Topic: [ANN] AEON [2019-09-27: Upgrade to version 0.13.0.0 ASAP HF@1146200 Oct 25] - page 154. (Read 625666 times)

How large is the blockchain of this coin and how hard is it to use the CLI? I'm not used to the command line but I know I can learn it with a little guidance from the aeon community.

@smooth. Thank you for replying at every question meticulously. It is good to know that you are not going away from the project. Are the other Monero developers like fluffypony helping out? Aeon could be the future of proof of work if you are able to create an efficient full node that will run on old computers and smart phones. Maybe the next step is to have an efficient POW platform with smart contract capabilities.

I also want to know how long will smooth stay with Aeon as lead developer?

And in plain English? In a sentence

Do you guys have a Slack or Telegram group?

Thank you for the reply. What I really want to know is how is the lighter variant of the Cryptonight proof of work different from the regular and normal variant? Is it more energy efficient?

I also want to know how long will smooth stay with Aeon as lead developer?

Here is some info on the differences:
http://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/1393/what-is-the-aeon-currency

Highlights:
4 minute block time
a lighter variant of the Cryptonight PoW
0 mixin transactions will be allowed

Smooth's response on this issue:

  AEON's solution addresses the problem identified in MRL-0001. By allowing only one 0-mix transaction per block (when there can, and will assuming AEON becomes a "global standard", be many txs per block), the average ring size will be high enough to ensure that any attacker's existing known output set (the attack discussed) "burns out". MRL-0001 is also overly conservative in its calculations as it does not consider that outputs are currently chosen using a triangular distribution (favoring the new "burned out" outputs) as this was added after MRL-0001 was written. Given the combined effect the "burn out" will occur at an even faster rate for a given average ring size than is shown on the chart n the paper.
The possible attack is then reduced to an ongoing Sybil attack where (unlike a situation where there is a high number of 0- and 1- mix transactions) the attacker must incur an ongoing cost to create more and more new outputs. This is essentially the same situation as banning 0-mix altogether except that the average ring size will be slightly smaller and therefore the burn out rate also slightly slower.
I do not believe we need to remove 0-mix transactions altogether and I also believe we can further improve things to expand their use in a safe manner which will bring most of the benefits of what you describe as the clear note protocol without dropping larger ring sigs altogether. Done right the two can coexist.

I think your card might be too old. You can try lowering intensity, maybe try 512, 256, 128, 64. If it doesn't work at 64 probably not gonna work. You could also try asking Wolf` on #monero-pools channel on freenode irc, he's generally very helpful and he wrote the original miner for Monero.

What do I need to change in the conf besides my address and ports?? Crashes with 640 setting, OpenCl error -54 with other settings,, how do I find out what settings I should have for this card? Radeon 5800 series, I feel like a noob again thanks for any suggestions!

Thanks I'll check it out, I'm an Nvidia guy sooooo....

Anyone have a link for Windows AMD miner for Aeon? Or an OpenCL build for a AMD 5870 , or is it even worth running?