Yet another rabbit hole...As it turns out, my AV now provides crypto mining, turning your GPU into an Ethereum miner when it is idle.
For shiggles I thought I would give it a shwirl.
Granted, my GPU is not stellar.. but I thought that possibly the 1660 would be within the minimum guidelines specified. For some reason the option was not showing up on the app GUI. Doc after doc on their website was futile.. while they mentioned it, they did not have any images on what I was looking for, where it should be, etc. Where the heck to do you turn it on? Then 'poof'.. almost as by some act of magic, the option to mine showed up on my GUI. wuhuh??
As it turns out, my GPU was worthy and you can see from the image above, it actually started doing some mining. (approx. 24 hrs)
Quickly reviewing the help notes it looks like they are also pocketing 15% of the profits. Wait.. what? 15% to use my resources to mine crypto?
Creating a miner seems a much more palatable option then allowing someone eat up my GPU cycles and suckle from the teats of my invested hardware, energy, etc.
Needless to say, this will require some further review.
ref: Ethereum Developer Reference
ref: Ethereum for Python
Python seems to be the language of choice, but will also research others if deemed worthy. I already had Python installed and it was under the VStudio path so I am assuming that I installed it for some other project, but have not used it in quite some time.. probably some pi stuff.
First thing was to install
PIP the python module installer. I had done this before for the pi, and a win install was not much different. I did get a path warning so I did add it to my path using <PIPDIR>;%path% (where %PIPDIR% is the location of the /scripts dir)
Next was virtuenv so that you can run it in a virtual environment
pip install virtualenv
Followed by
web3..
pip install web3
All appeared to install successfully.
For DL sig validations
Next windows10
sdk..(a buncha more gigs) geeze..
Next
Geth 1.10.9 which of course uses
Clef so you must initialize it for signing transactions.
I believe I will try
a private network first to see if I am actually understanding how things works and some development testing of some dapps..
Good time for a lunch break
Additional References:
Hash function
Tips for dapp development
To be continued..(6 hours vaca burned today..ugh)
Yet another rabbit hole...As it turns out, my AV now provides crypto mining, turning your GPU into an Ethereum miner when it is idle.
For shiggles I thought I would give it a shwirl.
