Hey, vanity npub miners using rana, any established estimates of time to mine N characters on M cores?
Rana, itself, no long appears to report estimates.
Discussion
Is it true that you can't add any randomness in the vanity mining, so people can mine each other private keys?
I waited 18 days on 12 cores for 7 characters and never found one.
Launched a 96 core AWS instance this morning because now I need to know if I can find a 7 character one within 24 hours on 96 cores. It’s been running 2 hours so far and it hasn’t found one yet.
#[3], any idea what the Cash App had to throw at the task to get npub1cashapp?
#[5] we need answers
Things to look out for in next SQ 10-K:
1. Vanity npub mining cluster expenses
Bound to happen
Did anyone ask #[8] ?
I’ve seen people quote him saying it took a couple days, which makes sense if he used an older/faster version of Rana.
If there is no evil "firewall", more people use American software. The evil "firewall" is the biggest scourge. The U.S. government only needs to ban the "firewall" and everything will be solved. CCP is about to collapse.
A quantum computer
on a m1 max I find 1-2 7 characters per day
I found 15 copies of a 6 character prefix on my 10 core Mac Studio in about 72 hours. But I didn’t find any 7 character prefixes in that same time.
maybe bad luck
also I switched back to an older rana version. the actual version was somehow very slow
I make about 500k key/sec on my m1 max, same for a 40 core xeon from 2016
I just switched to the v0.4.0 tag of Rana and am now getting 10x the hashes/sec. Thanks for the heads up because that should make a huge difference.
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On average you will find 1 hit on n+1 characters for every 32 hits on n.
That means you might have found one if you waited another ~80 hours.
!!!!
Clearly I’m wasting my time with my Intel Mac mining.
Yeh, it’s brutal. I have the same.
have it register hits for 6 chars and multiply the average time taken by 32 to get an estimate for 7 chars
Highly recommend piping output to a file. Just in case you find one, don’t write it down, then your cat decides to lay on the computer and crash it before you get around to writing it down.
Makes you think
took me 9 days to mine my 8 character npub on ~140 cores
more generally, the best way to estimate for your hardware is to mine some shorter keys, then multiply the average time by 32 for each additional prefix character
seriously impressive
Where did you spin up 140?
A bunch of old laptops I have lying around, and some aws ec2 spot instances
You can run rana across machines?
Wow 😳
4.5 days, 8 cores, 7 characters... my guy just hit pay dirt. Thanks, all.
Can someone link to rana? I keep seeing it referenced by name but can’t find it.
Here you go.