Re: Bitcoin And The Electronic Frontier Foundation

[coderman <coderman@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 7:45 PM, slush <slush@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ... Yours complaints are on the same level as if
> you say 'I have only 486DX, those guys with Quad cores driving me crazy'.
> ...
> maximum ~200
> blocks per day, because it is limit of network.
> ...
> Regards to wasting electricity. There are many kinds of wastes. Somebody
> waste electricity to finding bitcoins, somebody find UFO using seti@home.

SETI@home is a cooperative effort. if they were to code their client
such that everybody was chewing on the same chunk of datum, that would
be wasted effort. (read: waste)

having any software miners active when GPU miners are active is wasted
effort. for integrity sake, bitcoin should disable all software
miners, and explain to users that trying to mine via software is "a
waste of your time and power".

last but not least, this discussion has clearly drifted way off topic.
why not take it to cypherpunks or cryptography list (if not bitcoin
forums)?

if Tor starts using bitcoin for priority routing we can revive this thread..  ;)
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