nicely told story about the impact of crypto mining (both positive and negative) from the perspective of a dying town with access to cheap renewable energy: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fpnk

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Damn, CPU mining is so much easier: youtube.com/watch?v=ypxhEBXJje0

The guy spent days trying to fix his new GPU rig

yeah. im so thankful i don't have to fiddle with GPU rigs now. Now i just need to get rid of them

so much CFM being pushed out right now!

though i bet i'll be suckered into the first wave of coprocessors that come out

which will have similar finicky behavior i bet

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approaching month 4 of randomx? in addition to the leadtime, asic manufacturers have had plenty of time to design and tape out

plenty of time for a chip-off-the-old-block design

an actual RandomX design would take longer if they're building from scratch. If they're just souping up an ARM64 core, maybe not so long.

I'd say any design involving external memory will take much longer

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