Topic: Global Bitcoin Computing Power (Read 434 times)
I like that analogy very much. There's little or no point in attempting to compare the two. They're fundamentally different beasts.
Back in 2013, this Forbes contributor mentioned that by crude calculations, Bitcoin's hash rate equated to 256 times faster then the top 500 supercomputers combined:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2013/11/28/global-bitcoin-computing-power-now-256-times-faster-than-top-500-supercomputers-combined/#3015c8e28b76
Has anyone done a more recent analysis of this?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2013/11/28/global-bitcoin-computing-power-now-256-times-faster-than-top-500-supercomputers-combined/#3015c8e28b76
Has anyone done a more recent analysis of this?
Unlike the Bitcoin network, what makes "supercomputers" super is they can solve more than one problem, they're "programmable."
Think of the Bitcoin network as a whole shitload of circa '70 pocket calculators, with all the keys broken except for the (number) 2 and the plus sign.
So as long as you don't care what number you add "2" to, you can do it super fast by using Bitcoin
i estimate 5000000 times more 
(but hopefully someone has a better calculation 
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(but hopefully someone has a better calculation ) 
Back in 2013, this Forbes contributor mentioned that by crude calculations, Bitcoin's hash rate equated to 256 times faster then the top 500 supercomputers combined:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2013/11/28/global-bitcoin-computing-power-now-256-times-faster-than-top-500-supercomputers-combined/#3015c8e28b76
Has anyone done a more recent analysis of this?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2013/11/28/global-bitcoin-computing-power-now-256-times-faster-than-top-500-supercomputers-combined/#3015c8e28b76
Has anyone done a more recent analysis of this?
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