Topic: The Greatest Threat to Bitcoin - Inexact Computing (Read 2303 times)

LightRider

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Quote from: LightRider on May 20, 2012, 12:39:33 AM

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-experts-unveil-superefficient-inexact-chip.html

Interesting development. I sure hope that it doesn't catch on to many other platforms though.

Interesting. How is it a threat, though?

I was joking to be honest. It would be a legitimate threat to whoever used such chips for mining/handling bitcoin protocol traffic. The error rate would make it difficult to keep up with the rest of the network.