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The article skip over the results? Did the design succeeded? Which hardware do miner uses, and is it evenly distributed? Can I mine Monero on potato hardware?
by KolmogorovComp 5mo ago
The article skip over the results? Did the design succeeded? Which hardware do miner uses, and is it evenly distributed? Can I mine Monero on potato hardware?
- hyc_symas 5mo agoThe design has been working perfectly from 2018 till today. https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/1h6e4nk/randomx_5_year_anniversary/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/1h6e4nk/randomx_5_y... Most miners use AMD Ryzens. Couldn't tell you the actual breakdown of CPU types in use. Apple's M series CPUs are quite efficient at it too. Bitmain now sells a "Monero RandomX Mining ASIC" which is just a bunch of RISC-V cores, seemingly based on Sophon SG2042 SOCs. There's nothing special or more cost-effective about their product. You can mine on old smartphones quite easily. I use a bunch of old Android TVboxes myself. Their hashrates are nothing to crow about, but their hashes/watt are still competitive with faster CPUs. There is a RandomX V2 that will be deployed soon. Its main improvement is even cheaper verification cost.