New CN Conceal PoW Algorithm
The time has come, we are glad to announce that we have completed our own mining algorithm - CN Conceal.
We will be undergoing a scheduled network upgrade fork at block height 195,765, which will take place at approximately 10:00 UTC on the 7th of March. The entire purpose of the upcoming fork is to switch to our own Cryptonight variant, Cryptonight Conceal, which was designed with the intention of keeping us Nicehash, Asic, and FPGA resistant.
Cryptonight Conceal variant has tweaks that involve minor floating point math. This theoretically might not be enough to prevent FPGA implementation entirely, as that involve significantly slowing down CPU mining, but in practise it will discourage FPGA mining because GPU cards will have advantage over it. CN Conceal also includes an accumulating constant to make sure that each transformation is done in order. The transformation is applied right before AES encryption.
Pool operators will need to use a modified version of node-cryptonote-hashing which we have tested with the cryptonote-nodejs-pool from dvandal.
Node-cryptonote-hashing: https://github.com/ConcealNetwork/node-cryptonight-hashing
Dvandal Pool: https://github.com/dvandal/cryptonote-nodejs-pool
Miners will need to use a new miner after the fork. Currently we have modified version of xmrig for CPU mining available. For GPU miners, the latest version of xmr-stak has support for Cryptonight-Conceal, and SRBMiner will also support the algo in the next release. We will be reaching out to other miner devs and hope they will add support before the fork.
XMRig: https://github.com/ConcealNetwork/xmrig/releases
XMR-Stak: https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak/releases
Users will need to switch to the latest version of the wallet. The latest release of the core and wallet, version 5.2.2, which supports the new algo and fork, will be released this week. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.
Learn More: https://conceal.network/
