That reminds me of me and nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s's PoW bots
I had some optimizations that allowed 2x-3x faster hashing, and I was going to implement SIMD, but never got around to it
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Was that Will's bot that did 44 PoW or something?
Yes. Mine did 41.
I actually have a beefy server I can use for this. Maybe I should also look into HW accelerated SHA256 👀
Let the "Nostr Bot PoW Wars" begin!
I mean, I have a lot of cores available if needed, so 👀
According to my calculations it will take 15 days or less for 48 bit PoW
Do it!
I should also have better multithreading than fork()
better to start one thread per thread and feed them with a queue, you definitely don't want to be making and taking down threads that is an incredible waste of time
every thread works on the same note, the nonce has a thread ID component