On: SETI@home is in hibernation

[cypress66]

> hashes that begin with a certain number of bits set to 0.

This myth was always intriguing to me. Where does it come from?

It's not a number of 0s (which would imply difficulty could only be doubled or halved), it's just finding a hash that is less than the target.

[pmarreck → cypress66]

"Less than the target" in effect is "more leading zeroes" depending on how low the target is. But the lower, the more leading zeros, Right?

[kevinwang → cypress66]

It's in the original Bitcoin whitepaper

[chungy → kevinwang]

Thanks, this is likely where I read it first. I hadn't realized the actual implementation got more complicated than that. :)

[cypress66 → kevinwang]

Interesting. Even though I read the paper many times, I didn't catch that. I guess I always skipped that part because I assume I already knew it.