02:50:47 <derpy_bridge> <[discord] KaHaR#9117>: QRL moving to POS soon, too.
06:37:32 <UkoeHB_> 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?
06:45:38 <UkoeHB_> and yes, now that I look it seems argon2 is a component of randomx
07:14:51 <Inge-> what is wrong with scrypt / bcrypt /pbkdf2 ?
07:14:57 <Inge-> (for password hashing)
07:23:31 <UkoeHB_> I have nothing against them
07:23:56 <UkoeHB_> Just wondering what is 'best'
08:09:20 <Inge-> I guess RX has the upside of being hard to ASIC
08:09:49 <Inge-> NTLM password cracking can be quite fun when you are rocking several hundred billion hashes per second
10:49:55 <hyc> argon2 was the winner in the password hashing competition
10:50:19 <hyc> so, for whatever reasons, there is something wrong with scrypt / bcrypt / pbkdf2
12:54:17 <sech1> https://solo-xmr.2miners.com/account/8Aa4txZdPkvHu1zRX8CvcP9wviQSC8ukNFrS4FHYanocY7HzzsTSpNuLbCeKwR8GxAVKqm6WrQYp4Nn1GF6T9mXwCTDGn2k
12:54:28 <sech1> I've analyzed blocks mined by this guy
12:54:47 <sech1> looks like xmrig and ~19 kh/s per worker
13:12:50 <sech1> I have a confirmation that it is xmrig
13:26:22 <hyc> says 18 workers, 19k per worker is about half what he'd need for that hashrate, no?
13:27:47 <hyc> we're at 2GH/s now? since when?
13:29:44 <sech1> 19 kh/s per machine, he uses proxy
13:30:26 <sech1> so ~40k servers
13:30:38 <hyc> ok
14:28:23 <xmrpow> sech1: So these are probably bare metal machines?
14:29:12 <sech1> more likely cloud VMs, but big ones
14:31:51 <xmrpow> Do you think its credit theft again?
14:32:16 <xmrpow> or is it currently profitable to cloud mine because of current price spike...
14:40:03 <sech1> It's not profitable
14:45:44 <hyc> it may have been for a brief period. but the increased hashrate ate up the difference already
14:51:21 <xmrpow> So maybe sb is just burning free credits or stealing them. Again...
15:39:41 <gingeropolous> hrm... how many 0's until we become concerned of block withholding: https://community.xmr.to/blocks/frequencies/
15:41:14 <hyc> or just a mining farm switched off for a while
15:41:50 <gingeropolous> right
15:41:55 <sech1> 10+ minute blocks are not rare
15:42:59 <gingeropolous> indeed
15:43:34 <gingeropolous> but... you know... i gets all sortsa antsy seein HR spikes like that
15:43:45 <gingeropolous> we're approaching a full year on randomx
15:45:27 <Inge-> sech1: did you do some nonce analysis of the "azure miner" that showed it was likely xmrig?
15:46:29 <sech1> it is xmrig
15:46:41 <sech1> it's mining with dev fee ;)
15:46:57 <Inge-> gingeropolous: it seems to clearly be non-asic, for all it is a nasty spike.
15:53:27 <sech1> And now we have 8 blocks in 10 minutes
19:52:53 <binaryFate> so it's azure again?
19:53:16 <binaryFate> impressive how they don't seem to care being exploited at insane scale
19:54:08 <gingeropolous> i know. makes me want to get an azure account
20:05:04 <hyc> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/
20:05:09 <hyc> 12 months free, $200 credit
20:16:07 <midipoet> Why couldn't it just be someone doing PoW consensus security research?
20:29:25 <hyc> research that funds itself. good idea