diff --git a/docs/posts/reddit-2026-10-06.md b/docs/posts/reddit-2026-10-06.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..084c1706e --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/posts/reddit-2026-10-06.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +# Reddit post, 6 October 2026 + +Saved on Josh's word (16:4x UTC). For r/CryptoCurrency or r/gpumining, posted by Josh only, after 0.3.14 restores proving and the fleet numbers land. Finalised against the pages deployed at 16:12 UTC (master e763604); sources per number in docs/review/round-4-reddit-2026-10-06.md section 5. + +**Igneum: a GPU-mined L1 where the miners are the provers. Devnet live. One person, no premine, every criticism logged.** + +I mined through the GPU years. The Merge in September 2022 ended that income and the miners' place in Ethereum. I am building the coin I wanted to exist: GPU-mined, the miners prove the blocks, no founder allocation. One person, AI systems doing the engineering. + +What runs today (devnet since 3 October 2026): +- A random mining program every hour, compiled on the card. Swaps measured on Apple, NVIDIA and AMD, 0 rejected blocks (bench log, 4 Oct). +- Memory-hard: 128 dependent random reads per hash. An RTX 5090 does 136 MH/s at 17.5 G reads a second, 82% of its memory's random-read ceiling, integer units at 0.15%. Computing items instead of loading them runs 4.8x slower (M5 Max, 3 Oct). +- GHOSTDAG ordering forked from rusty-kaspa, about 1 block a second. +- EVM execution, native on every node. +- Shards proven with SP1 on miners' cards and paid from the block: 388 shards, 446.13 IGN on 5 Oct. A 3060 mines and proves at an 8.9 GB peak (rented cards, 6 Oct). +- Finality by miner weight: 30 days of blocks per key, locks at two thirds, no stake, no slashing. No lock in the first 30 days of mainnet. + +Run the vectors yourself: `git clone https://github.com/igneum-network/spec && cd spec/igneum-pow && cargo test --release` (96 vectors per pack; three GPU vendors, one fingerprint over 16.7 million nonces). The hash-rate reproduction package follows on igneum.network/evidence; your card's result file gets a row. + +Costs: the miner software takes 1% (1 block in 100, off with `--dev-fee 0`). The protocol takes nothing. No cryptographer is hired yet; the review brief is USD 80,000 to 160,000, unfunded. The installer is unsigned. The chip model is published: the strongest chip in it reaches 5x to 9x per joule against a 5090 before the lever we are gating, about 2x after, sources on the page. + +Every criticism we expect is at igneum.network/ledger: 167 entries, 53 conceded, 7 open, dated. A new one goes in with your name. "Don't ASICs make a chain safer?" is answered with numbers at igneum.network/litepaper#don-t-asics-make-a-chain-safer. + +We want help: cryptographers, node engineers, miners who will test. Pick an open row on the ledger and write to hello@igneum.network. + +Litepaper: igneum.network/litepaper. Live: igneum.network/live. Nothing is for sale. diff --git a/site/index.html b/site/index.html index bb41aff7b..7f3d2473d 100644 --- a/site/index.html +++ b/site/index.html @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ pre{margin:0;font-family:var(--f-mono);font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:var(
GPUs are back ยท for good

Mined by GPUs.
Proven by fire.

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Built for graphics cards. The strongest recompute chip we can price, holding the whole 256 MiB cache on-die, reaches under 1x per chip against an RTX 5090. A memory-controller chip that stores the whole dataset reaches 1.2x per chip and, in our model, 5x to 9x per joule; the Ethash chips of this class reached 2.1x to 4.8x. The lever against it, program work in the latency shadow, is measured and in its gates: it brings the chip to about 2x. The model is public: the numbers. A mining program that rewrites itself every hour, so a chip built for one hour is useless the next. Every NVIDIA card from 8 GB proves and is paid for it; 12 GB and up mine and prove; 24 GB on the stock server (eleven rented cards, RTX 3060 to RTX 5090, 6 October 2026, docs/analysis/prover-tiers-real-cards.md). AMD and Apple cards mine. No premine, no stake, no foundation, no merge to proof of stake.

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Built for graphics cards. A new mining program every hour, compiled on the card. In our public model the strongest chip reaches 5x to 9x per joule against an RTX 5090 today, about 2x once the lever now in its gates ships: the numbers. Every NVIDIA card from 8 GB proves and is paid for it; 12 GB and up mine and prove; AMD and Apple cards mine. No premine, no stake, no foundation.

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