Smol VMs for fun not profit

Last proof took 92 seconds
avg time: 92.27s // 0.0959 proofs/s

These log-based metrics aren’t precise, but good enough to get an impression of proofs per $ spent. It’s humbling to compare to the (opportunity) cost of buying $NOCK OTC.

What would be the maximum proof time target before you’d consider horizontal scaling? Would you expect this to change once Nockpool launches?

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You probably want a time under 30 seconds before it might be considered viable. Maybe even a time under 15 seconds.

Hi mashex, could you share with us how you setup your miner? Thanks.

Everything according to the official readme: GitHub - zorp-corp/nockchain: Nockchain protocol monorepo. Right now, I’ve compiled with RUSTFLAGS=-C target-cpu=native -C opt-level=3 but I’m not sure whether it actually helps on this ISA.

I’ve also applied memory overcommit because this is linux and the machine is tight on RAM, but I’m not sure it’s strictly necessary with the smaller nock stack sizes.

The screenshot is of a log viewer I put together with tmux. Proof stats are inspired by GitHub - jobless0x/nockchain-launcher.