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>>55953875
>nonce distribution
So looking into it, it has been discovered 2 YEARS ago. They have been testing this miner for probably nearly 3 years (and let's be honest, with that timeframe, research begun after RandomX went live) and they are barely on par with AMD's efficiency. More of a testament to RISC-V desu. See picrel and the stripes represent ASIC miners who use pseudorandom nonces that leave visible patterns. This is how we caught CryptoNight ASICs originally.
>>55954399
Guassian distributions tend towards reality and people are guessing between 2.5 to 3k USD under the tweet, so it's going to be in that price range. ie, ROI = years if never
>>55954403
With lower power cost it could be profitable, but not by much. And ROI kicks in on these high-hashrate setups.