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[Creator]

apemanzilla, on 04 January 2016 - 07:55 PM, said:

Tripy998, on 04 January 2016 - 04:17 PM, said:

apemanzilla, on 04 January 2016 - 03:24 AM, said:

Tripy998, on 04 January 2016 - 03:18 AM, said:

apemanzilla, on 04 January 2016 - 02:29 AM, said:

Tripy998, on 04 January 2016 - 01:51 AM, said:

Speaking of which, how long does it actually take to make Krist, and what is the thread count argument for in the miner.......?

It depends on your computer. Faster computer = more Krist pretty much.

The thread argument is how many threads to run. Each thread can only use one core of your CPU, so if you have a quad core CPU you want to use 4 threads. I have a six core CPU so I use six threads.

You can dig through the source code for KWallet here, but KSTealer (the brute-force program I wrote) is closed source.

I'm only interested in the wallet code so I can work on my own. Possibly an online one.

Also, brute force is hard to due on your parents computer. Ended up just giving up. XD
Also, I max out at around 0.0491MH.

Don't think I'll get anything anytime soon.....

Hmm, yeah... I max out at around 20 MH/s on my CPU, and I'm writing a GPU miner now...

I have a basic Java Krist API I've been working on as well here if you're interested.

Yeah, thanks. But then again, I'm using a laptop. Getting a desktop later with one of those miner usbs as well to do the mining.

If you mean a Bitcoin ASIC then you won't be able to use it with Krist. Right now you can only use a couple CPU miners people have written. Bitcoin miners won't work for Krist.

Why don't they work?

[Tiin57]

Creator, on 04 January 2016 - 08:37 PM, said:

apemanzilla, on 04 January 2016 - 07:55 PM, said:

Tripy998, on 04 January 2016 - 04:17 PM, said:

Yeah, thanks. But then again, I'm using a laptop. Getting a desktop later with one of those miner usbs as well to do the mining.

If you mean a Bitcoin ASIC then you won't be able to use it with Krist. Right now you can only use a couple CPU miners people have written. Bitcoin miners won't work for Krist.

Why don't they work?

Because... Bitcoin is not Krist. At all. The differences are vast, and though the concepts are somewhat similar, the goals of the two currencies are completely separate, and what works for one will definitely not work for the other. See https://en.wikipedia.../Bitcoin#Mining for more info on the purpose of Bitcoin miners.

[apemanzilla]

Creator, on 04 January 2016 - 08:37 PM, said:

Why don't they work?

Tiin57, on 04 January 2016 - 08:54 PM, said:

Because... Bitcoin is not Krist. At all. The differences are vast, and though the concepts are somewhat similar, the goals of the two currencies are completely separate, and what works for one will definitely not work for the other. See https://en.wikipedia.../Bitcoin#Mining for more info on the purpose of Bitcoin miners.

What this guy said. Also, at the most basic level, Bitcoin mining uses sha256(sha256(input)) while Krist uses sha256(input). And since bitcoin ASICs are extremely optimized devices created for one singular purpose, mining bitcoins, they don't just give you a sha256 function to call...

[3d6]

I could have easily added support for bitcoin ASICs. If I had, two or three people would already have 99% of the money supply, I guarantee it.

[Creator]

3d6, on 04 January 2016 - 10:12 PM, said:

I could have easily added support for bitcoin ASICs. If I had, two or three people would already have 99% of the money supply, I guarantee it.

Yeah, better don't add.It all boils down to the fact that some people have spent money on buying a miner, while others can't afford to since krist does not bring real money, unlike bitcoin.

[クデル]

Creator, on 04 January 2016 - 10:19 PM, said:

3d6, on 04 January 2016 - 10:12 PM, said:

I could have easily added support for bitcoin ASICs. If I had, two or three people would already have 99% of the money supply, I guarantee it.

Yeah, better don't add.It all boils down to the fact that some people have spent money on buying a miner, while others can't afford to since krist does not bring real money, unlike bitcoin.

They aren't to expensive? I was able to purchase a 1GH/s Block Eruptor for $10 USD.

[Lupus590]

People who can't have a dedicated miner PC but have a Linux (or other *nix) box may find this nice (see what I did there?)

