Trigger warning: incredibly wonky theoretical cryptography post (written by a non-theorist)! Also, this will be in two parts. I plan to be back with some more thoughts on practical stuff, like cloud backup, in the near future. If you’ve read my blog over the years, you should understand that I have basically two obsessions. One … Continue reading How to…
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21 Aug 2023
Recently a reader wrote in and asked if I would look at Sam Altman’s Worldcoin, presumably to give thoughts on it from a privacy perspective. This was honestly the last thing I wanted to do, since life is short and this seemed like an obvious waste of it. Of course a project devoted to literally … Continue reading Some rough…
13 Jul 2017
This is a blog post which literally drove me crazy for a week. After building our mining rig I experienced a bad WiFi connection with high pings, periodically occuring every 30 seconds. Just scroll down to see my – fairly simple – solution. Getting into the mining business A few […] The post Fixing periodically occurring WiFi lags when running…
12 Jul 2017
A few days ago I switched from ethminer to Claymore’s Dual Ethereum Miner because ethminer has problems running multiple instances with multiple GPUs. My blog post How to run same ethminer instance with multiple GPUs is still valid but ethminer simply can’t handle two or more parallel running instances. In […] The post Running multiple Claymore miner instances with different…
6 Jul 2017
How to pass multiple parameters to systemd’s ExecStart – Running same ethminer instance with multiple GPUs with systemd
SchakkoFor our Ethereum mining rig a coworker of mine wrote a systemd template unit so it is relatively easy to configure which graphic card in the rig is assigned to whom. For each of the GPU owners exist a custom configuration file /etc/sysconfig/ethminer-$USERNAME (/etc/sysconfig/ethminer-ckl in my case). The file contains […] The post How to pass multiple parameters to systemd’s…