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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Open Source XPM (Primecoin) GPU Miner & Pool xpmforall.org
by
ap1
on 01/04/2018, 15:06:30 UTC
Why does wiki say that there is 19 Cunningham chain? We mine primecoin for several years and only find the 15 chain?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunningham_chain
Primecoin searches a much more big primes, now minimal length is 320 bit.. it not so easy.
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79910197721667870187016101
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3713806433365297179049547921059040093141987810270452924175027055917982614990738 71883343191967359
First number from wikipedia 19ch, second is found 15ch from block 2592901.

In addition to being much bigger, the primes mined by primecoin have special limitation (the base prime origin must be divisible by block header hash) instead of any random number. I believe this makes the mining more complex and harder to find longer chains.