Guy on Nostr: Another nice thing about monero is it can be mined with free/libre software on ...
Another nice thing about monero is it can be mined with free/libre software on hardware you already own. No GPUs with their proprietary firmware, no specialized hardware. It is not profitable from a monetary accounting perspective but profitable in the general sense. Also p2pool.
So I said "no specialized hardware" but sometimes I wonder if some AMD employees had a hand in the proof-of-work design because their chips seem to be advantaged. When raptor's power9 (truly free/libre processor) came out it was going to be better for monero but then they changed the proof-of-work to the disadvantage of that processor and to the advantage of the less free/libre CPUs.
So I said "no specialized hardware" but sometimes I wonder if some AMD employees had a hand in the proof-of-work design because their chips seem to be advantaged. When raptor's power9 (truly free/libre processor) came out it was going to be better for monero but then they changed the proof-of-work to the disadvantage of that processor and to the advantage of the less free/libre CPUs.