08:31:24 <sech1> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5399783.msg60216945#msg60216945
08:31:32 <sech1> GPU mining soon!
08:31:59 <sech1> the guy is a miner dev, but he said same things about randomx all the way back in 2019
08:34:26 <sech1> screenshot in case he deletes or edits the post: https://p2pool.io/u/51dcc52d1bb8841d/sp.png 
14:13:23 <gingeropolous[m]> sp. that guy
14:13:36 <gingeropolous[m]> still profiting off of open source stuff
14:13:49 <gingeropolous[m]> he still selling kernels or whatever?
14:51:21 <sech1> "Team Black Miner" now. He's capable, but his randomx claims need some proofs or at least justification.
14:51:27 <hyc> faster randomx on GPU? sure
14:51:47 <hyc> maybe on an RDNA2 GPU or something
14:52:03 <sech1> A bit faster than the reference implementation? Definitely possible. Faster/more efficient than a CPU? Not likely.
14:52:11 <sech1> He's specializing on NVIDIA GPUs.
14:52:28 <hyc> yeah, not gonna happen
14:55:16 <sech1> "soon to be released"
14:55:23 <sech1> let's wait
15:02:02 <ooo123ooo1234[m]> <sech1> ""Team Black Miner" now. He's..." <- any link with numbers to read about capabilities ?
15:07:22 <sech1> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5358334.0
15:07:36 <sech1> just on the first page I found "Working well. Miner reported hashrate = 401.6MH/s vs 396.4MH/s for trex."
15:08:01 <sech1> and his old thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=826901.0
15:11:51 <ooo123ooo1234[m]> ok; I've only found this stat about used mining software: https://hiveon.com/statistics/; and it has only 0.15% share
17:06:34 <hyc> random thought about 51% attacks: carrying out the attack requires mining an alternate chain in secret, and then suddenly publishing it to the main network
17:07:02 <hyc> if this sort of thing was going on, you'd expect to see sudden massive fluctuations in hashrate
17:07:32 <hyc> the fact that a lot of botnets are mining to one pool implies that they aren't being used for a 51% attack
17:08:57 <hyc> in terms of attack risk they're really the least of our worries
17:09:13 <merope> That depends though: it only works if you assume a 51% attack using pre-existing miners
17:09:43 <merope> But an attacker with "fresh" hashrate would be completely undetectable until they publish their alternate chain
17:19:39 <hyc> good point
17:59:33 <hyc> anyway I was only considering the threat of lots of hashrate at a few mining pools
18:01:55 <sech1> It's possible to detect mining pool executing a 51% attack
18:02:16 <sech1> just check previous block hash in each pool job - if it's from an unknown block, it's suspicious
18:04:18 <hyc> oh, yeah makes sense
22:47:06 <hyc> ASIC industry falling on hard times https://twitter.com/_amanda_fab/status/1529556426716233731
22:47:17 <hyc> ASIC mining, specifically
22:47:30 <hyc> such a shame, <sniff>