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I wonder how much money in Bitcoin they would have made if they had used those hashes to mine instead. Speaking of which, it would be funny if they were preten
by asdfman123 5y ago
I wonder how much money in Bitcoin they would have made if they had used those hashes to mine instead.
Speaking of which, it would be funny if they were pretending to do security research but added a secret backdoor to mine bitcoin instead, somehow exporting those hashes or using the partial results of SHA-1 calculations (BTC isn't SHA-1).
I'm just joking, but I wonder if that's possible. If anyone is Machiavellian enough for that, it's security researchers.
- fsckboy 5y agomining bitcoin on one GPU is uneconomical, so mining bitcoin an a large number of them is... also.
- FredPret 5y agoUnless your research grant pays for the electricity
- asdfman123 5y agoDing ding ding
- gjs278 5y agowrong wrong wrong. the hash rate is so low on a gpu they wouldn’t even make a penny.
- valec 5y agothis is a retarded and pedantic comment. op clearly meant cryptocurrency and put bitcoin as a stand in instead of ethereum, maybe out of ignorance. this comment doesn't address the meat of their comment and contributes nothing.
- exciteabletom 5y ago> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." > Be kind. Don't be snarky. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- garmaine 5y agoWell, they made 2.4994722 BTC directly by exploiting a smart contract on bitcoin that pays out to anyone demonstrating a SHA-1 collision.
- gjs278 5y agothey would have made nothing because you can’t use gpus to mine bitcoin at any reasonable rate