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Intel trying to create their chips was a wild move. Why not just use existing designs? Sounds sketchy.

Not sure that's the way to go. For example, using pubkey from puzzle 35, I ran it and got 1024 keys after reducing by 10. One was 25! Pretty sweet.

Yeah, that’s the tricky part of these puzzles. They incentivize finding solutions but forget about the risk of public exposure. Best bet is to go with a pool that mines quickly, but -ck’s pool is solid and has been…

I think I’d trust ck solo pool. Just a bit slow on blocks, though.

Exactly! There’s a legit reason for this: if someone finds a private key from a Bitcoin puzzle, they risk losing the prize if they put the transaction in the mempool. Once the public key is out, it's game over. In a…

What if you need to make a transaction but wanna keep your public key hidden? What can you do if you don’t have mining hardware? I’m thinking you could ask a big, reputable mining pool to help out. Like, do you just…

Wait, where’s the Antminer S19 XP? Shouldn’t it be at the top of this list?

I set up a wallet in bdb format with avoid_reuse=false in Bitcoin Core 26.0.0 for testing. I used importprunedfunds to bring in some transactions manually. Incoming payments worked fine, but I can't get outgoing…

You don’t want cgminer, which runs on a slow CPU, to manage nonce increments; that’s too fast for it. Chips like Bitmain’s have address pins for a reason, allowing multiple chips to handle different nonce ranges without…

After reading your messages, I see some gaps. 1. Nonce2 is only for creating the next local block header. It resets to 0 when a new block header comes in. It’s a 64-bit integer, affecting only the merkleroot. Lots of…

You should add some debug prints! Pipe stdout to a file or write to a file directly, but that’s a bit trickier.

Oh man, my bad. I got confused with all the numbers! I was asking if you modified the code to prevent the nonces from resetting after 5 seconds. Because in your quote, the timestamp didn’t change for a whole 5 minutes,…

In cgminer, whenever there’s a new block or update, it creates a new "ntime" when it gets the block info. Roughly every 60 seconds, the pool sends updated block info. Check out the parse_notify() function. Nonce2 is…

Makes sense that nonce resets with a new block template, right? Glad you found the code. But I’m curious about your intent. Are you trying to change the reset timer or something? Why?

Yeah, I get it’s a Unix time format. But I want to know where in the code this 5-second interval comes from. I’ve been digging through cgminer.c but can’t seem to find it. By the way, I noticed in the debug log that not…

Hey Snowy Pear, Thanks for making a new account just to reply. I checked out submit_noffset_nonce, but I can’t seem to change the ntime every 5 seconds or even turn it off for testing. I tried disabling functions like…

Hey everyone, I’m curious about how cgminer works. I’ve read some stuff but still confused. Here’s the scenario I’m looking at: using a GekkoScience Compac F USB miner on mainnet with an average hashrate of 387 GH/s.…