I haven't actually seen RDNA2 vs RDNA1 perf in RandomX. RDNA2's increased cache / memory bandwidth ought to have improved things

i mean, advances in branch prediction will always favor "all-other-tasks" ... perhaps

<hyc> "I haven't actually seen RDNA2 vs..." <- I was referring to Ethash hashrate, obviously quite different from RandomX and easier to censor but Endor00 was talking about how Nvidia tried to censor it and failed to, I pointed out how AMD did succeed with that

Is there any way to release CPU microcode that people could install to increase RandomX hash?

Certainly a great number of people mining Monero are using dedicated rigs that don't need 32-bit code stuff like you mentioned

AFAIK microcode updates are signed and checked by the CPU before use.

So, maybe, but not for now.

Intel's has been reverse engineered a few times already news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16026622

recently twitter.com/h0t_max/status/1549155542786080774

this is the paper referenced in the first link usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity17/sec17-koppe.pdf

so yeah, on newer CPUs the updates are RSA signed, so no joy there yet

oh techzine.eu/news/security/51541/res…rity-key-for-microcode-in-intel-cpu

all traces of this seem to have been wiped away, but I'm sure some hackers have saved a copy

I wonder if RandomX microcode was released if Intel or AMD could just kill it via firmware upgrade. But maybe they wouldn't care

they could release an upgrade, but no way to force it to be loaded on any particular machine

an OS must explicitly install each firmware update

minexmr shutting down minexmr.com

Holy shit

RIP a ton of botnets

yeah. I'm sure botnet owner can just redirect to a new pool

too bad it requires setting up p2pool and monerod nodes for people to migrate to p2pool\

I suspect most miners will take the easy route and just pick another pool

hyc: That would.require a constant connection to the machine, I suspect many simply managed to sneak a miner pointing at their wallet once and that's it, no way to redirect in that case

We need a kind P2pool one click miner

Like the Vertcoin one, does anyone know that one?

s/kind//

s/that one/it/

difficult to "one-click" since you need storage space for monerod

even if running pruned...

wonder if they will just move to the next biggest pool resulting in a pool with an even higher % of the HR than minexmr currently has

I mean yeah but just something that configures a node for you, in the background, like MoneroGUI but much less complex

you can run p2pool with a remote node though

not ideal, but better than nothing

Miner and Wallet in a simple package, one click and it should setup a pruned node on the background

Basically the same as MoneroGUI, but less loaded, too many buttons to press

Like mining being hided under advanced mode, ugh

* to press on that one..

any sufficiently motivated community member can assemble such a package

I would fund that, please

:)

it's just the binaries and a few lines of shell script or batch file

plus perhaps a hash/signature on the binaries to prove they're original

^ that's "scary" stuff for a lot of newbies/non-techies

that's why mining is in the advanced tab....

surprised no announcement was in r/moneromining

<hyc> "that's why mining is in the..." <- It shouldn't mining shouldn't be something scary, there is a reason why NiceHash is so popular

* It shouldn't, mining shouldn't be something scary, there is a reason why NiceHash is so popular

it's not scary, but there are decisions to be made: run a local node, or use a remote?

if remote, which one do you trust?

if local, where do you have enough disk space?

the minexmr pool is shutting down in 2 weeks: minexmr.com

I wonder where the ~50% of network hashrate will go

yeah, that's what we've been discussing

if p2pool were easier to setup we could expect more of the hashrate to adopt it

hopefully they will spread to multiple pools and won't all go to supportxmr

Either way it's likely good for decentralization

That made no sense. What I mean is it could be good for decentralization if the hash gets distributed

i dunno if supportxmr could handle it all

it definitely can, it has lots of nodes

but still, not a great scenario if they just all move to sxmr instead of spreading out

<gonbatfire[m]> "I would fund that, please" <- Well. Running a node and p2pool on android is already painless

And for free

- SD card cost

Minus* SD card cost