Goals: Link/FLUX, virtual miners, improving the marketplace, and virtconf
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I intend to continue Link development and also Link extension development.
I have an idea for creating virtual devices out of ASIC chips. This would allow devices to be partially used for more than one coin. Really need someone to point me in the right direction. I need to know where the allocation of chips happens in the code.
The marketplace is the best one available if you don’t count the bitcointalk markets where quantity gives it enough momentum to be useful. But I know of at least 4 auction places which use internal points and serve the advertising market. They have pretty good traffic and they have a variety of items.
I am rererelaunching virtconf. It is a self-organized action forum where no one is in charge and everyone steps up to the plate, like we do here. The idea is we need to show we can manage our affairs quickly without the whole “take me to your leader” distraction. I support Chris’s work on cryptogov, but it seems to me it’s a bit of repetition of habit not an active solution.
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If you could pick back up Link and Flux that would be awesome… I personally believe that it might just be what saves ftc in the end.
Virtual devices out of asic chips… if you could give the old scrypt asics a new job, it would be massive… truly epic…
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The problem with ASICs is not massive power. It’s centralization and barriers to entry. Solve those two and you’re left with the only two problems that everyone has:
#1: limited moral/ethical reasoning
which proceeds from
#2: limited imagination/experience.
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Well, I have some expensive paper weights ready to be experimented with…
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It appears Gridseed 5 and 80 chip are chip addressable but Zeus miner is not. I’ll see what I can do to fix that.
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Should be very interesting to see what you can do. If you can pull this off, it would be a very big deal.
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What has happened to this virtual devices idea ?
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We have to nag the manufacturers to allow us to allocate individual blades or portions of blades in ASICs.
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What does that mean?
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The way blades work is they are assigned processing by the nonce itself. The nonce contains the address of which chip on which blade will process it. It’s well done, but hard to separate the blades into virtual machines.
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So we are talking about changes on a hardware level or software ?
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Need a way of programming the nonce while also keeping multiple connections open in the miner. Also it occurs to me multipooling should be done in the miner software.
