• Victoria Antoinette
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    16 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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      16 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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          16 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.