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)
#2You spent two days generating a hash? What a waste of resources.
EDIT: harsh crowd today. I could care less how the author spends their time. Am I the only one that saw all the articles talking about how bad BTC is for the environment recently?
Re: Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
#3You spent two days generating a hash? What a waste of resources. EDIT: harsh crowd today. I could care less how the author spends their time. Am I the only one that saw all the articles talking about how bad BTC is for the environment recently?
His goal was to answer the interesting question: "how many hashes could I manually generate per day," not to generate hashes in the most efficient manner possible.
Re: Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
#4You spent two days generating a hash? What a waste of resources. EDIT: harsh crowd today. I could care less how the author spends their time. Am I the only one that saw all the articles talking about how bad BTC is for the environment recently?
It's a lockdown. I could see myself spending the weekend doing this.
Re: Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
#5Unrelated to the algorithm, I’ve found that doing things “by hand” is a surprisingly good way to develop intuition for otherwise opaque concepts. I wonder if it’s a function of doing work more slowly or paying closer attention. Examples include writing code written by others and working through math on paper.
Re: Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
#6You spent two days generating a hash? What a waste of resources. EDIT: harsh crowd today. I could care less how the author spends their time. Am I the only one that saw all the articles talking about how bad BTC is for the environment recently?
His resources. Not yours.
You don't get to judge, unless you want to detail what you did over the weekend and let the rest of us strangers decide if what you did was a waste or not.
Re: Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
#7You spent two days generating a hash? What a waste of resources. EDIT: harsh crowd today. I could care less how the author spends their time. Am I the only one that saw all the articles talking about how bad BTC is for the environment recently?
It's a lockdown. I could see myself spending the weekend doing this.
Some of the comments are from 2014. Looks like this was from well before the lockdown XD
Re: Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
#8You spent two days generating a hash? What a waste of resources. EDIT: harsh crowd today. I could care less how the author spends their time. Am I the only one that saw all the articles talking about how bad BTC is for the environment recently?
His goal was to answer the interesting question: "how many hashes could I manually generate per day," not to generate hashes in the most efficient manner possible.
Also, the author did not spend two days. he spent 17 minutes and then did the math to calculate the block hash rate.
> Doing one round of SHA-256 by hand took me 16 minutes, 45 seconds. At this rate, hashing a full Bitcoin block (128 rounds)[3] would take 1.49 days, for a hash rate of 0.67 hashes per day
Re: Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
#9Unrelated to the algorithm, I’ve found that doing things “by hand” is a surprisingly good way to develop intuition for otherwise opaque concepts. I wonder if it’s a function of doing work more slowly or paying closer attention. Examples include writing code written by others and working through math on paper.
Totally agree. I had a hard time trying to comprehend how parity works until I sat down and did some parity computations on paper.
Re: Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
#10You spent two days generating a hash? What a waste of resources. EDIT: harsh crowd today. I could care less how the author spends their time. Am I the only one that saw all the articles talking about how bad BTC is for the environment recently?
I feel like either I'm misunderstanding your comment, or you've whooshed everyone else commenting on it so far.