Bitcoin And The Electronic Frontier Foundation

[Eugen Leitl]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:19:31AM -0800, coderman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Sarad AV <jtrjtrjtr2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I was checking and Wikipedia has deleted its Bitcoin entry. how strange!did they say why?
> 
> the cuda cards are killing bitcoin, why bother?

They chose the space too small? I don't really know which
algorithms Bitcoin uses. CUDA isn't that much, for many
problems we've got at work it only provides a 10x speedup.
Presumably for brute-force searches it could do a 100x
speedup. Why is Bitcoin vulnerable to only a couple of
orders magnitude faster systems?
 
>    (i suppose it is an interesting footnote...)
-- 
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