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Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)

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Re: Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)

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Next: Mining bitcoin with pool of monkeys with typewriters.

Monkeys with typewriters are currently busy banging out whitepapers for ICOs.

A friend of mine writes and edits ICO whitepapers. He's very skilled and gets paid pretty well for those skills.

Re: Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)

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Next: Mining bitcoin with pool of monkeys with typewriters.

Monkeys with typewriters are currently busy banging out whitepapers for ICOs.

I think Narwals are the ones responsible for the IOTA white paper.

Re: Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)

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Around when this was published I looked into the feasibility of pencil-and-paper wallets. What would it take to generate a key-pair using just pencil and paper?

There are tricks like big tables of precomputed multiples of the generator that make it easier, but you still need to do hundreds of 77 digit modular multiplications. And you want to be absolutely sure you made no mistake.

Re: Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)

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