Mining solo on 0.9.6 experience

Lordas

So, I have tested solo mining with 0.9.6 wallet.

My conf file:

server=1
rpcuser=user
rpcpassword=pass
rpcallowip=192.168.*.*
rpcport=9337
port=9336
daemon=1
listen=1
gen=0
testnet=0
maxconnections=100

Starting:

feathercoin-qt.exe -server

Starting ccminer:

C:\ccminer>ccminer-75.exe -a neoscrypt -o 192.168.1.73:9337 -u user -p pass

ccminer output:

Compiled with Visual C++ 18 using Nvidia CUDA Toolkit 7.5

  Based on pooler cpuminer 2.3.2 and the tpruvot@github fork
  CUDA support by Christian Buchner, Christian H. and DJM34
  Includes optimizations implemented by sp, klaust, tpruvot, tsiv and pallas.

[2017-02-06 09:27:44] NVAPI GPU monitoring enabled.
[2017-02-06 09:27:44] 1 miner thread started, using 'neoscrypt' algorithm.
[2017-02-06 09:27:44] JSON inval data
[2017-02-06 09:27:44] json_rpc_call failed, retry after 30 seconds
<...>and so on, so on

Starting nsgminer

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
nsgminer --neoscrypt -g 1 -w 128 -I 18 --url 192.168.1.73:9337 -u user -p pass

nsgminer output

 nsgminer v0.9.0 - NeoScrypt : [2017-02-06 09:50:19] - [  0 days 00:02:25]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 5s:192.9 avg:193.2 u:  0.0 KH/s | A:0 R:0 S:0 HW:0 WU:0.00/m
 ST: 3  DW: 2  GW: 9  LW: 0  GF: 0  NB: 2  AS: 0  RF: 0  E: 0.00
 Connected to 192.168.1.73 diff 28.4K without LP as user
 Block: ...BF9B6D424E638FFA  Diff:1.15E  Started: [09:52:20]  Best share: 0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 OCL 0:  66.0C 1115RPM | 193.1 193.2   0.0KH/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 U:0.00/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[09:50:19] Probing for an alive pool
[09:50:19] The network difficulty has been set to 1152921504606846975
[09:50:19] No suitable long-poll found for http://192.168.1.73:9337
[09:52:20] Invalid (out of bounds) block target 0x3C78241C
[09:52:20] New block detected on network
and so on with out of bounds

Minerd seems working

C:\Tools\Neo>minerd.exe --threads 4 --url 192.168.1.73:9337 --userpass user:pass
NeoScrypt CPUminer v2.4.3
Engines: INT SSE2 SSE2-4way (enabled: SSE2-4way)
[2017-02-06 13:45:48] Binding thread 0 to cpu 0
[2017-02-06 13:45:48] Binding thread 2 to cpu 2
[2017-02-06 13:45:48] Binding thread 1 to cpu 1
[2017-02-06 13:45:48] 4 miner threads started, using 'neoscrypt' algorithm.
[2017-02-06 13:45:48] Binding thread 3 to cpu 3
[2017-02-06 13:45:48] No payout address provided, switching to getwork

So only with CPU possible, tested both W32 and x64 versions… :/

AcidD

This has been reported to Ghostlander, the nsgminer developer.

AmDD

Anything further on this? Ive posted a number of times over the last few years about issues solo mining.

Can anyone confirm if solo mining is possible or not? Im talking specifically about mining via a GPU with something like NSGMiner - not CPU mining via the wallet application itself.

It was always my assumption that since FTC is a fork of LTC/BTC, when getwork was removed from LTC/BTC is was also removed from FTC.

https://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/8366/feathercoin-fork/78

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1844712.0

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=712650.msg17756545;topicseen#msg17756545

Im personally still unable to solo mine, if anyone can Id appreciate knowing how.

thanks

wrapper

I’ll message @Ghostlander again and see if he’s got any advice. CPU mining hasn’t been in the wallet since before 0.8.x series.

ghostlander

Use a newer NSGminer. Both GPU miners report invalid Getwork data. I think this part is broken in v0.9.6. Try GetBlockTemplate instead.

wrapper

Cheers for the update @Ghostlander , do we need to raise an issue with 0.9.6? Or is the Getblock template a work around?

ghostlander

@wrapper It should be fixed.

Lordas

Current FTC network difficulty: 35.614806

Wow wow!

Just after posting: Current FTC network difficulty: 36.842965
Then: Current FTC network difficulty: 39.405198

Wellenreiter

Well it came down pretty fast after the 39.xxx value

it seems we got a lot of mining power thrown on the bc for an hour or a bit longer.

It’s back to the normal diff of ~4 - ~14 now

wrapper

@Lordas I’ve done a Difficulty and Block time analysis for 26/4/2017.

http://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/8851/feathercoin-difficulty-block-time-analysis-26-4-2017

Lordas

In last hour difficulty was and 36,9 and 3,9 :)

Lordas

Don’t want to create new topic :)
Yesterday sold many of mine FTC at good prices to buy new video card - must prepare for halving… and…
Video cards what cost €250 in March, now cost ~€483…(RX480) and supply is “only orders”… almost same with GTX 1060, 1070… Only expensive 1080 you can buy any. Wow. I remember this 2-3 years (?) before with 7950, 7970.

FlatBlack

@Lordas those were d ‘days’… :confused: :head_bandage:
.
GPU Units Depleted
.
GPU Supplies Shortage
.
Hope, dis will be happening sooner… :hugging: :hugging: :hugging:
but dunno how will d price be… :frowning2: :disappointed_relieved:
Preparing Stripped Down Crypto Mining GPUs

Lordas

Hmmm maybe I should sell my GPU farmie at double prices… who knows maybe this crypto bubble will blow tomorrow…

wrapper

Hope GPU shortage not true, but possible consequences …

The gpu needs to be efficient for mining ie maybe the price increase will encourage an fpga or ASIC solution?

Also FTC managed to move from one algorythm to another.
One new encryption algorythm is based on disk space, could be combined with neoscrypt to process blocks.

This means a miner would be more (energy) efficient and need disk space, i.e. more distributed, under the same principle open hardware better than proprietary Asics…

Or other similar possibilities. Obviously that is a massive amount of work / degree student project, so won’t happen soon.

FlatBlack

@wrapper said in Mining solo on 0.9.6 experience:

One new encryption algorythm is based on disk space, could be combined with neoscrypt to process blocks.

wit dis sentence…means it related to ‘Proof-of-Space’ algo thing…?
:bow_tone1: soori for askin dis, Mr @wrapper

AcidD

@FlatBlack said in Mining solo on 0.9.6 experience:

@wrapper said in Mining solo on 0.9.6 experience:

One new encryption algorythm is based on disk space, could be combined with neoscrypt to process blocks.

wit dis sentence…means it related to ‘Proof-of-Space’ algo thing…?
:bow_tone1: soori for askin dis, Mr @wrapper

Similar to what storij did.

FlatBlack

@aciddude or Sia…
:bow_tone1:
.
long story…short,
FTC will be a 'hybrid = PoW (neoscrypt) + PoS (Proof-of-Space) then…?

wrapper

Changing the algo isn’t neccesary currently, we were talking about the possible effects and responses to an increase in the cost of buying and running graphics processors.

FlatBlack

@wrapper Noted…!!! :bow_tone1: