Topic: Could a bitcoin client be done in javascript? (Read 816 times)
I know about ASICs but I was thinking in terms of something comparable to 'Satoshi client'.
Could a bitcoin client be done in javascript,
Yes.
http://Blockchain.info/wallet and Strongcoin are two Javascript-based wallets that do all the crypto in Javascript on the browser. http://brainwallet.org/#tx would be such a client too I suppose. They do send the transaction to a hosted service which then broadcasts the transaction.
using WebGL to access the GPU for processing/mining?
As a neat idea, yes that could be (and has been) done.
As a business proposition. Bad idea. Read up on ASICs.
Could a bitcoin client be done in javascript, using WebGL to access the GPU for processing/mining?
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