2018-11-09 08:15:48
Nov 09, 2018 12:15:26 AM snowblossom.miner.PoolClientFailover$PoolMonitor runPass
INFO: Pool status
http://snow-mine.1209k.com: online - selected
http://snowplough.kekku.li: online
snowblossom.hamster.science: online
Fireduck
2018-11-09 08:16:08
that top one is just a cname to whatever pool I have my mess on at the moment
Fireduck
2018-11-09 09:28:46
Hey guys, is it easy to start mining Snow?
Alexander
2018-11-09 09:30:10
opinions vary, many find it easy, many find it hard - try
Rotonen
2018-11-09 09:37:17
Totally new to mining. Visiting http://snowblossom.org for instructions. Is it only tp download one of the torrents to get going?
Alexander
2018-11-09 09:45:06
essentially yes
Rotonen
2018-11-09 09:45:28
check out on the block explorer what is the current snow field and grab that or a larger one
Rotonen
2018-11-09 09:45:33
all of them contain all the previous ones
Rotonen
2018-11-09 13:34:52
You download the largest snowfield you can to your SSD and mine from there?
Chuffer
2018-11-09 14:02:34
that is a sensible approach, yes
Rotonen
2018-11-09 17:08:44
Pool failover seems to work
Fireduck
2018-11-09 17:08:55
I'm going to add some additional stats
Fireduck
2018-11-09 19:53:52
what could be cool and in the spirit of decentralization would be some p2p pool discovery mechanism
Rotonen
2018-11-09 20:38:14
I like that.
Clueless
2018-11-09 21:37:24
hi all, is this cpu mined only?
reuel
2018-11-09 21:49:03
@reuel our POW is storage IO based
Clueless
2018-11-09 21:51:04
you can do the number crunching on anything, but it's not meaningful, as you somehow need to get the correct numbers to the cruncher to begin with
Rotonen
2018-11-09 21:51:17
currently CPUs could crunch more than you can feed them
Rotonen
2018-11-09 22:16:59
the bottleneck is the I/O on your HD?
reuel
2018-11-09 22:31:26
Yes. People try to mine with ram
Fireduck
2018-11-09 22:31:32
Or SSD
Fireduck
2018-11-09 22:31:44
HDD is pretty slow
Fireduck
2018-11-09 22:35:33
there is a standard mining implementation?
reuel
2018-11-09 22:36:16
gonna try it out later :slightly_smiling_face:
reuel
2018-11-09 22:37:30
@reuel you probably want an NVME or several.
Clueless
2018-11-09 22:39:34
is there a guide for a decent mining rig then
reuel
2018-11-09 22:42:34
We are still figuring it out
Fireduck
2018-11-09 22:42:48
Lots of discussion is n <#CB4CYRTPG|mining>
Fireduck
2018-11-09 22:43:32
https://snowplough.kekku.li/wizard/ A quickstart wizard to help you get started with mining Snowblossom.
Fireduck