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Re: Invictus Innovations ProtoShares Cheat Sheet | CPU Mining
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dga
on 06/01/2014, 15:56:12 UTC
it does seem like there's at least one private GPU implementation for PTS, which is great for the person who has it, but contributes to their ability to mount a 51% attack on the network.
I have working GPU miner for Protoshares almost from beginning, but it is uselessly slow. I can open source OpenCL implementation of SHA512, if it will help you.


That part's easy - there's a CUDA implementation of SHA512 in the John the Ripper source with a permissive open source / public domain license.  Already have that running.

What does uselessly slow mean?  Based upon preliminary poking, my guess is that I can write something that will get 500 c/s on a decent card.  It won't be the most amazing thing since sliced bread, but it will be substantially better than a CPU in terms of c/s/w and c/s/$.

(Yes, yes, I know I said I didn't want to put the time in, but I couldn't resist writing a few lines of code as a test before making the offer to write and open source it. :-)

  -Dave