Is wasting electricity required?
Is wasting electricity required?
Posted Jan 26, 2016 19:31 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: Is wasting electricity required? by pjm
Parent article: Hearn: The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment
There are some projects that attempt to do it, but it's hard to find suitable problems for that. Search for Mersenne primes is marginally better than finding hash codes with consecutive zeroes, but only marginally so.