Ethereum update: Linux Admins Check in Here – SONM Questions
I see that SONM plans to go live in four days with their fog computing ethereum side chain. I’ve been aware of this project but just started reading about it. I remember people calling it a scam and dismissing it. There seems to have been a little team drama early on and a sour grapes employee complaining on bitcointalk. Those threads aside the project comes off as promising.
They are catering to miners in a way to golem or iexec don’t appear to be…. at this point. They have plans to create a buy sell market where miners can GPU mine or switch to other more profitable computing jobs. Seems really promising. Their side chain will be created through masternodes.
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The project is well documented here. [Documentation](https://docs.sonm.com/)
These details are listed for miners with 1 – 2 rigs.
For those who own a mining rig with GPUs, **SONM can provide:**
* Income that will be higher than your current mining values. Buy orders will always be present on SONM market, and the prices for them will be quite close to what your hardware can mine. From time to time another orders for rendering, machine learning, etc. with higher prices will be placed, allowing higher incomes of miners.
* SONM will automatically switch between different tasks (including mining) to get the most profitable one. It works much like Nicehash but can run more profitable non-mining tasks.
* Truly distributed system without proprietary code for market. Deals, money transfers, user profiles and ratings are placed on block-chain using Ethereum contracts, enabling proven and fair consensus. Core components are open-source, hosted on [github.com](https://github.com/sonm-io)
* Reduces business risk for PoS implementation for Ethereum. Miner will not loose it’s business with PoW cancelling, it will still earn money with their rig.
**SONM limitations:**
* SONM can work only Linux, so Linux administration skills are required. SONM also enables an easy start option: bootable USB flash-drive with Linux optimized for SONM mining with remote monitoring and access capabilities included *(not implemented in MVP)*.
* SONM may require rig upgrade to accept more profitable jobs.
This seems like it fills a huge hole in the mining space but I can’t find any miners discussing it.
Any linux users give the tesnet a shot? Any plan to work with this when it goes live? I’m curious to hear from someone that can provide first hand experience with the testnet or thoughts in general.
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