jelly as fuq

I haven't found any blocks though.

I'm getting about 50 primes per sec total between my two computers.

Did Sunny create a blockchain explorer before release?

i5 2410M getting 14
:c

The Linux download isn't working so I can't use my desktop.

I'm looking forward to this.

I feel a coin that produces something useful is a lot better than Bitcoin.

Well, I guess the white paper is pretty vague on the limits.
So we'll see what the actual limits are in a couple of hours.
When I discovered this coin last night, I had hoped it would be finding all prime numbers so that eventually bitcoin could be attacked using the prime numbers found by this coin.

Which would be poetic, imho.

In the white paper it describes only using prime numbers which can be easily verified, so that rules out actively searching for large prime numbers, doesn't it?

Where is the scientific use of prime number chains?

How does increasing the amount of work, increase the energy efficiency?

So something that cost you 22000$ will now net you upwards of 140000?

Nice dude.

Well, I wrote "the majority mining players" but I think he also meant that the client would be changed to exclude this attack chain.

This issue was brought up in a reddit thread. And now I'm genuinely curious, the person I was talking to about it seems to feel that the major mining players could collude to exclude the attacker, and that would be an acceptable course of action.

I on the other hand feel that any action that shows how easily it is for the network to censor blocks would actually be more detrimental to the network than the attacker is (the attacker would only hold the majority power for a short span of time as ASIC hardware producers would most likely use their production capabilities to roll out more "legitimate" hash power) I believe that a 51% attack can only be resolved by increasing the legitimate network hashrate, not by excluding blocks.

Thoughts?

When miners are mining and producing block hashes, what is the average value of those hashes?

Since SHA256 is supposed to be uniform distribution the average should tend towards 2^255, right?

Hmm, well I'm almost certain it didn't say anything about indexing the blocks, it was more could not read the block. So at first I tried deleting all the lock files and it still didn't work.

wait what

you mean I didn't have to delete everything?

Oh good, I was afraid it was cause of the modifications I made to my bitcoind that scan transactions for specific addresses and keep metrics on them. But since you also had the same issue I have ruled that out, thanks.

I should probably start backing up my blockchain at regular intervals to prevent this from happening again.

I lost power the other day while my bitcoind was running, and I went to start it again and it was unable to read the blocks. I'm currently in the process of redownloading the blockchain.

Has anybody else had this issue?

Even at 400M difficulty and .15 $ per kwh you'd only have to theoretically produce 29GH/w (more if you use a pool) to cover electricity costs, the Jalapano gets around 133GH/w so the 50GH unit probably has 120-130 GH/w efficiency due to more chips and stuff.

So there is no reason for them to stop taking orders as their units will be useful for a while.

Blockchain as a Service sounds interesting...

You could offer "quick propagation" of transactions and what not...

Use a SSD to get maximum read speed for the blockchain, you could act as the blockchain for potentially hundreds or thousands of paying customers that pay you not only to lessen the load on their storage, but also to ensure their transactions makes it to the next block.

Once the blockchain hits 10GB, I can see a service like this becoming viable. You'd have to have pretty good internet to support the numerous connections and redundant transaction propagation. Even if you charged just a few cents a day, you'd only need maybe 10-20 subscribers to break even if you found cheap hosting, depending on how good EC2 is, you might be able to get away with the Small On demand instance that goes for .06$ an hour in N. Virgina. That would run you 43.2$ a month. Which is less than a hundred subscribers at .50$ a month. But if you haven't already blown the  free tier year, you could get away with that aswell.

EDIT: You could also offer "anti double spend" bullcrap, where you WON'T relay a transaction that uses the same inputs as one you already relayed. That would give your subscribers a perk, since you'd probably be a sizable node in the network.

I think I might try to do this.