<[discord] KaHaR#9117>: QRL moving to POS soon, too.

im a bit out of the loop... does randomx have any potential as a password hashing algorithm, or is e.g. Argon2 still considered better suited to that task?

and yes, now that I look it seems argon2 is a component of randomx

what is wrong with scrypt / bcrypt /pbkdf2 ?

(for password hashing)

I have nothing against them

Just wondering what is 'best'

I guess RX has the upside of being hard to ASIC

NTLM password cracking can be quite fun when you are rocking several hundred billion hashes per second

argon2 was the winner in the password hashing competition

so, for whatever reasons, there is something wrong with scrypt / bcrypt / pbkdf2

I've analyzed blocks mined by this guy

looks like xmrig and ~19 kh/s per worker

I have a confirmation that it is xmrig

says 18 workers, 19k per worker is about half what he'd need for that hashrate, no?

we're at 2GH/s now? since when?

19 kh/s per machine, he uses proxy

so ~40k servers

ok

sech1: So these are probably bare metal machines?

more likely cloud VMs, but big ones

Do you think its credit theft again?

or is it currently profitable to cloud mine because of current price spike...

It's not profitable

it may have been for a brief period. but the increased hashrate ate up the difference already

So maybe sb is just burning free credits or stealing them. Again...

hrm... how many 0's until we become concerned of block withholding: community.xmr.to/blocks/frequencies

or just a mining farm switched off for a while

right

10+ minute blocks are not rare

indeed

but... you know... i gets all sortsa antsy seein HR spikes like that

we're approaching a full year on randomx

sech1: did you do some nonce analysis of the "azure miner" that showed it was likely xmrig?

it is xmrig

it's mining with dev fee ;)

gingeropolous: it seems to clearly be non-asic, for all it is a nasty spike.

And now we have 8 blocks in 10 minutes

so it's azure again?

impressive how they don't seem to care being exploited at insane scale

i know. makes me want to get an azure account

12 months free, $200 credit

Why couldn't it just be someone doing PoW consensus security research?

research that funds itself. good idea