It looks like network stabilized at 720 MH/s which makes everything below ~20 h/s per watt unprofitable with $0.1/kWh electricity price.

I guess this is the point where old Xeon servers break even

Old Opterons (13 h/s per watt) are in a minus zone already unless they have very cheap/free electricity

tevador did you get any reply from AV companies yet? It would be interesting to see if any botnets can actually survive if AV implement RandomX detection.

hm. I should check the efficiency of the E5-2670's

soo this board allows me to twiddle Adjacent cache line prefetch, hardware prefetcher, streamer prefetcher and IP prefetcher

all are enabled by deault

Disable all prefetching?

keep IP prefetcher

ok let's see what this does.

hm. very small improvement

30-40 H/s on 6600

omg lol: miningclub.info/threads/nerealny-do…-randomx.62863/page-21#post-1575831

translation: i5-2400, 4 GB - I start mining, then open browser and everything hangs, even mouse doesn't move

I guess 4 GB computers are not really good for RandomX :D

just not good for doing anything else plus randomx

that thing would have been sluggish already, opening a browser, even without randomx

Windows 95 minimum requirements: 4MB RAM

ok fine, if you can surf with a 1995-era browser maybe you'll do OK

tho not likely. the browser is still dependent on all of those windows DLLs...

and more holes than swiss cheese

Windows 95 didn't have any holes, it was 1995.

It was very convenient to log in into any PC without knowing passwords, hehe

sech1, are you running any AV on your own desktop/laptop?

I helped the dad of a friend with a couple of virus-infested machines. They got infested again during install over cable network, as there was no firewall...

cohcho of course not

Last time I had a virus on my machine was in 90s. And it was DOS, not even Windows

Not that I actually think that nothing can't infiltrate it, I'm not that stupid. But all fresh updated + restricted user is good enough.

Also not being a stupid user helps. A lot.

AV are more like spying/surveillance software these days. And they eat so much resources it's not worth it.

poor dummies twitter.com/el33th4xor/status/1201493950873374722

2nd time in 12 months

wow, "~ 125 VTC (~$29)" that's a huge attack, lol

attacker spent between 0.5-1 BTC --> block rewards the attack received is 13825 VTC (~0.44 BTC)

fail

yep

although, the purpose may have been to reverse some other txn, or double-spend, etc.

Unless it's a botnet I guess. Then some poor sods paid for the attack.

it was Nicehash

Nice botnet here: xmr.nanopool.org/account/47NG3EVgM3…KZehUVeo34GvBq7e1hFTohnjK9VG9cU3f1G

Peaked at 2 MH/s on CN/R, 15.6 MH/s on RandomX

So update went smooth for this one :D

wow, it was active since 2018-02-11 and got paid 3609 XMR in total

tevador any word from AV companies?

lots of murmerings on the webs about how moneros not profitable anymore

it will always be unprofitable for majority of miners

so whoever is mumbling is just one of the lucky few who used to be profitable before and isn't now. someone else has taken their place.

indeed

I got just an automated reply from ESET, that's all

its kinda like we're reverting back to the original days of monero. it had 20 mh/s on cryptonight when it was worth 50 cents. pretty sure that was botnets

how can people not notice a RandomX miner running on their PC?

it's a CPU and memory hog

I'm sure there's a Windows joke in there somewhere...

lol

we have to work pretty hard to outdo Bill Gates :P

lol

so apparently poolin had high orphan rates?

"During the period of offering XMR mining service, Poolin has been in a loss status due to the high orphan block rate and high server cost."

i wonder if its because china

It's a Chinese pool ? That's interesting since blocks are now tx-less (usually), so relay should be fast.

maybe they are easier to get blackholed using the eclipse attacks we've been seeing

I think their low profitability was mostly due to PPS

lol, poor testnet

still readjusting?

2 blocks in last 90 minutes

kinda think we could afford to adjust difficulty downward a bit quicker than this

with 1 block per hour, it will take about a month

like say, whenever block time exceeds 10x nominal, drop difficulty . by half? by 10x?