Will Wownero be supported?

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Will Wownero be supported?

barrettathome opened this issue 5 years ago · comments

Barrett Patterson commented 5 years ago

I see it uses a POW called RandomX. Just curious if it would be worth it to implement this.

focaeppe · Answer 1 · Tue Jul 30 2019 16:33:19 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I think this algo doesn't support auto-algo switching

notgiven688 · Answer 2 · Wed Jul 31 2019 17:53:42 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@focaeppe I do not understand that answer. RandomX will be the next algorithm for Monero. Sadly enough webassembly does not support the correct rounding modes used in that algorithm, so we would get a very significant performance loss.

bwq90 · Answer 3 · Thu Aug 15 2019 15:05:20 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@notgiven688 I was looking this up and found below link where a Monero Developer replied in comment that

To get correct RandomX hashes, you would have to use some soft-fp library (emulated floating point using integer operations).

https://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroMining/comments/ccwcy4/randomx_in_a_web_browser/

So are there any chances you'll work on to integrate next POW in XMR? What are you plans?

notgiven688 · Answer 4 · Thu Aug 15 2019 23:03:31 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@dx908 Sorry. No plan to have a working version ready for the fork. The outcome of many hours of work would probably be that RandomX does not run fast enough on wasm. We will support the next turtle coin fork. Pools like moneroocean make it possible to still mine and get paid in our favourite crypto - XMR.