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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on December 18, 2017, 06:53:31 PM

Title: Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day
Post by: rcjordan on December 18, 2017, 06:53:31 PM
QuoteIt turns out that the SHA-256 algorithm used for mining is pretty simple and can in fact be done by hand.

http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html
Title: Re: Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day
Post by: littleman on December 18, 2017, 08:17:36 PM
This makes me wonder if it would be possible to build a clockwork analog computer to do mining, maybe even have it powered by the wind -- it would be ridiculously expensive to build and functionally worthless, but it sure would be something to see.
Title: Re: Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day
Post by: ergophobe on December 19, 2017, 06:18:54 PM
I bet it would
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/decoding-antikythera-mechanism-first-computer-180953979/
Title: Re: Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day
Post by: littleman on December 19, 2017, 06:35:43 PM
>Antikythera

That makes me wonder where we would be today without the dark ages.
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