AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility

Re:AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility by shawabawa3 on Monday November 25, 2013 @02:45PM (#6796421)

i imagine n+1 is much faster than generating a large random number for each hash.

They probably generate a guid and then append a number and increment

Whats the advantage of using a new random number each time?

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Re:AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility by wmf on Monday November 25, 2013 @03:14PM (#6796620)

Fun EE fact: An LFSR is cheaper than a counter.

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Re:AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility by joezydeco on Monday November 25, 2013 @04:00PM (#6796972)

But an LFSR only gives you a pseudorandom result, right? I mean, I'd rather load thermal noise than use a shift.

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Re:AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility by wmf on Monday November 25, 2013 @04:29PM (#6797181)

For searching a 32-bit nonce space I'd rather use a PRNG than a true RNG to avoid wasting work due to birthday paradox collisions.

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