I'm a miner and interested in AE. However, I'm not easily locating alot of information.
1. Was there an ICO?
2. Was there a premine?
3. How much VRAM is needed to mine it?
I don't actually know that I can mine this coin, haven't seen a statement on what hardware is needed. Only that it will run under Ubuntu currently.
Wanted to point out according to the pool stats page posted elsewhere that one single pool has over %90 of the hashrate. Don't want to call this thing a ****coin because I don't like use profanity but this mainnet launch is looking kinda rough so far.
I'm rather intrigued by the Cuckoo algorithm. The only implementation I know of is in GrinCoin and it's supposedly needing over 6 GB of VRAM. Is this using a fork or modded version of it by chance that will take less than 6 GB of VRAM? I haven't seen any GPU requirements. Is it a safe assumption it will run on a Quadro or Titan V? I have seen on Discord that Cuckoo runs horribly on AMD cards but on another project unrelated to this one.
Hey,
Let me try answering your questions:
1. æternity did not do an ICO, it ran a campaign - we are currently in the second phase of migrating the AE ERC-20 token to the AE live-network token.
2. There was no pre-mining, see more
here.
3. The best place to find mining (and any other kind of) information is our
Forum. Find
here GPU memory requirements.
The Roma Release was not an easy task and there was some power concentration for a while due to a number of factors. Initially, Windows mining was not available, nor people could mine using AMD cars. However, those problems are quickly being resolved, many mining improvements are being deployed daily and our dev team is currently preparing a binary of the Windows version of the æternity node. We are persuaded that the mining power will be fairly distributed among all participating pools very soon.
Let us know if you have more questions. Happy mining!
The AE Team