Why Solana Was Decimated by Bankman-Fried’s Downfall

Re:Why Solana Was Decimated by Bankman-Fried’s Downfall by kkielhofner on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @08:54PM (#34168545)

I used to run a Solana validator. After compiling the Solana perf libs for my installed version of CUDA Solana consistently used at least 75% of my RTX 3090. For a validator.

Solana validator hardware requirements are incredibly high compared to anything else I'm familiar with.

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Re:Why Solana Was Decimated by Bankman-Fried’s Downfall by wmf on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @11:12PM (#34169457)

Have you seen what a Bitcoin ASIC miner costs?

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Re:Why Solana Was Decimated by Bankman-Fried’s Downfall by kkielhofner on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @11:42PM (#34169630)

Of course. Why (and what) are you trying to compare between Bitcoin mining (PoW) and Solana validating (PoS)? Five or so years ago I did about 25 kW constant load of PoW mining so yes, I'm pretty familiar.

In additional to the Solana validator from my original comment I've also run Ethereum and Cardano validators (or rough equivalents). They use a fraction of the compute required by a Solana validator while providing similar rewards and network function.

Again, in terms of PoS chain validators the hardware requirements of Solana are significantly higher than any other PoS chain I'm aware of - it's not even close.

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