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Cool to see old stories :) Ask HN: Can use the #1 supercomputer for any project I want. What should it be? hn-miw-i on Jan 12, 2013: Bitcoin. Pay off your stu
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Cool to see old stories :)
Ask HN: Can use the #1 supercomputer for any project I want. What should it be?
hn-miw-i on Jan 12, 2013: Bitcoin. Pay off your student loans one Merkle tree at a time.
hn-miw-i on Jan 12, 2013: Ok well blocks generate at an average of 1 / 15 minutes, so about 96 blocks a day. Each block generate 25 BTC reward. At ~14.00 USD/BTC on MtGox right now that about $34k.
- optimalsolver 4y agoI know I’m speaking from hindsight, but if you’d told me the largest BTC exchange is based on Magic: The Gathering, I would’ve known nothing good would come of this.