28 days without generation, i have 4200khash/s

9 messages BitcoinTalk kosovito, Satoshi Nakamoto, sgtstein, lachesis August 18, 2010 — August 25, 2010
kosovito August 18, 2010 Source · Permalink

Hi. I know difficulty is high, but is normal having a machine with 4200khas/second

In the past, i generated a bunch.

kosovito August 18, 2010 Source · Permalink

Im not firewalled, also, i reinstalled many times bitcoin, every versi�n, i updated too. Also im in 75043 block

The worst thing about bitcoin (at least for me) is the fact you CANT test if all is fine, if youre generating coins without problems.

sgtstein August 18, 2010 Source · Permalink

Quote from: kosovito on August 18, 2010, 10:55:11 PM

The worst thing about bitcoin (at least for me) is the fact you CANT test if all is fine, if youre generating coins without problems.

This is actively being worked on. Not sure on timeline, but it is in the works to be sent out either with the program or as a standalone program.

lachesis August 19, 2010 Source · Permalink

Yeah, I’m having similar results. I’ve been running a self-compiled Linux build on a machine with roughly the same khash and haven’t generated a block since mid July. Of course, it was a broken Linux build for a few weeks of that, but I’m running the latest SVN version now and still no luck.

Make sure your computer’s date and time are correct.

lachesis August 20, 2010 Source · Permalink

My time is correct, and my debug.log shows nothing out of the ordinary. I’m stumped here, guys!

kosovito August 20, 2010 Source · Permalink

My computer have date and time correct.

I uninstalled bitcoin, i deleted absolutely all files, blocks, debug, ALL, except of course wallet.dat.

And a reinstalled, i hope this can be works.

A question, can be wallet.dat, make any problem??

Search debug.log for “proof-of-work found”.  If you find any, then check for any errors right after that.

[Deleted] Quote from: davidonpda on August 19, 2010, 07:43:01 PM

How big of a margin on the time is allowed for things to work right.

The margin is 2 hours.

This should be solved in SVN rev 141 and the next release (0.3.11+).  It’ll pop up a message box alerting you if your clock is off by more than an hour.

The software tries to maintain 8 outbound connections and allows up to 125 inbound connections. When you’re behind a firewall and can’t receive inbound connections, you can still use Bitcoin fine with just outbound connections. But allowing inbound connections helps the network.

Nodes remember addresses they’ve seen and share them with other nodes. This is how new nodes find the network and how the network stays connected.