Thanks for the head's up on Primecoin, Chiropteran. If I do actually make a fair amount of money from it, you'll need to send me your address so that I can monetarily express my gratitude.
It was actually a lot of "fun" to set up - and I mean that sincerely. I recompiled the code for my Haswell box and I'm getting 1400-1600 primes-per-second - which is just rocking compared to the way it was configured when I got it. It was fun because I actually totally suck at make/g++/compiling and I really have only a limited clue what I'm doing and it's a great feeling when you make a chain of guesses and they all seem to pan out. I have no idea how many I've mined, but when I checked the transactions, everything looked good and processing as expected.
What's really good about primecoin is you can mine litecoins with cgminer while mining primecoins in the background. So it doesn't even cost anything.
I don't know if primecoin will work out - it's got a better basis than lots of other new coins out there, so it's one of the more promising new ones - but it was fun getting it working and it doesn't cost me anything extra to mine (litecoin hashrate wasn't impacted) so it's ok even if the coins are worthless in the end. But I have a better feeling about primecoin than I have about any of the other derivatives out there after litecoins.
It was actually a lot of "fun" to set up - and I mean that sincerely. I recompiled the code for my Haswell box and I'm getting 1400-1600 primes-per-second - which is just rocking compared to the way it was configured when I got it. It was fun because I actually totally suck at make/g++/compiling and I really have only a limited clue what I'm doing and it's a great feeling when you make a chain of guesses and they all seem to pan out. I have no idea how many I've mined, but when I checked the transactions, everything looked good and processing as expected.
What's really good about primecoin is you can mine litecoins with cgminer while mining primecoins in the background. So it doesn't even cost anything.
I don't know if primecoin will work out - it's got a better basis than lots of other new coins out there, so it's one of the more promising new ones - but it was fun getting it working and it doesn't cost me anything extra to mine (litecoin hashrate wasn't impacted) so it's ok even if the coins are worthless in the end. But I have a better feeling about primecoin than I have about any of the other derivatives out there after litecoins.