Oh wow, that is hella cheap

At 0.03 $/kWh, even an old shoddy Intel cpu is profitable

Yeah. Until the damn wind power companies paid off the politicians and forced the power companies to sell power at higher rates. My dad worked at the dam and they're down to 60% production so the wind generation can be "competitive".

Even at 0.05 you'd still be breaking even

My dad said it's closer to 0.09 per kWh now.

In that case, better have a Ryzen

(3000 or 5000)

Net metering means that if I do solar I get to sell power back to the grid at the "fuel" rate so it might be cheaper to not mine.

hyc if we could go back and redesign RandomX from scratch, would there be anything we should have done differently? I see there’s been a number of commits to the RX repo since then, so I see there’s been development. But as to its core functionality, would you wish any adjustments as to how it does things?

Maybe the algo should have utilized the case RGB lighting ;)

lol

no, I feel we covered everything we can portably do across arbitrary CPUs

...one thing that real CPUs do that RandomX doesn't, is stack pointer manipulation

e.g. pushing parameters onto a stack and popping them back into registers

or calling a function and pushing a return address, and then later popping and returning to caller

none of which can feasibly be done on a 100% random instruction stream, unfortunately