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Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** * 4
    #19303902 - 12/20/13 05:01 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I was wondering if you guys could help me test out a new idea I wanted to try. I packaged up a one-click cryptocurrency miner, so anybody who wants to donate their spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery can easily do so. You just need a desktop computer running Windows. It works on laptops too, but they can get hot, and it doesn't stop running when you're on battery power so I don't recommend it.

All you have to do is download and run this file: Install Shroomery Miner.exe. It will silently mine one of a number of cryptocurrencies depending on which is the best value at the moment, and proceeds are converted to cash money for the Shroomery!

It's designed to be extremely easy to use and unobtrusive, so it's a good way for everyone to help out the site. It runs at idle priority and it doesn't transfer much data, so it won't slow down your computer. Once it's installed you should never even know it's running, but it can easily be disabled or cleanly uninstalled if you choose. It's kind of like Folding@home, if you're familiar with that.

You can run it on as many computers as you want simultaneously, they just need internet access and a current version of Windows. If people want, eventually I could look into making packages for Linux and OSX as well.

Right now there's no way to track individual stats, but aggregate team stats are available. I'd like to add support for individual stats if there's enough interest, or even a way to automatically split the proceeds with contributors, but that's a ways off. Really I was just hoping that people could test it out, even if you don't intend to run it long-term, and report any bugs or weird behavior. I tried it on all the computers I have access to and it seems solid, but there are always weird corner cases. And of course, if you decide you do want to keep running it, that would be much appreciated too! :smile:

I have no idea if this is even worth the time I spent putting it together, but *I* think it's pretty cool at least! Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. Thanks!


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: Ythan]
    #19303929 - 12/20/13 05:07 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I'm installing right now!


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: TrentBoyett]
    #19303959 - 12/20/13 05:14 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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mjmihalov said:
I'm installing right now!




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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: Ythan]
    #19304007 - 12/20/13 05:24 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

great ideea


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: friskie]
    #19304091 - 12/20/13 05:40 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Ythan I think just charging a flat monthly fee to post could ultimatly prove lucractive to the site


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: Gilgamesh18] * 2
    #19304126 - 12/20/13 05:46 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

CAPITALISM


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: friskie]
    #19304131 - 12/20/13 05:47 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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CAPITALISM



It would cut down on the riff raff and ultimatly make it more exclusisive


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: Gilgamesh18]
    #19304160 - 12/20/13 05:53 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

LOL 86Khash please tell me that's in LTC, cause if it isn't you all have some terrible computers :lolsy:

Installing now.


edit:

Okay it's running, but I have some questions:
1)I'm guessing this is mining bitcoins?
2)Nothing shows up in my task manager, but the CPU usage climbs to 100% which is a little frustrating. I suggest making someway for it to show up as an actual process so one can limit the amount of CPU cycles it can use.
3)Make a command prompt window open up during startup that display some basic statistics, such as time running, hash per second, etc...


Edited by deadwk (12/20/13 05:58 PM)


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: Ythan]
    #19304201 - 12/20/13 06:00 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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Ythan said:
I was wondering if you guys could help me test out a new idea I wanted to try. I packaged up a one-click cryptocurrency miner, so anybody who wants to donate their spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery can easily do so. You just need a desktop computer running Windows. It works on laptops too, but they can get hot, and it doesn't stop running when you're on battery power so I don't recommend it.





100% CPU! :what:


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: Sell Your Soul]
    #19304222 - 12/20/13 06:03 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

It doesn't even show up in the processes tab, if this wasn't Ythan I'd be suspicious as fuck and use Wireshark to see what server it's linking up to.

But I trust Ythan.


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: deadwk]
    #19304265 - 12/20/13 06:09 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Ythan posts on his facebook that his shroomery account was compromised and is trying to regain access.

I agree that it would be nice to see a process.


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: modern.shaman]
    #19304281 - 12/20/13 06:12 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I'll do this on an unmatched scale due to my line of work providing I see a good number on my percentage of digital currency holdings in Mind Media LLC. Have geokills email me for more details.


Edited by Dystopia (12/20/13 06:39 PM)


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: modern.shaman] * 4
    #19304286 - 12/20/13 06:12 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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modern.shaman said:
Ythan posts on his facebook that his shroomery account was compromised and is trying to regain access.

I agree that it would be nice to see a process.



That's just not true.
You should take those comments to Romper Room.


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: Ythan] * 4
    #19304290 - 12/20/13 06:13 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

It would be cool if we gained supporter accounts and whatnot after a certain amount of coin mined. If that happens, I'll definitely switch over from Folding.


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: The Phleg]
    #19304298 - 12/20/13 06:14 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Nah man, you gotta do BOTH!


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: Sell Your Soul]
    #19304316 - 12/20/13 06:16 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Well man, no.


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: The Phleg] * 1
    #19304445 - 12/20/13 06:39 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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pyrate999 said:
It would be cool if we gained supporter accounts and whatnot after a certain amount of coin mined.




:thumbup:


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: THE KRAT BARON] * 1
    #19304514 - 12/20/13 06:54 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

people would put more into it if they could track their own stats I bet!


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: spacechildo]
    #19304820 - 12/20/13 07:49 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

This just encourages me to learn how to mine my own coins for myself. Not to be selfish, I will try that program out once Ythan reports back on the 100% CPU deal.


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: Ythan]
    #19304998 - 12/20/13 08:23 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

This program mines scrypt-based currencies, vs. SHA256-based currencies like Bitcoin. They're basically the same but scrypt is a little more practical for people with average mid-range computers and no specialized hardware. The pool we use is Hash Cows. They support mining in a number of different currencies (24 to be exact) and they assign work for whatever one is most profitable at the moment.

100% CPU usage is normal. The miner is set to idle priority, so it only runs when other programs aren't using the CPU, but it makes use of all available spare cycles. The app doesn't show up in the running program list because it's installed as a system service. This keeps it out of the way and allows it to run more reliably. If you open task manager, click the "Processes" tab, and then click the "Show processes from all users" button at the bottom, you'll see the "minerd.exe" process which is doing the mining. It's a free and open-source app from http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpuminer/, I just created the installer to make it easier to get started. You can see the files on your hard drive if you type %ProgramFiles%\Shroomery Miner\ in an explorer window.

I would definitely like to add individual stats and the ability to earn supporter accounts through mining. It's a little tricky though. In order to do it properly I'd have to set up our own mining pool (to replace Hash Cows), but that's a lot of work and I'm not really an expert on running a mining pool. The alternative is to read and submit data through the Hash Cows website, but they don't have an API so any method of doing that would be an ugly hack that's prone to breaking if they update their site structure at all. That's why I wanted to see if anybody even likes the idea and uses it before I put in the effort to figure that stuff out. It's not an insurmountable problem though, if people are interested.

Thanks to everyone who's testing it already! Any more questions, please let me know! :smile:


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