Bitcoin mining on a calculator? :)

[Dave Britten]

(05-26-2015 02:36 PM)Egan Ford Wrote:  Hmmm... actually you only need the transaction hashes and the first transaction to recompute the Merkle Root. Assuming no more than 1024 transaction/block (recorded peak is 943), then that'd be only 32K of RAM + 50-150 bytes for the first transaction (payback to the miner). This can be future reduced with precomputed values for the other branches reducing the computation and storage to log₂1024. ~ 320 bytes + 50-150 bytes.

So yes Dave, you could. Too bad you will not be alive to see the results.

Yeah, heavy emphasis on the difference between "theory" and "practice" on this one.