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How do you make something incapable of being energy-intensive but still difficult? The more computers have to work at something, the more energy they use. I'm n
by chc 13y ago
How do you make something incapable of being energy-intensive but still difficult? The more computers have to work at something, the more energy they use. I'm not the world's leading expert, but I don't see a way around that.
- Crito 13y agoThere is being energy intensive, and then there is being CPU intensive. You could imagine a hypothetical coin that somehow uses proof of data storage and retrieval instead of proof of work. Producing and running tons of harddrives would still require power, but it would be a less.. direct.. requirement.
- SkynetSystems 13y agoAnd hundreds of thousands or millions of destroyed hard drives would be better for the environment how?
- heydenberk 13y agoShort answer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing
- tlrobinson 13y agoCould you explain this a little more, I'm having a hard time seeing how it applies to mining.
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- tromp 13y agoYou get around it by slowing down the computation with memory latencies. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random-access_memory#Memory_wall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random-access_memory#Memory_wal...