, I'm thinking that if we watch it carefully, in a couple days we could boost the price and volume all by ourselves, even on our small exchanges,without any help, and that will bring back a few miners when the price goes up some, etc. What y'all think?

waltsmith

You know one idea is.. maybe we can switch over to POS, and then setup a reverse-multipool like BC..

Micryon - You could flip to X11 hashing (which would give the coin some popularity, and reduce block rewards by .5), or switch the POS and work on the multipool..

Or take a combination of them both...  since the multipool will take a while to configure.

Start with an X11 / .5 Fork - advertise it, then say in 30 days we are switching to pure POS, and a multipool will launch with it.

[lemfuture]

just saw the market place. pretty sweet for a young coin!  

[Sy]

Wallet still doesn't compile on any linux since its looking for a static lboost version...awesome!

[djm34]

You know, I just thought of a great idea to get this coin rolling, all the people that read, follow, and support this coin, but rarely or have never posted here, please post and introduce yourselves! We all would love to meet you and hear any comments that you may have. Also, I personally have had 4 280x's pointed exclusively at GPUC since launch, and yeah, i'm talking I solved like 5 blocks at oakpool when the reward was still 1 coin. But, the troubles we have had are just not helping buy pressure at all. I'm considering pointing two of my cards at litecoin, dogecoin, vertcoin or some such other high volume coin that I can mine and dump and move the BTC over to put buy pressure up on gpucoin, not even necessarily buying it outright, just putting up the highest bid, and letting the dumpers sell to me. I'll probably get more coin, and boost the price. The only hesitation I have is that the network hash is so low right now. But, I'm thinking that if we watch it carefully, in a couple days we could boost the price and volume all by ourselves, even on our small exchanges,without any help, and that will bring back a few miners when the price goes up some, etc. What y'all think?

waltsmith

You know one idea is.. maybe we can switch over to POS, and then setup a reverse-multipool like BC..

Micryon - You could flip to X11 hashing (which would give the coin some popularity, and reduce block rewards by .5), or switch the POS and work on the multipool..

Or take a combination of them both...  since the multipool will take a while to configure.

Start with an X11 / .5 Fork - advertise it, then say in 30 days we are switching to pure POS, and a multipool will launch with it.

reduce block reward by 0.5 ?
The main problem with this coin right now is that it is nearly impossible to get a gpu by mining the coin (unless you have as much gpu as the store...). I think the block reward is already too small as the coin will be falling below the 10sat... (increase by ten the reward would be a best move).
Although, I think the idea was good. It shows clearly one thing: cryptocurrencies are not yet ready for supporting a business model.
(or it should have been planed with a retail value of 1sat all along, in which case it could work a bit better)

Changing the algo would be good too... My cards don't like at all scrypt-n (runs too hot, easy driver crash...) take something like fugue, heavycoin or groestl Nvidia people will be happy. 

[kahir]

You know, I just thought of a great idea to get this coin rolling, all the people that read, follow, and support this coin, but rarely or have never posted here, please post and introduce yourselves! We all would love to meet you and hear any comments that you may have. Also, I personally have had 4 280x's pointed exclusively at GPUC since launch, and yeah, i'm talking I solved like 5 blocks at oakpool when the reward was still 1 coin. But, the troubles we have had are just not helping buy pressure at all. I'm considering pointing two of my cards at litecoin, dogecoin, vertcoin or some such other high volume coin that I can mine and dump and move the BTC over to put buy pressure up on gpucoin, not even necessarily buying it outright, just putting up the highest bid, and letting the dumpers sell to me. I'll probably get more coin, and boost the price. The only hesitation I have is that the network hash is so low right now. But, I'm thinking that if we watch it carefully, in a couple days we could boost the price and volume all by ourselves, even on our small exchanges,without any help, and that will bring back a few miners when the price goes up some, etc. What y'all think?

waltsmith

You know one idea is.. maybe we can switch over to POS, and then setup a reverse-multipool like BC..

Micryon - You could flip to X11 hashing (which would give the coin some popularity, and reduce block rewards by .5), or switch the POS and work on the multipool..

Or take a combination of them both...  since the multipool will take a while to configure.

Start with an X11 / .5 Fork - advertise it, then say in 30 days we are switching to pure POS, and a multipool will launch with it.

reduce block reward by 0.5 ?
The main problem with this coin right now is that it is nearly impossible to get a gpu by mining the coin (unless you have as much gpu as the store...). I think the block reward is already too small as the coin will be falling below the 10sat... (increase by ten the reward would be a best move).
Although, I think the idea was good. It shows clearly one thing: cryptocurrencies are not yet ready for supporting a business model.
(or it should have been planed with a retail value of 1sat all along, in which case it could work a bit better)

Changing the algo would be good too... My cards don't like at all scrypt-n (runs too hot, easy driver crash...) take something like fugue, heavycoin or groestl Nvidia people will be happy. 

+1 for that ....


if u guys can add another algo like Myr COIN they got many algo for mining .

since i hate N-scyrpt algo and so do my cards ... i don't mine anything that is N-adabtive

QUBIT algo or groestl or heavy .. run way cooler and stable

[tavirosu]

Changing the algo would be good too... My cards don't like at all scrypt-n (runs too hot, easy driver crash...) take something like fugue, heavycoin or groestl Nvidia people will be happy.  

No it won't. With scrypt asics comming into the market, only coins like this can be safe to mine with people with GPU's. Only real issue with the coin right now is it's marketing, or lack of it. That and with the low trading that's trigger by the whole btc market right now, means the coin is dirt cheap.

