hmm for the 1000 cpu idea..
average it to about 25kh/s a cpu.
so thats 25,000 kh/s or 25 mh/s
Currenty difficulty of noble will gain about 550,000 Noble a day or about 22916 Noble an hour (give or take)
Taking current average price of 80 satoshi thats about 0.44btc @ 820 usd = usd 361
Now what you should consider as well.. on average maybe 60 watt a cpu
about 60,000 watts is 1440 kWh a day being consumed
Taking average power costs of about $0.15 per unit
the community would spend about $216 a day in power to generate $361..
for the individual miner you will spend about 0.22 cents a day to earn 550 NOBL ( $0.36 cents)
Thanks for this detailed calculation!
IMHO the whole 1000 CPU idea is worth a try, assuming that:
1. We will warn users about higher power consumption (and how much would it cost them per person/in Total, per community)
2. We will warn users that doing this on laptops is not the very best idea.
Laptops can overheat pretty quickly (much quicker than during normal 100% CPU processes running!), then when overheat, they use to automatically limit the CPU throttle, resulting in horrible lags in performance.... and then they melt
And with all that effort they can give
very low hashrates (even below 1 kH/s, for example
1.2 kH/s on my T40 1.86 GHz Pentium M).
But I managed to reduce miner CPU usage to 50% (using throttling) so I have
~0.7 kH/s now with no overheating at all.
Maybe someone has any idea on how to
automatically limit minerd's CPU usage to, say, 80%?
In that case it could be run 24/7 and user will even be able to conduct other activities on the same machine
