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The calculations get more or less likely to produce a correct result, depending on how many calculations are done per second.

In the end, on average, 1 correct result is found every 10 minutes.

|new bitcoins are created by carrying out mathematical operations which become progressively harder as the bitcoin space is explored

No, no, NO!

Statements like this immediately lessen the writer's credibility.

To get people thinking I generally have them agree there are 9 possible games to play, so the final win-chance cannot be 50%

That doesn't explain anything except that people will be influenced because you pointed to another star.

Are there architectures where a programmer can just use a specific opcode to inform the cpu what's most likely?

Xcode makes me cry everytime i'm forced to use it (editing storyboards).

AppCode has such nice navigation and completion.

It all makes me wonder how on earth anyone could say they enjoy xcode.

Go right ahead https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community

Then how will I prove i possess a certain amount of this coin?

"Steve Jobs is dead" -God

Don't blame archlinux for your forgetting of the wallet, you did that.

Think of it like you're losing 3 days of cpu cycles, not 160K.

They are just a few bytes yes. But it's rather hard to generate the correct bytes.

Referring to the bytes that constitute a valid block in the blockchain.

The problem with governments is that they will stop at nothing (well, maybe murder) to make you comply with what they want.

Nobody will spend, tomorrow you can get your stuff cheaper

You mean you stopped doing that?

The problem description could be a bit clearer. What exactly are the rules?

I know the docs say it has to be a bunch of zeroes at the start, the actual test is whether or not the generated value is below a certain number.

It's pretty nice, save for the 'k'.

Noone in their right mind would do that

Which are optional

Too bad it's in an inferior currency

Second time I read this. How so? The address has been used to receive coins, surely a private key must exist?

> Thus, if your Bitcoin funds are stored in an address that you have not spent from (so the public key is unknown), they are safe against a quantum computer – at least until you try to spend them.

Uhm, no such thing? Every mined bitcoin is instantly sent to an address

29 bytes sierpinski: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=4856

Or maybe as snork-eater-eaters

http://wharble.com/sites/default/files/Snork-Eater_Eater.jpg

In a mindmap. For example Freemind http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeMind

Tabs on the left is so awesome. First thing I checked, sad to not see it included :(

Firefox has a plugin for it but it's all just too sluggish.

I'll just use the old opera for now.

I'm with ya. Select, scroll, know where I was.

Just disable javascript for this page. (in opera at least)