• Victoria Antoinette
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    17 months ago

    it’s all just guess-and-check. a raspberry pi could find the next block even today.

    • @Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In
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      17 months ago

      Agreed. Because they can’t provide enough power to prove the required work.

      • Victoria Antoinette
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        17 months ago

        i think you read a word that isn’t there. the work of generating a nonce, hashing the header, and checking for leading zeroes can certainly be done by a raspberry pi in under the 10 minute block time.

        • @Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In
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          17 months ago

          A raspberry pi could verify a bitcoin block. It is EXTREMELY unlikely to find the next block.

            • @Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In
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              17 months ago

              A hash rate that requires 170TWh of electricity. There are no scenarios where this drops more than 99%, except for the destruction of bitcoin.