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If only we could use stuff like this or protein folding as the "work" in proof of work...
by kevingadd 5y ago
If only we could use stuff like this or protein folding as the "work" in proof of work...
- koheripbal 5y agoPrimecoin
- tomerv 5y agoThat could really be a great thing! The problem is that Mersenne primes are "sparse", i.e. there aren't many of them. Finding one could be like minting a new block, but it would be so rare that it won't be practical. For crypto, you would need something with many solutions, but then it's probably not so useful to find yet another solution...
- the8472 5y agomaybe proof that a large block of numbers doesn't contain mersenne primes?
- dnautics 5y agoyou also generally speaking need something that is much easier to verify than it is to generate. I'm not saying it's impossible, but I don't think that "verifying" a protein folding in the "cryptocurrency" sense is a meaningful operation in the "useful" way you're hoping it to be.