Yakoob on 3/6/2011 at 11:22
Which is still retarded because your "work" is not work at all but keeping your computer idle. And, as I said, what's stopping someone making a hacked mining program that tells the network you have done "work" every split second, thus earning you shitton of coins?
Nameless Voice on 3/6/2011 at 12:39
It doesn't work like that, though. Basically each group of computers running the software are trying to solve some specific problem, and the one that solves it first gets the coins. The computer isn't idle, it's doing pointless work trying to solve that pointless problem.
CCCToad on 3/6/2011 at 15:33
Yeah, you idiot, the currency hasn't collapsed yet.
The hyperinflation along with rioting, looting, and a total collapse of society will come later this year.
Yakoob on 3/6/2011 at 16:34
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
It doesn't work like that, though. Basically each group of computers running the software are trying to solve some specific problem, and the one that solves it first gets the coins. The computer isn't idle, it's doing pointless work trying to solve that pointless problem.
But whats stopping one computer from saying "I solved it!" when it hasn't, or if its an answer verified by a 3rd PC, having the 3rd PCr create a fake problem with a known answer that a hacked computer can thus instantly solve?
And sorry I meant idle in the sense the user is not doing jack shit, the pc is just sitting there in a corner churning away.
Nameless Voice on 3/6/2011 at 16:51
I think all the computers in the cloud check up on each other, or something. As I said, the documentation was either too vague to too technical, I didn't really understand it.
Pyrian on 3/6/2011 at 20:59
Quote Posted by CCCToad
The hyperinflation along with rioting, looting, and a total collapse of society will come later this year.
But it'll happen spiritually, rather than physically. Like the Rapture. :cool:
Pyrian on 8/6/2011 at 23:23
Was that supposed to have something to do with something in this thread? :confused:
Allow me to very roughly paraphrase what Glenn Greenwald said about Obama's promises to reign in the Patriot Act as president:
"You thought a sitting president would voluntarily reduce their own power? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Yakoob on 13/6/2011 at 01:08
It worries me how increasingly sentient the bots are becoming...