Subnostr

I mined it on a new private key. I used `rana` on every cpu I owned for a couple weeks and finally got the 8 characters. What it does is just randomly generate nsecs until it finds an npub with the prefix you specify, and I had it looking for about 10-15 of various lengths.

If I kept it running since then I could have probably mined 9 or even 10 characters by now.

node 1y ago

How long did it take? Were all your CPUs pooled in to one mining effort or they were all mining separately?

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Jay 1y ago

It was actually pretty janky. I had half the cores on my home server, all the cores of my laptop at night (since I was working on it at the time), and all the cores of my desktop running for a few weeks. And at the beginning, I rented 48 CPUs from bithost for about 36 hours. Each script's output was just written to a file when an npub was found.

I pointed the Rana scripts on each machine to output found npubs to a shared folder on my NAS, and I wrote a cron script to pull any found npubs from the rented server so I wouldn't lose any when it shut down.

node 1y ago

I’m glad it worked out! This is pretty cool Jay!

Jay 1y ago

Thanks 😄