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Re:New cryptocurrency could potentially cause an SSD or hard... by ChainOfFools on Saturday April 17, 2021 @03:44PM (#26846891)
it probably writes and MD5's a giant sparse file with some salt lightly scattered throughout it in order to force allocation of the space or fail hash test.
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Re:New cryptocurrency could potentially cause an SSD or hard... by DougN7 on Sunday April 18, 2021 @09:07AM (#26852090)
I’ve wondered that too. If you wrote your own client you could lie about the hashes, so there must be something else to it. I have a farmer going and maybe every 10 minutes the hard disk spins up for what sounds like very little I/O so it’s definitely not checking the entire 100GB plot file.
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