Quote from: Lighthouse on November 08, 2013, 02:38:42 pm

I'd be interested in your mining stats Bytemaster, how transparent are you ?

He'll have "a lot" -- but not like Satoshi a lot. I cpu mined bitcoin in july 2010 on my then year old macbook pro...remember, this was about a year and a half after the Bitcoin genesis block, and I could mine like I did Protoshares on Tuesday:


I haven't made a Protoshares block since Wednesday.  I'm sure it was easier on Monday (I'm a doctor and I was post-call monday and too tired to futz with my computer).  So even though Satoshi didn't pre-mine, he did mine with a larger fraction of the network hash rate a lot longer than Dan (I realize the PTS/BTC time scales, production rate, etc are different, but, I doubt 1.5 BTC equivalent years got crammed into 3 PTS days). 

At any rate, my bigger fear is that he didn't mine enough. A very important aspect of this endeavor is to pay for this really smart dude to make something really really revolutionary; Bitcoin as an invention didn't fit into a category until Dan came up with Bitshares.  We don't think poorly of Satoshi's for his early earnings because he contributed the first element to the set of decentralized cryptoassets; in the same way, we shouldn't feel bad even if Dan did have "a lot" of protoshares -- he invented the set that contains cryptocurrencies and more.  We're at the start of something really big....and I'm rooting for Dan.

Just wait till the selfish miner discovers protoshares...maybe he's got a chain 100,000 long that he started 2 months ago ready to wipe us all out!

P.S. -- I think I'm off by a day in the above...this week has been a blur...

Very well said.  I remember those days as well.  I am still rummaging through old hard drives to find my old Bitcoin wallet.  I may have a fortune in there, or nothing at all. Hah.  I too am a supporter of Dan's ventures, he has some very big projections and goals.  And I for one have shaped my life around making goals that to many friends seemed unattainable.  Yet where there is a will there is a way.

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this is great, thanks! seems to work well.

hashrate counter is buggy in the old commit, it's now fixed on github
backend got stuck (check the height value on the webpage), that's fixed too now

- xolokram

that's great, i see my miners are running again.  thanks. as for payout, is this still be developed?
again, thank you for the work.

i just checked my logs on the pool, you should definitely switch to the new miner, the old one (incl. the original pts client) ist just bad regarding rejection rates (stale blocks)
looks like there were no issues (except for a restart on the web frontend sometime last night)



btw if a payout states "reward = 0" (e.g. here), that specific block is an orphan unfortunately --- just fyi before someone asks
everyone who is/was mining on my old xpm pool should be aware of the gorgeous payout-info pages

- xolokram

perfect, thanks xolokram

BTW looks like I am using v.2 so should be good, yes?

Quote from: rando on November 09, 2013, 03:22:20 am

The linux version seems to work well, 93%-100% valid. But the hashpermin is low, it started ~8-9hpm, has gone as low as 1.5hpm, and is now hovering consistently around 3.5-3.8 hpm. Linux 64bit, 8CPU, 16GB, 799% CPU, 34% MEM; 8 processes. 

Is that hashpermin about right? I was expecting ~20.

No the hashes/min output is bugged.

Quote from: smith88 on November 09, 2013, 07:49:42 am

Quote from: feeleep on November 09, 2013, 07:47:06 am

Just checked and for me it seems that there is less rejects but hashrate is much lower than the other client (does it just hide rejected shares?) - overall the same

i was wondering that too about the rejects possibly hiding, but i think it's something he's done on his pool.

my stats:

VL: 2687 (99.4%), RJ: 15 (0.6%), ST: 0 (0.0%)

there is no much space to hide rejects. i made a lot PTS tonight on beeeeer pool, it's working so much better than pts pool.

i definitely agree. 

beeeeer.org has been out there for awhile in the crypto scene.  seems very reliable imo.
i'm adding my nodes now.  cheers! def see a much better quality pool, rejects level is almost non-existance.  must be something in the verification on the pool side...?  awesome. thanks.  again kuddos. mm, late night tea.

1) Install ProtoShares
2) Run PS for the first time and let it download the blockchain (otherwise you're going to have a ton of wasted electricity) - waiting for all the other block chains to download
3) Create new directories up to the amount of instances you want to run on the server.  Rule of thumb is 1 instance per core and 2GB ram (create a swap file if you don;t have enough ram)
cp .protoshares PS/1
cp .protoshares PS/2
... N

Put the following protoshares.conf in each of the directories (making changes to the port and genlimit as necessary)
addnode=162.243.67.4
addnode=162.243.54.126
addnode=37.139.29.236
addnode=64.90.183.137
addnode=180.183.205.118
addnode=162.243.61.72
addnode=64.90.183.137
genproclimit=x
gen=1
port=833x
rpcport=843x

Replace the X with the instance number, and genproclimit with 1-3

4) Create a startPS.sh file with the following inside:
#!/bin/sh
/root/ProtoShares/src/bitcoind -daemon
sleep 360
/root/ProtoShares/src/bitcoind -datadir=/root/PS/1 -daemon
sleep 360
/root/ProtoShares/src/bitcoind -datadir=/root/PS/1 -daemon
...
Up to your server load

5) chmod +x startPS.sh
6) Profit

Why the sleep in there. I found that trying to start all the instances at once doesn't allow the instances enough time to start hashing. Running it without the sleep takes about 45 minutes before hashing starts, running it with the sleep starts the hashing after about 6 minutes for the first instance, 12 for 1+2, and another hash every minute after that.

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Wonderful, thank you.

Hard to mine without pool now.

How many hash were you running?  I agree, haven't seen anything yet.