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Topic: Erroneous article at Business Insider (Read 707 times)

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March 08, 2013, 03:54:51 PM
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Well, the 256 bit hash can be displayed as a 64 digit octal number. Smiley

But the author probably didn't think about that.  He's probably just confused about what miners are calculating, he thought that miners are looking for private keys,  or that Bitcoins are actually 64 bit integers and those you can too display as 64 digit binary numbers.

Not that it's of any importance what he was confused about.



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March 08, 2013, 12:26:53 PM
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64 digits. I the he's referring to the base-58-safe encoding (or whatever it's called)
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