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I respect proof of work. https://powrelay.xyz

Post with at least 24 zero bits or go unnoticed!

Not possible, different mining algo unfortunately

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nostr:npub1y757ulku2jrgstt6e4s7vccl7x9qn6vmdmj7gkgx78gdccxxra0swmydh8 do you use an ASIC chip for https://powrelay.xyz/api.html? otherwise, how long do you think it would take to mine something like a 40 diff note

No, just rent computers from gcp (when it was working). Will take less than 10 minutes, it just buys as much computers as necessary to get it done fast, but it'll be expensive.

No one was using it so I turned off the servers for now. Gonna make something better soon, I think it's too annoying to have to have to go to a separate website, it should be a dvm or something.

When more people use it, I expect it'll follow the usual trajectory of naive cpu algo → gpu → fgpa → asic

The number of tries needed to get N zero bits of POW is geometrically distributed with

p = 1 / (2^N)

The expected number of tries is

2^N

(on average you'll need to try 256 different nonces to get 8 bits of POW, an event ID starting with `00`)

The variance on the number of tries is

2^(2N) (1 - 1/2^N)

which, conveniently, makes for a standard deviation of about

2^N

for large N

All that to say, setting POW to 25 in gossip was usually fine, but the occasional note took a painful amount of time.

The server running wss://powrelay.xyz kept running out memory and dying. I don't have time to fix properly so I fixed it with:

20 * * * * rcctl restart powrelay

God, forgive me.

Am I crazy or are these too many endpoints:

https://legend.lnbits.com/docs

?

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Maybe ecash would be better as a technology for specific application blind tokens instead of as generic money.

https://kagi.com/ could generate these "blind search tokens" and store them on the frontend, then use one every time a search was made.

BLW used this scheme in order to pay for the Olympus watchtower service.

A plug-in-and-play library or even a service business could have some demand.

I should set up a mint...

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proof of work would be proof of work

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nostr:npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj is censoring 35 people from his own feed- this is disgusting and will destroy/centralise nostr. he should kill himself