Adam Back writes:
> Strikes me 12TH/sec is not actually very much computation?
> http://bitcoinwatch.com/ also gives network hashrate at 12.4 TH/sec.
>
> But a single normally clocked (925Mhz) AMD 7970 based graphics card which
> has 2048 cores is claimed to provide 555MH/sec. [...]
>
> But that means the entire bitcoin network compute is only equivalent to 23
> AMD 7970 GPUs? That seems wrong by orders of magnitude, there are youtube
> videos of private individuals with mining rigs in that range in their
> garage.
It's wrong by three orders of magnitude because 1 TH/sec = 1000000 MH/sec.
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