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The brain is a powerful computer/asic.  Would you use it to mine btc for 1 btc a day?  I know of a company that develops brain asic chip--and it is not 21 Inc.  

LOL... I've only got two brain cells and they're so busy waving to each other that they don't have time to do anything else :P

what? BTC mining with brain,
send me mining equipments we can do partnership 50-50% lol

serious question- Is it really possible?

What do you think they were doing in the Matrix?  LOL.

Serious answer - no.

Serious answer - no.
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http://gizmodo.com/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper-1640353309

Now, practically speaking, the odds that you beat an ASIC to a valid solution are very, very...very much against you ;)

I hope, that you don't meant this questions so serious...

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Yes, it's possible to calculate the hash by hand... painful, but certainly possible.  I was talking about the OP's statement regarding brain ASIC chips...

I think that interfacing a chip with the brain - and I don't just mean detecting electrical pulses in general regions of the brain - would yield things far more lucrative than Bitcoin mining ;)

If he meant a neural network chip - not seeing much of an advantage there for mining :)

Great read Ive been looking for an article to explain what "bitcoin is solving" for a while to show noobs

Given the title of this thread, I have absolutely zero interest in donating my brain. I am using it quite heavily at the moment. Of course my wife might suggest that have already done so......  :)

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http://gizmodo.com/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper-1640353309

Now, practically speaking, the odds that you beat an ASIC to a valid solution are very, very...very much against you ;)
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So the first post of this thread is retarded, but that link is very cool, I had not seen that before.

this could be counted as mining with brain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3dqhixzGVo

it might be fun to try it one time at least

p.s. ops, i didn't see the post above me, sometimes i read only the OP, anyway mine is a video, it's more fun to watch ;D

As penalty for posting the exact same thing that's one post above yours, you should - but do all 64 rounds, not just 1 ;)

Solving by hand is interesting.   From one of my classes in college I can still remember doing binary and hex.   Makes you really apppriciate modern technology doing that for a while.

My favorite miner is here: http://retrominer.com/   

It is a NES that can mine.  I love the amount of work for something that is just for fun.

I remember about a year ago there was an outfit advertising they were working on a neural-net hardware for bitcoin mining. Had a big ol' website talking about how much faster their chips were running in only a few weeks of learning, with extrapolations for the future and looking for investors to help them expand the operation. I really hope they didn't make much money off that scam, since there's pretty much no way (by design) that a complex hashing function can be reduced to recognizable patterns optimizable by a neural net. Were that the case, basically all encryption from the last 30 years would be useless.

Ha ha ha my 2 brain cells only think about beer and sex no good for anything else :D.

After extensive reasearch... i believe I have found your brain scan (joking of course)

Ha ha I think you have :D.

I don't think it would be really effective as btc mining requires a lot of simple calculations.

Everybody knows that the human attention span is only 8 seconds or so, therefore, mining for 8 seconds at a time? No thanks ;)

Brain mining may not be so profitable just using it, and who knows what would be the side effects.
But this is definitely a great idea for the governments, imagine that every born child it's inyected in the brain with this..  8) $$$ 8) of course they won't care about side effects.

My brain would be better at mining scrypt.  No but seriously even if this was possible I wouldnt do it, it would creep me the f out.  Chips in my head?  No thanks.  Unless they also give me access to pornhub.  Then I might go for it.