Hard Drive Mining?

[whitedragon]

No hard drive mining but there is a new coin getting released later today called HertzCoin (HZC) that mines using your monitor's refresh rate.  Multiple monitor setups will mine faster.

Make sure you get in early...I hear a major rental car company is going to accept them at launch.  I also heard there is going to be a HZC fontas pump in 24 hours.  Oh and they'll be coming to Gox next week, CONFIRMED!

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[erk]

Would it be feasible to make a coin that mines using your hard drive and if so, what would go into making one. Not the actual code but for example how would it mine using your hard drive?

They all use your hard drive. Perhaps you need to think about what you are actually asking?

[owsleybeatsbigcartel]

Technically, instead of "proof of work", we could have "proof of storage". The only problem with this is, we need it to be easy to verify. Proof of work is easy to verify because you have to do TONS of hashes to find one that's under the target, but you only have to do one hash to check if it is under the target. With proof of storage, it is impossible (AFAIK) to verify that someone has some data unless you have the same data, byte for byte. You might say, "but we could just store a hash of the data and ask them for that!" but then THEY could just store a hash of the data, and give it to you.

~geezacoin lol

[milly6]

Would it be feasible to make a coin that mines using your hard drive and if so, what would go into making one. Not the actual code but for example how would it mine using your hard drive?

 I much rather see a coin for nvidia
Enough of the ATI bullshit cornering the market.

Hmmm Nvidia coin..
this is a great idea actually.
I have only seen it from the side that we need to improve the miner (ie cudaminer) but havent looked at it this way except that I believe Curecoin was supposed to be better on Nvidia

[GSnak]

Have the hash written to a random sector of the HD, then the first HD that finds it gets the block reward.

[milly6]

Hey guys,

I was wondering if we could create a coin that is set up to mine either my fan or my PS2 outlets. How would we set that up? Maybe we can plug outdated mice into the PS2 plugs and depending on how fast we can move the mouse back and forth we could write an algo to create a hash rate out of that.

As far as fan mining I figure with CPU and GPU the only thing that really happens is the processors just run at full speed and coins are made. So what if we create a fan mined coin? We could just run our fans at 100% and Im sure some sort of coin is bound to show up somewhere.

an hero

Lol If they actually come up with hard drive mining, you are gonna feel like a doooosh
Just sayin..

[erk]

Lol If they actually come up with hard drive mining, you are gonna feel like a doooosh
Just sayin..

Hard drives are a disk of spinning metal that you read and write stuff to with magnetic fields. They are passive devices like a paper punch card.

[snowcrashed]

Actually I am close to being done my hard-drive based miner prototype.  I'm calling it the NotAScam2000.  I'm using an external hard-drive as the engine for portability and low power consumption.   Rough estimates of performance are between 100Mhs and 100Ghs.  Compatible with SHA and Scrypt mining.  Starting pre-orders tomorrow.

[owsleybeatsbigcartel]

Would it be feasible to make a coin that mines using your hard drive and if so, what would go into making one. Not the actual code but for example how would it mine using your hard drive?

Texas instruments / Seseme street i herd they are starting beta testing premined "calculator" coin!!! :-)weeeeee