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Re:Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over t... by ikeboy on Monday December 21, 2015 @11:37PM (#10775855)
You're wrong. Even without any mining, running a full node requires 2GB of RAM. Even if you do less than a full node, you'll find it hard to fully process 100x transactions on less than 2GB.

Also, you don't seem to understand the point of PoW.

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Re:Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over t... by lsseckman on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @02:46AM (#10776418)
You misunderstood him. He was talking about running a non-bitcoin program on that small computer.
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Re:Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over t... by ikeboy on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @10:08AM (#10778117)
He's talking about running something that does bitcoin, but without the inefficiencies of PoW. I pointed out that the RPi 0 doesn't have enough power to handle that scale, even if we took out the PoW stuff.
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