SETI@home Is in Hibernation

Re:SETI@home Is in Hibernation by cypress66 on Friday March 17, 2023 @11:18PM (#35205705)

> 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.

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Re:SETI@home Is in Hibernation by kevinwang on Friday March 17, 2023 @11:39PM (#35205811)

It's in the original Bitcoin whitepaper

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Re:SETI@home Is in Hibernation by chungy on Saturday March 18, 2023 @12:34AM (#35206118)

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

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Re:SETI@home Is in Hibernation by cypress66 on Saturday March 18, 2023 @10:04AM (#35209214)

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.

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Re:SETI@home Is in Hibernation by pmarreck on Saturday March 18, 2023 @12:03AM (#35205949)

"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?

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