On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:50 AM, <tpb-crypto@laposte.net> wrote:


> Message du 24/03/14 16:38
> De : "Lodewijk andré de la porte"
> A : tpb-crypto@laposte.net
> Copie ŕ : "Troy Benjegerdes" , "cypherpunks@cpunks.org"
> Objet : Re: "Whew, wondered where we'd put those 200,000 BTC!"
>

> 2014-03-24 16:22 GMT+01:00 :
>
> > I appreciate your ideas, how much would they scale? Can one squeeze 300
> > customers per unit and link many parallel units?
> >
>
> I've yet to see a multiprocessor trade matching engine.
>

Seems like the only way to know, is to try.

But if you don't program C already, building a processor using VHDL and another chip to interpret Python, then fitting them together with some USB and ethernet ports seems to be quite a daunting task.

The money would pay out, but the starting capital is in the thousands of programming hours specifically for embedded systems.


Yeah, especially if you are going to put in any time doing full code review to avoid the many pitfalls and security that could occur in a distributed system like this.

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