Estimating Remaining Time

[PeterBeard]

I'm willing to work on this as it's useful to me and seems like it would be pretty simple to implement.

How should this work though? For example, there's a formula to estimate how many hashes you have to generate to have a certain chance of finding a key, so should we just pick an arbitrary probability use that? Or would it be more useful to say something like, "50% chance of finding a key in X minutes, 75% chance of finding one in Y minutes?"

Like I said, the math seems simple, so if we can decide how to present the information to the user then I'm happy to add this feature myself.

[lbthomsen]

Personally I can't see any other way than estimating based on probability and as you are hinting yourself that is a somewhat useless metric :)

By the way - let me know if you want to mess with it - I am quite happy to give you write access to this repo.

[mooleshacat]

Judging by https://opensource.com/article/19/8/how-create-vanity-tor-onion-address there is some kind of calculation you can do. But this would be an approximation... Although an approximation is better than nothing.

I am just not sure, if I have 16 cores , do I divide those times by 16?