Put your miner at a lowish priority and leave your pc on when you can, every other process will interrupt your miner but any time they have to wait for hardware (quite often for most programs) your miner will sneak a few goes on the CPU. Then your main process gets their hardware response and everything continues as normal. Just make sure to have good cooling, your CPU will (likely) be running more then it is now.

[apemanzilla]

Lupus, it's not quite that simple. It's not that other processes will interrupt it, instead other processes will take priority and be given more CPU time than the miner. So it will work, however, you will still experience slowdowns. Additionally, your CPU will be essentially locked at max load, and will be drawing a lot of power and generating a lot of heat.

A much better system would be one where a miner is constantly running as a daemon, but not actually mining except when the system is idle - eg, no user input for 5 minutes.

[apemanzilla]

Early testing of my OpenCL miner is going well. I'm getting 3+ MH/s on the integrated graphics of a crappy 1.6 GHz Intel Atom.

Edit: And we have reports of over 150 MH/s on a GTX 760 Ti

Edited by apemanzilla, 08 January 2016 - 06:13 PM.

[apemanzilla]

Woo! Behold the first block ever solved by my OpenCL miner!

[3d6]

Difficulty now adjusts automatically! This will be important once the transition to GPU mining begins.

[Anavrins]

Welp, sucks that my GPU gave up this summer, I guess mining is done for me

[クデル]

3d6, on 09 January 2016 - 05:09 AM, said:

Difficulty now adjusts automatically! This will be important once the transition to GPU mining begins.

It has and the database cant keep up, woohoo

[Tripy998]

3d6, on 09 January 2016 - 05:09 AM, said:

Difficulty now adjusts automatically! This will be important once the transition to GPU mining begins.

I'm still not even making one Krist XD
By the way, have you considered adding a economical value to krist?

[Creator]

Tripy998, on 11 January 2016 - 09:53 PM, said:

3d6, on 09 January 2016 - 05:09 AM, said:

Difficulty now adjusts automatically! This will be important once the transition to GPU mining begins.

I'm still not even making one Krist XD
By the way, have you considered adding a economical value to krist?

Yeah, one krist sells for 10^10^10 euros!

Actually, shouldn't it adjust itself based on demand?

[apemanzilla]

Creator, on 11 January 2016 - 10:22 PM, said:

Tripy998, on 11 January 2016 - 09:53 PM, said:

3d6, on 09 January 2016 - 05:09 AM, said:

Difficulty now adjusts automatically! This will be important once the transition to GPU mining begins.

I'm still not even making one Krist XD
By the way, have you considered adding a economical value to krist?

Yeah, one krist sells for 10^10^10 euros!

Actually, shouldn't it adjust itself based on demand?

There is no demand however.

[bigbrainiac10]

apemanzilla, on 12 January 2016 - 04:20 AM, said:

Creator, on 11 January 2016 - 10:22 PM, said:

Tripy998, on 11 January 2016 - 09:53 PM, said:

3d6, on 09 January 2016 - 05:09 AM, said:

Difficulty now adjusts automatically! This will be important once the transition to GPU mining begins.

I'm still not even making one Krist XD
By the way, have you considered adding a economical value to krist?

Yeah, one krist sells for 10^10^10 euros!

Actually, shouldn't it adjust itself based on demand?

There is no demand however.

I would genuinely use the Krist I mine on servers and trade items for Krist. However, it seems that there aren't many people who accept Krist as payment...

For now I suppose I'll just horde until I come up with a use for it.

[Creator]

Also, the fact that someone owns the database means he can change it at his will. Not a good idea.

[ry00000]

Does someone have a miner for a Raspberry Pi?
I have an old Model B laying around and would like it to mine some Krist. Preferrably python, I don't wanna go through the troule of installing Java.

[apemanzilla]

ry00000, on 12 January 2016 - 01:40 PM, said:

Does someone have a miner for a Raspberry Pi?
I have an old Model B laying around and would like it to mine some Krist. Preferrably python, I don't wanna go through the troule of installing Java.

I tried it on a B+ a while ago and got less than 30 KH/s. You're not going to earn any Krist at all with it - especially since GPU miners are now getting several hundred million hashes per second.

Edited by apemanzilla, 12 January 2016 - 06:20 PM.