> Even if the current reality of Bitcoins is that it is dominated by > "bitbugs" playing games of speculation,
Nice link. I think he captures the hypocricy perfectly. > as hardware hackers we should > take interest in the hardware used to perform the mining (which could > ave more practical applications, as Kurt pointed out), and appreciate > the beauty of the Bitcoin cryptographic algorithm. Do you have a link that explains the actual algorithm? I've got about 1.3 million gates equivalent on an fpga and a decent processor hooked up to it. I wonder if it would fit. _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
