Title: Does anyone remember the hashing performance of the original BTC Client? Post by: Hook^ on July 01, 2011, 09:43:51 PM Was it about the same as the latest CPU-miner? CPU-Miner seems to get around 1~2 MH/S per core.
I am wondering this, because the average network hashing rate for the first year of bitcoin's existence was around 5MHash/S. That would mean there were on average, only 5 nodes in the bitcoin network the first year. Also, when did the client start supporting external miners? check out: http://bitcoin.sipa.be/speed-ever.png The difficulty stayed at 1 the whole first year (2009), because there were only a handful of nodes on the network. In other words, at 2 MH/Sec, you could have mined almost 700,000 bitcoins the first year with just a middle of the road dual-core CPU. Which would be worth around $10 million now. Read it and weep Title: Re: Does anyone remember the hashing performance of the original BTC Client? Post by: syb3ria on July 01, 2011, 10:56:33 PM UFAsoft's CPU miner used to give me 5.1 mh/s at E2140.
Title: Re: Does anyone remember the hashing performance of the original BTC Client? Post by: Hook^ on July 01, 2011, 11:00:56 PM UFAsoft's CPU miner used to give me 5.1 mh/s at E2140. I know that the external miners have good performance. I was more wondering about the native client performance. The original didn't allow external miners to connect, right?Title: Re: Does anyone remember the hashing performance of the original BTC Client? Post by: ribuck on July 02, 2011, 12:14:22 PM I was more wondering about the native client performance. The original didn't allow external miners to connect, right? Client version 0.3.9 gave around 3 MHash/s on a 3.2GHz quad-core i5. Later versions pushed this up to around 5 MHash/s due to the cumulative effect of a number of tweaks. The original didn't allow external miners to connect, right? Correct, but from around the time that poclbm was released there was a patch floating around so that you could recompile your client to include the getwork function so that external miners could connect. |