libera #monero-pow

9 Dec 2023

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.

• 06:15
  fluffypony
  lol
• 10:11
  m-relay
  <k​arano:poddery.com> why do i get this ?
• 10:11
  m-relay
  <k​arano:poddery.com> matrix.monero.social/_matrix/media/…oddery.com/MDChliTBdgHYFPOWXLHCQIPe
• 10:11
  m-relay
  <k​arano:poddery.com> 0 blocks in last 20 minites
• 10:22
  sech1
  Because there were actually 0 blocks in 20 minutes at that time
• 10:23
  sech1
  p2pool.io/u/8078ba870e9bc13a/image.png
• 10:23
  sech1
  1336 s = 22 m 16 s
• 11:26
  m-relay
  <k​arano:poddery.com> ooo
• 11:27
  m-relay
  <k​arano:poddery.com> but monero blocks are found every 2 minutes roughly right ?
• 11:31
  Inge
  yup. the average/mean is 2 minute blocks
• 11:32
  Inge
  you still get statistical outliers, also you get variation due to variable hash rate in the mining network - there is a bit of a delay before the difficulty adjusts
• 12:55
  gingeropolous
  i wonder if I can merge mine from my solo mining setup
• 14:00
  moneromooo
  You can merge mine solo, but AFAIK the only thing you can merge mine now is the Townforge testnet. So you don't get more coins worth anything.
• 14:02
  Inge
  TF still on testnet?
• 14:06
  moneromooo
  Yes...
• 14:19
  m-relay
  <o​frnxmr:monero.social> Moneromooo
• 14:19
  m-relay
  <o​frnxmr:monero.social> Other chains sell their testnet on exchanges 😂
• 14:21
  hyc
  yeah but they don't actually call them testnets do they? :P
• 14:22
  Inge
  wownero being the exception? o_O
• 14:31
  m-relay
  <o​frnxmr:monero.social> > <h​yc> yeah but they don't actually call them testnets do they? :P
• 14:31
  m-relay
  <o​frnxmr:monero.social> They do though!!
• 14:32
  m-relay
  <o​frnxmr:monero.social> Zephyr is a testnet
• 14:32
  m-relay
  <o​frnxmr:monero.social> Dero atlantis was
• 14:32
  m-relay
  <o​frnxmr:monero.social> isnt darkfi?
• 14:33
  hyc
  huh. talk about YOLO, buying and selling testnet coins
• 14:33
  m-relay
  <o​frnxmr:monero.social> Theres some more notable examples that i cant seem to think of, but yeah.. a lot of self described testnets are for sale on binance/kucoin
• 14:33
  hyc
  do any of those come with promise of exchange to mainnet coins if/when they ever get that far?
• 14:34
  m-relay
  <o​frnxmr:monero.social> DERO literally did a centralized coin swap from testnet to mainnet
• 14:34
  hyc
  crazy
• 14:34
  m-relay
  <o​frnxmr:monero.social> You sent your testnet (atlantis) coins to capn, and he sent you mainnet (starfish or whatever)
• 14:57
  hyc
  The Liontron vendor built a new kernel for me with hugepages enabled. Yay.
• 14:57
  hyc
  hash rate for 3 threads went from 380H/s to 435H/s.
• 14:57
  hyc
  2 threads. ^^
• 15:00
  hyc
  and that's with monerod and p2pool also running on the same box. monerod is using hugepages too.
• 15:01
  hyc
  the box has 32GB RAM, so there's plenty free to cache the blockchain
• 15:02
  hyc
  and the blockchain is stored on a raw partition of a 2TB SSD. I carved out 256GB for a workspace filesystem, the rest is in the blockchain partition