Solo mining primecoin with a laptop

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Hi all :slight_smile:
I am trying to solo mine primecoins with my laptop cpu intel core i5 with my wallet console. And when i type getmininginfo it says that primespersec : 875, which i dont if it is ok. Is it worth to keep doing this for any coin? I am using the cpu at 100% for 48 hours now and there is still nothing. Is there a micro chance to get something with this speed? And if i encounter something it will be like single block or just one coin or fraction of a coin? Thank you. Wish you luck!

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If you are solo mining you’re trying to “solve” complete blocks (this is true for any cryptocurrency I know).
If you want to continue solo mining primecoin you should probably use the high performance client: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=255782.0

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imo, you better stop solo mining, join pools. period.
unles you have alot of cpu ;D

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Based on your stats in your first post the time to find a block mining solo is 34.74 days and your monthly turnout 8.72 XPM.

Go pool mining. Join IRC to talk about mining and probabilities. :slight_smile:

BTW my i7 Laptop does 1600 primes/s, so your stats look good.

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I had a go at mining solo on my laptop, managed to get 1 block in the first day but it orphaned, and didn’t get any since. Quickly moved onto pools and now I’m actually making a bit. If you can get that many primes/s, you’d be almost guaranteed to get something in a pool

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When solo mining, is it normal to see “Pool 0 not providing work fast enough”? I have only ever pool mined before so I can’t tell if I’m doing this wrong. I’ve been running this for 12-18 hours now and not a single block found. Somebody over at btctalk claimed they were getting 2-3 blocks per day solo mining at 180GH, I’m beginning to think he was just trolling.

screenshot…

This is my .conf

listen=1 upnp=1 server=1 rpcuser=name rpcpassword=pass rpcallowip=127.0.0.1 rpcallowip=192.168.1.* rpcport=9902 gen=0 reservebalance=10000

Should I have daemon=1 included? Not sure what that does. And until I solve a block, I’m not sure if having a reservebalance is wise or not. I don’t want to wait for 500 blocks to be able to use my coins…as I understand the proof of stake thing?

Clearly a noob here. Any help is appreciated.

edit: bah, discovered I’m in the xpm section, not the ppc section.

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@jxl

I think you want to be mining PeerCoin and Not PrimeCoin with that KNC miner http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php

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Hi,

does anybody know how long it may take to find a block with this?

{
“blocks” : 258705,
“chainspermin” : 7,
“chainsperday” : 0.40343851,
“currentblocksize” : 1588,
“currentblocktx” : 2,
“difficulty” : 9.97662932,
“errors” : “”,
“generate” : true,
“genproclimit” : 2,
“primespersec” : 914,
“pooledtx” : 5,
“sieveextensions” : 9,
“sievepercentage” : 7,
“sievesize” : 1000000,
“testnet” : false
}

thx

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posted on another thread, go to http://anty.info/primecoin-calculator to check :slight_smile:

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this doesnt seem real. I should gain 40 dollars per day according to this calculator…

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According to the calculator: your “chainsperday” is 0.40343851, you will find a block every 110.99 days which is about .07 USD.

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What is the beat way to mine more coins? More pc’s? Asic chips??

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Also what is the difference between primecoin and peer coin?

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Currently no ASIC’s (publicly) exist for primecoin. Its not as simple as BTC. BTC is just 2 SHA256 functions on a specific string
More PC’s = more chains a day. Not even a fully working GPU miner exists.

Primecoin uses prime number chains as proof of work

Im getting ~2.7 chains perday from my i7-3770 (non-k version not overclocked, standard Air Cooled)
I think stick to pooled mining.

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[quote=“Proccc32, post:8, topic:519”]Hi,

does anybody know how long it may take to find a block with this?

{
“blocks” : 258705,
“chainspermin” : 7,
“chainsperday” : 0.40343851,
“currentblocksize” : 1588,
“currentblocktx” : 2,
“difficulty” : 9.97662932,
“errors” : “”,
“generate” : true,
“genproclimit” : 2,
“primespersec” : 914,
“pooledtx” : 5,
“sieveextensions” : 9,
“sievepercentage” : 7,
“sievesize” : 1000000,
“testnet” : false
}
thx[/quote]

WHERE CAN I FIND THIS S INFO??? CHAINS PER DAY??? I’m using i5 3230m 2.6 GHz windows 8

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hi guys!
I have a problem and I know it’s not about here.
but i cant open a new subject.

I forgot my primecoin wallet password,can i Restore it or maybe to talk with some 1 who can help me in this case?
:-\

btw sorry for my english

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never mind I found it. sadly disappointing rate for me and I am pool mining(0.027 chains a day) have a acer core i5 3230m 2.6nghz turbo boost up to 3.2ghz