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Re: [ANN] [PoW] [PoS] VEIL - Privacy without compromise
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naska21
on 22/04/2019, 10:38:19 UTC
My congrats. Do you know the minimal requirements for profitable staking in respect of hardware? My wallet is on outdated notebook with Mobile Intel Pentium B950 and 4 Gb of RAM and I'm in doubt about its ability to stake.

Until Precomputed Zerocoin Spend is out (planned for next wallet release), it definitely helps to have a CPU with powerful single-core performance to reduce time to compute Zerocoin stake/spend.

After Precompute is out, CPU won't matter that much but it is still going to be beneficial to have decent single-core performance.

It follows that Zerocoin stake/spend processing is not parallelized and solely  the single core  of multi-core CPU will be  involved even after precompute is out. So there is no use in modern 4-8 cores CPUs, 2 cores will be enough.  Is that correct? I'm just trying  to figure out for myself if it's worth spending the money to get  sophisticated CPU for staking purpose.