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Finally! Just when I thought everyone had moved their spare compute to more lucrative schemes. It’s the longest wait for a new mersenne prime since the discove
by jl6 2y ago
Finally! Just when I thought everyone had moved their spare compute to more lucrative schemes.
It’s the longest wait for a new mersenne prime since the discovery of M32 in 1992.
- noduerme 2y agoamazing how many bitcoins have been discovered since then. Satoshi should've incentivized mining something useful.
- yreg 2y agoAre these high Mersenne primes all that useful?
- gnramires 2y agoI've been thinking there should actually be more useful (or at least more interesting? :P) crowd computing stuff. How about something like Superoptimizing (with correctness proofs) open source code?
- michaelcampbell 2y agoI think there's actually a fair number of them, but more would be nice. Lots of protein folding ones, and there used to be a weather/climate related couple.
- iamgopal 2y agoevery new prime for new block, but not linear.