Nexus NXS Mining Cost
Clusters of Primes A cluster of prime numbers is a sequence with an unusually large number of prime numbers in it. For example, the numbers 1297, 1301, 1303, and 1307 are all prime, and they're as close together as four prime numbers can be. Nexus finds similar clusters to these as a byproduct of its Prime mining channel. But with big numbers. Very big numbers.
A technical note: When we refer to prime numbers, we haven't verified that they are prime. So these are more properly termed potential primes. They pass the Fermat test at base 2, and that's all we know. The First 1000 Blocks In its first day, the clusters Nexus found were small. The difficulty was only 4.
What is Nexus? Nexus (Symbol: NXS) is a distributed, global digital currency used in Nexus network. With the three channels of security (Prime Mining, Hash Mining, and Nexus Proof-of-Stake), users' transaction activities are ensured to be fast, safe and decentralized.
But despite that, the miners found eight clusters with 5 elements in them. Of those, the most dense was in block 642, which had primes at p, p+6, p+14, p+18, and p+24.
The prime in question, p, was: 714498172643. That's a mouthful. The longest clusters found by Nexus As time went on, and the popularity of Nexus increased, the difficulty rose. The difficulty specifies the mininum number of primes needed for a successful proof-of-work.
These are the 10 largest prime clusters found thus far by Nexus, with ties broken by density (most primes in the shortest distance). And, hopefully, this is just the beginning. Height Prime Length Primes 1532703779 11 0, 10, 12, 18, 24, 28, 30, 34, 42, 48, 7 11 0, 12, 22, 24, 30, 36, 40, 42, 54, 60, 911 11 0, 6, 10, 18, 30, 36, 42, 46, 48, 58, 2407837 10 0, 6, 12, 14, 20, 24, 26, 30, 42, 9 10 0, 4, 12, 24, 28, 30, 34, 40, 42, 65167 10 0, 2, 14, 20, 26, 32, 36, 42, 44, 69411 10 0, 6, 18, 20, 26, 32, 36, 38, 42, 1 10 0, 6, 8, 18, 20, 32, 36, 38, 42, 880145971 10 0, 6, 8, 18, 20, 26, 36, 38, 48, 1 10 0, 8, 12, 20, 32, 36, 38, 42, 48, 50.
I've been using nanopool.org Don't know if that is the best one. Don't know that it matters. But, they had simple configuration instructions on their website, so I just went with that. It took about 3 weeks of tweaking the settings for mining software and GPUs to tune it for the best results I've been able to get. Do other miners get more?
But this was more of an experiment for me than anything else, as it certainly isn't going to earn a whole lot, so I'm not too concerned if I don't get the last 1% or 2% of performance out of it. I don't think solo ETH is really viable. If I remember right, block rewards are 5 ETH.
I mine 0. Hshare HSR Mining Safe. 1 ETH from pool in a little over 5 days, so on average I'd have to mine 250+ days to find one block if I tried it solo. BTW - I did switch rig to ZEC mining for a few weeks, and it actually earned slightly more. But then two things happened. First, ZEC price fell. Then, one of my GPUs started throwing constant errors. So I switched it back to ETH and errors vanished.
Must have been something related to the hashing algorithm. I didn't feel like trying to resolve the issue, so just left it mining ETH again. • • • • • • •.