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Shawn

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.

mononaut 2y ago

took me 9 days to mine my 8 character npub on ~140 cores

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mononaut 2y ago

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

🆃🅷🅰🆃 🆁🅴🅳 🅶🆄🆈 2y ago

seriously impressive

Shawn 2y ago

Where did you spin up 140?

mononaut 2y ago

A bunch of old laptops I have lying around, and some aws ec2 spot instances

Shawn 2y ago

You can run rana across machines?

mononaut 2y ago

no, but the mining is random, so you can run several instances independently without wasting hashes.

then on each machine I logged the output to file, and set up a script to DM me if it found a match.

Shawn 2y ago

Ah, ok. So the old laptops had no chance in hell. 😆

mononaut 2y ago

every little CPU helps :P

Stronghodler 2y ago

Wow 😳