Bitcoin mining on a calculator? :)

[Les Bell]

(05-26-2015 06:19 PM)Dave Britten Wrote:  Yeah, heavy emphasis on the difference between "theory" and "practice" on this one.

Given that specialised ASIC BitCoin mining rigs run at 1.15 TeraHashes per second - and the serious miners run clusters of them - it's going to be pretty hard to win the race and be first to find the right nonce in order to claim the 25 BitCoins reward.