No. Monero's tail emission rate was specifically chosen to be less than the rate of global gold production. Do you claim the price of gold is intended to decrease?

A continuous emission like Monero's doesn't equate to inflation/devaluation. It allows its userbase to expand organically, without artificial scarcity pumping its price.

I have no reason to lie, I'm not selling anything. Bitmain is selling mining hardware, take a look at their claims. They've had 7 years to try to crack it.

The random programs change too quickly to just implement them directly on an FPGA. Reprogramming the entire chip like that takes too much time.

Yep. Nothing about computing architecture has changed.

> I would love to show you how easy this is to reproduce, even on fresh installs of Ubuntu and/or MacOS on otherwise-stable hardware (never tried Windows... easier?).

If it's so easy to reproduce, you should be able to screen record a session with two terminal windows:

1 with monerod running and syncing the blockchain

2 send a `kill -9` to the monerod

1b restart monerod

And then we should see the error message you're referring to.

I was talking about database sync, not blockchain sync. You don't need to use safe sync mode if you don't have to worry about machine crashes. And just killing the process will never corrupt the blockchain DB.

> This may be old behavior... I go way back

On this particular point, I go way back further than you.

The post described both modes. The only difference is that Fast mode processes the cache to generate the full 2.1GB dataset, so subsequent programs can just reference it as needed. Light mode uses only the 256MB cache and generates the required dataset values individually, on each access. That saves RAM but costs more CPU time.

In reality, no one has been able to build any device for RandomX that isn't actually a CPU. The closest thing to a "mining ASIC" is just a bunch of RISC-V cores.

Totally false. LMDB is perfectly crash-proof in that scenario and killing the process never damages the DB. The only thing that's not guaranteed is turning off syncs, in the face of an OS crash/power outage.

If you don't sync, you're not abusing the SSD. If you run on Windows, the OS is too unstable to use without safe sync mode though.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/1h6e4nk/randomx_5_y...

Most miners use AMD Ryzens. Couldn't tell you the actual breakdown of CPU types in use. Apple's M series CPUs are quite efficient at it too. Bitmain now sells a "Monero RandomX Mining ASIC" which is just a bunch of RISC-V cores, seemingly based on Sophon SG2042 SOCs. There's nothing special or more cost-effective about their product.

You can mine on old smartphones quite easily. I use a bunch of old Android TVboxes myself. Their hashrates are nothing to crow about, but their hashes/watt are still competitive with faster CPUs.

There is a RandomX V2 that will be deployed soon. Its main improvement is even cheaper verification cost.

Pure tripe. https://www.symas.com/post/are-you-sure-you-want-to-use-mmap...