[HH] Bitcoin mining hardware

[Federico Lucifredi]

I am not sure either way.  It could be that Bitcoin takes its place as a real currency (in some ways, it already is for the Internet black market).  It may fizzle as a fad.  It may be deemed illegal and driven underground.   it will crash again (it is a currency, so it will - trivially true statement) - will it always recover, like a real world currency?.  Who knows - I had no time to think about this.

The BitCoin paper is here, that should explain how the scheme works:

http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Best -F

PS: Satoshi Nakamoto is somebody's secret identity.  Most likely a team of Quants in London or NYC, but even that is uncertain.



On Apr 17, 2013, at 1:36 PM, Kurt Keville <kkeville at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Well, if it walks and talks like a pump & dump scheme ...
> 
> There are no math answers to give (as there are in, say, the GIMPS project)... this is just gratuitous CPU burdening for it's own sake. I have been to a couple of the Bitcoin Club meetings at MIT and I still don't get it... seems to me to be a currency musical chairs; you don't want to be holding this currency when the bottom drops out again...  there is another one this Friday if you are interested... I still go even though I still haven't figured out what the hubbub is all about.
> 
> At 10:33 AM 4/17/2013, Greg London wrote:
> 
>> >> Bitcoin has been all over the news this past week.
>> 
>> I don't understand. It sounds like someone set up a
>> company to trade in virtual money, and all I have to
>> do to mint my own money is do some math?
>> 
>> I do some math, show them the answer, and they... do what?
>> They give me money? They act as a trader and take a
>> commission off on anyone trading money?
>> 
>> Can someone explain how this works at the transaction level?
> 
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