Mad Max, of the Mad Max plotter fame, has recently launched his own cryptocurrency that is sort of based on Chia, but not really. It is definitely not a Chia Fork, but it is still based on Proof of Space and Time. Interested? I know I am.
The currency is called MMX and it is based on Chia’s Proof of Space system along with Solana’s VDF. It is still very early on, but you can build and deploy a node and start plotting. Plots are not compatible with Chia, and the requirement is for K30 plots. You can use K32 plots with MMX but they still won’t be compatible with Chia.
The focus here seems to be on performance. There is no Python here with the entire repository written in C++. The target here seems to be orders of magnitude faster than Chia, and a lot of choices here seem to be made directly in response to the problems a lot of us in the community see with Chia.
There are no BLS2 signatures here to hold up Exchange support, the VDF function does not need a separate kind of node to run but simply runs as OpenCL on the node’s GPU. This seems laser focused on being used as a currency exchange, and for trading and not so much as a smart contract platform.
I am super curious about this, and will be checking it out myself. I have a ton of respect for Mad Max, as do we all, and I personally think that this is one of the most interesting developments to come out of Chia yet – including Chia itself.
Update: We have instructions written on how to build MMX from source here and I have written up my thoughts after a day of using this here.
Sounds great. Now all I need is a Youtube video for the layperson on how to get MMX up and plotting. The notes at the GitHub link are a bit over my head. I need circles, arrows, hand-holding. Sad, I know.
Me too!
I should clarify the timelord runs on two CPU cores (there are two VDFs running in parallel), it’s the verification of the VDFs which can optionally be done via OpenCL on a GPU.
If you don’t have a GPU you’ll need a fast quad-core CPU or more CPU cores. Even the smallest GPUs like Intel’s HD graphics is plenty enough to verify the VDFs using just a few watts of power.
But you can disable the timelord, hopefully I can run this on a modest dual core then…
“To disable the TimeLord specify –timelord 0 on the command line. Alternatively, you can also disable it by default: echo false > config/local/timelord. If you have a slow CPU this is recommended and maybe even needed to stay in sync.”
Sounds very interesting, But unfortunately its all double Dutch with some Chinese thrown in to me. Nice Windows GUI anyone? As per Chris’s comment I need a decent guide, preferably for Windows as that’s what my main harvester runs on, only just got to grips with plotting on Linux. Appreciate its early days though.
So I installed in on ubuntu under WSL2, Installed as well Cuda Nvidia support, but behavior of full node is strange. Every 10 seconds when new block is coming it use all my CPU power for a few seconds (I7 4790k) – not sure what is going on. Anyone else experiencing same problem ?
Can anyone come up with a guide on how to start plotting with this?
Working on one now
Damn. Can’t wait.
yet another Shitcoin that does not provide anything new just like 90+ % of coins in Cryptospace
it reminds me Linux 20 years ago…every idiot wanted own distro, and over 90% of distros are just clones of SLS, SlackWare, Debian, and RHEL
Will it have premine?
No idea, still very early technology
There is already a token called mmx lol. Check out https://mmxtoken.io/.
is there an discord server or telegram group allready? I’m also running a testnet_node, and the plotter is running hot
where do you download the software