How would it increase the price of steem if people are able to mine it faster?

Good news! I'll turn on a miner and see how this patch does. Thanks for bringing this to Steemit. You've had my witness vote for a while.

Very cool @picokernel, but how could a latent bug like this have not been obvious based on performance metrics analysis, just curious?

Wow! This is great news. Can't wait to hear and see verification that this patch will break the rabbit/su monopoly on mining Steem.

Are windows binaries being officially released to the public yet?

Thank you for sharing this:)  Unfortunately I have already voted for the maximum number of people otherwise you would definitely get one of my votes.

To make the instructions a little bit clearer your code should look this around line 540
```
                return;
             }
          }
       } );
      thread_num++;
    }
}
```

Edit: I've compiled a Windows binary with this patch included (https://steemit.com/steemit/@contentjunkie/steemd-exe-windows-64-binary-with-mining-thread-patch)

Great news! Hope it will help both golos and steem ;D

I really wish I knew how to mine without worrying about blowing up my computer.  But I just started learning about cryptocurrency when I joined Steemit so I figure I have some time....  Thanks for the info.  I've bookmarked this for the time when my hair doesn't hurt from reading it.  :P

I won't pretend to understand the coding and mining stuff but I do understand this should be good for the Steem price.
Thank you, I voted for you as witness.

First, thank you to @picokernel and to @contentjunkie for the work you've done on this.

One point of clarification, though.  The more I think this through, the more confused I get.  The miner throws its work away and starts over every 3 seconds, right?  So how does it matter if the N cores are chasing 1 problem or N problems?  Either way, I think they're only going to hit one block (at most) during the interval, aren't they?  If N cores are chasing one problem, they've got N chances to solve it.  If they're chasing N problems, they've got 1 chance to solve each of them.  (N * 1) or (1 * N)  - same net result.  Not saying you're wrong, since I haven't read the code, but I'm just trying to understand.

Guess I'll have to break down and RTFM one of these days...

Last, FYI, I tried the windows compiled executable, but for some reason, I could only get it to use 1 core.  It ignored my "mining-threads" setting in config.ini and the "-t" command line argument.  Not sure if anyone else is having this problem or not.

**Update:** Clicked through to github.  Now I get it.  I hadn't understood that all cores are using the same nonce.  So the miner really only has 1 chance to solve 1 problem with the unpatched version.  Not N chances.

Fix implemented miner back up and running. Thanks bro!

You're welcome. Feel free to contact me in steemit chat or golos chat under the pen name 'penguin', as I would certainly like to claim any associated bounty. :)

(Note: unfortunately I do not own the 'penguin' account here on steemit... that was a bit short sighted of me.)