I can test windows and linux. Don't have a mac to test with

Ok, building linux for testing.

I am posting the mac miner first, for testing purposes only.   Anything mined with it will be kept by me until I confirm things are working. 

If this works, then I will release linux and windows miners, reset the database and then we will be good to go.

https://the-iland.net/static/downloads/mac_coyote_miner.0.1.0.tar.gz
DONATION ADDRESS: PvPAR8vfmkti91wwtacEjgZ1XMLuQ94GKK
SHA1: 48d092fd412b0f263bd84b4caa76b5cb9f1d3cfc
IA5UwsGVsa28Cy9JrWnrOum4BN/60M//o1u0d3W8/q05cRcRCpA2qrA4xT1ag7rZSceeDHKT1SvurstGPus5WZE=

Note... use the existing /opt folder from the prior downloads.



This is a test release ONLY... any mining will be kept by me until windows and linux binaries are released.

./coyote_miner 162.243.67.4  PTSADDR  [THREADS=HARDWARE]

Lets hash this out..

By the way, I am not going to release the final binaries until I have at least 5 volunteer testers...

Hi bytemaster,

I have posted a patch at http://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=408.15 sometime earlier today, and my patched clients has been running fine for a few hours instead of consistently crashing. May I claim this bounty?

My BTC address: 12FtgmhWyu64x9kCC8GzGG5DCgQ4ps2PgE

Thanks,
Victor

Your patch seems to be working, I will pay your bounty here in a bit.  Thank you.

Please double check my math on the PPS amount.
MAX_HASH = 0xfffffff....
SHARE_TARGET  0x00fffff.................
BLOCK_TARGET  0x0000204aa5000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

SHARE_DIFFICULTY = MAX_HASH / SHARE_TARGET
BLOCK_DIFFICULTY = MAX_HASH / BLOCK_TARGET

RATIO = SHARE_DIFFICULTY / BLOCK_DIFFICULTY

PPS = RATIO * REWARD

PPS = 0.00120266

or..................

SHARE_TARGET / BLOCK_TARGET  * REWARD = 0.00120736

I am going to go with the last one unless someone can show me my math is wrong?

 

Is everything fixed now?

Yes, things are fixed and I am configuring the pool now.  New pool requires new miners because of fixes.  Good news is that new miners should be slightly faster... earlier claims of 30% were slightly higher than reality because the sample size of my test was too small... but it should be better than before.

Other changes: 
1) Increasing the Share Size... they will now be 0x00 instead of 0x03 so it will take about 4x longer to find each share, but they pay more.  The result is lower bandwidth and processing time for server and fewer stales.
2) Rather than storing your balance, I now store total earned and total paid and your balance is the difference between these two.
3) Added ability to specify thread count. 

A few other minor things, but will post executable download links with signatures soon

Is it possible to get the Protshares-QT OSX Client connected to a "working" peer at the moment?

I just keep getting "connection timeout" on each connect in my debug.log

Because of the linux client crash, all of our seed nodes are down  

Good news is that I have a fix and am deploying it now.

ok, so i'm guessing issue addressed?
how are the adjustments to retarget working out?

The linux crash has not yet been fully resolved, we have some patches in the works.  The mining pool will be using protoshares-qt which does not seem to crash.  Why the difference?  NO CLUE!

New pool is incompatible with prior miners because of protocol updates.

Still waiting on word from FreeTrade on his progress with the checkpoint update.   Could someone integrate the version number patch presented above as a pull request for me?  Thanks.