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Re:Primecoin: The Cryptocurrency Whose Mining is Useful by javert on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @03:44AM (#6011579)
Claiming that finding prime numbers is useful seems like a stretch to me.
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Re:Primecoin: The Cryptocurrency Whose Mining is Useful by reedlaw on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @06:21AM (#6011936)
Not necessarily. See http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/02/ask-ars-why-spend-tim...
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Re:Primecoin: The Cryptocurrency Whose Mining is Useful by javert on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @05:30PM (#6015662)
I'm still not convinced. I did read the whole article, but the subhead sums it up well:

> That new 17-million digit Mersenne prime number might matter. Someday.

(Emphasis mine, but that's not much of ringing endorsement of the usefulness of prime numbers.)

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