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Topic: [XPM] [ANN] Primecoin Prerelease Announcement - Introducing Prime Proof-of-Work - page 13. (Read 71629 times)

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What would be the scientific advances of finding prime numbers?
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It was only the wind.
Where is the scientific use of prime number chains?

The discover of new prime numbers as I understand.
In the white paper it describes only using prime numbers which can be easily verified, so that rules out actively searching for large prime numbers, doesn't it?

Dude, verifying a number is prime is easy.
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Well, I guess the white paper is pretty vague on the limits.
So we'll see what the actual limits are in a couple of hours.
When I discovered this coin last night, I had hoped it would be finding all prime numbers so that eventually bitcoin could be attacked using the prime numbers found by this coin.

Which would be poetic, imho.

As I understand having a complete list of huge primes would compromise a lot of systems, not just bitcoin itself.
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Where is the scientific use of prime number chains?

The discover of new prime numbers as I understand.
In the white paper it describes only using prime numbers which can be easily verified, so that rules out actively searching for large prime numbers, doesn't it?

Dude, verifying a number is prime is easy.
Well, I guess the white paper is pretty vague on the limits.
So we'll see what the actual limits are in a couple of hours.
When I discovered this coin last night, I had hoped it would be finding all prime numbers so that eventually bitcoin could be attacked using the prime numbers found by this coin.

Which would be poetic, imho.
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CTO @ Flixxo, Riecoin dev
interesting...
can you prove that there will always exist a chain for any hash and any difficulty?
I guess a "proof" that relies on widely accepted conjectures (like the Rihemann Hypothesis) should suffice.
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Where is the scientific use of prime number chains?

The discover of new prime numbers as I understand.
In the white paper it describes only using prime numbers which can be easily verified, so that rules out actively searching for large prime numbers, doesn't it?
hero member
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Where is the scientific use of prime number chains?

The discover of new prime numbers as I understand.
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Where is the scientific use of prime number chains?
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Will primecoin use similar protocols for getWork and other miner functions, or will a program like cgminer have to be rebuilt from the ground up to support PrimeCoin? Smiley
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Houston..we have a countdown... Cheesy
Ready to lift of in 03 hours  Roll Eyes
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Houston..we have a countdown... Cheesy
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Point. Click. Blockchain
So, can we get a counter or something? I am not good with all that timezone stuff.

http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx

Go do some conversion for your timezone...


-tb-
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I will be ready to mine this afternoon  Tongue
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Just to get you all excited!! https://github.com/FuzzyBearBTC/Primecoin

But serious note i'll be putting a copy of the original source there as well for people to build from and I'll see if I can add any compiled binaries and conf file examples etc and node list Cool
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"Don't go in the trollbox, trollbox, trollbox"
Nice idea and I love the fairness. I'll join in and see what happens Smiley
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100x Amazon EC2, 4.5$x100 = 450$ per hour go go

Oh lol, yeah it will be "fair cpu-only' start  Grin

EC2s are publicly available to everyone that wants to put their hand in their pocket.
you can easily cheat the system, besides there is a free instance anyways
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100x Amazon EC2, 4.5$x100 = 450$ per hour go go

Oh lol, yeah it will be "fair cpu-only' start  Grin

EC2s are publicly available to everyone that wants to put their hand in their pocket.
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