Timothy May writes:
Announcing a New Service: "Primes 'r Us" Your full-service crypto dealer. -specializing in selling large primes to those gullible enough to use them
Actually, I may decide to talk my wife into running such a service. It will have at least one customer (me), and any more who want to buy primes or key pairs, given the level of trust we can provide (moderate, but...). Why, you ask? Well, she's about to buy a new computer for her business, as well as personal use, and the amount you can depreciate or expense depends on the percentage of time you've used the machine for business. Calculating primes can take a *large* percentage of your idle time, and what matters for tax purposes are the percentages and whether you do or don't make a profit for the year, not *which* activities of the same business are profitable... Signed, Pat Pending P.S. Yeah, I know, now that I've told you guys the secret, the bottom will drop out of the market because you can generate primes faster on your Cray than we can on a 386. Sigh....