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EFF Begins Accepting Anonymous Donations via Bitcoin
- alanh 16y agoSounds like a marketing win-win for the EFF and Bitcoin, both.
- swah 16y agoNo wiki page for Bitcoin, perhaps now they get one?
- noagendamarket 16y agoWikipedia deleted the bitcoin page :(
- sgornick 16y agoGet 0.05 bitcoins, for completing a captcha. http://freebitcoins.appspot.com/ http://freebitcoins.appspot.com/ More on Bitcoin: http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2010/10/10/a-short-introduction-to-bitcoin.html http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2010/10/10/a-short-introduction... http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/414452/b8bf16adf2d1564a/ http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/414452/b8bf16adf2d1564a/
- pointillistic 16y agoi think they should move to the gold standard.
- rmc 16y agoThere is a crypto-currency like Bitcoin that operates on the gold standard, eCache (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECache http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECache). They operate on the tor network. You can see a photo of their gold supply (https://ffij33ewbnoeqnup.onion.meshmx.com/audit/current.png https://ffij33ewbnoeqnup.onion.meshmx.com/audit/current.png)
- hippich 16y agoBitcoins are itself sorta of "gold standard". But unlike gold, community already agreed on total number of coins (think about price of gold if someone will find huge source of gold and accidentally will let know people about it)
- rick_2047 16y agoUmm.... was just thinking, why can't someone set up a EC2 cluster (or a plain old home computer cluster) and get it cracking on this bitcoin generating program? I mean they are fast and if this thing ever gains some traction then it will be a huge win. Edit: I would also like to see the list of people using this for actual selling and not donations.
- doublec 16y agoCoin generation rate is tied to the amount of computing resource in the network. So if you bring a cluster online the difficulty to generate coins increases. EC2 machines are a bit too slow to generate coins in a timely manner. Even a cluster of them wouldn't be cost effective.
- rick_2047 16y agoSo if you bring a cluster online the difficulty to generate coins increases. I don't get it, I thought they were giving a bit coin on the computation power.
- doublec 16y agobitcoin generation is rate limited such that one 'block' is generated every 10 minutes or so. Generating a block produces 50 coins. As more computation comes on board the difficulty increases to try and keep the average around that.
- Estragon 16y agoSo is there already GPU-optimized code for generating bitcoins?
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