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Title: Global Bitcoin Computing Power Post by: Seal on February 08, 2016, 04:09:27 PM Back in 2013, this Forbes contributor mentioned that by crude calculations, Bitcoin's hash rate equated to 256 times faster then the top 500 supercomputers combined:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2013/11/28/global-bitcoin-computing-power-now-256-times-faster-than-top-500-supercomputers-combined/#3015c8e28b76 Has anyone done a more recent analysis of this? Title: Re: Global Bitcoin Computing Power Post by: LiteCoinGuy on February 08, 2016, 04:56:10 PM i estimate 5000000 times more :D (but hopefully someone has a better calculation ;) )
Title: Re: Global Bitcoin Computing Power Post by: bargainbin on February 08, 2016, 05:10:31 PM Back in 2013, this Forbes contributor mentioned that by crude calculations, Bitcoin's hash rate equated to 256 times faster then the top 500 supercomputers combined: http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2013/11/28/global-bitcoin-computing-power-now-256-times-faster-than-top-500-supercomputers-combined/#3015c8e28b76 Has anyone done a more recent analysis of this? Unlike the Bitcoin network, what makes "supercomputers" super is they can solve more than one problem, they're "programmable." Think of the Bitcoin network as a whole shitload of circa '70 pocket calculators, with all the keys broken except for the (number) 2 and the plus sign. So as long as you don't care what number you add "2" to, you can do it super fast by using Bitcoin :) Title: Re: Global Bitcoin Computing Power Post by: gentlemand on February 08, 2016, 05:31:42 PM I like that analogy very much. There's little or no point in attempting to compare the two. They're fundamentally different beasts.
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