[kahir]

Changing the algo would be good too... My cards don't like at all scrypt-n (runs too hot, easy driver crash...) take something like fugue, heavycoin or groestl Nvidia people will be happy.  

No it won't. With scrypt asics comming into the market, only coins like this can be safe to mine with people with GPU's. Only real issue with the coin right now is it's marketing, or lack of it. That and with the low trading that's trigger by the whole btc market right now, means the coin is dirt cheap.

Read my post ....

Scrypt asic ... can only mine SCRYPT algo

[linna]

When can a good currency , ah, good market slump

[djm34]

Changing the algo would be good too... My cards don't like at all scrypt-n (runs too hot, easy driver crash...) take something like fugue, heavycoin or groestl Nvidia people will be happy. 

No it won't. With scrypt asics comming into the market, only coins like this can be safe to mine with people with GPU's. Only real issue with the coin right now is it's marketing, or lack of it. That and with the low trading that's trigger by the whole btc market right now, means the coin is dirt cheap.

fugue/heavy/X11/ are not scrypt coin but totally different algo and there is little chance they get implemented in asic (for a while) as only a bunch of coins use them (and the new btc is not among them... I might be wrong though... who knows...)

[vesperwillow]

..Wow. People already talking about changing and forking the coin in its infancy. Pathetic. Few of you understand how any of this works.

It's not the coin or the algo or the pantone color of the grey on the website, it's a matter of getting the business to be known and used. Like I said hundreds of pages back, this coin is nothing more than a transaction transport, it doesn't matter of the technical design as much as the flow of the product. If anything, ScryptN hurt more than it helped.

What you need to do, as some folks pointed out, is get the gaming community and perhaps the college community, involved. Let them know they can save a few bucks by using this system. You'll have GPU miners always since the hardware can adapt to any algo, but the volume of that target audience is going to go down dramatically this quarter, and short of something unique occuring, 2014 will see some new algos but no increase of GPU needs over supply.

Watching this project is like being at a most interesting zoo.

[kahir]

..Wow. People already talking about changing and forking the coin in its infancy. Pathetic. Few of you understand how any of this works.

It's not the coin or the algo or the pantone color of the grey on the website, it's a matter of getting the business to be known and used. Like I said hundreds of pages back, this coin is nothing more than a transaction transport, it doesn't matter of the technical design as much as the flow of the product. If anything, ScryptN hurt more than it helped.

What you need to do, as some folks pointed out, is get the gaming community and perhaps the college community, involved. Let them know they can save a few bucks by using this system. You'll have GPU miners always since the hardware can adapt to any algo, but the volume of that target audience is going to go down dramatically this quarter, and short of something unique occuring, 2014 will see some new algos but no increase of GPU needs over supply.

Watching this project is like being at a most interesting zoo.

gaming community and perhaps the college community ....

how would someone get Gpuc .. without knowing about crypto in general .....

[minergr]

..Wow. People already talking about changing and forking the coin in its infancy. Pathetic. Few of you understand how any of this works.

It's not the coin or the algo or the pantone color of the grey on the website, it's a matter of getting the business to be known and used. Like I said hundreds of pages back, this coin is nothing more than a transaction transport, it doesn't matter of the technical design as much as the flow of the product. If anything, ScryptN hurt more than it helped.

What you need to do, as some folks pointed out, is get the gaming community and perhaps the college community, involved. Let them know they can save a few bucks by using this system. You'll have GPU miners always since the hardware can adapt to any algo, but the volume of that target audience is going to go down dramatically this quarter, and short of something unique occuring, 2014 will see some new algos but no increase of GPU needs over supply.

Watching this project is like being at a most interesting zoo.

Exactly. There's no need for a fork, it's too early for that. The marketing on this coin is pretty much non existent at the moment.

[djm34]

..Wow. People already talking about changing and forking the coin in its infancy. Pathetic. Few of you understand how any of this works.

It's not the coin or the algo or the pantone color of the grey on the website, it's a matter of getting the business to be known and used. Like I said hundreds of pages back, this coin is nothing more than a transaction transport, it doesn't matter of the technical design as much as the flow of the product. If anything, ScryptN hurt more than it helped.

What you need to do, as some folks pointed out, is get the gaming community and perhaps the college community, involved. Let them know they can save a few bucks by using this system. You'll have GPU miners always since the hardware can adapt to any algo, but the volume of that target audience is going to go down dramatically this quarter, and short of something unique occuring, 2014 will see some new algos but no increase of GPU needs over supply.

Watching this project is like being at a most interesting zoo.

Exactly. There's no need for a fork, it's too early for that. The marketing on this coin is pretty much non existent at the moment.

+1
Usually any coin introduced to poloniex gets pump for a couple of hours (even totally unknown coin: cf Bones), gpuc only met indifference yesterday...

[hendr1x]

Hello Everyone,
Thank you for all the thoughts / suggestions.  I assure you that I am reading them and will make sure the CEO hears them.

I just finished up some upgrades to the market place
   - Dynamically calculated pricing (USD->GPUC every 15 minutes)
   - Instant Approval System (sellers can now be authorized to post items instantly)
   - Improved messaging systems (emails go out now + more buttons to message members)

http://gpucoinmarket.com

In regards to marketing, I am with you 100%.  I have been focusing on the web side of things and plan on devoting more effort to that side now that things are up and running.  If you have any interest in helping please PM me.