Namecoin Forum

sacarlson: I don't know your configuration, but are you aware of the fact, that you are mining on all blockchains with the difficulty of the parent chain, even if the AUX chain has a lower difficulty? This is because your getworks are for the parent chain and only possible solutions (which might fi...

... Problems with this "header" approach: 1) It takes up extra space in the coinbase -- we only have 100 bytes, each merkle takes up 33; that gives us room for 3 aux chains at most . Adding 4 more bytes for a header kills any hope of ever doing 3 aux chains. (in fact, it would be nice if the space ...

getdifficulty reports 0.24236496 for me, which I think is roughly consistent with the mining rate I've been getting (about 3-4 blocks per hour at 700-800 khps, and there doesn't seem to be anyone else mining on namecoin testnet). That sounds about right: ;;bc,calcd 800 0.24236496 (01:42:03 PM) grib...

... My concern is that the merged mining proxy is going to throttle all the advantage that psj has gained. I haven't tried it out but from what I can see from the source it's not designed for highly concurrent throughput... The proxy is written using the python twisted library which does non-blocki...

I wanted to examine latest changes in bitcoind (parent) that enables aux tx. Is that the right way to get the latest code? git clone https://github.com/vinced/namecoin.git cd namecoin git checkout mergedmine I see some radically different versions of merged-mine-proxy under various tags, which one ...

Why is it so hard to simply disallow a master-chain block from "vouching for" more than one block in each aux chain? :/ Mhmm, If I understand it correctly this might be undesirable because it might be (and is common) that you solve several AUX chain blocks and have one master-block vouching for the...

... Problems with this "header" approach: 1) It takes up extra space in the coinbase -- we only have 100 bytes, each merkle takes up 33; that gives us room for 3 aux chains at most . Adding 4 more bytes for a header kills any hope of ever doing 3 aux chains. (in fact, it would be nice if the space ...

Version nc0.3.24.55-rc5 is now up. This time with the relevant tag.

See https://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php ... 1597#p1597 for the motivation behind this change.

There was some discussion about this fix on #bitcoin-dev between luke-jr (Eligius pool owner) and forrestv (p2pool developer). There seem to be coinbase conflicts with these other developers: ... I asked luke-jr if he could come on here and explain but he wasn't interested. Version nc0.3.24.55-rc5 ...

... 2) Unless I'm misunderstanding something, if the proposed merged mining proposal happens, that's going to make namecoins much more plentiful after that happens, which is most likely going to depress their value further. That's going to make miners want to sell off before that happens, which is ...