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I hate when cryptomining is described as "solving extremely complex mathematical problems." That makes it sound like math professors gathering around a conferen
by jliptzin 4y ago
I hate when cryptomining is described as "solving extremely complex mathematical problems." That makes it sound like math professors gathering around a conference table burning the midnight oil trying to crack a formula when in reality it's just trying to crack a safe by randomly guessing the code over and over again - nothing complex about it.
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- marktangotango 4y agoI get your point, the calculations are generally just arithmetic, but there are in fact many cryptologist who spend a lot of time and effort understanding these algorithms and finding ways to "crack" them.
- jliptzin 4y agoYou mean they are trying to break the underlying cryptographic hash algorithms?
- InCityDreams 4y ago>burning the midnight oil Deliberate?
- jliptzin 4y agoMaybe :)
- tromp 4y agoThey mean very complex in the sense of very difficult. Which finding a hash output with over 75 leading 0 bits most certainly is.
- jliptzin 4y agoThat’s as much of a “math problem” as winning the lottery is a “math problem”