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What about the trusted setup of Zcash? Isn't that a significant disadvantage compared to Monero? There is also the dev fee etc.

Monero also has "cryptographic privacy" when it comes to hiding transaction amounts, for example. Describing it just as a coin mixing on chain sounds too simple, something like Dash.


Monero already exists, no need to reinvent the wheel.


Officially, Z170 won't see Coffee Lake. Unofficially... Let's just say it's possible.


Is there some proof you could share? Motherboard manufacturers have been super silent about this.


Sorry, not really, I've only heard rumours (from a reliable source though). It should be technically possible because coffee lake CPUs were demoed on previous chipsets. I doubt you are going to hear much from the motherboard manufacturers, they're probably more or less obliged to push the Z370. I understood the unofficial part as in not publicly available, at least not right away.


I'm just a curious hardware development newbie passing by but would you be willing to share the open-source development tools used? It would be really interesting to take a peek at something that was used to develop a chip very quickly. Most of the hardware stuff seems to be quite complicated and not all that open.


I'm not the original poster, but perhaps he's thinking of https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/ I believe it can (or could?) generate C++ code which compiles into a program that simulates your design.


They wanted to use chisel for the whole stack, but that was impossible because of one of their engineers.


Check out verilator


At least here in Finland, you are only allowed to share the expenses and not profit from it (unless you're a registered taxi driver and have the permit). There is a small incentive for the driver if he/she is heading the same direction anyway but otherwise you're right, it doesn't make any sense for the driver. So it's quite different from Uber in that sense.


How is the latency with something like this? I would assume it's pretty much real time when dealing with the raw data, encoding could add some latency. Am I correct?


Most of the latency comes from internal buffering inside ffmpeg or vlc. Most go away if you tune them down.


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