Oddbean new post about login | logout Check out the '0mtatsat' in the npub 🙏🙌
Nice npub! How long did it take to mine and what’s the meaning? 😎
It took a couple weeks using `rana` on every cpu I owned 😆 Om Tat Sat is a Sanskrit mantra that represents three aspects of Brahman, or the Self.
Nice! TIL 😎
Did you mine it on the same private key or a new one? How does it work exactly when you mine an npub?
I mined it on a new private key. I used `rana` on every cpu I owned for a couple weeks and finally got the 8 characters. What it does is just randomly generate nsecs until it finds an npub with the prefix you specify, and I had it looking for about 10-15 of various lengths. If I kept it running since then I could have probably mined 9 or even 10 characters by now.
How long did it take? Were all your CPUs pooled in to one mining effort or they were all mining separately?
It was actually pretty janky. I had half the cores on my home server, all the cores of my laptop at night (since I was working on it at the time), and all the cores of my desktop running for a few weeks. And at the beginning, I rented 48 CPUs from bithost for about 36 hours. Each script's output was just written to a file when an npub was found. I pointed the Rana scripts on each machine to output found npubs to a shared folder on my NAS, and I wrote a cron script to pull any found npubs from the rented server so I wouldn't lose any when it shut down.