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wei dai implemented a version of nick's vision.  but it took several years later for the pieces to all come together by satoshi

http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2011/05/bitcoin-what-took-ye-so-long.html

It will rise again...don't worry.  Looks bullish to me.

Can you give us a link to Ron or Rand's email or address we can send a letter to?

this is a great idea!

Everyone loves the billboard!  It is getting a lot of press and was on falkvinge.net.

http://falkvinge.net/2011/06/06/bitcoins-four-hurdles-part-two-transactions/

I posted it on my blog. :-)

can we get a shot that includes the freeway so we have some sort of perspective?

This is bitcoin fever, similar to gold fever.

It doesn't matter if you're moving dirt to find gold or solving puzzles.  Work is work.  Work is money.  Time is money.

I thought it was a good interview of an average bitcoin user/miner.  There are a lot of people like him trying to mine/understand/sell bitcoins.  He didn't say anything wrong, really, and did point out he didn't understand all of it.

hehe

Doesn't work..why?

I watched in all...in color!  Wow!

I paid a guy over 100 BTC to hold a sign next to the New York Stock Exchange and hand out flyers on Bitcoins/

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@lemonzest2008 my new approach is going to take lots of fucking about with the maths before I write the actual miner itself
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@lemonzest2008 the one on the AFF site is just a mod of a standard miner - there's source available at aspiesforfreedom.com/mining/src
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@lemonzest2008 nowhere near complete yet, unless you mean the boring standard one on the AFF site
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@lemonzest2008 the bitcoin client? run bitcoind, but note it's a bit slow at generating if that's what you're after
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@ZauberExonar great - how's your digital circuit design? in particular, boolean expression simplification for FPGAs
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@LozKaye who on earth asked for that?
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If I generate one block a day, at current exchange rates that'd be $11200USD/month - anyone want to help out for a cut?
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@FabinetPM you don't know? :O
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I then don't even have to bruteforce - just pick any of the remaining branches at random, then "..." and then "profit" #bitcoin #win
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I eliminate the branches that lead to bits outside of the nonce changing in the input, then i'm left with a fixed set of branches
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For NOT gates for example, it's easy - if you want a 0 out, you put a 1 in - for an XOR there's 2 possible inputs that lead to a 1
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Then I can calculate the fixed inputs for each gate that will satisfy the output such that it's got the right number of 0s
27 minutes ago

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The output is a wildcard prefix and a bunch of 0s at fixed length - I run backwards from the wildcard bits up through the boolean network
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Doing the maths, a circuit with about 6000 logic gates can do SHA256, and 2000 odd of them are OR gates with multiple possible inputs
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If my method works, i'll be able to generate 50BTC every few seconds but i'll lower it a bit to avoid arousing suspicion #bitcoin
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So i've been working on a method for calculating valid hashes without doing a lame bruteforce

"So i've been working on a method for calculating valid hashes without doing a lame bruteforce"
"If my method works, i'll be able to generate 50BTC every few seconds but i'll lower it a bit to avoid arousing suspicion"

Ummm, satoshi?

http://twitter.com/#!/garethnelson

poclmb and bitcoin.exe are separate programs.  Get all the blocks first so you can confirm transactions.  I don't think you need to run both at the same time to generate coins but you do need a bitcoin address that your miner's pool can send coins to.

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very nice...i needed this.

when is the next show?  we ARE in first place.  I expect a show on bitcoin now.