08:30:24 <midipoet> 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: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fpnk
12:26:02 <gingeropolous> total miners 32737
15:28:36 <sech1> Damn, CPU mining is so much easier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypxhEBXJje0
15:29:10 <sech1> The guy spent days trying to fix his new GPU rig
15:32:30 <gingeropolous> yeah. im so thankful i don't have to fiddle with GPU rigs now. Now i just need to get rid of them
15:43:03 <asymptotically> so much CFM being pushed out right now!
15:43:12 <gingeropolous> though i bet i'll be suckered into the first wave of coprocessors that come out
15:43:55 <gingeropolous> which will have similar finicky behavior i bet
16:30:39 <gingeropolous> total miners 32926
16:57:20 <gingeropolous> approaching month 4 of randomx? in addition to the leadtime, asic manufacturers have had plenty of time to design and tape out
17:38:45 <hyc> plenty of time for a chip-off-the-old-block design
17:39:11 <hyc> 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.
17:55:50 <sech1> I'd say any design involving external memory will take much longer
18:08:13 <gingeropolous> total miners 33057