Re: BitCoin

Posted by cody dooderson on Nov 29, 2013; 6:25pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/BitCoin-tp7584341p7584410.html

Bitcoin mining and the NSA does seem to me like a match made in heaven. Mainly because they both spend a lot of time and energy breaking hashes. The "Miners" do it to mine bitcoins whereas the NSA does it to break encryption. It would probably be really easy for a big NSA computer to mine some coins. They may even know some secret math tricks for reversing a hash that normal people do not. 

As a bitcoin n00b, I found this site fun and informative https://blockchain.info/ . They even have realtime some webgl vizualizations. You can also watch bitcoins being "minted".  

Cody Smith

On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Marcus G. Daniels <[hidden email]> wrote:

On 11/29/13, 9:58 AM, Barry MacKichan wrote:

Are we in danger of making the NSA financially independent of Congress?

Not yet, the whole market is `only' about 12 billion.   Maybe someday..

Marcus

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