libera #monero-pow

12 Nov 2021

Monero's Proof of Work algorithm (RandomX) and related topics. Use #p2pool-log and #p2pool-mini for P2Pool discussions. Anti-spam active: PM hyc for voice.

• 02:18
  hyc
  bad news in AMD land twitter.com/sickcodes/status/1458944880550432768
• 13:57
  Inge
  anyone heard of Raptoreum and their ASIC/FPGA resistant alogirhtm GhostRider?
• 14:05
  Inge
  Hm sounds like it used to be a fork of RVN but now is a fork of ... DASH.
• 14:07
  Inge
  Looks like X16r + several outdated CN algorithms. oh joy
• 14:14
  hv-bridge
  <sech1> github.com/Raptor3um/raptoreum/blob/master/src/hash_selection.h#L46
• 14:14
  Inge
  "GhostRider uses the x16r randomizer combined with CNv1-8"
• 14:14
  hv-bridge
  <sech1> All CN variants are just CNv1 with different scratchpad size and iterations
• 14:15
  hv-bridge
  <sech1> but it's all in random order. 15 algorithms + 3 CNv1 variants
• 14:15
  gingeropolous
  wow, just wow
• 14:16
  hv-bridge
  <sech1> They have 50k miners already: miningpoolstats.stream/raptoreum
• 14:17
  hv-bridge
  <sech1> Very high emission rate, $120k/day
• 14:17
  hv-bridge
  <sech1> almost as high as Monero (in $ terms)
• 14:17
  gingeropolous
  GPU miners need something to do
• 14:18
  hv-bridge
  <sech1> CPU only so far
• 14:18
  Inge
  yeah I saw it because it made mainstream-ish news in Norway
• 14:18
  Inge
  never heard about it before
• 14:19
  hv-bridge
  <sech1> xmrig support maybe (just maybe) coming soon
• 14:19
  hv-bridge
  <sech1> if I'm not too lazy
• 14:23
  gingeropolous
  how the hell do they get mainstreamish news
• 14:23
  gingeropolous
  prolly by dumping more into PR than actually developing a resistant pow
• 14:25
  hv-bridge
  <sech1> Apparently everyone is buying up Ryzens to mine Raptoreum
• 14:27
  gingeropolous[m]
  according to the "news"
• 14:28
  hv-bridge
  <sech1> Funny thing their bitcointalk thread was started in 2018
• 14:29
  hv-bridge
  <sech1> they were in "testnet" the whole time
• 14:56
  gingeropolous
  well, in the good news column there's only like 300 Mh/s available for randomx on nicehash nicehash.com/my/marketplace/RANDOMXMONERO
• 15:02
  jaska087
  I wonder if nicehash will support raptoreum
• 15:02
  jaska087
  that will probably take some power off from monero
• 15:05
  gingeropolous
  until a gpu miner is made
• 15:20
  hv-bridge
  <sech1> Ryzen 3000 are more efficient on Cryptonight than GPUs
• 15:20
  hv-bridge
  <sech1> Less known fact because nobody cared about Cryptonight when Zen2 released
• 15:40
  pauliouk
  yeah I read an article about Ryzens being bought up for Raptoreum - I'd only buy them for Monero :P
• 16:41
  hyc
  it's idiotic, but it would also suck away capacity for monero botnets
• 20:36
  Inge
  there is also Arweave and Haven