On 5/28/2015 1:05 PM, emanuel stiebler wrote:
On 2015-05-28 12:00, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Thu, 28 May 2015, jwsmobile wrote:
I saw this article over on the Hercules group, and was amused.
http://www.righto.com/2015/05/bitcoin-mining-on-55-year-old-ibm-1401.html
Is the bitcoin output anywhere close to enough to pay for the costs of
running a 1401?
Probably not. Quoting the web page:
" ... but so slowly it would take more than the lifetime of the
universe to successfully mine a block "
;-)
Wow. Are common machines now really *billions* of times faster??
- J
