Re: [ANN][XBR] bitcoinR (bitcoinr.org) | Quantitatively-Flexible Reserve Currency
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?Hey Olkah,
Sorry if I didn't make that clear, and further apologies because I might be repeating myself here but the root problem with making the mining pool software available at this point is that it we feel would unfairly concentrate XBR in the hands of very few mining operators. The good news is that if you have a powerful CPU or a decent GPU, you can mine full blocks yourself.
As of right now, the aggregate hashpower is only 198,389.857 Network (KH/s) and the difficulty is <500.
If one were to unearth some "obsolete" BTC GPU or ASICs, that might work surprisingly well; however, we'd prefer that the ASICS weren't deployed for another 30-45 days or so.
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Well, yeah. But for now the hashpower is 5.5 billion (5,496,695,624.208 Network (KH/s) and the difficulty is more than 50 million...
So i think the solo mining with CPU already is out of question....
Hey Kalyn,
You are absolutely right. No one here on the team can believe the jump in hashpower and difficulty today. The hashpower has gone from 198,389 Network (KH/s) to 24,365,170,193 Network (KH/s) in a matter of hours. This is unexpected and unprecedented; certainly not what we were hoping for. We wanted a gradual transition from CPU to GPU and from GPU to ASIC in order to ensure regular people had an opportunity to accumulate XBR. Difficulty is now 159,779,998; the thought of which first delighted us, but then we realized that it is not likely possible to mine a block without a rig.
Tomorrow I'll reach out to a few GPU miners that were having success last week to see when the last time they were able to mine a block.