▲ 989 ▼ Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption (www.tomshardware.com) submitted 2 years ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world 359 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] an0nym0us@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Prime numbers are searched for doing the PoW. The blockchain essentially contains a data base with prime numbers. As far as I can tell Primecoin never was popular,.but I like the novel approach of doing things, when most cryptocurrencies of that time were lame copies. Btw. the Primecoin creator made Peercoin, which was afaik the first (and apparently still running) network being secured by Proof-of-Stake. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] an0nym0us@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago* [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Prime numbers are searched for doing the PoW. The blockchain essentially contains a data base with prime numbers. As far as I can tell Primecoin never was popular,.but I like the novel approach of doing things, when most cryptocurrencies of that time were lame copies. Btw. the Primecoin creator made Peercoin, which was afaik the first (and apparently still running) network being secured by Proof-of-Stake. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] an0nym0us@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago* [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent