Some of you might recognize my handle from the Bitcoin community. I wrote hdminer which was at one point the fastest GPU miner (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2949.0) and I introduced and documented the technique of down-plugging PCIe x16 GPUs via x1 extenders (from my password brute forcing research: http://blog.zorinaq.com/whitepixel-breaks-286-billion-passwordsec/).   Well, I am pleased to announce my submission to the Zcash miner challenge.   SILENTARMY is an OpenCL solver that runs...

With the Silent Army just marching in, I figured it was pointless to submit for the open source contest, as well as putting a devfee on anything that's just about as fast as what nicehash are publishing very soon. And besides, my fame in crypto land was partially made by actually publishing Windows binaries in an easy to find place so I though let's continue like that.      There are several reasons why I don't publish the source of this. One of them is that I want to save you the pain of having...