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> the AGC results in a hash rate of 10.3 seconds per Bitcoin hash VS a relatively slow USB hash device that performs at 130 billion hashes per second. > it wou
by canada_dry 7y ago
> the AGC results in a hash rate of 10.3 seconds per Bitcoin hash VS a relatively slow USB hash device that performs at 130 billion hashes per second.
> it would take the AGC 4×10^23 seconds on average to find a block. Since the universe is only 4.3×10^17 seconds old, it would take the AGC about a billion times the age of the universe to successfully mine a block.
Pretty mind boggling stuff.
- jrockway 7y agoI also did this calculation and got a different result. According to Google, one block requires 2,440,643 * 2^32 hashes. Multiply that by 10 seconds per hash, and you get 3.32176901e9 years. The Universe has been around for longer than that, about 13e9 years.