Asking for two question.
1) Anon, any ETA forma multipool release?
2) BurstCoin dev, any ETA for GPU plotter?
Thank you alla!
We should pause the development of the GPU plotter
what about stopping completely and focus on other development ?
Exactly. Why would you want to make it easier and faster for the mining process to be abused? Leave it be - if someone else makes one down the line fair enough, but don't make one voluntarily.
GPU plotter will be an easy opportunity for the large farms to dump the coin , no need to make things easier for them.
i posted earlier today that if you run a large farm a gpu plotter wont be a game changer.
a gpu plotter helps only small miners cause they do'nt have the compute power a farm has.
instead of 15 days plotting a farm starting at 1 pb it may only require 2-5 days at much additional afterwards worthless hardware costs for the gpus.
so anyone who does'nt want a working gpu plotter simply fears that his own plots become less worth compared to new small miners.
How about Chinese mining farm who own 1,000 280x rigs each with couple of 6 TB HDD ?
Or we scale that up to 5,000 280x rigs each with couple of 6 TB HDD ?
this is what will happen but for me it makes no difference if they need 5 or 15 days to do so
on the other hand simply attaching disks to this mining rigs in such scale is not trivial.
you have to stack your disks somehow into a mechanical construction and deal with vibrations.
if you already have the systems up and running and know how to do (usb thumb bootdevice) you should have at least 2-6 free fast sata ports on the boards.
if you stick to 5 tb hdds (most bang for the buck) the network may grow to 50-300 pb within 15 days.
such a amount of hdds (10000 to 60000 @5 watts each) running in one facility complicates things further.
Actually its not that complicated. Modern drives don't have that much vibrations. And some rubber bushings can solve that problem.
Also, there are pci-e addapters for 4-6 SATA III ports and also SATA power splitters. A 4 port SATA adapter is $15 on newegg, for how much do you think they are selling one in china
I have 3 pci-e slots. I could fit in 18 drives plus 6 that are on the mobo. So, 24 drives. I got a 850W corsair power supply from my former mining rig that can easily power those drives.
So, in order to fit an extra 18 drives it would cost somewhere around $100, lets just say $150 to be safe plus the cost of the drives.
Again, these prices are retail prices.
Still think its hard to achieve something on a large scale.