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umm, generating a block whose hash starts with N consecutive zeroes (e.g. 000000009A8C3...) seems to be exactly that - an NP hard problem that's trivial to veri
by kirillseva 9y ago
umm, generating a block whose hash starts with N consecutive zeroes (e.g. 000000009A8C3...) seems to be exactly that - an NP hard problem that's trivial to verify in polynomial time.
- TylerE 9y agoyes, but it's not useful in someway outside of the blockchain, which was the thrust of GP's argument.