I always thought it would be amusing to have Minecraft mining be linked to bitcoin mining - even if it was somewhat superficial. Just the fun of the actual game and some of the practical benefits of bitcoin joined together would amuse me.

Perhaps you could set up some kind of intermediary, where you have an existing pool of bitcoins held - and it distributes fractions based on some kind of probability linked to a game metric. Although people are correct you couldn't make it directly related to block creation/destruction since the system is so open in that regard.

I'd play a variation on this in a second if it existed.

Hmm was thinking more on this --- what about an actual bitcoin BLOCK, and only a few get seeded in the world? Not sure how you'd get around people trying to use cartography apps to map out block layers though...

Yea, I bought one, and it doesn't work after 1 day. I changed the password, and the original owner changed it back on me. He was an active member of my favorite server, and a donor of it, so I assume he is an active member of minecraft. Just waiting for a replacement

Perhaps a bit more details on what you are doing to earn such a high percentage? Otherwise you come off as a scam -- too good to be true.

That's good. Thx for info.

Catastrophic breaks in hashes are pretty much unheard of these days.  What happens is that they get weaker gradually, with plenty of warning.  For example, MD5 is considered to be totally broken now, and should never be used.  On the other hand, if it was used in bitcoin transactions, those transactions would still be totally safe, for at least a few more years, because all of the attacks require conditions that can't be met in the bitcoin system.  As in, if we changed one of the NOPx opcodes to OP_LOL_CHECKMD5SIG which used MD5(MD5(key)) instead of RIPE-MD160(SHA256(key)), it would still take decades to crack, probably centuries.

And your estimate of how long a brute force attack on SHA-256 would take is wrong, it isn't centuries, it is billions and billions of years, minimum.  If you converted the entire mass of the sun into energy, and used all of that energy to increment a counter using the absolute limit of physics for minimum energy used to flip a bit, you'd get to around 2²²⁵.  You'd need 2³¹ suns of similar mass to finish just iterating through all of the possible inputs.  So, billions of stars, or trillions or quadrillions if you want to actually perform the hashes too.

There are no "plans" exactly, on what to do next, but it is widely understood that we can swap out the primitive operations when needed.  We might not be alive then, why should we presume that the people that will actually be doing the work want to follow our plans instead of making their own?

Just got my account and it works fine, thanks! 

Some people think they are special and odds do not apply to them.