On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 04:15:16AM -0700, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Alaric Snell-Pym [17/05/11 12:09 +0100]: >> In practice, the "miners" (people who set out to win blocks) don't use >> CPUs; they use GPUs (as found on video cards). Certain brands of GPU >> (ATI ones, it seems) are good at the maths required for SHA-256, so they >> put loads of graphics cards into their PCs and set them trying out >> random numbers until they get a 'win'. > > That's fine. Now throw a few thousand or more (botnets can range in size > from a few k to a few million) at this? GPUs, fine, rather than CPUs. > > Its not the scammer's PC resources. And the scammer won't do this unless > bitcoin is seriously worth his time and resources to do it. But he can do > it, make no mistake
It is a very useful and practical system for nonhuman devices specifically. That alone makes it worthwile. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
