What about public key cryptography?

If the net result is positive, anything is better than nothing.

But if it is connected to a pool, would the trickle of bitcents compensate the very small increase in power consumption?

Could someone please explain to me how somthing can be more than 100% efficient without allowing people to use its output to power the device for free?

If it's not gonna be open source i won't trust it can live up to the claims.

Some network routers can be flashed with custom firmware, there are even some linux based firmwares avaiable out there; could those firmwares be modified to include a miner? What hash per joule ratio should be expected? Would that increase their power consumption significantly? And would running a miner have any significant effect on the network performance?

I think, at least at first, pricing should be modeled after webhosting, VPS services and things like Amazon's EC². Makes more sense than trying to come up with formulas to convert inworld abstractions into real life costs.

I would think in many places using the mobile would be the easiest way for many people by far.

I don't think making it a game should be a goal at all, it should be a platform, where if people want they can create any sort of game they feel like creating, but if they wanna do other things they won't be restricted to working within and around "game rules".

Some years ago SL used to charge people for the components of the objects they create; not a new idea, and they moved away from it already.

Transparent GIF? No; PNG FTW!!!!

When someone mentioned 3d transistors at first i got this idea, that in the end turned out to not be what 3d transistors are like.

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First lemme describe the "cell":


A cell, in this context, is a component, or group of components, with six inputs/outputs arranged like the 6 faces of a cube that behaves in the following manner:

Each pair of opposing faces are connected, but only let electricity thru based on the voltage differential of one of the other pairs (each pair obeys to one other pair and controls the remaining pair), allowing electricity in one direction if the voltage difference in it's respective commanding pair is positive, in the opposite direction if the difference is negative and in no direction if there is no voltage difference (within a threshold if the properties of the material or other components require it).


And now to define the "computing block":


A computing block is formed by an array of cells arranged in a cubic lattice, with all cells oriented the same way (each cell's X,Y and Z axis aligned and the respective +'s and -'s pointing the same direction), with arbitrary dimensions in each axis.

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With some sort of external logic for routing the signals in and out (such that the routing can be changed at runtime), would a computing block such as described above actually be capable of producing meaningful results given the correct input (input being the routing patterns and trinary signals, negative current, positive current and zero current) to the point of being considered turing complete? How could the cells be built? Is there such a component already made or an already known combination of components that produces such a behavior? How would the routing logic work and how could it be built? Would the dimensions matter or algorithms for the inputs can be adapted to work on an a parallelepiped of any dimension bigger than a minimum? Could the output of the block be used for controlling the routing logic or additional elements would be needed to interpret the output and adjust the routing?

Awn, that's disappointing...

I guess i was getting outdated info...

We need somthing like Bitcoin but for shares, with a public, shared blockchain showing a mostly irrevocable chain of ownership of "shares"...

Among other things this could serve to explain transactions ("here's the payment for painting my house", "automatic payment from Pool X", "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!111one" etc). And of course, people could use it as a messaging system, using public key encryption when privacy is desired (since the attached messages would be visible in the blockchain to anyone).


Is this in the roadmap somewhere or currently there are no plans at all of implementing this functionality?



ps:as pointed elsewhere by someone i forgot who, this would also help with providing Bitcoin protection under freedom of expression, since any transaction could double as a message.

The speed of light might not be the ultimate limit, they still haven't figured out exactly if that neutrino really moved under the known laws or if somthing unexpected took place.

If you're the author of the first post in the thread now, you should be able to edit the thread tittle, perhaps prepending "Re:" to the title would be enough to make it clear it wasn't you that started this.

Somtimes they are; somtimes unions do what is best for the unions even when that isn't what is best for the workers; in that aspect, they quite similar to the way many governments (and subpartitions of them) behave towards their people.

He would've suffered more if he was kept alive, so i'm disappointed he died.