Let’s talk about ASIC mining

[str4d]

@dzonikg

"The memory requirements for testnet mining are currently set very low, because the implementation is not optimised. So currently, anyone who was mining before can still mine.

Once we have optimised the implementation (#857), we will bump up the memory requirements to around 1 GB of RAM (#856), so you will need that much free memory per mining thread.

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LIke you see this was more then 2 years ago and they still did not change it and memory requirements are still ridiculously low (45 mb per thread ,144 mb for full speed) for something they call it “memory-oriented Proof-of-Work”
You see that they sad they will bump up to 1 gb which is actually 144/5 (2.5 gb for full speed)

Just saw this, and I want to point out that when I said “the memory requirements are currently set very low”, I meant it: at the time, the parameters were (96, 3). If you look at the linked issue (specifically this comment, and this subsequent PR), you can see that we bumped the parameters to the current (200,9), which at the time did take closer to 1 GB of memory; it was only after we froze the consensus rules (and thus were not going to alter the parameters again before launch) that mining software developers worked on optimised implementations that only required ~150 MB.