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Does anyone here use Bitcoins?
Renegade:
Seems like Bitcoin (and other) mining is artificially crippled so the miner devs make higher profits:
http://da-data.blogspot.de/2014/08/minting-money-with-monero-and-cpu.html
-Tuxman (August 29, 2014, 07:55 AM)
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Too much to drink, so that's too much to read...
My gut reaction is that it's just another alt being mined to convert into BTC. Most are.
Am I off? Got a tl;dr?
Tuxman:
TL;DR: Miner coders cripple their public versions so they can mine faster themselves. I doubt that's a Monero-centric thing.
Renegade:
Here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2fjyus/new_bitcoin_puzzle_current_bounty_21_btc/
2.1 BTC puzzle:
From here in a comment:
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/14850/coin_artists-latest-dark-wallet-puzzle-32-page-solution/
@40hz - As I know you share with me a fondness for a certain author, I think you'll like that. :)
Renegade:
Here's an excellent, simple explanation of elliptic curve point addition, which is used in elliptic curved cryptography like Bitcoin uses:
Renegade:
This is funny... but way too esoteric for the silly humour thread:
You have to watch it to the end though.
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