Do you still want to burn your CPU trying to mine for Steem? forget it definitely!
In my previous posts ( 1 - 2 - 3 ) we already saw that, since last month, only a few CPU miners still managed to grab some crumbs of the mining cake.
A bygone era
Have a look at the mining stats from this month:
Wow, a radical change in the "successful miners" distribution occurred!
Starting from latest hardfork’s day, all miners except gtx-1080 and rabbit have disappeared.
Vanished hollywood , dodl, b0y2k and aizen. They are mentioned on this graph only because they had an important place last month.
Vanished the small resisting clan of Others CPU miners. There are a few lucky ones who manage to steal a block from time to time. But we can count them on fingers.
The duel
Not only was it a massacre, but it is also the beginning of a fight between our two protagonists.
The day after the hardfork, gtx-1080 began hunting and crushed all the little rabbits, stealing his pow-carrots and starving him (and his revenue).
Rabbit tried to strike back from 25th to 27th of October, and for that moment started its slow descent to hell.
I can't wait for next month to see what will happen.
Challenger spotted
There was also an interesting event in the middle of the month: a small appearance of djm which, to my knowledge is also, working on the development of a GPU based mining code.
The bounty
CPU mining is over. Place to GPU mining and why not the ASIC mining.
A Community Bounty has been set up for the one who will open-source GPU mining code but no one has grabbed it yet. Read @picokernel post for more info.
Here an interesting conversation with Nobody, the known coder of gtx-1080
The end of "The end of ..."
The last thing I have to do now is to replace my intro image with this one:
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