computeWork Minimum Threshold parameter

[thelamer]

Is it possible to pass a minimum Threshold for work?
I see check got it patched in not sure how to achieve the same thing with compute.

[marvinroger]

The #73 PR is a Rust rewrite of the WASM component, and it supports specifying a min threshold. I'd say the rewrite is almost done, but I don't have enough time currently to release the new package. Currently, unfortunately, there's no way to do that. 😕

[thelamer]

Understood and thanks for the info, do you have any bullet points on what is left to do or test ?

[thelamer]

Just a heads up V21 just dropped, according to the team they are 6-8 weeks out from dropping the epoch blocks with new work requirements.
Just logging the info I got in discord to this issue.

[Joohansson]

Worst case if the v21 change is done before the WASM can be updated, I would say at least change the default value of 0xffffffc000000000 to fffffff800000000. That corresponds to 8x in difficulty. Seen it hardcoded in at least two places.

[marvinroger]

Fixed in 2.5.0, there's a new workThreshold parameter in computeWork().
The Rust rewrite is not ready yet, so I added the feature to the existing Emscripten code.
Thanks for the heads up! 😉

[Joohansson]

Tested and works fine, thank you!