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[Pyuu]

Xerxes, on 03 June 2015 - 10:52 PM, said:

What the hell is on ceriat.net's homepage? xD

Swaggalicious

[3d6]

luker2009, on 03 June 2015 - 09:08 PM, said:

Krist is back!

Hooray!

I've traced the problem back to a power outage in my area. Not much I would be able to do about that unfortunately

Xerxes, on 03 June 2015 - 10:52 PM, said:

What the hell is on ceriat.net's homepage? xD

That's my school project. I gotta make good impressions, only four days left of high school

[biggest yikes]

ceriat.net said:

and please no questions about the snoop thing that was here earlier

too late, we're all wondering

[Pyuu]

Possible bug with Yevano's Miner - (Nope, actually not.)
Ok, so I sat, and stared at the command prompt window to try to find out why I don't get rewarded.

Spoiler

Some technical stuffs:

Batch File Information:

Spoiler

java -jar YTCIKristMiner.jar kvlos9qtc7 8 variable
pause

My hypothesis:
For some reason, the Nonce isn't being properly calculated; or not submitting period.
From the Cmd window, basically, it said it solved, then waited, then someone else solved it:

Database Information:

Spoiler

Edit:
My other hypothesis:
Someone told me to setup miner with "variable" as one of the arguments, it would appear that when using the API when the nonce becomes a certain size it is no longer accepted.
So I'm testing right now to see how it will perform with a one character length nonce suffix.

^ Turns out this was right. You have to lower your nonce suffix length.

Edited by Mayushii, 05 June 2015 - 03:32 AM.

[Anavrins]

I've never got any issues with Yevano's, you probably got unlucky and solved it almost at the same time as someone else.

Edited by Anavrins, 05 June 2015 - 03:24 AM.

[Pyuu]

Anavrins, on 05 June 2015 - 03:24 AM, said:

I've never got any issues with Yevano's, you probably got unlucky and solved it almost at the same time as someone else.

I retested it with changing the "variable" argument, I lowered it to something like "A" and then it started working.
Maybe a string check would help some noobies out.

[クデル]

Not sure if its a coincidence but I got more blocks, even though my prefix was only five characters.

[InDieTasten]

Sandstorm, on 05 June 2015 - 03:46 AM, said:

Not sure if its a coincidence but I got more blocks, even though my prefix was only five characters.

Must be a coincidence, because your result hash at each trial will be different, even when you choose the same nonce, as the recipient krist address is involved in the output hash too. Thats why miners can just start from nonce 0 and go up in linear fashion, like everyone else. Even although you might mine at lower hashes/second, the lastblockhash + krist address + nonce might hit a result hash lower than the difficulty value as someone mining at a higher rate.

The nonce prefix is as the miner usage says for the case, that you are mining with multiple instances for the exact same krist address. Because these would all calculate the same line of hash output, so it makes sense to start their nonce at different positions, which is what the prefix essentially does.

This mechanic is essential for the mining system, as less powerful machines can still receive krist. Over time less than more powerful machines, but there will always be the chance, that you will solve the block first. Even at 1 hash/second, with a lot of "luck", you can potentially solve it in the first try, maybe even with an hash value of zero.

Edited by InDieTasten, 05 June 2015 - 04:46 AM.

[3d6]

To clarify - nonces may be no longer than six bytes

[Anavrins]

Aah, and Yevano's miner does not reset the nonce after a new block, so it makes sense that it stops working after a while now.

Edited by Anavrins, 05 June 2015 - 04:07 PM.

[Pyuu]

Anavrins, on 05 June 2015 - 03:50 PM, said:

Aah, and Yevano's miner does not reset the nonce after a new block, so it makes sense that it stops working after a while now.

Each new block resets the "Answer", and each new nonce value will return a Random Hash (unpredictable) in a sense that each combination may still be the correct answer. So even though the value doesn't "reset" (it might), it can still hit the answer just as easily as a lower nonce value.

[TheOddByte]

Can someone tell me how the batch file should look like?
Currently it looks like this

java -jar YTCIKristMiner.jar kuo9dky15y 8 variable
pause

and I don't have a clue what '8' and 'variable' stands for.

Edit: Nevermind, got it working.
Now I've got 3,5MH/s instead of 0,5MH/s, seems it worked much better when I installed Java 8.

Edited by TheOddByte, 06 June 2015 - 05:04 PM.

[PokeAcer]

TheOddByte, it's a JAVA8 miner...

[TheOddByte]

PokeAcer, on 06 June 2015 - 05:53 PM, said:

TheOddByte, it's a JAVA8 miner...

Oh.. I didn't know that, where would I have found that information?

[PokeAcer]

I had tried it myself on JRE7 (I have JRE7 and JRE8) and I got 'unsupported version xx xx'
Also, Yevano said he compiled it in Java 8

Maybe OP should say 'Yevano's Miner requires Java 8'

[TheOddByte]

PokeAcer, on 06 June 2015 - 06:11 PM, said:

...

Yeah, some more explanation in the first post would be good.

[Creator]

How do I use the .jar krist miner?

[PokeAcer]

Creator, on 06 June 2015 - 07:01 PM, said:

How do I use the .jar krist miner?

java -jar YCTIMiner.jar <krist address> 8 variable

You need Java8

[Creator]

8 variable?

[PokeAcer]

AFAIK it improves the speed. IDK, leave it out if u want
EDIT: Put less than ur CPU cores - put 2 IMO

Edited by PokeAcer, 06 June 2015 - 07:34 PM.