On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Goss, Brian C., M.D. <goss.br...@mayo.edu> wrote: > What if we have a massive (like many orders of magnitude) drop in network > harsh rate? Might such a function be useful to salvage the (non-functioning) > network? Same for IRC bootstrapping. How do we pick ourselves up off the > ground in case of the equivalent of a great depression in network hash rate > (or some jerk spending $100M just to drive the difficulty up and then turning > his hardware off?).
[Aside: When replying to the digest, please try to trim it] It appears that we will soon be at a hashrate where all the desktop CPUs in the world couldn't really make a dent in it... certainly not desktop cpus using the slow integrated cpu miner, which is much slower than external optimized cpu miners. But this is why I suggest packaging up a modern mining tool that supports CPU/GPU/FPGA/ASIC mining against a current bitcoind. Doing so would reduce the difference between testnet and mainnet, and provide an actually useful tool for contributing directly. Though again, I note, that Jeff's patch doesn't actually remove the integrated miner (I think it should…). Just the getwork support for external miners which don't use getblocktemplate... and if you're going to download one of those you could go download bfgminer instead. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing Performance Central, a new site from SourceForge and AppDynamics. Performance Central is your source for news, insights, analysis and resources for efficient Application Performance Management. Visit us today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897511&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
