Recent content by LucasB

I have no idea. The Pi one I made up. The prime number one exists and is open-source: https://github.com/primecoin/primecoin

Bravo! I think this is the root of the mathematics behind the Bitcoin manifesto. The real-life computation that fits into this criteria is narrow, indeed. Calculating Prime Numbers is a good one! Maybe PI sequence? Interesting stuff to search for! Reply to Russ: I see your point of "if the...

Just to be clear, I don't want to have one of those internet discussions that look more like a bar wrangling, but for the sake of clear communication: Employing computational power to brute-force a hash and actually succeeding in doing so has nothing to do with money. We arbitrarily assigned a...

My guess is that you only need to be really good at one, like C, for instance. But most importantly, check exactly what language or tool is being used in the field you are interested in.

You'd still make money, but instead of using the computational power to solve fictitious problems that don't do anything, it would be used to solve real-world computational problems to produce a coin. Well, one compelling argument against this idea is in verifying that the solution is correct...

I think that if you're asking for a "business-model" you didn't understand what the OP asked. Let me rephrase it: "How cool would it be if instead of wasting all this CPU power, the computational problem that is the origin of a bitcoin hash could be something useful, like calculations needed by...