It seems to me that, instead of performing totally useless computations for POW, a group like CERN might enlist the miners to search for W-Boson events from their detector trails, or astronomers might enlist the mining enclaves to search for SETI events… (no joke…)
- DM > On Dec 18, 2017, at 23:03, Antoniotti Marco > <antoniotti.ma...@disco.unimib.it> wrote: > >> >> On Dec 18, 2017, at 23:54 , Pascal Bourguignon <p...@informatimago.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On 18 Dec 2017, at 23:31, David McClain <d...@refined-audiometrics.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> umm… was this supposed to be some kind of joke? I’ll bite... I don’t get >>> it. I was actually hoping to learn something here... >>> >>> But the code does look rather peculiar on close inspection. Why the use of >>> macros for pushing new transaction blocks? And the conversions to octet >>> vectors may work for strings, but not in general for arbitrary integer or >>> float values… >>> >>> If it is supposed to be a joke, I’ll chuckle and just chuck the code… >> >> I guess not: >> https://dev.to/damcosset/trying-to-understand-blockchain-by-making-one-ce4 >> It’s like, everybody will be busy implementing blockchains. It’s the new >> fizz-buzz… >> > > … or planting tulips :) :) :) > > > Cheers > > MA > > > -- > Marco Antoniotti
