Cloudsmash VS Primecoin

Looking again, he _mentions_ what he told his children, but it's written on Bitcoin Talk. > "My bitcoins are stored in our safe deposit box, and my son and daughter are tech savvy. I think they're safe enough. I'm comfortable with my legacy." [0] It doesn't invalidate that he created Bitcoin, but what he wrote over the years sounds much more like a devoted hobbyist who was far from extremely wealthy, for example... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

Https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1790.msg28917#msg28917 You can see here in one of Satoshi's last posts that he envisaged that bitcoin users would likely prefer to keep the block size small, and why. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

It's not unheard of for funds to be missent to an address that was in the senders clipboard for some other reason, though the amount is more remarkable. It's also not particularly remarkable to send small amounts to that address-- its been done many times-- and it's not unheard of for people to make errors in the amounts they pay. Elsewhere I've advanced a couple more complex theories which probably fail occam's... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

> odyssey is a custom blockchain project built from scratch in Rust. It aims to provide a simple and educational example of how a blockchain operates and its fundamental components. Reminds me of Grin, another blockchain project built from scratch in Rust, focussing on simplicity [1]. [1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5309951.msg56111107#msg56111107. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5455261.0 If folks show an openness to the approach, I will post the first draft of the paper on the above thread. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

>I think, in the next years, we will see more and more of these useful proofs cropping up. And people will understand the value they're "storing", no pun intended. You could be right, but the first time something like this was discussed was around 2010 [1], and here we are 12 years later, still waiting for widespread implementation of a "useful" proof of work. [1] https://primecoin.io/ was the first result of that. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

One of the first I heard of was Primecoin [0], which still seems to be going along steadily. They've actually uncovered a number of world records [1] looking for Cunningham Chains. [0] https://primecoin.io/ [1] https://primes.zone/#records. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

A: Maybe -- here are two attempts to do what you suggest: https://www.cs.umd.edu/\~elaine/docs/permacoin.pdf http://primecoin.io/. Source: almost 3 years ago

The closest we've come to what you might call "useful" proof of work is Primecoin, which searched for chains of prime numbers, to the delight of some mathematicians. But it's pretty much a dead coin now. There are also some coins that appear to have solved it, such as SolarCoin, but look closer and you'll find that they are completely centralised. That's not a trade-off Bitcoin can make. Source: about 3 years ago