Stella - The possible rieMiner successor

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Stella - The possible rieMiner successor

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Thanks to interesting discussions with Makis on the Riecoin Discord regarding the miner's algorithm, I ended up starting a new miner or prime constellation finder from scratch in Rust, Stella. For now, it is just an inefficient prototype with very few features. It cannot mine yet.

One of it’s goals is to become usable for Riecoin mining and possibly succeed rieMiner (Stella can be seen as a Rust port of rieMiner), and to break world records. Even if the Rust implementation were to remain less efficient, the improved code readability may help to try new optimizations that could then be implemented and ported back to rieMiner.

Another goal would be to help Riecoin and number crunching developers that are interested in understanding how the mining algorithm works. rieMiner is the merge and heavy refactor of previous Riecoin miners, and carries years of history, which can make the understanding of its code difficult, especially with the fact that documentation and explanations by previous developers are basically nonexistent. Stella is written from scratch, which can greatly help the learning process for future developers.

Depending on how well the optimizations can be ported to Rust, the time I am able to allocate to the project, and the interest from other people, the software might either eventually achieve its goal to succeed rieMiner, or remain forever a prototype. In any case, if you are interested in getting your hands dirty to improve the code, contributions and interesting discussions are welcomed!

Source Code: https://github.com/Pttn/Stella
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