Bitcoin mining and the NSA does seem to me like a match made in heaven. Mainly because they both spend a lot of time and energy breaking hashes. The "Miners" do it to mine bitcoins whereas the NSA does it to break encryption. It would probably be really easy for a big NSA computer to mine some coins. They may even know some secret math tricks for reversing a hash that normal people do not. As a bitcoin n00b, I found this site fun and informative https://blockchain.info/ . They even have realtime some webgl vizualizations<https://blockchain.info/nodes-globe?series=topBlockRelay>. You can also watch bitcoins being "minted" <https://blockchain.info/blocks>.
Cody Smith On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Marcus G. Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com>wrote: > On 11/29/13, 9:58 AM, Barry MacKichan wrote: > >> Are we in danger of making the NSA financially independent of Congress? >> > Not yet, the whole market is `only' about 12 billion. Maybe someday.. > > Marcus > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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