diff --git a/docs/plans/counter-asic-2-status.md b/docs/plans/counter-asic-2-status.md index dadbc3b71..06ad51d57 100644 --- a/docs/plans/counter-asic-2-status.md +++ b/docs/plans/counter-asic-2-status.md @@ -241,3 +241,7 @@ PC 2: spcurve-stopped-pc2-pv1b closed 20:47:46Z (the card alone: an empty shard ## 20:50 the measure lock holder is a prover measurement; a lock-status defect Correction to the 20:50 entry above: the measure lock has been held since 20:31Z by pid 45000, a `with-lock.sh measure` of igneum-wt-agg-cost's igneum-prove-host (the aggregation-cost agent's prover measurement, 18 minutes so far), not by the readwidth packbench; `with-lock.sh status` prints the LAST WRITER's command text, not the holder's, which is why it named the w4 run. Defect for the next cut (tools/lock/with-lock.sh: the status line must read the holder's pid and command, not the last writer's; the class of CLAUDE.md's watcher rule). Builds proceed in the three build slots (build-0 taken at 20:49:51 after an 885-s wait); GPU measurements (the mixer's verifier and build timings, the epoch compile-ahead, the Mac bit-exactness runs under `run` are not blocked) queue behind the prover measurement. Readwidth head is 30ff674 (per-watt rows for the consequences reviewer; e752fc7 stays the table commit). + +## 20:51 the number-free public copy is applied on ca2-coord (0ad70ba and the next commit) + +site/litepaper.html: the Mining section's "bound by memory bandwidth" is corrected to "waits on memory latency, not on maths or bandwidth"; the "Everything above is automatic" paragraph is replaced by the level 2 three ideas and the fourth paragraph with a link to the numbers page; the vs RandomX rows "Changes over time" and "Dataset" and the Hardware paragraph carry the step schedule (years 4, 12, 28; 4 GB about four years, 8 GB about twelve). site/index.html: the Memory row and the Mine card carry the step schedule ("2 GB at genesis, doubling at years 4, 12 and 28"; "any 4 GB card at launch, 8 GB from year 4"). NOT yet applied, because they carry the chip number: the level 1 sentence in the hero and the abstract ("a custom chip gains under 2x") and the limits bullet "A chip is impossible"; they wait for the combined chip row from docs/analysis/chip-model-v3.md (if 1.8x: "under 2x" with the margin stated as thin; else qualified). The bench page's Counter ASIC section (level 3) waits for the final table. docs/evidence.md's card-lifetime row (designed) is still to add. diff --git a/site/litepaper.html b/site/litepaper.html index 533f17c63..ce7b0620b 100644 --- a/site/litepaper.html +++ b/site/litepaper.html @@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ body.all .pager{display:none}
The honest bear-market case rests on cost. A miner's card is already running and the power is often domestic, so Igneum miners' marginal cost in the proving market is close to power, which is an edge over data-centre provers and nothing more.
The dataset starts at 2 GB and grows by half a gigabyte a year, so a 4 GB card mines for about four years and an 8 GB card for more than a decade, approximate. 12 GB or more proves full shards. NVIDIA and AMD both work, because the mining program is generated for the architecture both share and the proof system is hash-based. Apple's chips are GPUs with unified memory, so Macs mine too, at about a fifth of a flagship card: Measured, 26.7 against 123 million hashes a second, an Apple M5 Max beside an RTX 5090 on the live devnet, 4 October 2026. A Mac is a poor miner per dollar. There is no CPU mining lane, on purpose, because CPU mining is what botnets farm. Nodes, wallets and exchanges need no GPU at all.
+The dataset starts at 2 GB and doubles on a step schedule fixed at genesis (years 4, 12 and 28, the average of half a gigabyte a year), so a 4 GB card mines for about four years and an 8 GB card for about twelve, approximate. 12 GB or more proves full shards. NVIDIA and AMD both work, because the mining program is generated for the architecture both share and the proof system is hash-based. Apple's chips are GPUs with unified memory, so Macs mine too, at about a fifth of a flagship card: Measured, 26.7 against 123 million hashes a second, an Apple M5 Max beside an RTX 5090 on the live devnet, 4 October 2026. A Mac is a poor miner per dollar. There is no CPU mining lane, on purpose, because CPU mining is what botnets farm. Nodes, wallets and exchanges need no GPU at all.
The card hashes the lottery continuously. When the client sees a shard or an external job it can win, it switches the card to proving for a few seconds, posts the proof, and goes back to hashing. The client does the switching and the miner sees one balance.
The protocol carries no fee: no dev fund, no cut to any team. Ember, the miner software, takes an optional 1% dev fee, the way other GPU miners do. One block template in 100 is requested with the dev address instead of yours, by a counter, not a random draw, so it is exactly 1 in 100 and anyone can check it from the source or from the chain. One flag turns it off (--dev-fee 0, a switch in the app, a line in the HiveOS config). The miner prints the fee and the address when it starts. Any other client is welcome.