"Whew, wondered where we'd put those 200,000 BTC!"

[Kelly John Rose]

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

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> > Message du 24/03/14 16:38
> > De : "Lodewijk andré de la porte"
> > A : tpb-crypto at laposte.net
> > Copie à : "Troy Benjegerdes" , "cypherpunks at cpunks.org"
> > Objet : Re: "Whew, wondered where we'd put those 200,000 BTC!"
> >
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> > 2014-03-24 16:22 GMT+01:00 :
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> > > 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.
> >
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> 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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