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Yes. Giving me a massive... Well.. Dopamine rush.
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Show HN: FPGA prime finder – discovered a 1,123-digit Proth prime
I built a Proth prime tester on a Zybo Z7-20 FPGA ($200 board) and found a new 1,123-digit prime: 2079 * 2^3718 + 1. Proth primes are numbers of the form k * 2^n + 1. They have a n…
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Built this over the past few weeks. It's a Bitcoin wallet where your keys live on an NXP SE050 secure element connected to a Raspberry Pi. All signing happens on the chip — private…
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