Re: Bitcoin And The Electronic Frontier Foundation

2010-11-20 Thread coderman
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 7:45 PM, slush wrote: > ... Yours complaints are on the same level as if > you say 'I have only 486DX, those guys with Quad cores driving me crazy'. > ... > maximum ~200 > blocks per day, because it is limit of network. > ... > Regards to wasting electricity. There are many

Re: Bitcoin And The Electronic Frontier Foundation

2010-11-20 Thread coderman
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 8:57 PM, John Case wrote: > ... > That's what I thought... > > So, would a sparc T3 be an "interesting" platform upon which to run bitcoin > ?  Or are the fermi based GPUs still orders of magnitude faster ? a T3 would be a great platform for a Tor relay, were someone to co

Re: Bitcoin And The Electronic Frontier Foundation

2010-11-20 Thread John Case
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010, coderman wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:10 PM, John Case wrote: ... How does the on-chip encryption feature set of the i7 compare to the very latest sparc processors and their on-chip encryption features ? the latest i5 / i7 with AES-NI can accelerate ... AES. the SP

Re: Bitcoin And The Electronic Frontier Foundation

2010-11-20 Thread slush
I forgot to mention that I don't have capable GPU for mining, but I don't care. When I need bitcoins, I simply go to market and buy some. It is the same situation as gold miners. Somebody is interested in making big holes to ground and spend a lot of time and money on that. And somebody do anything

Re: Bitcoin And The Electronic Frontier Foundation

2010-11-20 Thread slush
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Kyle Williams wrote: > > So when the value of BTC's starts to be cut in half, and with INFLATION now > at a record high, the cost of electricity is NOT GOING DOWN. > Hence, the chance of you generating bitcoins will go down because a CPU can > not compete with some

Re: Bitcoin And The Electronic Frontier Foundation

2010-11-20 Thread coderman
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:10 PM, John Case wrote: > ... > How does the on-chip encryption feature set of the i7 compare to the very > latest sparc processors and their on-chip encryption features ? the latest i5 / i7 with AES-NI can accelerate ... AES. the SPARC T2/T3 can accelerate: - AES (ECB,

Re: Bitcoin And The Electronic Frontier Foundation

2010-11-20 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:28:20AM -0500, krishna e bera wrote: > How are bitcoins relevant to Tor? According to http://www.bitcoin.org/trade http://torcasinopfuc7cj.onion/ and http://www.torservers.net/ accept BitCoin. No clue, haven't tried them. > Can a relay generate them just by proces

Re: Bitcoin And The Electronic Frontier Foundation

2010-11-20 Thread krishna e bera
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Re: Bitcoin And The Electronic Frontier Foundation

2010-11-19 Thread John Case
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Watson Ladd wrote: DSA on chip already exists. Its called the ALU. Well tuned integer code can get very very quick. And if we really need performance djb has extremely fast crypto routines we could use in NaCl, but that would require changing a bunch of things. How does

Re: Bitcoin And The Electronic Frontier Foundation

2010-11-19 Thread TheGravitator
views/core-i3-530-overclock-lga-1156,2626-6.html - Original Message - From: "Anon Mus" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 1:07 PM Subject: Re: Bitcoin And The Electronic Frontier Foundation > Kyle Williams wrote: > > Coderman sent this to me, and I'

Re: Bitcoin And The Electronic Frontier Foundation

2010-11-16 Thread Watson Ladd
DSA on chip already exists. Its called the ALU. Well tuned integer code can get very very quick. And if we really need performance djb has extremely fast crypto routines we could use in NaCl, but that would require changing a bunch of things. On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:27 PM, coderman wrote: > On

Re: Bitcoin And The Electronic Frontier Foundation

2010-11-16 Thread coderman
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:00 AM, TheGravitator wrote: > Its not all i7's, only the i7-980X (extreme series) about $1000. AES-NI is pretty slick. now if only we could get RSA/DSA/DH on die... :) [the benchmarks in question show 875MB/s AES256 on PhenomII X6 1090T @ 3.8Ghz as the closest competito

Re: Bitcoin And The Electronic Frontier Foundation

2010-11-16 Thread Anon Mus
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Re: Bitcoin And The Electronic Frontier Foundation

2010-11-15 Thread Kyle Williams
: Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:22 AM > Subject: Re: Bitcoin And The Electronic Frontier Foundation > To: coderman > Cc: Sarad AV , Eugen Leitl , > cypherpu...@al-qaeda.net > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > > On 15 Nov, 2010, at 19:19 , coderman

Bitcoin And The Electronic Frontier Foundation

2010-11-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
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