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Re:Bitcoin has computed 2^83.9 hashes by ultramancool on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @04:36PM (#10976293)
The detail you're missing is that these hashes bitcoin computes are designed to be something easy to verify but hard to compute. Relatively few productive problems have this property, and there are some which are doing this already, trying to crack proof RSA keys and such... but that's about it.
Re:Bitcoin has computed 2^83.9 hashes by foota on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @04:41PM (#10976329)
New distributed currency system sponsored by the NSA: breaking RSA keys for profit.
Re:Bitcoin has computed 2^83.9 hashes by ultramancool on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @04:45PM (#10976361)
I was thinking more... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge

But yes, that could totally be done! Only problem is everyone would have the result, which I don't think they'd like too much.