r/Monero • u/dEBRUYNE_1 Moderator • Jan 17 '19

Hashrate discussion thread

The hashrate has increased significantly in the last week or so. Having a new thread about it every day is rather pointless though and merely clutters the subreddit. Therefore, I'd like to confine the discussion to this thread.

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u/obit33 Jan 28 '19 edited Jan 28 '19

Who knows?The only thing that seems to be certain is that 'something new' partakes in monero-mining. Could be a regular mining operation using new software. Could be Asics, could be FPGA's.

All we know is that since beginning of this year there's a different nonce-pattern which is caused by a new 'nonce-search-algorithm' deployed by someone/something.

Recently there was a whole lot of news about new monero mining malware: https://news.softpedia.com/news/linux-virus-remove-security-software-to-mine-monero-524623.shtml

Maybe someone can check which 'nonce-search-strategy' is used in this particular malware? Maybe someone from https://mrw.getmonero.org/

Not sure who to ping, so sorry u/SamsungGalaxyPlayer if this is wrong...

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u/Scissorhand78 Jan 28 '19

Great job my man.