So difficulty is currently at 774 bits or 234 decimal digits and I haven't found a block in over 24 hours. At this number size, expect about one (1) out of every 540 integers to be prime. Well, until we optimize the segmented sieve of Eratosthenes further for finding prime sextuplets, it is back to Primecoin mining for me. The miners released with this coin are a joke.
So many people have pointed out that unless you have massive amounts of processing power, this coin is not for you. It is a shame because a lot of people will be left out.
It is going to be interesting to see how a pool miner will be implemented - there are a lot of 2 - 4 chains, but very few 5 - 6 chains.
EECS in your .signature tag and not interested in doing the optimization? *grins* If only the release happened during IAP.
The difficulty is high, but - solo mining is hard, period. An optimized sieve won't change the difficulty of solo mining.
What the optimized sieve will do is level the playing field. Right now there's a factor of 14x difference, at least, between the best private miners and the released one. It's great fun for people who like to tweak the code, but probably not the best long-term thing for the coin.
? is this funny or what ??
