🗒⛏ notemine_hw ⚡⚙️ I recently discovered the notemine crate, which is a rust-base note miner. the project compiles to WASM and caters for a web-native experience. so I forked it into notemine_hw with the goal to support hardware acceleration (GPU, FPGA, ASIC) for mining nostr notes. most of the boilerplate is bootstrapped (including CLI), while the WASM stuff were removed. next steps are integration of Metal (MacOS) and OpenCL (Linux) libraries to replace the CPU-based SHA256 hashing. I'm quite busy doing PoW on SV2 so I'm not sure how far I will get, but if any Nostr-PoW enthusiasts want to carry on the torch, contributions are very much welcome

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GitHub - plebemineira/notemine_hw: nostr note miner written in rust, aiming at hardware acceleration

nostr note miner written in rust, aiming at hardware acceleration - plebemineira/notemine_hw

I attended BTC Prague 2024 as a contributor to Stratum Reference Implementation (SRI) I helped the SRI community deliver a hands-on workshop during HRF dev/hack/day. We had very positive engagement from Hashlabs Mining. We also spoke with some relevant industry players, including: - Demand, which is trailblazing SV2 adoption with the Job Declaration protocol. I'm very bullish on how they are decentralizing mining by allowing their hashers to select transactions. - Braiins, which gave us a sample of their new BMM100 (SV2 enabled Home Miner). It will allow us to test SV2 interoperability between SRI and BOS firmware. - Marathon, which gave us a sample of their new UCB2100 (Antminer Control Board). - Ocean, whose community of hashers could benefit from an off-the-shelf FOSS SV1 Proxy solution and reduce the incidence of empty blocks being mined on their pool. My key takeaways with regards to SV2 adoption: - Demand is writing some awesome libs based on SRI. I'm excited to record some live coding screencasts with @Fi3 and share that knowledge with the community. - The Bitcoin mining industry has fragmented SV1 standards - players are eager for SV2 enabled firmware but also working new standards for encryption and binary encoding on SV1 - FOSS SV2 firmware has great potential to boost adoption (e.g.: github.com/plebhash/cgminer-sv2 🙏) - Industry players will adopt SV2 when they are ready, and this will be a gradual transition. - Bitcoin is at its healthiest when hashpower flows easily across different pools - INTEROPERABILITY INTEROPERABILITY INTEROPERABILITY ⛏️ plebs be hashin ⚡