00:48:35 <gingeropolous> total miners: 36301
00:48:40 <gingeropolous> what's sopping up the compute?
05:24:02 <sech1> gingeropolous xmr.nanopool.org is dead
05:24:48 <sech1> but it keeps mining blocks from the looks of it
05:45:47 <sech1> in other news: ProgPow will be dominated by FPGAs soon. GPUHoarder says they have a bitstream which is 3-4x more efficient than GPUs.
07:17:21 <Inge-> who is even using ProgPow?
07:19:22 <wowario[m]> zcoin is planning to switch to ProgPow
07:19:55 <wowario[m]> https://forum.zcoin.io/t/poll-on-zcoins-pow-algorithm/868
07:35:48 <sech1> Inge- RavenCoin
07:36:17 <sech1> they call it KawPow but it's ProgPow with 0 modifications, only period lengths are adjusted for their block time
07:36:35 <sech1> RVN has higher daily emission in $ than XMR
07:40:42 <sech1> But the fact itself that ProgPow is not so ASIC resistant is interesting
07:40:55 <sech1> if FPGA can do 3-4x efficiency, ASIC can probably do 10x efficiency
07:40:57 <Inge-> yes and I think some of you claimed this last year even
07:41:11 <sech1> their main mistake was going core heavy with very simple and integer only instruction set
07:41:35 <sech1> ASIC/FPGA can save a lot of energy on core heavy part, so it's even less resistant than ETHash
07:41:48 <sech1> just like I've been saying for a long time
07:46:24 <sech1> Regarding RandomX, the only thing I've heard so far were Xilinx U50 FPGAs doing 6.5 kh/s @ 75 watts, a bit worse than a tuned Ryzen rig
07:47:20 <sech1> and that's a $2000+ board
07:49:06 <sech1> with Ryzen 3900X rig you get 2x the hash for half the price and a bit higher power efficiency too
07:49:45 <Inge-> "someone" said RandomX would be broken by April this year :P
08:14:21 <hyc> LOL
08:14:37 <hyc> yeah it was obvious from the start that progpow was weak
08:14:53 <hyc> I covered that in my monerokon talk
12:58:27 <midipoet> we should do a press release.
12:58:39 <midipoet> RandomX fights on in the face of adversity!!